December 23, 2024 • 35 mins
Could one of the most celebrated foods in the standard American diet be sabotaging your health? In this thought-provoking episode, we uncover the surprising truths about eggs and their impact on heart health, blood pressure, and overall well-being.
Are eggs really the "perfect protein," or is it time to rethink their place in a healthy eating plan? In this episode, we’re diving into the reliable science, exposing the concerning myths surrounding eggs, cholesterol, and their role in a whole food plant-based lifestyle.
Have you ever struggled to stick to healthy eating or wondered why you keep falling off the wagon? We’ll help you understand how eggs—and other animal products—keep holding you back from achieving your health goals.
From the risks of dietary cholesterol to the benefits of the foods that lead to natural healing, this episode is packed with the insights to help you make informed choices that bring lasting health improvements.
We also explore the health outcomes of vegetarians who consume eggs and dairy versus those who embrace a diet of enjoyable whole plant food, and how these choices can impact energy levels, heart health, blood pressure, and long-term vitality.
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- Why the egg industry is not allowed to make any health claims in their marketing
- The truth about eggs, cholesterol, and heart health
- Why eggs may not be the protein powerhouse they’re claimed to be
- How an enjoyable whole food plant-based diet supports natural health and healing
- How to stop falling off the healthy eating wagon and stay consistent
- The benefits of plant-based eating for blood pressure, energy, and vitality
- The truth about replacing eggs with plant-based alternatives
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm so glad you're joining us today.
You are in for a real treat.
We've been talking about milkand meat, and today we're
talking about the incredibleedible egg.
What does that even mean?
Do you hear any health claimsin that?
I don't either, and I wonderwhy.
So today we're gonna be liftingthe fog off of should we eat
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eggs, should we not?
Are they healthy, are they not?
And the why behind it all.
Hey sister, welcome to the Poweron Plants podcast.
Are you tired of staring intothe fridge wondering what to eat
so you can just feel better?
Do you want to avoid spendinghours in the kitchen making
complicated meals in the name ofhealth?
Would you love to leave fatiguebehind and finally have the
(00:46):
energy to do all the things youwant to do?
Hi, we're Jared and AnitaRoussel, christ followers,
healthcare professionals,parents of four and big fans of
great tasting food.
We, too, tried exercising more,eating natural and clean foods,
but we still found ourselvesstruggling with what we thought
were changes that come with ageor bad genes, and we weren't
(01:07):
finding answers to traditionalroutes.
So we dug into the research andcreated our secret nutritional
weapon sustainable plant-basedliving.
The truth is, you can eat morewhole plant foods, and it's not
hard.
You just need the way that'srealistic and delicious so you
never feel deprived.
If you're ready to enjoy yourmeals, no longer be held back by
(01:28):
your health struggles andactively live your life, then
you're in the right place.
So grab your favoriteplant-based cup of happy pop in
those earbuds and let's getstarted.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
The incredible edible egg.
As you said, anita, no healthclaims in that statement and it
sounds great, it rhymes, it'sone of those things that seems
to inspire action, but when youtake a moment and think, what
does that even really mean?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
What does it mean?
And you hear edible and itsounds like a really fancy word
and you think, yeah, yeah, it'sedible.
That's wait a minute.
And you start thinking aboutwhat edible means.
It's like that's not really acompliment to the egg.
I mean edible.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
If you break it down, it means the unbelievable
eatable egg Incredible.
Now we use incredible as a termof wow, that's so amazing,
that's incredible.
But it means I can't believethat.
And then it means edible.
So it's a I can't believethat's edible egg, maybe that is
.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
The message there's a lot of truth there.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
When you break it down.
Maybe it means the exactopposite of what we believe for
all these years the unbelievableeatable egg.
It's like, no, don't eat that.
But this is basically the thirdpart of an unofficial trilogy.
We didn't set out for this tobe a trilogy, but we've talked
about dairy, we've talked aboutmeat and now we're talking about
eggs and listen at the end ofthis episode.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
If you did not hear those other two, you have to go
back and listen to them.
You're not going to want tomiss the things that we've
shared, these eye-openingrevelations that we've gotten
along the way as we dug into theresearch and figured out why we
were feeling so bad for allthis time, so many years of our
lives spent trying to heal andfigure out what's going on and
(03:16):
why don't we feel good all thetime being told these are the
healthy things.
I mean you're eating cage-freeand you're eating free-range and
you're eating no hormone addedand you're eating all these
different things, not knowingwhat's going on behind the
scenes of all these quotehealthy foods.
So definitely, after thisepisode, go back and listen to
the one about dairy and meat.
You're not going to want tomiss this and I promise you
(03:39):
there are going to be somenuggets in there that you have
not heard before.
We constantly have this happenall the time.
I mean Jared and seeing hispatients and us working with our
clients.
It's like why has no one toldme this stuff before?
And I'm going to be breakingdown a lot of these same types
of mind blowing facts inside ourcourse accelerator.
This program begins January 12.
(04:01):
And you do not want to miss it.
If you're even thinking aboutit, join now, because we are
offering $2,000 off.
We are never doing this again.
We started it around BlackFriday.
We have extended it throughJanuary 12th because it's an
offer for founding members, onlyfor this first class.
(04:22):
After that it is not going tobe $2,000 off.
I'm telling you, when you seethe value that's inside and you
go through this and get the lifechanges that are happening,
with us walking you step by stepto get the health results that
you've been after for far toolong, because no one's been
telling you what is at the rootof this, when you can get to the
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root of the health issues thatyou're having and you can figure
out how to change what you'redoing in the way that science
backs up has been the problemthose sabotaging foods it's like
what's even sabotaging me, andthen what is good for me?
And then, when you can actuallysee what is good for you, the
next step is well, how do I getthose things in the way that's
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actually realistic with my life,and not only that exciting and
enjoyable, so that I do it forlife and diets have been so
rampant and so confusing and sooverwhelming and leading us to a
place where maybe we get someresults, but then, at the end of
it, we end up quote falling offthe wagon.
This framework that we're goingto take you through step by
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step inside Accelerator is fivesteps, and these are the five
steps that work time and timeagain.
But this framework is the exactanswer to the question that
you're asking yourself how do Istop falling off the healthy
eating wagon so that I canfinally have a body that feels
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great and supports me in livingmy God-given mission right?
Because when you finally getdown to it, the issue isn't
really about the food.
Yeah, we want to have greattasting food, we want food that
lights us up, food that's quickand simple to prepare.
We're going to show you how todo that.
But the real issue is how do youget your body to the place that
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those foods, that resource, isfueling your body so well that
now you're able to get out thereand do all those things that
you were born to do, to live outthose God-given dreams that God
has put on your heart?
And when you don't realize thethings, like we're sharing some
of them with you here today.
When you don't realize thosethings, you don't even know
where to start.
(06:25):
But then, once you do get thoseinsights and you think, oh, now
I understand, you know that'sanother thing that needs to go.
Well, what are you going to putback in its place and how are
you going to make that thingtaste just as good as your old
favorites?
And that is exactly what we'regoing to walk you through, step
by step, in our five stepaccelerator framework inside
accelerator, because you want toget there and you want to get
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there faster in the way that'sgoing to keep you there, because
you absolutely love it.
And that's what Jared and I sayall the time.
Oh, you know, just joking about, because people constantly say
don't you miss this?
Don't you feel so deprived?
No, we don't.
We never feel deprived.
We don't miss out on any ofthose old quote favorites that
we called good with our mouthnaming it good All the time.
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It's the food that's sabotagingus and keeping us sick.
No, we don't miss those things,because we now, in this way of
eating, have great flavor.
We love it.
It's quick, it's easy toprepare and it makes our body
feel amazing, and that'ssomething that an egg is never
going to do for you because itcan't.
It's just edible.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I do want to give you a trigger warning, though,
about the dairy and the meatepisodes.
You may not have a hankeringfor those anymore, but you know,
sorry, not sorry.
You need to know the truth.
It just so frustrates me,especially when I'm talking with
my patients and telling themthese things, and time and time
again, they've never heard thisbefore, and these are key
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elements in optimizing yourhealth.
So in today's ending of thetrilogy, the incredible edible
eggs.
Now, you mentioned somethingabout using the word good and
that we need to be careful theway that we use these words,
because they have meaning.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
With egg.
