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Ecoaerobic Lifestyle and Protein
Now lets address protein. When you first think about the word protein, you have so many different visions in your mind. The sight of a t- bone steak or a weight lifter are two common ones. Typically we have been taught we need to eat plenty of meat and drink plenty of milk to grow big and strong. Proteins are made of small chains of amino acids. Our physical body requires more than 20 amino acids, eight of which cannot be made by the body and must be obtained from foods. Protein helps create certain hormones and builds and repairs body tissue in the hair, fingernails, skin and muscles. It also helps to produce enzymes. Proteins also act as chemical messengers of nutrients and help transport oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body. The idea that a person needs loads of protein calories for energy is a ploy that must have been arranged by the meat industry because the body is built to burn energy primarily from carbohydrates and fats and then protein. The body prefers to use carbohydrates and fats as energy from food while proteins carry out there many complicated duties.
Protein provides 4 calories of energy per gram. A grown man or woman should consume between 30 and 50 grams of protein a day, however the amount of protein eaten by most Americans is between 60 and 140 grams a day or even more by protein junkies. Ancient primitive man and most herbivores in the wild consumed bugs while they were eating wild plants and grasses and the amount of protein in the bugs would be the amount of protein they would eat. It is fact that some people eat three times the amount of protein they need on a daily basis which can result in arthritis, kidney stones, or a host of other problems. Animal protein in general is acid forming in the body while plant based proteins in things like chlorella, sprouts and sprouted grasses is not. Many of the plant base proteins contain all of the essential amino acids.
Non-vegans make a big deal about the “complete protein” issue. Traditionally it is taught that animal proteins are complete proteins and that plant proteins are incomplete. Vegetarians get plenty of protein if they eat a wide variety of foods. Most fruits and vegetables have amino acids in them which is a lot easier to digest than the protein in animal products. Animal protein must be broken down by the body into amino acids before they are usable.
The issue with large amounts of protein intake is that it creates a highly acidic state in the tissues of the body and the digestive system. The amount of bacteria found in animal proteins are high. The idea of “ just cook it extra long” to kill these bacteria and then eat it “safely” is a concept not even worth entertaining. When proteins are cooked and mixed with large amounts of carbohydrates the digestive processes become dysfunctional. When this occurs it gives the resident anaerobic bacteria a better terrain to feed off of the slow digesting carbohydrates from the combination of the two food types. This is how the mucoid plaque forms in the intestines. Mucoid plaque consists of undigested acidic putrefying meat, gluten, anaerobic bacteria and mucus. When protein enters the stomach the hormone gastrin is released causing the stomach to produce hydrochloric acid to digest the protein. This lowers the digestive acids pH to 2, while the carbohydrates cause the pH to increase signaling the need for more HCL. This process ping pongs back and forth leading to lack of complete digestion which leads to putrefied animal proteins in the intestines, gas, and an uncomfortable bloating which prompts many to want to have to “ sit down and take a load off”, after they eat.
We do not experience this because EcoAerobic eating is easy on the digestive tract. I haven't felt uncomfortably full or bloated after a meal in 9 years and the idea of having to sit down after a meal seems like a torture. When I finish an EcoAerobic super food smoothie or a meal I have energy uninterrupted for hours upon hours. Tell me something, do you have to pull your car over on the side of the road for a little while after you've filled it up with fuel?
I also feel if something is dead it is dead. There is an intrinsic intelligence in the make up of nature and Mother Earth. I have witnessed an apple tree grow apples whose color is disguised while the apple isn't quite ready to be eaten. Slowly as the apple grows mature and ripens the color becomes distinctly noticeable in comparison to the color of the rest of the tree. Even the smell of the apple becomes pleasant enough to attract you to it while its still on the tree. The beautiful thing that happens next is that the apple tree will offer you its fruit by even dropping it from its limb on to the ground. If no one eats from the offering the apple will decompose and offer its nutrients back to the Earth from which it came. When I look at the purpose of an apple tree I watch it fulfilling its destiny in a manner completely from A to Z. I'd like to believe if an animal was designed to be eaten by us it would have the ability to surrender itself willingly and even show us the parts of it we should eat.
Shifting back to the science of it all, anatomically and physiologically we are not carnivores or omnivores. The human digestive tract is long and complicated and designed for the slow absorption of complex and stable plants. Animal foods require short simple bowels so the food does not have time to rot and ferment in the intestines of carnivores. If we were carnivores we would be sweating through our tongue instead of the sweat glands in the skin. The jaw and teeth structure of humans also do not resemble the structure of a meat eaters. If you are going to eat animal protein, eat it alone with out any carbohydrates, and try to eat meats which you can eat raw and uncooked. Most meats that are grocery store bought have already began putrefying and decaying with toxic bacteria during the aging process and then are filled with preservatives that give the meat that fresh red bloody look.
The primary sources of protein we recommend and are used in our EcoAerobic smoothies are :
· Hemp seed
· Chlorella
· Spirulina
· Bee pollen
· Sprouted grass sprouts ( barley, wheat, alfalfa etc.)
· Chia seed
· Gogi Berries
I remember in the beginning stages of making conscious eating decisions I found myself clueless as to what to eat for protein. The first date was soy. Soy became my new meat. This white block of cold slimy firm jello like substance was odorless and tasteless. This tofu soy meat stage is something probably everyone who has transitioned away from meat has experienced. The problem with tofu and soy meat is that it has been highly processed, genetically modified, and your body does not recognize it as food in that state. The process of digestion for those highly altered proteins are hard on the body and take a very long time. Tofu is also very acid forming to the body and holds no electrical charge of energy. For information on these and any other foods, please feel free to ask.
