Microblog: The Very Many Benefits of Red Meat

Red meat has been demonized for too long when it is a super food. And make sure to get the red meat with extra fat!

😓I’m grateful for my pockets that the fattier ground beefs are cheaper but it shows how wrong our nutritional guidance is currently.

⛑We need fat for so many reasons, some including: hormone health, immune health, skin health and mental health.

💡If you cook ground beef on the pan, make sure to use all the drippings in the pan, otherwise you’re eating lean ground beef.

🦠And if you get loose stools when you consume rendered fat, it’s time to heal your gut.

⚠️You should be able to tolerate any amount of fat-even 80% of total calories. Yes, if you can’t, you need some gut healing.

❓So why is digestion so important?

🔄Just because an 8 oz serving of meat has 142% of your DV% for vitamin B12, that does not mean you are absorbing all of it. We are all different. There are many co-factors and enzymes in the body that need to all play nicely (and be present) together for nutrients to do their job.

🧬Let me give you the example of digestion. B12 is primarily created in the large intestine (some B12 can be absorbed in the small intestine). If you’re digestive process is not…