January 17, 2025 • 17 mins
Did you know that women tend to eat less protein than what their body actually needs? Dr. Allison goes in depth today about the reason why women need to eat more protein to support their bodies in every stage of life & how to do so!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Edmonds bump
Room Podcast. I am doctor Allison Felt, owner of Body
Motion Physical Therapy, entrepreneur, mom of three, and founder of
af Wellness Coaching. That's what it's called for now, no
idea what it's going to manifest into, but thank you
for being here. So I founded Body Motion Physical Therapy
(00:22):
as a pelthic expert physical therapist and started helping women
through pregnancy, through fertility, through preparing for childbirth, and then
recovery postpartum. And now we not only do all those things,
but we also help moms through midlife so that they're thriving,
operating on world class and just having super strong, fit,
(00:44):
healthy cores and doing the things to get the job
done so that they can stay on their wellness track.
And what is the number one thing that you can
ingest in your body that you should prioritize and focus
on to keep you optimized, keep you thriving. Can you
guess what it is? It is protein? And if you
(01:05):
are watching this on YouTube, you will see that I
am wearing my fancy little jacket. It looks like a
fur jacket. It's total faux fur, not real at all.
But it's just so cozy and comfy, and I want
to divibe out with you with my jacket on. So
I might get a little sweaty and it might come
off during the podcast, but for now, it is absolutely
(01:27):
amazing and it's comfy. And so today we're talking all
things protein, the number one nutrient that is not only
gonna help you on your fertility journey, it's going to
help you during pregnancy, it's going to help you during postpartum,
and it's absolutely essential through midlife. Protein is so under
(01:48):
consumed through for women, like hands down, we don't get
enough of it. Okay, So why am I dedicating this
entire episode to one part of the macronutrient that you
need to have? So macro nutrients include protein, fat, and carbs. Okay,
these our foods. All foods can be broken down to protein, carbs,
(02:10):
and fat, and protein is so underconsumed. And one of
the things that is important is when we are pregnant,
if we aren't consuming enough protein, that sets us up
for not having enough protein for our recovery process, which
then can slow down healing, can decrease the rate at
(02:32):
which our cores recover postpartum, decrease our ability to build
muscle postpartum. During pregnancy, it's already really hard to put
on muscle. It's already really hard as a female to
put on muscle. We don't have as much testosterone, and
our estrogen that helps us put on muscle is highly
impacted when we are pregnant, so and then through the
(02:53):
post prime experience, estrogen plummets and therefore it is even
harder to build my So when we are trying to
regain our bodies back, right, like build the strength back
that we lost, recover the core, and just feel better
in our skins and get more energy. And how do
we do that while we do that through building muscle,
(03:15):
but also how do you build muscle? You have to
have protein on board. You have to have carbohydrates as well.
Facts are important. So like diets that just cut carbohydrates
aren't ideal, right, because then you can't even build muscle.
But you have to have protein in order to build muscle.
If there's one takeaway of this podcast, it is each
(03:38):
your darn protein. I'm going to say it time and
time again. It's so important for anyone, any female, especially
at any phase of the life cycle. So I can
tell you that protein is important when you're in the
fertility process and you're trying to optimize your body for
fertility and conception. It's important when you're pregnant. Let's see
(04:00):
what the stat is. I believe it was. It's like
eighty percent of it's in my pregnancy book, so you
can get like the official number in there, but it's
like fifty. No, it's higher than fifty. It's like it's
like sixty to eighty percent of people are protein deficient
in their third trimester during pregnancy, which then does can
lead over to them being deficient in the postpart and process.
(04:21):
And protein is just absolutely essential and so underutilized. Really,
you want a gram to a gram and a half
of your lean muscle mass. How do you know what
your lean muscle mass is? Well, you can get a
dexa scan and get like an idea of what your
lean muscle masses or your lean tissue masses. Or you
can just eat your body weight in protein and know
(04:44):
that like you're getting a sufficient you're getting that sufficient
leeway for protein. No, a lot of people have to
double consuming protein and they have a hard time figuring
out how what proteins they like, what proteins they need
for their bodies, and protein can come in a processed form.