We hear that it is an excellentsource of protein.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Did you just say egg-cellent?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I did not, but I like that.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I like that it sounded like you said
egg-cellent.
I really don't think they'reexcellent.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
We need to be careful of the words that we use,
because they carry certainmeanings, even though eggs do
have protein in them.
When we think excellent source,now I'm hearing myself saying
excellent, I messed you up,didn't I?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I did.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
We say that it's an excellent source, meaning that
there is an abundance of proteinin it, but then we also
associate that this is a good,healthy, optimal source of it.
And it really isn't, because itcomes with a lot of other
things that we'll touch on, butthey're going to be very
familiar to you, especially ifyou've heard our last two
podcast episodes.
You know, and interestingly,they can't even be called
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protein rich.
We as individuals, meaning thepopulation as a whole, may say
it's an excellent source ofprotein, but corporations aren't
allowed by law to be able tocall them protein rich.
I want to touch on that alittle bit later, but just since
we're talking about protein now, you won't see that in an
advertisement protein rich eggs.
Honestly, they're pretty muchreduced to only being able to
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say it's edible, right.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Wow, I mean, it's just mind blowing.
Wrap your mind around that fora minute.
When you have a quote food andall you can say about it is that
it's edible, it should raisesome red flags.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Once you know it does .
But if this has never been onyour radar, if this has never
been forefront of mind, then youwould never think to ask these
questions.
Now, what are some of thedownfalls of eggs?
The major downfalls are goingto be cholesterol and what we
talked about in a previousepisode.
Go back and listen to episode320, we talked about arachidonic
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acid.
Eggs are very high in both ofthese and these are great for
the baby chicken that it'ssupposed to develop Cholesterol,
arachidonic acid, verynecessary in the cell membranes
of this to become a chicken egg.
But they're not good for us.
When we get them from dietarysources, our bodies make all the
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arachidonic acid and all thecholesterol that it needs.
So any that we get from dietarysources is unnecessary and can
have health consequences, healthimplications, so we don't want
to get them in our diet.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah, and anybody who is struggling with cholesterol
already knows that you don'twant to add more cholesterol to
your cholesterol.
It really is a struggle today,and one of the reasons is not
just your genetic, it's whatwe're eating.
That is a major part of theproblem.
But we don't know and we don'tunderstand and we don't know how
to get it down once it'selevated.
(10:52):
And that's the struggle, that'sthe frustration.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
The frustration for me as a provider is that
patients aren't hearing this.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Or they hear that it's just a genetic kind.
You can get cholesterol in eggs, but it's not really going to
bother you, and there are evensome gurus out on YouTube with
credentials that say, no, youneed more cholesterol.
Wow, here's the truth, though.
Our bodies do need cholesterol.
We need it for proper cellfunction.
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We may even need it for healing, so we may see bumps in
cholesterol level after there'sinjury, because our body is
making the cholesterol and thearachidonic acid and all these
other things that we need forhealing.
But that's not to be confusedwith oh, you need more
cholesterol in your diet.
No, our bodies make what itneeds and it self-regulates.
So as we get what we need, thenthe body senses that and says,
(11:42):
all right, let's cut down on theproduction.
And what we makecholesterol-wise is not
equivalent to what we get in ourdietary sources.
They are not the same.
So we want to be careful thatwe're not hearing conflicting or
messages that are almost kindof overlapping, like yeah, you
need cholesterol and eggs arehigh in cholesterol, so you need
it, so we eat more eggs.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah, that's where it starts to get really confusing,
because your protein I'm noteven going into protein right
now because we have a lot ofepisodes on it and I'm sure
we'll be talking about it againbut a protein is not a protein.
A carb is not a carbs.
You can't just say carbs andthink you mean the same thing
every time you say carbs.
There are healthy carbs.
There are unhealthy carbs.
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There are some proteins thatyour body thrives on.
There are some proteins yourbody doesn't thrive on, but yet
those are the proteins you'rebeing told you need to eat.
I'm just throwing that outthere to back up Jared's point
that just because you hear aword doesn't necessarily mean
what you think it means.
So we want to define thesethings for you so that you can
understand the differences.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
The answer to the question do eggs raise
cholesterol?
This was answered 40 years ago,back in the 1980s.
Through studies, they foundthat a single egg can change
your cholesterol.
A single egg a day can changeyour cholesterol as much as 12%
and that you will see thosechanges on blood work within
just a couple of weeks.
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That's a huge bump.
It is a huge bump especially ifyou already have a certain
amount of cholesterol in yoursystem because you're eating
other dietary sources ofcholesterol.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
And what if you're eating just one egg a day?
I know there are many timesthat we were eating an egg a day
, more than one egg a day ormore than that.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah, because usually when we Three or four at a time
when we scramble them, and I'veseen people on YouTube that eat
three or four eggs a day.
This is nuts.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
That's concerning, highly concerning.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Now you may hear of studies that say, well, eggs
don't really change cholesterol,so they can be part of a quote.
Unquote.
Healthy diet Corporations can'ttell you that, but individuals
you're talking to or you overhere can say that because
obviously they're not beingregulated by the government yet.
But in those studies that showthat there is neutral effect,
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what they have done is takingindividuals that are already on
an animal product rich diet.
Already they're eating meat anddairy just in what they
normally eat.
But in these studies they'llhave them where they're eating
meat and dairy.
They'll add a few eggs to itand they see little or no change
in their cholesterol level.
(14:13):
But it's because they'realready eating a lot of
cholesterol and you're going tohave a plateau effect.
Your gut can only absorb somuch cholesterol from the food
that you eat.
So, if you're already almost atthat peak, to add a little extra
is really not going to changeanything.
There's just a plateau.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
But it doesn't mean if you're eating a lot of meat
and animal products, you shouldbe adding eggs.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
That's not what we're saying here no, there are other
elements within eggs that well,I'll go ahead and say
detrimental.
I was going to try to bediplomatic and say non-promoting
.
But I mean, there are otherelements within eggs that are
detrimental to our health.
I don't want you thinking wellshoot, I'm already maxed out, I
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love eggs, I'm just eating mesome more eggs.
No, there are other things inthere that work strongly against
your optimal health.
So I wouldn't suggest doingthat.
But this highlights the pointthat you will see studies out
there that say, oh no, no,there's really no change,
there's no difference.
So they can be part of yourdiet I'm not even going to say
healthy, they can be part ofyour diet.
Well, you need to look atwhat's the starting point.
How are they manipulating thenumbers?
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Because in some sense, even ifthe calculations are accurate,
what was their starting point?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Right, their starting point was already somebody that
has high cholesterol.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
If you take somebody that's completely plant-based,
give them one egg, you'll see abump in their cholesterol.
Totally different startingpoint, but that's going to give
you a more accurate picture asto what is going on.
Absolutely, and that'simportant.
We need to know that.
Now, their slogan theincredible edible egg.
Do you remember when that, ordo you know when it got started?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Didn't you say it was the 80s?
I think you just said it wasthe 80s, didn't you?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
No, that's when we knew the effect of eggs on
cholesterol.
Okay, the slogan the Incredible, edible Egg.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I've heard it as long as I can remember.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
That's because it got started in 1976.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
And it was started by the American Egg Board, which
is a board that promotes theconsumption and the purchase of
eggs for egg producers at large.
But that got started in 1976,almost 50 years ago.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I know you'd think they'd come up with something
better, and I'm guessing it'sbecause they hit a lot of brick
walls and couldn't come up withsomething Exactly exactly.
And not because they didn'thave the ideas.
They just kept getting shutdown because there was no truth
that they could promote about anegg that would say it was good
for you.
Because it's not.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I saw where there were so many ads that they tried
to promote it as safe andhealthy and rich source of this,
and each time the USDA shotthem down they said you can't
say this, you can't make theseclaims.
And the reason being is that weknow the link between high
cholesterol and heart diseasecardiovascular disease and so
they can't make these claims.
And the reason being is that weknow the link between high
cholesterol and heart diseasecardiovascular disease and so
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they can't call it healthy whenwe know that clearly it is not,
even though there are elementsout there that try to obscure
that.
Again, gurus on YouTube wherethey try to promote it as being
healthy.
We know that it is not andwe've known this for a very long
time, but yet they're inbusiness.
They're trying to make money byselling eggs.
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How do you make money?
