Brian (1s):
Hello and welcome to the Get Lean Eat Clean podcast. My
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Name is Brian Gryn. I'm a certified health coach, trainer and author,
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And this podcast is for
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Middle aged men and women looking to optimize their health and get their bodies back to what it once was 10 to 15 years ago. I will give you simple, actionable items to get long term sustainable results. Thanks for listening and enjoy the show.
Brian (25s):
All right, Welcome to the Get Lean Eat Clean podcast. My name is Brian Gryn. I hope you had a great weekend and happy Tuesday if you're listening us on Tuesday. Hopefully you had a chance to listen to my interview, episode four 30 with Tyler Woodward. We discussed all about his pro metabolic perspective coming from a keto and fasting background. We touched on ways to increase metabolism, advantages of eating, carbs for energy, Tyler's eating routine, Tyler's top testosterone boosting activities, and is one tip to get your body back to what it once was. So if you haven't already, definitely recommend my interview with Tyler Woodward. On today's micro podcast, we are gonna get into all things chicken and high poof of diets, and we're gonna touch on reasons for perhaps maybe not consuming as much chicken as you are currently doing.
Brian (1m 11s):
And now chicken's considered a lean and healthy protein, But it is one of the highest sources of linoleic acid thanks in large part to what they're fed in the conventional food system. So today we're gonna explore the potential health co consequences of a high pofa diet, why chicken might not be as good as you think it is, and some practical tips to try to reduce pofa intake without compromising nutrition. Now, PUFAs also known as polyunsaturated fatty acids are a type of fat that are found in animals and plants. They include omega threes along with omega sixes. A lot of times you hear people talking about balancing out your omega threes and your omega sixes, and that is for surely true. What what you're finding out is that in a modern diet, the standard American diet, it's very rich in processed foods and industrially farmed meats, which will lean towards a high Omega six fat diet.
Brian (2m 0s):
There's more and more research coming out on the Links between a high pufa intake and different health risks such as chronic inflammation, impaired metabolic health, oxidative stress and cellular damage. And you're hearing this a lot in the pro metabolic space. So since I just interviewed Tyler, I thought it would be advantageous to talk about this. One of the things that we've talked about a lot in this show is trying to take those seed oils out of our diet. And one of the big factors in that is cooking from home, going to restaurants, they're using them to cook in, they're putting them under high heat, which is causing them to oxidate and which could cause inflammation in your body. So what we wanna make sure is we're cooking for ourselves. Now, what makes it a little more complicated is, I'm not saying that you should totally avoid chicken, but what you wanna keep in mind is that probably 99% of the chicken out there, commercial chicken is high in oh, these omega six fatty acids because the feed that these chickens are getting aren't species appropriate.
Brian (2m 55s):
They're corn and soy based products, and these ingredients are very rich in omega six fatty acids contributing to ole acid levels. So anything commercially raised chicken, you want to definitely try to minimize. Now going out to a restaurant, they're obviously gonna use for the most part, nine out of 10 restaurants are gonna use these conventionally raised chicken. You will find some farm to table restaurants where they, they cook pasture raised chicken few and far between. Now, one of the issues with eating conventional chicken is the fact that they are what's called monogastric animals, which means that they lack a special stomach for fermenting and digesting seeds or plants like cattle can.
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So conventional cattle, if you're gonna pick one or the other, is the way to go over conventional chicken because they don't have the ability to efficiently convert these plant-based feeds to corn and soy into lean muscle and it gets stored in their fat, which can lead to higher pofa levels. So chicken and pork are one of those things where you really want to do your research and consume pasture raised chicken and pork even more so than pasture raised cattle. Now, we're not gonna go into the whole history of why we've become so reliance on corn and soy, but essentially it's a very heavily subsidized crop by the US government making it cheap and readily available for all these animal feeds.
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The problem is they're not really supposed to be eating these types of feed. All it does is make them fat and is high in ole acid. Now, on top of that, on top of that, these monoculture crops require large amounts of water and pesticides contributing to soil erosion and water pollution. So I think what's important is to make sure that you diversify your protein sources. I'm not saying to completely cut chicken outta your diet. What I'm saying is make sure that you're varying your protein sources and for the most part, eight outta 10 times, if you can get a pasture raised organic chicken or cattle, that is your best bet. So three tips I think you should take from this one is, in order to reduce your pufa intake, we wanna minimize the consumption of processed foods rich in vegetable oils, which we've talked a lot about on this show.
Brian (5m 2s):
But so swapping cooking oils like soybean and corn oil for healthier alternatives such as coconut oil tallow, or grass fed butter is a great alternative. Diversifying your protein sources, meaning incorporating the low pufa protein options. This would be pasture raised eggs, beef, and wild caught fish. You can consider some other plant-based proteins, maybe like organic lentils or chick peas as occasional replacements. And then if you're gonna choose chicken, make sure you try to get a chicken that is pasture raised. So looking for labels like pasture raised and organic when buying chicken and supporting local farmers is one great way of of getting your chicken as well. So one thing I'll stress is if you're going from eating fried foods to eating chicken, that's a step in the right direction.
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Or if you're going from processed foods to eating some chicken from time to time, go for it. But if you sort of want to take that next step and really figure out a way to lower that pufa consumption even more, go from processed foods to pasture raised chicken found from a reliable source. I'll actually put a link in the show notes for my friend Ashley. She has, she has a farm called nourish cooperative.com, and they've been delivering, they've been starting to deliver high quality food straight to your door. I have no affiliation. I've had Ashley on the podcast before and she does a great job, so I would love to support her. They also have eggs and past raised chicken and pork. I'll put a link in the show notes for that. So, you know, the bottom line is, is not, it's not about being perfect, but understanding the nutritional profile of the foods that you're eating and making sure that you know, we're just making in informed decisions about what you're putting in your body.
Brian (6m 40s):
And if you're, you've been consuming conventional chicken on an everyday basis, perhaps it's time to mix it up, mix up the dietary protein and also try to find more pasture raised chicken in order to compliment your diet and make sure you're lowering your pufa consumption as well. So let me know if you have any questions. Feel free to email me, Brian at Brian Gryn dot com. And I appreciate you listening and have a great rest of the day. I will talk to you towards the end of the week for another great interview. Thanks so much for listening. Thanks
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For listening to the Get Lean Eat Clean Podcast. I understand there are millions of other podcasts out there and you've chosen to listen to mine and I appreciate that. Check out the show notes@briangrin.com for everything that was mentioned In this episode. Feel free to subscribe to the podcast and share it with a friend or family member that's looking to get their body back to what it once was. Thanks again and have a great day.