So you can have processed protein in the form of
(05:06):
a protein mar in the form of a protein shake,
in a form of you know, processed food that has
protein in it, or you can use higher quality proteins
like the protein that comes from chicken or lean meats.
Vegetables also do have some protein in them. But you
(05:28):
really like when we're talking about the amount of protein
that we need for our bodies and for our lean
muscle mass, you are going to want to use and
derive as much high quality protein as you can. Non
fat Greek yogurt has a lot of protein, egg whites
have a lot of protein, and so you've got to
find the sources that you enjoy. And so if you
(05:48):
need one hundred and fifty to one hundred and eighty
grams of protein a day or two hundred grams of
protein a day, that's quite a bit a servings of protein.
And so we want to figure out what are you
going to enjoy in order to help you achieve that,
and what can be quick and easy on the go.
So many of our clients are moms that they haven't
been able to prioritize getting their protein in, and part
(06:09):
of that goes back to are we taking the time
to prep our protein so we can get our protein in?
How many times can I say protein in this episode?
I have no idea, but just come along for the ride,
and then someone can do a drinking game with their protein.
Shake on how many times I say protein, and then
they can chug every time I say it, and you
will probably hit your macro nutrient goal for the day.
(06:32):
There's one for you. But really so a lot of
it goes back to like having those proteins prepped, having
them ready to go. My biggest thing for what makes
me successful is I have to prep like I both
prep my proteins and it takes me about one hour,
super easy. I put a bunch of chicken chicken breast
(06:53):
tenderloins in the air fryer, put a bunch of seasoning
on them, let's calorie free seasoning. Stick it in the air.
I'll do like three or four pounds at a time,
then take it out, let it cool, and then I
will scramble up like three pounds of ground turkey and
then let that cool and then I just put it.
I weigh once it's cool. I weigh it into freezer bags.
(07:15):
Yesterday I used Court freezer bags and weigh out four ounces.
And that's like for me, I do like four ounces
of meal and so weigh out like my Court freezer
bags of my ground turkey, my Court freezer bags, and
my chicken. And I'm pretty much prepp probably for like
a week and a half. I might do an extra
prep day in there because I'm going out of town
and so I want to be able to have my
(07:36):
protein prepped for my trip and and so like I
just have it in the freezer and it's a grab
and go situation. So when I know it's lunchtime, like
that is my go to Like there's no energy or
mental load happening. That is like what am I going
to eat for lunch? Because I already have my protein.
(07:59):
All it comes down to is like do I want
to add a tortilla for the carb, English muffin for
the carb? Do I want to throw it over a
bet of lettuce and add cheese and like do it
up that way? So it's like, once they have the protein,
I can just build the meal to fill in the
rest of my macro nutrients and I can build really fun,
good recipes that way. But when the focus of your
(08:20):
fuel is protein, having it be prepped for you is
essential in your success to hit your protein goals every
single day. Now, like I said earlier, everyone's going to
have different protein goals and you're going to base that
off of your lean mass, and then you don't want
to do super low calorie diets. So this was a
(08:42):
really good question I got today on our wellness coaching call.