You either charge more for theeggs and the market will only
pay so much for an egg.
If it's $10 for an egg, mostpeople are going to say sorry.
I think I might buy me somebroccoli instead.
I don't know how likely thatwould be for someone that is a
self-avowed carnivore, but atsome point you're not going to
pay anymore.
So you charge more or you sellmore, and that's what their
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whole function is.
The American Egg Board is.
They want to help their memberssell more and more eggs, and so
we can't really be promotingthis idea of our product is not
healthy for you, because whatare they going to do?
They will sell no eggs.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
And so it just remains edible.
So it just remains edibleCorrect.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I think I saw one where they said you could
promote it as satisfies hunger.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Eggs satisfy hunger.
Yeah, that makes me want to runto the store.
Oh, right now.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Exactly.
So what we know about eggs isthat what is bad about them is
pretty much the same as what wesee for milk and for meat.
But I had this revelation inthinking about today's podcast,
that a lot of people that arevegetarians they don't eat meat
because that would involvekilling an animal.
So they'll drink milk andthey'll eat eggs because these
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are products of those animals,but it's not having to kill an
animal or harming an animal orharm the animal specifically.
So eggs are unfertilized, sothere's not really a viable
animal there.
So in their mind, we're notkilling anything, but we're
eating something that I think ishealthy, it's a good source of
protein and fats and all theseother things, and really they
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aren't.
And I believe that this is whythat a lot of vegetarians don't
really have much healthdifference between someone that
is eating meat.
People that eat meat sayvegetarians don't really have
different health outcomes thanwe that eat meat.
So really all the health issueswe have must simply be genetics
.
It's not really the food.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
So I'm just going to keep eating meat, Right, because
the vegetarians have laid asidethe meat.
So the meat eaters say well,your health isn't any better, so
therefore it must not be themeat.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Or maybe marginally better, and maybe those
individuals eat a lot morevegetables and maybe less dairy
and egg, but do still eat some.
What we're seeing is that it'sstill the same products.
You're still getting thecholesterol, the arachidonic
acid, also hormones, even eggs.
Eggs have estrogen in them.
It is an animal product, so itstill has all these same
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elements in it that work againstoptimal health Right.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
And so they're also eating all the dairy on top of
that as well.
So you have the eggs, which weknow are not healthy, and then
you have the dairy and go backand listen to the dairy on top
of that as well.
So you have the eggs, which weknow are not healthy, and then
you have the dairy and go backand listen to the dairy episode.
It was very eye-opening.
So you have all of those thingsstacked up and it was like me.
I mean, I was addicted to itthe cheese, the sour cream, the
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butter.
If you could have sat down atour family table, particularly
with a couple of members of ourfamily, myself included, you
would have heard crazyconversations about cheese.
Crazy conversations Like you'relistening to addicts talk about
something.
Conversations that's how cheeseand dairy work on you.
And then the egg almost feltthe same way about it.
(20:26):
It's kind of bizarre, but and Iknow it didn't have casein in
it.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
No, no casein.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Right, the same protein, that protein that was
bringing the calf back to thecow for a good reason.
God put it in there for a goodreason, right, with dairy.
But there's something aboutthat creaminess, that
butteriness, that taste that youget, that you think you have to
have it.
But you can actually replacethose flavors, which is what
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lights me up.
I just love doing that.
Can I tell you a story aboutsomeone who's close to me, dear
to my heart?
She's my sister-in-law in love.
So it's Jared's sister.
Absolutely love her to death.
So here's the thing she wentplant-based because she saw the
benefits of it and she was soexcited to try it she's never
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really been a lot of a cook ofit and she was so excited to try
it.
She's never really been a lotof a cook.
But you would not believe now,the other day, with doing the
methods that we do and watchingus and hanging around us and
getting into some recipes andreally just starting her own
journey of discovery, and she'sgotten confident.
And so now, being with us andgetting confident, she's off on
her own, like pulling thesethings together, because she's
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learned the framework for doingthis.
But the thing is, I rememberspecifically this one
conversation with her about eggsand I said well, have you tried
tofu scramble?
She's like no, no, I don't liketofu.
I don't like tofu.
I said what do you not likeabout it?
She's like it's just tasteless.
It doesn't taste good.
She said and you make the tofuscramble and it's all dry and I
don't like it.
Meanwhile she was also havingsome issues with hot flashes and
things like that.
So I'm like it will help yourhot flashes.
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She said oh really, okay, wellthen I'm willing to try it.
I said and I can show you theway to make them taste like
actual scrambled eggs so thatyou get the fattiness, the
butteriness, the creaminessright.
Jared always talks about howyellow or orange you'll say one
or the other like that color,putting that color in there that
you get in the yolk.
Sometimes they're yellow,sometimes they're a deeper
(22:18):
orange.
If you get them, maybe from afarm, okay, it doesn't make them
good for you, it's just thatyou get this color variation,
and so we're adding some of thatcolor back, maybe with the
turmeric.
You cannot expect turmeric tomake your eggs taste like eggs.
It just doesn't work.
So you need some otheringredients in there that are
going to make it taste like egg,but you're still not going to
get the butteriness.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
And just because you make them yellow, doesn't make
them taste like eggs, right?
Because what I've said before,yellow is not a flavor.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
So when you're looking to replace these things,
you must know the way to do itin the way that actually tastes
good.
Just because everybody's outthere mashing up some tofu and
putting some yellowy orange onit does not mean it's going to
taste like an egg and you'reprobably not going to like it.
But if you learn how to getthat butteriness of the yolk
back in there which is what Iabsolutely love doing and
(23:07):
showing you how to do it isgoing to change your life.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
And now my sister loves it.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
She loves them.
She's like I had tofu this wayand I had tofu that way.
So I'm going to be demystifyingtofu in the course.
It's not going to take a largeportion of the course because it
really is not that hard.
But you got to know how tohandle these things to get the
scrambled eggs you like and toget that chicken back into your
life.
Chicken nuggets and things likethat.
(23:33):
You want those things thattaste like your old favorites,
that aren't chicken you're noteating meat and it's not egg,
but it's so similar you're gonnalove it better because it
tastes just as good, or better,I would venture to say better
because now I just, I'm justjust my mind is blown time after
time.
And when you get the rightcombination of things and you
(23:55):
have somebody who can show youhow to do that, it will change
your life.
It lights you up, the foods getexciting, you don't have to
push through, there's no fallingoff the wagon, there's no
dreading how you eat and havingto force yourself to be healthy.
That's hogwash, that's absoluteinsanity.
Who having to force yourself tobe healthy?
That's hogwash, that's absoluteinsanity.
Who would want to do that toyourself?
We certainly don't want you todo that to yourself.
(24:15):
When you have a viable optionthat works and is joyful, it
doesn't make any sense.
So if you are interested at allin learning about how to do
this, come right now topoweronplantscom forward slash
accelerator.
That's poweronplantscom forwardslash accelerator.
You don't want to miss this.
It is going to change your life, without a doubt, 100%.
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You will not believe whatyou're going to learn, like how
to make tofu taste like eggswithout any of the harmful side
effects.
But it's not just that.
So we think about okay, I'mgoing to quit eating this thing
because it's harmful to me.
Sunshine, the most importantthing you got to figure out next
is what do I get back in itsplace?
Because you can't leave thatempty hole.
So how are we going to get eggsnow back into our life quote,
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eggs in a way that we love justas much or even more, without
the harmful side effects, butwith health benefits?
So now we're not just avoidingthe harmful side effects, we're
getting the health benefits ofthese foods.
And so this is how mysister-in-law's hot flashes went
away.
She was stacking one simplething and another simple thing,
and one of those simple thingsis getting eggs out of your life
(25:20):
, but bringing in thosereplacements that light you up.
She did that, and she's now notjust gotten rid of the harmful
effects of eggs, but she'sbrought in something tofu or
soybeans that actually have manybeneficial effects, not just
for women, but especially forwomen, and that's what this is
all about.
It lights me up.
(25:40):
When it comes to an egg, weneed to think about what is its
actual function.
Why was it created?
Because that question is goingto answer for us why we don't
need to be eating it.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
And why it has the same health effects as eating
meat, because in the episode wetalked about beef and meat.
It's the same effect withchicken Because the chicken that
we eat is chicken meat.
I mean it's chicken muscle.
