Paul Saladino
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The Shawn Ryan Show · #179 Paul Saladino - The FDA Approved Poison You Eat Every Day · 5 Mar 2025
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So 50 grams of protein from tofu is not the same as 50 grams of protein from a steak, both in terms of coexisting nutrients that you get, because there are many nutrients in meat that occur only in animal foods, creatine, carnitine, anserine, taurine, B12, K2, uniquely important vital role for humans in their diets. They don't occur in plants.
Plants may have other nutrients that are useful for humans, but nutrients that occur in plants often not as bioavailable. So 50 grams of protein from steak, much more bioavailable 50 grams protein from tofu. You could eat twice as much tofu, but again, you're still not getting any of the nutrients in meat. And I would argue there are other downsides to eating tofu.
There is a study that shows that soy actually decreases androgen receptor density. Soy doesn't decrease testosterone or sex hormones. You ever heard of the term soy boys? And the colloquial notion is that soy decreases androgens or testosterone.
That doesn't seem to happen in humans based on what I've seen, but it does decrease, at least in one study, androgen receptor density, which is interesting because in order for testosterone to work, It has to bind to a receptor. So I'm not a huge fan of soy for a lot of reasons. Soy is also a hugely subsidized crop in the United States. We can talk about, I think, $45 billion annually.
Maybe, I don't have to check that, but $45 billion potentially annually in crop subsidies for soy. And all that soy, most of that soy goes to soybean oil. Wow. It goes to seed oils.
I did as a kid.
Weeks to months, like we talked about.
Weeks to months, yeah. Humans see radical changes. Let's talk about macros for a second to give people the idea of how to do this. You don't have to move to a lot of meat, but I do think in terms of protein, fat, and carbohydrate amounts, you want about one gram of protein per pound of body weight from animal protein. That's important. Not plant protein, animal protein. So I weigh 165 pounds.
On a daily basis, I'm thinking, and this just happens intuitively for me now, I want about 165 grams of animal protein per day. I get that from meat. I get it from raw milk. That's about it. Sometimes I get it from protein powder if I'm on the go. And if you're using a protein powder, be aware there's a lot of junk protein powders out there also.
You want something good with ingredients your great-grandmother would recognize. Once you get one gram of protein per pound of body weight from animal food, which is actually a little more than most humans need, the number is probably 0.8, but if you aim for one, you'll probably get plenty, you have fat and carbohydrates left. And you can dial your fat and carbohydrates based on how active you are.
When I'm in Costa Rica surfing for a few hours every day, skating, doing a little bit of stuff, maybe some sprints on the treadmill, swimming in the pool with friends, I eat a lot of carbohydrates. I personally, which doesn't work for everyone, often have 300 grams of carbohydrates a day from honey, from fruit, from squash.
Not everyone needs 300 grams of carbohydrates a day, but I think it's important to at least track and know what you feel good with. I think individually, that difference between fat and carbohydrates is going to be something that you'll have to figure out for yourself. Some people do a little better with more fat. Some people do better with more carbohydrates. I wouldn't do no carbohydrates.
I wouldn't do keto for most people. Ketogenic diets have applications if you have epilepsy, advanced dementia, but I think for most people, a ketogenic diet is not needed to be optimally healthy, and it can have some downsides to it. Electrolyte insufficiency, energy production issues, stress on the human body.
So getting enough carbohydrates, I think from more bioavailable, less toxic sources, so get rid of the grains would be my advice to most people, or ferment the heck out of your grains,
fruit, honey, raw dairy, if you get carbohydrates from there and then you get fat just along with your food, a lot of times if you're eating animal meat and you're not looking for the leanest animal meat because now you're no longer fearing saturated fat, then you're getting fat with your foods you're eating. So that fat-carbohydrate ratio can be determined person to person.
I am probably 15 to 20% of my calories is protein, more likely 17%. I'm about 35 to 40% of my calories as carbohydrates, and the rest is fat on a daily basis, depending on what I'm doing. So just to give people a baseline, everybody's not going to be the same as me.
I believe the reason plasma exchange works, well, plasma exchange is just plasma. Maybe you're... Maybe you're cleaning out some of the broken proteins. I mean, that might help. The blood transfusions are interesting. This idea of like, you know, getting blood from a younger human. I'm not advocating for this, but you see it in animal studies, right?
And the reason it works mechanistically, which is why this is interesting, is because you are getting cells that have membranes that are not as full of polyunsaturated fatty acids. That's why I think it works. So you can recreate that in your own body, but in animal studies, and some people have dabbled with this as humans, although it's super controversial when this happens, right?
And this is like the conspiracy theories, getting blood from kids or something. That's not what I'm advocating for, but in animal studies, you can see that if you give the blood from a young animal to an older animal, the older animal does better, and vice versa, older animal to younger animal, younger animal does worse,
aging blood is often just full of all of these components in this garbage food. And this linoleic acid is accumulating in our membranes. So I really think that, The better you make your diet, the faster you will heal. Again, all of this is framed in the part of our earlier conversation, which is that's difficult.
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