Someone was like, we're all being sold these like fast
fast and you know, just do this water fast, or
do this juice fast, or do this Prolon fast. I've
done the ProLAN fast before and or the Cayenne juice fast, right,
We've all been sold these different fasts. And she was like,
(09:02):
you know, like, of course I want to lose the
quick five to ten So is that a good thing
to just do? And it's like my response was, actually, no,
I don't think that's a good thing for you to do,
especially as we are trying to increase your protein to
support your lean mass. Like, yes, you might lose a
quick five to ten pounds of water weight, and then
the rest of that probably might be some muscle, it
(09:24):
might be some fat, but the reality is it's just
going to come right back on. If you we're trying
to build you up to have your basal metabolic rate
be burned, like every single day you have a good
amount of muscle mass that you're burning through two thousand
calories and using those calories as your fuel every day,
(09:45):
then that's great, and like, can we build that even
higher to where you're burning through twenty two hundred calories
a day and hopefully and then we get to a
point where like, Okay, you want to focus down on
the weight loss side of things, Well, we have adequate
protein levels, have adequate fats and carbs, and now we
can just start to manipulate a little bit of these
variables to help you on your fat lost journey. But
(10:08):
if we're starting your fat lost journey at seven hundred
calories a day, like, there's not a lot of room
to cut your fuel, and you feel, god Like, if
you go that low, you are really risking You're risking
a lot of like your hormones being messed up. You
just don't want your calories to go that low because
(10:29):
your body needs this fuel to support your muscle mass,
support muscles growing, to support your brain fuel and you know,
to keep you out of fight or flight. Like, if
you start to take away food and like take away
the body's resources to energize itself, you're going to be
in more of that fight or flight state. Your cortisol
(10:52):
is gonna spike, You're gonna want to retain more of
those calories to pack them in so you're ready to
fight the wars. We don't want your body there. We
want the body to be able to decompress. We don't
want the body having to live in that fighter flight
state and be worried about where the next fuel source
is coming from. We want the body to trust that
(11:13):
it's going to have the fuel and consistent fuel. And
then if you decide that you want to maybe shed
some pounds, then you do it very diligently, and I think,
but you keep your protein elevated because you want to
support the lean mass. When I think about our clients
(11:33):
and their recovery journey's postpartum, one of the biggest things
that needs to happen is, yes, restoring your pelvic floor
and getting that muscle tissue healthy and getting the abdominal
wall to recoil so that the abdominal core like the
front of the core can really recoil and turn back on.
(11:55):
To get these muscles to do that, it needs protein.
If we are living in a protein deficit, then we
just cannot rebuild to support our joints. And truly that's
what I see. I see so many people that like
in therefore they've just been protein deficient. They're like entire
like childbearing years, and so they don't have a ton
(12:18):
of muscle mass. So you want to know why we
have such a problem with osteoporosis and females. I think
this not only leads back to like us being deficient
and calcium one leads back to we just do not
have the muscle mass and the protein intake to build
the muscles to help sustain our bone density. So bone density,
(12:40):
just so if you're not aware, bone density is really
important and it is made essentially the more stress that
the bones have that the thicker and more dense the
bones are. So it's called Wolf's law. Bones get harder
and thicker and more healthy the more stress we put
(13:01):
on them. What puts the stress on the bones are
the muscles and doing anything weight bearing. So the more
that the muscles build, the more they pull on the bone,
the stronger they make the bone. But Wolf's law is
how you build bones. And once you build up your bones,
I mean, once you build up your muscles, then the
(13:23):
bones can be strong. But you have women in their
you know, fifties and sixties, they start to get diagnosed
with osteopenia, and that osteopenia is bone thinny, right, And
so then they might get put on some prescription medications
and or told to you know, start doing calcium, might
be told to start lifting weights. But at the end
(13:43):
of the day, they also need to make sure they
are eating protein so that when they are building, when
they're lifting weights, that they can actually build muscle and
support the muscles need to grow and develop and get stronger. Now,
women are not going to just like bulk up into
these husky husky beings, right Like, it takes some serious
(14:07):
discipline to build muscle as a female. And so it
also you just got to invest in the protein. And
if there is just one thing that I hope that
you get from this episode, it's like the importance of
protein for your future self. Okay, So if we're talking
about the women in their fifties and sixties getting diagnosed
with osteopenia. Those become the women in their seventies and
(14:30):
eighties that end up with osteoporosis. And how do you
die in America? Typically, you know, a big part of
it is you have a fall, you fracture a hip,
and that kind of puts you on and downwards vir
to death. But that's that's a very common soliloquy. And
once you have a fall with a hip fracture, it's
(14:52):
hard to come back and live after that. And so
if we start having adequate protein, I think that's the
one preventative variable that we can really start to incorporate.