Beef is cow muscle, so it hasall these same components in it
and health-wise we know thatchicken is no different than
beef.
Sometimes people will eatchicken and think, oh, it's a
(26:13):
healthier version.
It really isn't.
It's the same effect becausethey have the same things in
them.
But when you look at egg we maythink egg is different.
No, egg is a baby chicken andit has a lot of cholesterol, a
lot of arachidonic acid, a lotof all these other things in it,
because eggs are the incubatorfor a baby chicken.
(26:33):
It's not going to get anynutrients from outside that
shell, so it must containeverything in it that it needs
to create this fully functioninglife form.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
So it shouldn't surprise us when it has similar
things in it and similardetrimental health effects as
well.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Correct.
And it shouldn't surprise usthat they are high in these
things.
Right, because cholesterol andarachidonic acid are necessary
for the cell membrane of everycell, so it needs to have a lot
of that, because it will get noother nutrients from an outside
source.
I think of it kind of like aseed.
A seed has everything in itthat it needs to get the root
(27:11):
growing down and the leavesgrowing up so that it can start
absorbing nutrients from thesoil and making energy from the
sunlight.
Well, until that baby chickencan get out of the shell and
start eating and digesting andassimilating nutrients that way
which is going to take longerthan a seed germinating it has
to get everything from withinthat shell.
(27:31):
So, again, it doesn't surpriseus that it's high in these
things.
And when we're taught no, theseare good for you, I really
think that we have this tendencyto just gloss over, that we
don't see those messages becausewe for so long have been taught
hey, this is Edible.
Well it's edible, yes, but notby the industry, but by others
(27:55):
like oh, breakfast, yeah, twoscrambled eggs and some bacon,
and all this it's better than asugary cereal.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Right, that's what they're telling us all this
stuff.
It's better than a sugarycereal.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Because sugary cereals it'll spike your blood
sugar and it's not good for youand diabetes it's a sugar
problem, which it is notDiabetes, is a saturated fat
problem.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
It just happens to be .
Speaker 2 (28:19):
the sugar is the byproduct of that problem and
you're talking about type 2diabetes, correct?
Yes, type 2 diabetes.
Now we touched upon in the meatepisode an element of why
arachidonic acid is not good foryou, but I want to reiterate
this again what we know is thatarachidonic acid creates
inflammation in the body.
The body regulates the level ofthis so well so that we get
what we need, but not too much.
When you eat it from dietarysources, you're getting more
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than what you need, and it's notgoing to be something that the
body can downregulate becauseyou're getting it from an
outside source.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
And do plants contain any arachidonic acid?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Plants do not contain any arachidonic acid.
Plants do not contain anyarachidonic acid.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
And according to Genesis 129, our bodies were
created to thrive on plants.
Exactly so.
Therefore, that backs up yourpoint From a biblical
perspective.
Of everything you're saying,science is showing us as well.
We shouldn't surprise us whenwe connect the dots though.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Because we hear a lot of these things but don't
connect the dots.
Even me as a medical providergoing through my medical
education, my medical training,we weren't taught these things.
A lot of this stuff should havebeen the very first semester,
but we're not learning this.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Right.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Inflammation in the body.
Okay, I hear you.
So how does that affect things?
Well, just a couple of thesethings.
We know that with havinginflammation throughout the body
, it can affect the brain.
There can be low levels ofinflammation within the brain
that we're tying now to thingslike anxiety, depression and
other mental diagnoses.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
And we're finding that when people eat whole plant
foods, the anxiety tends todecrease, the depression tends
to go away Because theinflammation goes away and that
helps with these issues.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
But also, too, beneficial gut bacteria make
things like serotonin anddopamine.
And those beneficial bacteriatheir food is fiber you only get
fiber in plants but they makedopamine and serotonin,
neurotransmitters that our brainuses and that can help do what
Alleviate depression and anxiety.
There are really so manydifferent areas that
(30:17):
inflammation can touch upon inour lives, and I mean negatively
.
One more that I'll mention iswe know that the arachidonic
acid can lead to inflammatorybowel disease.
These are Crohn's andulcerative colitis.
So we know that eating theseproducts contributes to these
conditions.
What happens when you stopeating them?
(30:38):
We've seen this.
We've even had a client whereher Crohn's disease went away.
Her lab values normalized.
Her doctor said listen, yourvalues are doing so great, until
you have an issue, you don'tneed to see them anymore.
And honestly, as a provider,that's music to my ears.
I tell my patients if you followwhat I'm telling you, you won't
need me, or at least not asmuch.
(30:58):
I mean, that's how you knowwhat I'm telling you is the
truth, because if you do what Isay, you won't need me as much.
That's bad for business, isn'tit?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Unless it's not, unless get healed and they're
going out and telling theirfriends this works.
And that's what we see time andtime again, because it's so
surprising to us and it's sad,but when we find somebody who
has answers and we start gettingresults and it's lasting, and
you just can't believe it couldbe this good or this easy.
It's like I remember one of ourclients, carrie, telling me
(31:28):
that she couldn't believesomething that looked like this,
that was so simple that shecould throw a couple of things
into her high speed blender andhave dinner.
It just blew her mind and shesaid I was looking at it and I
was calling my husband.
I was like Jim, jim, look atthis, like, look at this, look
at this recipe.
And then look at this one, likethere's no way this is going to
taste good.
Realized like they were usingone and a half cup nuts and I
only used a quarter cup nuts andmine tasted better and it was
(31:52):
easier to make.
The processes were easier,because I'm so picky about that
kind of stuff, and that's justwhat lights us up.
It doesn't have to be hard, itdoesn't have to be complicated,
it doesn't have to have all theextra calories and the extra
things that people are puttingin there.
You look at these healthyrecipes and they're still
difficult and they take a lot oftime and in the end, you look
at it and you're like it has.
(32:12):
How much sugar.
It's got two cups of sugar inthere.
Are you kidding me?
That is not healthy for you.
Why are we doing this toourself?
Listen, today you can be free,so I want you to do this one
thing, just this one thing.
Sunshine, and all that is is toask yourself am I still eating
eggs?
If you are, you need to learnhow to substitute the eggs in
(32:33):
those baked goods.
Going to be talking about thatall in accelerator.
You want to figure out the bestway to make egg substitutes for
your Thousand Island dressingand for your potato salad, and
you want to figure out the bestegg substitutes for scrambled
eggs, because you love scrambledeggs, or omelets, because you
loved an omelet.
So you want to learn all yournew favorites.
(32:56):
But today, today, you're not anaccelerator yet.
What I want you to do is dothat one thing what is the one
way I absolutely love an egg andhow can I replace it?
The one way that I can replaceit that will taste as good or
even better.
And then you want to startdoing that one thing, so one
thing that I can replace it thatwill taste as good or even
(33:16):
better.
And then you want to startdoing that one thing, so one
thing.
Out, one thing, back in itsplace.
Before you know it, you'regoing to be feeling better and
going what else can I do?
Oh, there are so many moreexciting, fun things waiting for
you and I cannot wait to sharethem all with you.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
So as we wrap up this unofficial trilogy, we never
actually set out in thebeginning to make it that way,
but that's what it has become.
Don't let yourself getbamboozled by slick sounding
slogans.
The incredible edible egg itsounds nice, but don't let that
override what it's't.
Call it protein rich.
They can't call it part of awell-balanced diet.
About all they can do is tellyou that it's satisfying, it
(33:57):
reduces hunger and it's edible.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
And it's fresh, and it's fresh.
Yes, I did see one thing.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
They could call it fresh, a fresh egg.
Well, I mean, it's better thana stale egg, right?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Right, oh, my goodness, I mean.
That just tops it all off rightthere.
We don't need to say anymore,because when you look at what
they can't say versus what theycan say, that should tell you
everything you need to know.
Everything.
So go and do your one thingtoday.
Am I still eating eggs?
What is my favorite way?
I'm eating them and then don'tsay, oh, you can't ever have
that anymore.
(34:29):
No, you're not going to do that,because that's foolish.
You're not going to do thefool's way.
You're going to do the power onplants way.
And the power on plants way iswe're going to get that one
thing out that's sabotaging me,and then I'm going to learn the
best way to replace it.
That is going to light me up.
That isn't going to take me twohours afterwards to clean up in
the kitchen because I've usedthe hard way, that I didn't have
to spend two hours in thekitchen making because I knew
(34:52):
the fast way.
