Red meat

[SomeGuy]

@robintemplin I’m assuming your chances of getting prostate cancer are also low.

[trucha]

G R I B E N E S Y E S OY VEY I’m in heaven!

[scaperdude]

A friend of mine got prostate cancer. Drs told him ti came from red meat in your diet.

The meat eaters often drink milk. Most American dairy milk has a substantial amount of A1 casein. My father made a big deal about drinking milk but believed the old hype about saturated fat so drank skim milk - I tried to warn him years ago not to - he got prostate cancer, and really did not eat much red meat. I believe it is much more likely that the A1 casein is responsible for prostate cancer since it becomes casomorphin in the body.

The red meat we eat is full of hormones and what not.

This notion is questionable, even for feed-lot beef.

Peter Ballerstedt has some interesting statistics about this. He maintains that most criticisms of red meat are propaganda that don’t stand up to the actual data.

Probably true. Red meat is a source of a sugar known as Neu5Gc. Humans do not have this form of the sugar, but have Neu5Ac. Neu5Gc is a non-human sialic acid sugar molecule common in red meat. Neu5Gc is naturally found on cell surfaces in most mammals but not in humans. Humans have Neu5Ac. Neu5Gc gets incorporated into human cells by eating meats, organs and some dairy products. Previous studies have shown when Neu5Gc is incorporated into human tissues, the immune system sometimes recognizes it a s a foreign threat, producing antibodies to counter it. Repeated consumption of these meats then causes chronic inflammation, which has been known to increase risks of tumor formation. Neu5Gc has been linked to cancer as well as cardiovascular and other inflammatory diseases, including some bacterial infections. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4299224/ ; October 19, 2016 story in ScienceDaily). Sometimes cancers will coat themselves in this substance.

I find this suspicious. Other than this I really find no problem with red meat. I still eat it, but now usually avoid feed lot meats unless their price is just too low to resist. I tend to eat organic, grass fed ground beef or lamb. But, I rotate among other meats as well because of this one issue with red meat so as not to unduly build up antibodies. I eat chicken, some turkey, wild salmon, sardines, crab, shrimp, and a smattering of other meats such as pork. I tend to stay away from processed meats, unless they are really clean. However, as far as I know, there is not any evidence directly linking Neu5Gc to prostate cancer.