Like we're already eating anyways, so if we just shift
some of what we are eating, like all the more power.
(15:13):
And even if you're a vegetarian, it's like, Okay, find
the vegetarian protein powder that you like if you're a vegetarian,
Like eat more of the beans, right, Like find some
lean protein sources, Like a lot of vegetables have protein,
a lot of you know, beans have protein. And you
can find different processed proteins if you're vegetarian too, so
(15:35):
like there are options for you. But it's just it's
such an important, important variable when we're looking at health
and longevity that if you aren't controlling that variable, then
it's just it's hard to be healthy. So I hope
you found this beneficial. I hope you realize that, like
(15:56):
if you are in the fertility process, eat your if
you were in your pregnancy, prioritize protein. I had some
serious meat aversions when I was pregnant, and I one
hundred percent wish I prioritized my protein intake more because
if I would have prioritize protein when I was pregnant,
recovery would have been a lot better. I actually believe
(16:16):
that my proops maybe wouldn't have been as worse, just
because the quality of my tissues would be a little
bit better. There's a lot of a lot of research
about collagen supporting the tissue, but collagen is not a
full protein, so you really need more than just collagen.
(16:37):
Prioritize yourself. Prioritize your protein intake. Make the time to
have your protein prepped and available for you, and then
just add in everything else wherever else it fits. But
for the most part, get your protein in. No matter
what phase of the woman life cycle and female life
cycle that you are in, we all need adequate levels
(16:58):
of protein. Oh, you are most likely never going to
overdo it. Your body will metabolize it and turn it
into whatever it needs. Most people are not getting enough protein,
So eat your protein, build your muscles, live a healthy life.
I'm doctor Allison Feld. I hope you enjoyed this episode
and I wish you a great, big protein meal wherever
(17:20):
you are. Take care,
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Edmonds bump
Room Podcast. I am doctor Allison Felt, owner of Body
Motion Physical Therapy, entrepreneur, mom of three, and founder of
af Wellness Coaching. That's what it's called for now, no
idea what it's going to manifest into, but thank you
for being here. So I founded Body Motion Physical Therapy
(00:22):
as a pelthic expert physical therapist and started helping women
through pregnancy, through fertility, through preparing for childbirth, and then
recovery postpartum. And now we not only do all those things,
but we also help moms through midlife so that they're thriving,
operating on world class and just having super strong, fit,
(00:44):
healthy cores and doing the things to get the job
done so that they can stay on their wellness track.
And what is the number one thing that you can
ingest in your body that you should prioritize and focus
on to keep you optimized, keep you thriving. Can you
guess what it is? It is protein? And if you
(01:05):
are watching this on YouTube, you will see that I
am wearing my fancy little jacket. It looks like a
fur jacket. It's total faux fur, not real at all.
But it's just so cozy and comfy, and I want
to divibe out with you with my jacket on. So
I might get a little sweaty and it might come
off during the podcast, but for now, it is absolutely
(01:27):
amazing and it's comfy. And so today we're talking all
things protein, the number one nutrient that is not only
gonna help you on your fertility journey, it's going to
help you during pregnancy, it's going to help you during postpartum,
and it's absolutely essential through midlife. Protein is so under
(01:48):
consumed through for women, like hands down, we don't get
enough of it. Okay, So why am I dedicating this
entire episode to one part of the macronutrient that you
need to have? So macro nutrients include protein, fat, and carbs. Okay,
these our foods. All foods can be broken down to protein, carbs,
(02:10):
and fat, and protein is so underconsumed. And one of
the things that is important is when we are pregnant,
if we aren't consuming enough protein, that sets us up
for not having enough protein for our recovery process, which
then can slow down healing, can decrease the rate at
(02:32):
which our cores recover postpartum, decrease our ability to build
muscle postpartum. During pregnancy, it's already really hard to put
on muscle. It's already really hard as a female to
put on muscle. We don't have as much testosterone, and
our estrogen that helps us put on muscle is highly
impacted when we are pregnant, so and then through the
(02:53):
post prime experience, estrogen plummets and therefore it is even
harder to build my So when we are trying to
regain our bodies back, right, like build the strength back
that we lost, recover the core, and just feel better
in our skins and get more energy. And how do
we do that while we do that through building muscle,
(03:15):
but also how do you build muscle? You have to
have protein on board. You have to have carbohydrates as well.