I mean, this is the way you getout and live life.
We're all about that.
So if you are ready to takethat next step and join us, we
are here for you.
Go right now topoweronplantscom forward slash
accelerator and join us on theinside.
We cannot wait to walk youthrough how incredibly awesome
(35:12):
this way of living is when youhave the five-step framework
that answers the question how doI stop falling off the healthy
eating wagon?
Friend, we are praying for you.
We love you.
I'm so glad you're joining us today.
You are in for a real treat.
We've been talking about milkand meat, and today we're
talking about the incredibleedible egg.
What does that even mean?
Do you hear any health claimsin that?
I don't either, and I wonderwhy.
So today we're gonna be liftingthe fog off of should we eat
(00:23):
eggs, should we not?
Are they healthy, are they not?
And the why behind it all.
Hey sister, welcome to the Poweron Plants podcast.
Are you tired of staring intothe fridge wondering what to eat
so you can just feel better?
Do you want to avoid spendinghours in the kitchen making
complicated meals in the name ofhealth?
Would you love to leave fatiguebehind and finally have the
(00:46):
energy to do all the things youwant to do?
Hi, we're Jared and AnitaRoussel, christ followers,
healthcare professionals,parents of four and big fans of
great tasting food.
We, too, tried exercising more,eating natural and clean foods,
but we still found ourselvesstruggling with what we thought
were changes that come with ageor bad genes, and we weren't
(01:07):
finding answers to traditionalroutes.
So we dug into the research andcreated our secret nutritional
weapon sustainable plant-basedliving.
The truth is, you can eat morewhole plant foods, and it's not
hard.
You just need the way that'srealistic and delicious so you
never feel deprived.
If you're ready to enjoy yourmeals, no longer be held back by
(01:28):
your health struggles andactively live your life, then
you're in the right place.
So grab your favoriteplant-based cup of happy pop in
those earbuds and let's getstarted.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
The incredible edible egg.
As you said, anita, no healthclaims in that statement and it
sounds great, it rhymes, it'sone of those things that seems
to inspire action, but when youtake a moment and think, what
does that even really mean?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
What does it mean?
And you hear edible and itsounds like a really fancy word
and you think, yeah, yeah, it'sedible.
That's wait a minute.
And you start thinking aboutwhat edible means.
It's like that's not really acompliment to the egg.
I mean edible.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
If you break it down, it means the unbelievable
eatable egg Incredible.
Now we use incredible as a termof wow, that's so amazing,
that's incredible.
But it means I can't believethat.
And then it means edible.
So it's a I can't believethat's edible egg, maybe that is
.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
The message there's a lot of truth there.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
When you break it down.
Maybe it means the exactopposite of what we believe for
all these years the unbelievableeatable egg.
It's like, no, don't eat that.
But this is basically the thirdpart of an unofficial trilogy.
We didn't set out for this tobe a trilogy, but we've talked
about dairy, we've talked aboutmeat and now we're talking about
eggs and listen at the end ofthis episode.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
If you did not hear those other two, you have to go
back and listen to them.
You're not going to want tomiss the things that we've
shared, these eye-openingrevelations that we've gotten
along the way as we dug into theresearch and figured out why we
were feeling so bad for allthis time, so many years of our
lives spent trying to heal andfigure out what's going on and
(03:16):
why don't we feel good all thetime being told these are the
healthy things.
I mean you're eating cage-freeand you're eating free-range and
you're eating no hormone addedand you're eating all these
different things, not knowingwhat's going on behind the
scenes of all these quotehealthy foods.
So definitely, after thisepisode, go back and listen to
the one about dairy and meat.
You're not going to want tomiss this and I promise you
(03:39):
there are going to be somenuggets in there that you have
not heard before.
We constantly have this happenall the time.
I mean Jared and seeing hispatients and us working with our
clients.
It's like why has no one toldme this stuff before?
And I'm going to be breakingdown a lot of these same types
of mind blowing facts inside ourcourse accelerator.
This program begins January 12.
(04:01):
And you do not want to miss it.
If you're even thinking aboutit, join now, because we are
offering $2,000 off.
We are never doing this again.
We started it around BlackFriday.
We have extended it throughJanuary 12th because it's an
offer for founding members, onlyfor this first class.
(04:22):
After that it is not going tobe $2,000 off.
I'm telling you, when you seethe value that's inside and you
go through this and get the lifechanges that are happening,
with us walking you step by stepto get the health results that
you've been after for far toolong, because no one's been
telling you what is at the rootof this, when you can get to the
(04:43):
root of the health issues thatyou're having and you can figure
out how to change what you'redoing in the way that science
backs up has been the problemthose sabotaging foods it's like
what's even sabotaging me, andthen what is good for me?
And then, when you can actuallysee what is good for you, the
next step is well, how do I getthose things in the way that's
(05:03):
actually realistic with my life,and not only that exciting and
enjoyable, so that I do it forlife and diets have been so
rampant and so confusing and sooverwhelming and leading us to a
place where maybe we get someresults, but then, at the end of
it, we end up quote falling offthe wagon.
This framework that we're goingto take you through step by
(05:24):
step inside Accelerator is fivesteps, and these are the five
steps that work time and timeagain.
But this framework is the exactanswer to the question that
you're asking yourself how do Istop falling off the healthy
eating wagon so that I canfinally have a body that feels
(05:44):
great and supports me in livingmy God-given mission right?
Because when you finally getdown to it, the issue isn't
really about the food.
Yeah, we want to have greattasting food, we want food that
lights us up, food that's quickand simple to prepare.
We're going to show you how todo that.
But the real issue is how do youget your body to the place that
(06:04):
those foods, that resource, isfueling your body so well that
now you're able to get out thereand do all those things that
you were born to do, to live outthose God-given dreams that God
has put on your heart?
And when you don't realize thethings, like we're sharing some
of them with you here today.
When you don't realize thosethings, you don't even know
where to start.
(06:25):
But then, once you do get thoseinsights and you think, oh, now
I understand, you know that'sanother thing that needs to go.
Well, what are you going to putback in its place and how are
you going to make that thingtaste just as good as your old
favorites?
And that is exactly what we'regoing to walk you through, step
by step, in our five stepaccelerator framework inside
accelerator, because you want toget there and you want to get
(06:47):
there faster in the way that'sgoing to keep you there, because
you absolutely love it.
And that's what Jared and I sayall the time.
Oh, you know, just joking about, because people constantly say
don't you miss this?
Don't you feel so deprived?
No, we don't.
We never feel deprived.
We don't miss out on any ofthose old quote favorites that
we called good with our mouthnaming it good All the time.
(07:10):
It's the food that's sabotagingus and keeping us sick.
No, we don't miss those things,because we now, in this way of
eating, have great flavor.
We love it.
It's quick, it's easy toprepare and it makes our body
feel amazing, and that'ssomething that an egg is never
going to do for you because itcan't.
It's just edible.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I do want to give you a trigger warning, though,
about the dairy and the meatepisodes.
You may not have a hankeringfor those anymore, but you know,
sorry, not sorry.
You need to know the truth.
It just so frustrates me,especially when I'm talking with
my patients and telling themthese things, and time and time
again, they've never heard thisbefore, and these are key
(07:48):
elements in optimizing yourhealth.
So in today's ending of thetrilogy, the incredible edible
eggs.
Now, you mentioned somethingabout using the word good and
that we need to be careful theway that we use these words,
because they have meaning.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
With egg.
We hear that it is an excellentsource of protein.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Did you just say egg-cellent?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I did not, but I like that.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I like that it sounded like you said
egg-cellent.
I really don't think they'reexcellent.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
We need to be careful of the words that we use,
because they carry certainmeanings, even though eggs do
have protein in them.
When we think excellent source,now I'm hearing myself saying
excellent, I messed you up,didn't I?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
I did.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
We say that it's an excellent source, meaning that
there is an abundance of proteinin it, but then we also
associate that this is a good,healthy, optimal source of it.
And it really isn't, because itcomes with a lot of other
things that we'll touch on, butthey're going to be very
familiar to you, especially ifyou've heard our last two
podcast episodes.
You know, and interestingly,they can't even be called
(08:58):
protein rich.
