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Myths & Fallacies : "Animal Protein Stimulates mTOR"

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Misconceptions about Animal Protein and mTOR

00:00:02
chrisyzen
So in this segment of myths and fallacies on the how to actually live longer podcast with your host Christian Jardinov, let's tackle the fallacy animal protein stimulates mTOR.
00:00:18
chrisyzen
Okay, animal protein does upregulate mTOR more than plant protein, but so what? So what is the question? It's the most important question. So friggin what, right? So yes, we know that the leucine content, which is a branched chain amino acid,
00:00:39
chrisyzen
that one plays a critical role a crucial role in activating mTOR right so meat eggs dairy deep typically will have higher levels of leucine compared to plant proteins right here's the thing I asked Chad GPT this question right so It told me that animal proteins are often complete proteins, meaning they contain all nine essential amino acids in sufficient quantities. This completeness, along with higher leucine levels, enhances their ability to stimulate mTOR.
00:01:13
chrisyzen
Okay, keep that in the

Digestibility and Bioavailability of Animal vs Plant Proteins

00:01:15
chrisyzen
back of your head. Then the another reason why animal protein stimulates mTOR mtor ah more than plant protein is because of its bioavailability, the digestibility and absorption. Animal proteins are generally more easily digested and absorbed by the body, leading to more efficient delivery of amino acids to the bloodstream and a more robust mTOR activation. In contrast,
00:01:39
chrisyzen
Plant proteins often contain fiber and other indigestible components that can slow down digestion and reduce amino acid availability. Protein quality. This is from Chad GPT. Don't take my word for it. Ask it. P-D-C-A-A-S. Protein digestibility corrected amino acid score.
00:02:01
chrisyzen
um animal proteins typically score higher on the PDCAAS a measure of protein quality based on amino acid content and digestibility higher quality proteins like animal proteins more effectively stimulate mTOR now ah plant protein and mTOR lower leucine content um and obviously the the opposite of what we just covered so less digestible less complete less ah essential amino acids so
00:02:33
chrisyzen
um So what's what what what's the takeaway here?

Limitations of Plant Proteins in mTOR Activation

00:02:37
chrisyzen
So the reason plant protein stimulates mTOR-less is because it's of a lower quality, less ah bioavailability, less digestibility, and it's incomp they tend to be incomplete proteins lacking on all of the nine essential amino acids in sufficient quantities.
00:02:59
chrisyzen
So we should eat lower quality protein to live longer. So mTOR is bad for longevity. How is it bad for longevity?

Critique of Animal Studies on mTOR and Longevity

00:03:12
chrisyzen
Oh, animal studies. Oh, there's no human studies. There's no long-term human studies. Okay. And and um what do the animals eat in those animal studies?
00:03:26
chrisyzen
They eat a bunch of toxic slop. So all of that research is invalidated by the fact that those those animals are fed just like soybean oil and like ah gluten, um ah ground wheat, ground soybean meal, alfalfa meal, and a bunch of other disgusting toxic slop that we'll cover in another segment shortly.
00:03:46
chrisyzen
So or all-based animal research as it comes to you know caloric restriction, um you know ah fat saturated fats, like high carb, low carb, all of that is marred.
00:04:00
chrisyzen
it has this sort of say It's tainted by the fact that those animals don't eat their natural diet. and Indeed, this disgusting laboratory lab synthesized toxic slope, right? So anyone that tells you, oh, but animal protein shortens your life because it upregulates mTOR, you don't even know you you don't even need to know what mTOR is, and ah mTOR stands for mTOR, mammalian target of rapamycin. It doesn't even matter. The fact is that when you eat animal protein, because you only eat like two to five times a day max, right most people,

Jardinov's Reflection on Plant-Based Diet Myths

00:04:34
chrisyzen
It's only a transient upregulation in mTOR. It's like your insulin spike After a meal that they have taught you to fear Right. It's the same type of red herring right that you can just ignore eat your animal protein and Be glad you are not one of those unfortunate folks that didn't have the discernment to be able to discern the BS that their plant-based high priest you know sang down on them or whatever, preached down on them in their whatever sort of
00:05:16
chrisyzen
Well, I ah just shudder because i used to I used to be brainwashed by this plant-based stuff, this vegan stuff, the propaganda. Now, when I look at it now, how childish a lot of those arguments are right about why I understand the the the aspect of the the animal cruelty, the k and you know the the mass sort of agriculture this really horrible ah stuff that that that ah I hate and I support organic farmers and all that stuff here um but nutritionally speaking the case why
00:05:52
chrisyzen
plant-based diet is in no way shape or form optimal for human health long-term and thriving. ah You can survive on it for a long time, sure, but it's no way it's in no way shape or form optimal, right? The case is so watertight that I just laugh now to think how naive I was back in like 2016, which is like eight years ago.
00:06:20
chrisyzen
How naive

Criticism of Anti-Meat Arguments and Studies

00:06:21
chrisyzen
I was. it then Folks now, that when I hear some of these arguments about the LDL cholesterol and you know the animal ah ah meat causing cancer and all this like absolute nonsense, most of it, a lot of it being epidemiologically based, zero sort of mechanistic evidence.
00:06:39
chrisyzen
so few actual like human controlled trials and stuff like that. A lot of it is just epidemiology, statistical number, massaging that anyone you know with ah you know I guess some knowledge of statistics can manipulate. right So if you hear animal protein upregulates mTOR and that shortens lifespan, in what just ask in what and they they have to if they know they have to tell you in like rats and stuff so what would you know what rats eat what the rats eat they don't eat them in those studies they don't eat their normal diet they're getting
00:07:16
chrisyzen
systematically poisoned with that lab chow. I'll cover in the next segment what that what ingredients that contains. um So then if you take an animal like that and then you fast it and you give it ah more protein, less protein, more fat, more carbs,
00:07:31
chrisyzen
but what What are you really, what are you you just manipulating levels of ah of of nutrition in an unnatural diet, in an animal that is taken out of its natural environment, blasted with fluorescent lights and sort of being stressed constantly and prodded and poked and, you know, taking its blood out and eventually, you know,
00:07:54
chrisyzen
just sacrificed that's what they say they they get sacrificed for science so yeah that's kind of my take on that one another basically another red herring that is just a distraction so thanks for listening and i'll see you on the next episode