Facts are important. So like diets that just cut carbohydrates
aren't ideal, right, because then you can't even build muscle.
But you have to have protein in order to build muscle.
If there's one takeaway of this podcast, it is each
(03:38):
your darn protein. I'm going to say it time and
time again. It's so important for anyone, any female, especially
at any phase of the life cycle. So I can
tell you that protein is important when you're in the
fertility process and you're trying to optimize your body for
fertility and conception. It's important when you're pregnant. Let's see
(04:00):
what the stat is. I believe it was. It's like
eighty percent of it's in my pregnancy book, so you
can get like the official number in there, but it's
like fifty. No, it's higher than fifty. It's like it's
like sixty to eighty percent of people are protein deficient
in their third trimester during pregnancy, which then does can
lead over to them being deficient in the postpart and process.
(04:21):
And protein is just absolutely essential and so underutilized. Really,
you want a gram to a gram and a half
of your lean muscle mass. How do you know what
your lean muscle mass is? Well, you can get a
dexa scan and get like an idea of what your
lean muscle masses or your lean tissue masses. Or you
can just eat your body weight in protein and know
(04:44):
that like you're getting a sufficient you're getting that sufficient
leeway for protein. No, a lot of people have to
double consuming protein and they have a hard time figuring
out how what proteins they like, what proteins they need
for their bodies, and protein can come in a processed form.
So you can have processed protein in the form of
(05:06):
a protein mar in the form of a protein shake,
in a form of you know, processed food that has
protein in it, or you can use higher quality proteins
like the protein that comes from chicken or lean meats.
Vegetables also do have some protein in them. But you
(05:28):
really like when we're talking about the amount of protein
that we need for our bodies and for our lean
muscle mass, you are going to want to use and
derive as much high quality protein as you can. Non
fat Greek yogurt has a lot of protein, egg whites
have a lot of protein, and so you've got to
find the sources that you enjoy. And so if you
(05:48):
need one hundred and fifty to one hundred and eighty
grams of protein a day or two hundred grams of
protein a day, that's quite a bit a servings of protein.
And so we want to figure out what are you
going to enjoy in order to help you achieve that,
and what can be quick and easy on the go.
So many of our clients are moms that they haven't
been able to prioritize getting their protein in, and part
(06:09):
of that goes back to are we taking the time
to prep our protein so we can get our protein in?
How many times can I say protein in this episode?
I have no idea, but just come along for the ride,
and then someone can do a drinking game with their protein.
Shake on how many times I say protein, and then
they can chug every time I say it, and you
will probably hit your macro nutrient goal for the day.
(06:32):
There's one for you. But really so a lot of
it goes back to like having those proteins prepped, having
them ready to go. My biggest thing for what makes
me successful is I have to prep like I both
prep my proteins and it takes me about one hour,
super easy. I put a bunch of chicken chicken breast
(06:53):
tenderloins in the air fryer, put a bunch of seasoning
on them, let's calorie free seasoning. Stick it in the air.
I'll do like three or four pounds at a time,
then take it out, let it cool, and then I
will scramble up like three pounds of ground turkey and
then let that cool and then I just put it.
I weigh once it's cool. I weigh it into freezer bags.