We as individuals, meaning thepopulation as a whole, may say
it's an excellent source ofprotein, but corporations aren't
allowed by law to be able tocall them protein rich.
I want to touch on that alittle bit later, but just since
we're talking about protein now, you won't see that in an
advertisement protein rich eggs.
Honestly, they're pretty muchreduced to only being able to
(09:21):
say it's edible, right.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Wow, I mean, it's just mind blowing.
Wrap your mind around that fora minute.
When you have a quote food andall you can say about it is that
it's edible, it should raisesome red flags.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Once you know it does .
But if this has never been onyour radar, if this has never
been forefront of mind, then youwould never think to ask these
questions.
Now, what are some of thedownfalls of eggs?
The major downfalls are goingto be cholesterol and what we
talked about in a previousepisode.
Go back and listen to episode320, we talked about arachidonic
(09:55):
acid.
Eggs are very high in both ofthese and these are great for
the baby chicken that it'ssupposed to develop Cholesterol,
arachidonic acid, verynecessary in the cell membranes
of this to become a chicken egg.
But they're not good for us.
When we get them from dietarysources, our bodies make all the
(10:17):
arachidonic acid and all thecholesterol that it needs.
So any that we get from dietarysources is unnecessary and can
have health consequences, healthimplications, so we don't want
to get them in our diet.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah, and anybody who is struggling with cholesterol
already knows that you don'twant to add more cholesterol to
your cholesterol.
It really is a struggle today,and one of the reasons is not
just your genetic, it's whatwe're eating.
That is a major part of theproblem.
But we don't know and we don'tunderstand and we don't know how
to get it down once it'selevated.
(10:52):
And that's the struggle, that'sthe frustration.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
The frustration for me as a provider is that
patients aren't hearing this.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Or they hear that it's just a genetic kind.
You can get cholesterol in eggs, but it's not really going to
bother you, and there are evensome gurus out on YouTube with
credentials that say, no, youneed more cholesterol.
Wow, here's the truth, though.
Our bodies do need cholesterol.
We need it for proper cellfunction.
(11:20):
We may even need it for healing, so we may see bumps in
cholesterol level after there'sinjury, because our body is
making the cholesterol and thearachidonic acid and all these
other things that we need forhealing.
But that's not to be confusedwith oh, you need more
cholesterol in your diet.
No, our bodies make what itneeds and it self-regulates.
So as we get what we need, thenthe body senses that and says,
(11:42):
all right, let's cut down on theproduction.
And what we makecholesterol-wise is not
equivalent to what we get in ourdietary sources.
They are not the same.
So we want to be careful thatwe're not hearing conflicting or
messages that are almost kindof overlapping, like yeah, you
need cholesterol and eggs arehigh in cholesterol, so you need
it, so we eat more eggs.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Yeah, that's where it starts to get really confusing,
because your protein I'm noteven going into protein right
now because we have a lot ofepisodes on it and I'm sure
we'll be talking about it againbut a protein is not a protein.
A carb is not a carbs.
You can't just say carbs andthink you mean the same thing
every time you say carbs.
There are healthy carbs.
There are unhealthy carbs.
(12:22):
There are some proteins thatyour body thrives on.
There are some proteins yourbody doesn't thrive on, but yet
those are the proteins you'rebeing told you need to eat.
I'm just throwing that outthere to back up Jared's point
that just because you hear aword doesn't necessarily mean
what you think it means.
So we want to define thesethings for you so that you can
understand the differences.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
The answer to the question do eggs raise
cholesterol?
This was answered 40 years ago,back in the 1980s.
Through studies, they foundthat a single egg can change
your cholesterol.
A single egg a day can changeyour cholesterol as much as 12%
and that you will see thosechanges on blood work within
just a couple of weeks.
(13:02):
That's a huge bump.
It is a huge bump especially ifyou already have a certain
amount of cholesterol in yoursystem because you're eating
other dietary sources ofcholesterol.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
And what if you're eating just one egg a day?
I know there are many timesthat we were eating an egg a day
, more than one egg a day ormore than that.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Yeah, because usually when we Three or four at a time
when we scramble them, and I'veseen people on YouTube that eat
three or four eggs a day.
This is nuts.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
That's concerning, highly concerning.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Now you may hear of studies that say, well, eggs
don't really change cholesterol,so they can be part of a quote.
Unquote.
Healthy diet Corporations can'ttell you that, but individuals
you're talking to or you overhere can say that because
obviously they're not beingregulated by the government yet.
But in those studies that showthat there is neutral effect,
(13:52):
what they have done is takingindividuals that are already on
an animal product rich diet.
Already they're eating meat anddairy just in what they
normally eat.
But in these studies they'llhave them where they're eating
meat and dairy.
They'll add a few eggs to itand they see little or no change
in their cholesterol level.
(14:13):
But it's because they'realready eating a lot of
cholesterol and you're going tohave a plateau effect.
Your gut can only absorb somuch cholesterol from the food
that you eat.
So, if you're already almost atthat peak, to add a little extra
is really not going to changeanything.
There's just a plateau.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
But it doesn't mean if you're eating a lot of meat
and animal products, you shouldbe adding eggs.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
That's not what we're saying here no, there are other
elements within eggs that well,I'll go ahead and say
detrimental.
I was going to try to bediplomatic and say non-promoting
.
But I mean, there are otherelements within eggs that are
detrimental to our health.
I don't want you thinking wellshoot, I'm already maxed out, I
(14:57):
love eggs, I'm just eating mesome more eggs.
No, there are other things inthere that work strongly against
your optimal health.
So I wouldn't suggest doingthat.
But this highlights the pointthat you will see studies out
there that say, oh no, no,there's really no change,
there's no difference.
So they can be part of yourdiet I'm not even going to say
healthy, they can be part ofyour diet.
Well, you need to look atwhat's the starting point.
How are they manipulating thenumbers?
(15:19):
Because in some sense, even ifthe calculations are accurate,
what was their starting point?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Right, their starting point was already somebody that
has high cholesterol.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
If you take somebody that's completely plant-based,
give them one egg, you'll see abump in their cholesterol.
Totally different startingpoint, but that's going to give
you a more accurate picture asto what is going on.
Absolutely, and that'simportant.
We need to know that.
Now, their slogan theincredible edible egg.
Do you remember when that, ordo you know when it got started?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Didn't you say it was the 80s?
I think you just said it wasthe 80s, didn't you?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
No, that's when we knew the effect of eggs on
cholesterol.
Okay, the slogan the Incredible, edible Egg.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I've heard it as long as I can remember.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
That's because it got started in 1976.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
And it was started by the American Egg Board, which
is a board that promotes theconsumption and the purchase of
eggs for egg producers at large.
But that got started in 1976,almost 50 years ago.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I know you'd think they'd come up with something
better, and I'm guessing it'sbecause they hit a lot of brick
walls and couldn't come up withsomething Exactly exactly.
And not because they didn'thave the ideas.
They just kept getting shutdown because there was no truth
that they could promote about anegg that would say it was good
for you.
Because it's not.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
I saw where there were so many ads that they tried
to promote it as safe andhealthy and rich source of this,
and each time the USDA shotthem down they said you can't
say this, you can't make theseclaims.
And the reason being is that weknow the link between high
cholesterol and heart diseasecardiovascular disease and so
they can't make these claims.
And the reason being is that weknow the link between high
cholesterol and heart diseasecardiovascular disease and so
(16:55):
they can't call it healthy whenwe know that clearly it is not,
even though there are elementsout there that try to obscure
that.
Again, gurus on YouTube wherethey try to promote it as being
healthy.
We know that it is not andwe've known this for a very long
time, but yet they're inbusiness.
They're trying to make money byselling eggs.
(17:15):
How do you make money?
You either charge more for theeggs and the market will only
pay so much for an egg.
If it's $10 for an egg, mostpeople are going to say sorry.
I think I might buy me somebroccoli instead.
I don't know how likely thatwould be for someone that is a
self-avowed carnivore, but atsome point you're not going to
pay anymore.
So you charge more or you sellmore, and that's what their
(17:38):
whole function is.
The American Egg Board is.
They want to help their memberssell more and more eggs, and so
we can't really be promotingthis idea of our product is not
healthy for you, because whatare they going to do?
They will sell no eggs.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
And so it just remains edible.
So it just remains edibleCorrect.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I think I saw one where they said you could
promote it as satisfies hunger.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Eggs satisfy hunger.
