More about the evils of protein
Now, my young grasshoppers, check this out. I gleaned it from David Allison's ObesityandEnergetics.org listserv for this week (July 29, 2022). I transmit it to you in the brute form of cut and paste the reference and abstract. Maybe I can do that much with out screwing it up. But then you should read the entire article which I have cast in bronze and put on my mantel. Professor Allison, me and now you are the first to know about it. Soon there will be headlines in the New York Times and etc. that say, "Stop eating so much protein!" and "Excess protein eating is the cause of obesity!" and "New weight loss miracle without starvation!." Have I given you to understand that this is a big deal?
"Dietary Protein Restriction Improves Metabolic Dysfunction in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome in a Randomized, Controlled Trial
by Rafael Ferraz-Bannitz
Nutrients 2022, 14(13), 2670; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14132670
Abstract
Dietary restriction (DR) reduces adiposity and improves metabolism in patients with one or more symptoms of metabolic syndrome. Nonetheless, it remains elusive whether the benefits of DR in humans are mediated by calorie or nutrient restriction. This study was conducted to determine whether isocaloric dietary protein restriction is sufficient to confer the beneficial effects of dietary restriction in patients with metabolic syndrome. We performed a prospective, randomized controlled dietary intervention under constant nutritional and medical supervision. Twenty-one individuals diagnosed with metabolic syndrome were randomly assigned for caloric restriction (CR; n = 11, diet of 5941 ± 686 KJ per day)* or isocaloric dietary protein restriction (PR; n = 10, diet of 8409 ± 2360 KJ per day)+ and followed for 27 days. Like CR, PR promoted weight loss due to a reduction in adiposity, which was associated with reductions in blood glucose, lipid levels, and blood pressure. More strikingly, both CR and PR improved insulin sensitivity by 62.3% and 93.2%, respectively, after treatment. Fecal microbiome diversity was not affected by the interventions. Adipose tissue bulk RNA-Seq data revealed minor changes elicited by the interventions. After PR, terms related to leukocyte proliferation were enriched among the upregulated genes. Protein restriction is sufficient to confer almost the same clinical outcomes as calorie restriction without the need for a reduction in calorie intake. The isocaloric characteristic of the PR intervention makes this approach a more attractive and less drastic dietary strategy in clinical settings and has more significant potential to be used as adjuvant therapy for people with metabolic syndrome."
Remember where you heard that first in my recent article conglomeration of June 27 where I posed the iconoclastic opinion that we might be eating too much protein. Stop talking about fats and carbs. Also recheck my "The heartbreak of sarcopenia," June 20, 2022.
* don't worry about the kilojoule (KJ) business. one kilojoule equals .24 Calories. (kilocalories) just math. but do note that the protein restricted customers got to eat more joules/calories.