(07:15):
Yesterday I used Court freezer bags and weigh out four ounces.
And that's like for me, I do like four ounces
of meal and so weigh out like my Court freezer
bags of my ground turkey, my Court freezer bags, and
my chicken. And I'm pretty much prepp probably for like
a week and a half. I might do an extra
prep day in there because I'm going out of town
and so I want to be able to have my
(07:36):
protein prepped for my trip and and so like I
just have it in the freezer and it's a grab
and go situation. So when I know it's lunchtime, like
that is my go to Like there's no energy or
mental load happening. That is like what am I going
to eat for lunch? Because I already have my protein.
(07:59):
All it comes down to is like do I want
to add a tortilla for the carb, English muffin for
the carb? Do I want to throw it over a
bet of lettuce and add cheese and like do it
up that way? So it's like, once they have the protein,
I can just build the meal to fill in the
rest of my macro nutrients and I can build really fun,
good recipes that way. But when the focus of your
(08:20):
fuel is protein, having it be prepped for you is
essential in your success to hit your protein goals every
single day. Now, like I said earlier, everyone's going to
have different protein goals and you're going to base that
off of your lean mass, and then you don't want
to do super low calorie diets. So this was a
(08:42):
really good question I got today on our wellness coaching call.
Someone was like, we're all being sold these like fast
fast and you know, just do this water fast, or
do this juice fast, or do this Prolon fast. I've
done the ProLAN fast before and or the Cayenne juice fast, right,
We've all been sold these different fasts. And she was like,
(09:02):
you know, like, of course I want to lose the
quick five to ten So is that a good thing
to just do? And it's like my response was, actually, no,
I don't think that's a good thing for you to do,
especially as we are trying to increase your protein to
support your lean mass. Like, yes, you might lose a
quick five to ten pounds of water weight, and then
the rest of that probably might be some muscle, it
(09:24):
might be some fat, but the reality is it's just
going to come right back on. If you we're trying
to build you up to have your basal metabolic rate
be burned, like every single day you have a good
amount of muscle mass that you're burning through two thousand
calories and using those calories as your fuel every day,
(09:45):
then that's great, and like, can we build that even
higher to where you're burning through twenty two hundred calories
a day and hopefully and then we get to a
point where like, Okay, you want to focus down on
the weight loss side of things, Well, we have adequate
protein levels, have adequate fats and carbs, and now we
can just start to manipulate a little bit of these
variables to help you on your fat lost journey. But
(10:08):
if we're starting your fat lost journey at seven hundred
calories a day, like, there's not a lot of room
to cut your fuel, and you feel, god Like, if
you go that low, you are really risking You're risking
a lot of like your hormones being messed up. You
just don't want your calories to go that low because
(10:29):
your body needs this fuel to support your muscle mass,
support muscles growing, to support your brain fuel and you know,
to keep you out of fight or flight. Like, if
you start to take away food and like take away
the body's resources to energize itself, you're going to be
in more of that fight or flight state. Your cortisol
(10:52):
is gonna spike, You're gonna want to retain more of
those calories to pack them in so you're ready to
fight the wars. We don't want your body there. We
want the body to be able to decompress. We don't
want the body having to live in that fighter flight
state and be worried about where the next fuel source
is coming from. We want the body to trust that
(11:13):
it's going to have the fuel and consistent fuel. And
then if you decide that you want to maybe shed
some pounds, then you do it very diligently, and I think,
but you keep your protein elevated because you want to
support the lean mass. When I think about our clients
(11:33):
and their recovery journey's postpartum, one of the biggest things
that needs to happen is, yes, restoring your pelvic floor
and getting that muscle tissue healthy and getting the abdominal
wall to recoil so that the abdominal core like the
front of the core can really recoil and turn back on.
(11:55):
To get these muscles to do that, it needs protein.