Yeah, that makes me want to runto the store.
Oh, right now.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Exactly.
So what we know about eggs isthat what is bad about them is
pretty much the same as what wesee for milk and for meat.
But I had this revelation inthinking about today's podcast,
that a lot of people that arevegetarians they don't eat meat
because that would involvekilling an animal.
So they'll drink milk andthey'll eat eggs because these
(18:31):
are products of those animals,but it's not having to kill an
animal or harming an animal orharm the animal specifically.
So eggs are unfertilized, sothere's not really a viable
animal there.
So in their mind, we're notkilling anything, but we're
eating something that I think ishealthy, it's a good source of
protein and fats and all theseother things, and really they
(18:52):
aren't.
And I believe that this is whythat a lot of vegetarians don't
really have much healthdifference between someone that
is eating meat.
People that eat meat sayvegetarians don't really have
different health outcomes thanwe that eat meat.
So really all the health issueswe have must simply be genetics
.
It's not really the food.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
So I'm just going to keep eating meat, Right, because
the vegetarians have laid asidethe meat.
So the meat eaters say well,your health isn't any better, so
therefore it must not be themeat.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Or maybe marginally better, and maybe those
individuals eat a lot morevegetables and maybe less dairy
and egg, but do still eat some.
What we're seeing is that it'sstill the same products.
You're still getting thecholesterol, the arachidonic
acid, also hormones, even eggs.
Eggs have estrogen in them.
It is an animal product, so itstill has all these same
(19:40):
elements in it that work againstoptimal health Right.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
And so they're also eating all the dairy on top of
that as well.
So you have the eggs, which weknow are not healthy, and then
you have the dairy and go backand listen to the dairy on top
of that as well.
So you have the eggs, which weknow are not healthy, and then
you have the dairy and go backand listen to the dairy episode.
It was very eye-opening.
So you have all of those thingsstacked up and it was like me.
I mean, I was addicted to itthe cheese, the sour cream, the
(20:04):
butter.
If you could have sat down atour family table, particularly
with a couple of members of ourfamily, myself included, you
would have heard crazyconversations about cheese.
Crazy conversations Like you'relistening to addicts talk about
something.
Conversations that's how cheeseand dairy work on you.
And then the egg almost feltthe same way about it.
(20:26):
It's kind of bizarre, but and Iknow it didn't have casein in
it.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
No, no casein.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Right, the same protein, that protein that was
bringing the calf back to thecow for a good reason.
God put it in there for a goodreason, right, with dairy.
But there's something aboutthat creaminess, that
butteriness, that taste that youget, that you think you have to
have it.
But you can actually replacethose flavors, which is what
(20:51):
lights me up.
I just love doing that.
Can I tell you a story aboutsomeone who's close to me, dear
to my heart?
She's my sister-in-law in love.
So it's Jared's sister.
Absolutely love her to death.
So here's the thing she wentplant-based because she saw the
benefits of it and she was soexcited to try it she's never
(21:11):
really been a lot of a cook ofit and she was so excited to try
it.
She's never really been a lotof a cook.
But you would not believe now,the other day, with doing the
methods that we do and watchingus and hanging around us and
getting into some recipes andreally just starting her own
journey of discovery, and she'sgotten confident.
And so now, being with us andgetting confident, she's off on
her own, like pulling thesethings together, because she's
(21:37):
learned the framework for doingthis.
But the thing is, I rememberspecifically this one
conversation with her about eggsand I said well, have you tried
tofu scramble?
She's like no, no, I don't liketofu.
I don't like tofu.
I said what do you not likeabout it?
She's like it's just tasteless.
It doesn't taste good.
She said and you make the tofuscramble and it's all dry and I
don't like it.
Meanwhile she was also havingsome issues with hot flashes and
things like that.
So I'm like it will help yourhot flashes.
(21:58):
She said oh really, okay, wellthen I'm willing to try it.
I said and I can show you theway to make them taste like
actual scrambled eggs so thatyou get the fattiness, the
butteriness, the creaminessright.
Jared always talks about howyellow or orange you'll say one
or the other like that color,putting that color in there that
you get in the yolk.
Sometimes they're yellow,sometimes they're a deeper
(22:18):
orange.
If you get them, maybe from afarm, okay, it doesn't make them
good for you, it's just thatyou get this color variation,
and so we're adding some of thatcolor back, maybe with the
turmeric.
You cannot expect turmeric tomake your eggs taste like eggs.
It just doesn't work.
So you need some otheringredients in there that are
going to make it taste like egg,but you're still not going to
get the butteriness.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
And just because you make them yellow, doesn't make
them taste like eggs, right?
Because what I've said before,yellow is not a flavor.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
So when you're looking to replace these things,
you must know the way to do itin the way that actually tastes
good.
Just because everybody's outthere mashing up some tofu and
putting some yellowy orange onit does not mean it's going to
taste like an egg and you'reprobably not going to like it.
But if you learn how to getthat butteriness of the yolk
back in there which is what Iabsolutely love doing and
(23:07):
showing you how to do it isgoing to change your life.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
And now my sister loves it.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
She loves them.
She's like I had tofu this wayand I had tofu that way.
So I'm going to be demystifyingtofu in the course.
It's not going to take a largeportion of the course because it
really is not that hard.
But you got to know how tohandle these things to get the
scrambled eggs you like and toget that chicken back into your
life.
Chicken nuggets and things likethat.
(23:33):
You want those things thattaste like your old favorites,
that aren't chicken you're noteating meat and it's not egg,
but it's so similar you're gonnalove it better because it
tastes just as good, or better,I would venture to say better
because now I just, I'm justjust my mind is blown time after
time.
And when you get the rightcombination of things and you
(23:55):
have somebody who can show youhow to do that, it will change
your life.
It lights you up, the foods getexciting, you don't have to
push through, there's no fallingoff the wagon, there's no
dreading how you eat and havingto force yourself to be healthy.
That's hogwash, that's absoluteinsanity.
Who having to force yourself tobe healthy?
That's hogwash, that's absoluteinsanity.
Who would want to do that toyourself?
We certainly don't want you todo that to yourself.
(24:15):
When you have a viable optionthat works and is joyful, it
doesn't make any sense.
So if you are interested at allin learning about how to do
this, come right now topoweronplantscom forward slash
accelerator.
That's poweronplantscom forwardslash accelerator.
You don't want to miss this.
It is going to change your life, without a doubt, 100%.
(24:37):
You will not believe whatyou're going to learn, like how
to make tofu taste like eggswithout any of the harmful side
effects.
But it's not just that.
So we think about okay, I'mgoing to quit eating this thing
because it's harmful to me.
Sunshine, the most importantthing you got to figure out next
is what do I get back in itsplace?
Because you can't leave thatempty hole.
So how are we going to get eggsnow back into our life quote,
(24:58):
eggs in a way that we love justas much or even more, without
the harmful side effects, butwith health benefits?
So now we're not just avoidingthe harmful side effects, we're
getting the health benefits ofthese foods.
And so this is how mysister-in-law's hot flashes went
away.
She was stacking one simplething and another simple thing,
and one of those simple thingsis getting eggs out of your life
(25:20):
, but bringing in thosereplacements that light you up.
She did that, and she's now notjust gotten rid of the harmful
effects of eggs, but she'sbrought in something tofu or
soybeans that actually have manybeneficial effects, not just
for women, but especially forwomen, and that's what this is
all about.
It lights me up.
(25:40):
When it comes to an egg, weneed to think about what is its
actual function.
Why was it created?
Because that question is goingto answer for us why we don't
need to be eating it.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
And why it has the same health effects as eating
meat, because in the episode wetalked about beef and meat.
It's the same effect withchicken Because the chicken that
we eat is chicken meat.
I mean it's chicken muscle.
Beef is cow muscle, so it hasall these same components in it
and health-wise we know thatchicken is no different than
beef.
Sometimes people will eatchicken and think, oh, it's a
(26:13):
healthier version.
It really isn't.
It's the same effect becausethey have the same things in
them.
But when you look at egg we maythink egg is different.
No, egg is a baby chicken andit has a lot of cholesterol, a
lot of arachidonic acid, a lotof all these other things in it,
because eggs are the incubatorfor a baby chicken.
