thenutritionwatchdog.com What's in your food? Discover which "healthy" foods are harming your health and which foods protect your body 
By: Mike Geary – Certified Nutrition Specialist and Author of the best sellers The Diabetes Fix and The Truth About Testosterone
Well this is a fun story for you today, especially if you’re like me and you love burgers!
According to a 2023 study in the Journal Nutrients, 23 men were assessed for vascular function, including blood pressure, flow mediated dilation (FMD), and certain lipid levels after adding 5 burgers a week to their normal diet for 5 weeks.
Both high fat beef (25% fat) and low-fat beef (5% fat) were analyzed.
Neither group saw any harm at all from adding a high quantity of beef to their diet in terms of their heart health, blood pressure, and artery flow contrary to the popular narrative that red meat is somehow bad for your heart.
In fact, the higher fat beef group saw their blood pressure, arterial blood flow, and lipid levels all improve over the 5 weeks!
This doesn’t suprise me, and if you’ve read this newsletter for some time, it probably won’t surprise you either, as I’ve published dozens of articles showing the benefits for your heart and metabolic health of eating red meat.
The reasons why eating more beef improved their blood pressure and artery function probably has to do with the super powerful nutrients found in beef, such as…
1. Healthy saturated fats such as stearic acid, heart-healthy monounsaturated fats, and very low levels of inflammatory omega-6 fats (whereas chicken and pork have 10x higher levels of inflammatory omega-6 fats than beef)
2. CLA fats in beef, already studied for anti-cancer effects, heart benefits, and more.
3. C15 fats in beef, showing in studies to have a diverse array of metabolic health benefits including healthy insulin sensitivity and blood sugar, and heart health benefits.
4. High levels of powerful nutrients such as carnitine, carnosine, creatine, taurine, zinc, selenium, and b12.
So the message is… although the media tries to terrorize you into fearing red meat, the reality is that red meat like beef and bison (especially grass fed) are a heart-healthy superfood that only seem to have profound benefits for your health, including heart and artery health.
While grass fed red meat is one of the healthiest foods you can eat for your heart health and blood pressure, there’s a particular nutrient that most people haven’t heard of that just might be the single most important thing for keeping your heart strong as you age and avoiding heart attacks…
The #1 nutrient missing in your diet that keeps your heart strong as you age.
(Most people do NOT get enough of this nutrient, and your doctor has probably never mentioned it!)