If we are living in a protein deficit, then we
just cannot rebuild to support our joints. And truly that's
what I see. I see so many people that like
in therefore they've just been protein deficient. They're like entire
like childbearing years, and so they don't have a ton
(12:18):
of muscle mass. So you want to know why we
have such a problem with osteoporosis and females. I think
this not only leads back to like us being deficient
and calcium one leads back to we just do not
have the muscle mass and the protein intake to build
the muscles to help sustain our bone density. So bone density,
(12:40):
just so if you're not aware, bone density is really
important and it is made essentially the more stress that
the bones have that the thicker and more dense the
bones are. So it's called Wolf's law. Bones get harder
and thicker and more healthy the more stress we put
(13:01):
on them. What puts the stress on the bones are
the muscles and doing anything weight bearing. So the more
that the muscles build, the more they pull on the bone,
the stronger they make the bone. But Wolf's law is
how you build bones. And once you build up your bones,
I mean, once you build up your muscles, then the
(13:23):
bones can be strong. But you have women in their
you know, fifties and sixties, they start to get diagnosed
with osteopenia, and that osteopenia is bone thinny, right, And
so then they might get put on some prescription medications
and or told to you know, start doing calcium, might
be told to start lifting weights. But at the end
(13:43):
of the day, they also need to make sure they
are eating protein so that when they are building, when
they're lifting weights, that they can actually build muscle and
support the muscles need to grow and develop and get stronger. Now,
women are not going to just like bulk up into
these husky husky beings, right Like, it takes some serious
(14:07):
discipline to build muscle as a female. And so it
also you just got to invest in the protein. And
if there is just one thing that I hope that
you get from this episode, it's like the importance of
protein for your future self. Okay, So if we're talking
about the women in their fifties and sixties getting diagnosed
with osteopenia. Those become the women in their seventies and
(14:30):
eighties that end up with osteoporosis. And how do you
die in America? Typically, you know, a big part of
it is you have a fall, you fracture a hip,
and that kind of puts you on and downwards vir
to death. But that's that's a very common soliloquy. And
once you have a fall with a hip fracture, it's
(14:52):
hard to come back and live after that. And so
if we start having adequate protein, I think that's the
one preventative variable that we can really start to incorporate.
Like we're already eating anyways, so if we just shift
some of what we are eating, like all the more power.
(15:13):
And even if you're a vegetarian, it's like, Okay, find
the vegetarian protein powder that you like if you're a vegetarian,
Like eat more of the beans, right, Like find some
lean protein sources, Like a lot of vegetables have protein,
a lot of you know, beans have protein. And you
can find different processed proteins if you're vegetarian too, so
(15:35):
like there are options for you. But it's just it's
such an important, important variable when we're looking at health
and longevity that if you aren't controlling that variable, then
it's just it's hard to be healthy. So I hope
you found this beneficial. I hope you realize that, like
(15:56):
if you are in the fertility process, eat your if
you were in your pregnancy, prioritize protein. I had some
serious meat aversions when I was pregnant, and I one
hundred percent wish I prioritized my protein intake more because
if I would have prioritize protein when I was pregnant,
recovery would have been a lot better. I actually believe
(16:16):
that my proops maybe wouldn't have been as worse, just
because the quality of my tissues would be a little
bit better. There's a lot of a lot of research
about collagen supporting the tissue, but collagen is not a
full protein, so you really need more than just collagen.
(16:37):
Prioritize yourself. Prioritize your protein intake. Make the time to
have your protein prepped and available for you, and then
just add in everything else wherever else it fits. But
for the most part, get your protein in. No matter
what phase of the woman life cycle and female life
cycle that you are in, we all need adequate levels
(16:58):
of protein. Oh, you are most likely never going to
overdo it. Your body will metabolize it and turn it
into whatever it needs. Most people are not getting enough protein,
So eat your protein, build your muscles, live a healthy life.
I'm doctor Allison Feld. I hope you enjoyed this episode
and I wish you a great, big protein meal wherever
(17:20):
you are. Take care,
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