(26:33):
It's not going to get anynutrients from outside that
shell, so it must containeverything in it that it needs
to create this fully functioninglife form.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
So it shouldn't surprise us when it has similar
things in it and similardetrimental health effects as
well.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Correct.
And it shouldn't surprise usthat they are high in these
things.
Right, because cholesterol andarachidonic acid are necessary
for the cell membrane of everycell, so it needs to have a lot
of that, because it will get noother nutrients from an outside
source.
I think of it kind of like aseed.
A seed has everything in itthat it needs to get the root
(27:11):
growing down and the leavesgrowing up so that it can start
absorbing nutrients from thesoil and making energy from the
sunlight.
Well, until that baby chickencan get out of the shell and
start eating and digesting andassimilating nutrients that way
which is going to take longerthan a seed germinating it has
to get everything from withinthat shell.
(27:31):
So, again, it doesn't surpriseus that it's high in these
things.
And when we're taught no, theseare good for you, I really
think that we have this tendencyto just gloss over, that we
don't see those messages becausewe for so long have been taught
hey, this is Edible.
Well it's edible, yes, but notby the industry, but by others
(27:55):
like oh, breakfast, yeah, twoscrambled eggs and some bacon,
and all this it's better than asugary cereal.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Right, that's what they're telling us all this
stuff.
It's better than a sugarycereal.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Because sugary cereals it'll spike your blood
sugar and it's not good for youand diabetes it's a sugar
problem, which it is notDiabetes, is a saturated fat
problem.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
It just happens to be .
Speaker 2 (28:19):
the sugar is the byproduct of that problem and
you're talking about type 2diabetes, correct?
Yes, type 2 diabetes.
Now we touched upon in the meatepisode an element of why
arachidonic acid is not good foryou, but I want to reiterate
this again what we know is thatarachidonic acid creates
inflammation in the body.
The body regulates the level ofthis so well so that we get
what we need, but not too much.
When you eat it from dietarysources, you're getting more
(28:42):
than what you need, and it's notgoing to be something that the
body can downregulate becauseyou're getting it from an
outside source.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
And do plants contain any arachidonic acid?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Plants do not contain any arachidonic acid.
Plants do not contain anyarachidonic acid.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
And according to Genesis 129, our bodies were
created to thrive on plants.
Exactly so.
Therefore, that backs up yourpoint From a biblical
perspective.
Of everything you're saying,science is showing us as well.
We shouldn't surprise us whenwe connect the dots though.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Because we hear a lot of these things but don't
connect the dots.
Even me as a medical providergoing through my medical
education, my medical training,we weren't taught these things.
A lot of this stuff should havebeen the very first semester,
but we're not learning this.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Right.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Inflammation in the body.
Okay, I hear you.
So how does that affect things?
Well, just a couple of thesethings.
We know that with havinginflammation throughout the body
, it can affect the brain.
There can be low levels ofinflammation within the brain
that we're tying now to thingslike anxiety, depression and
other mental diagnoses.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
And we're finding that when people eat whole plant
foods, the anxiety tends todecrease, the depression tends
to go away Because theinflammation goes away and that
helps with these issues.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
But also, too, beneficial gut bacteria make
things like serotonin anddopamine.
And those beneficial bacteriatheir food is fiber you only get
fiber in plants but they makedopamine and serotonin,
neurotransmitters that our brainuses and that can help do what
Alleviate depression and anxiety.
There are really so manydifferent areas that
(30:17):
inflammation can touch upon inour lives, and I mean negatively
.
One more that I'll mention iswe know that the arachidonic
acid can lead to inflammatorybowel disease.
These are Crohn's andulcerative colitis.
So we know that eating theseproducts contributes to these
conditions.
What happens when you stopeating them?
(30:38):
We've seen this.
We've even had a client whereher Crohn's disease went away.
Her lab values normalized.
Her doctor said listen, yourvalues are doing so great, until
you have an issue, you don'tneed to see them anymore.
And honestly, as a provider,that's music to my ears.
I tell my patients if you followwhat I'm telling you, you won't
need me, or at least not asmuch.
(30:58):
I mean, that's how you knowwhat I'm telling you is the
truth, because if you do what Isay, you won't need me as much.
That's bad for business, isn'tit?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Unless it's not, unless get healed and they're
going out and telling theirfriends this works.
And that's what we see time andtime again, because it's so
surprising to us and it's sad,but when we find somebody who
has answers and we start gettingresults and it's lasting, and
you just can't believe it couldbe this good or this easy.
It's like I remember one of ourclients, carrie, telling me
(31:28):
that she couldn't believesomething that looked like this,
that was so simple that shecould throw a couple of things
into her high speed blender andhave dinner.
It just blew her mind and shesaid I was looking at it and I
was calling my husband.
I was like Jim, jim, look atthis, like, look at this, look
at this recipe.
And then look at this one, likethere's no way this is going to
taste good.
Realized like they were usingone and a half cup nuts and I
only used a quarter cup nuts andmine tasted better and it was
(31:52):
easier to make.
The processes were easier,because I'm so picky about that
kind of stuff, and that's justwhat lights us up.
It doesn't have to be hard, itdoesn't have to be complicated,
it doesn't have to have all theextra calories and the extra
things that people are puttingin there.
You look at these healthyrecipes and they're still
difficult and they take a lot oftime and in the end, you look
at it and you're like it has.
(32:12):
How much sugar.
It's got two cups of sugar inthere.
Are you kidding me?
That is not healthy for you.
Why are we doing this toourself?
Listen, today you can be free,so I want you to do this one
thing, just this one thing.
Sunshine, and all that is is toask yourself am I still eating
eggs?
If you are, you need to learnhow to substitute the eggs in
(32:33):
those baked goods.
Going to be talking about thatall in accelerator.
You want to figure out the bestway to make egg substitutes for
your Thousand Island dressingand for your potato salad, and
you want to figure out the bestegg substitutes for scrambled
eggs, because you love scrambledeggs, or omelets, because you
loved an omelet.
So you want to learn all yournew favorites.
(32:56):
But today, today, you're not anaccelerator yet.
What I want you to do is dothat one thing what is the one
way I absolutely love an egg andhow can I replace it?
The one way that I can replaceit that will taste as good or
even better.
And then you want to startdoing that one thing, so one
thing that I can replace it thatwill taste as good or even
(33:16):
better.
And then you want to startdoing that one thing, so one
thing.
Out, one thing, back in itsplace.
Before you know it, you'regoing to be feeling better and
going what else can I do?
Oh, there are so many moreexciting, fun things waiting for
you and I cannot wait to sharethem all with you.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
So as we wrap up this unofficial trilogy, we never
actually set out in thebeginning to make it that way,
but that's what it has become.
Don't let yourself getbamboozled by slick sounding
slogans.
The incredible edible egg itsounds nice, but don't let that
override what it's't.
Call it protein rich.
They can't call it part of awell-balanced diet.
About all they can do is tellyou that it's satisfying, it
(33:57):
reduces hunger and it's edible.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
And it's fresh, and it's fresh.
Yes, I did see one thing.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
They could call it fresh, a fresh egg.
Well, I mean, it's better thana stale egg, right?
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Right, oh, my goodness, I mean.
That just tops it all off rightthere.
We don't need to say anymore,because when you look at what
they can't say versus what theycan say, that should tell you
everything you need to know.
Everything.
So go and do your one thingtoday.
Am I still eating eggs?
What is my favorite way?
I'm eating them and then don'tsay, oh, you can't ever have
that anymore.
(34:29):
No, you're not going to do that,because that's foolish.
You're not going to do thefool's way.
You're going to do the power onplants way.
And the power on plants way iswe're going to get that one
thing out that's sabotaging me,and then I'm going to learn the
best way to replace it.
That is going to light me up.
That isn't going to take me twohours afterwards to clean up in
the kitchen because I've usedthe hard way, that I didn't have
to spend two hours in thekitchen making because I knew
(34:52):
the fast way.
I mean, this is the way you getout and live life.
We're all about that.
So if you are ready to takethat next step and join us, we
are here for you.
Go right now topoweronplantscom forward slash
accelerator and join us on theinside.
We cannot wait to walk youthrough how incredibly awesome
(35:12):
this way of living is when youhave the five-step framework
that answers the question how doI stop falling off the healthy
eating wagon?
Friend, we are praying for you.
We love you.
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.