How Much Protein Do You Really Need? Protein, Fiber, Gut Health, and Building Muscle

Very cool.

So that sounds like mine, but you're doing triathlon endurance training, which is impressive.

And I'm guessing you're building muscle with all the foods and intake, and I'm pretty sure the strength.

Very impressive.

Can I ask you, you talked about tofu early on, as well as you probably had almost two servings, like the tempeh and tofu through the day, and you also mentioned about edamame.

So the soy, right, soy protein.

There's also a lot of confusion about soy and concern for breast cancer or soy for having phytoestrogens or we should not, at least not, I wouldn't say we should not, but there is this misconception or myth that you could just have soy exposure in your meals couple of times a week or less often because of these concerns.

What's the evidence-based literature or science here for soy food?

Right.

So I haven't seen evidence or science-backed information that indicates that that's the contributor, right, of cancer, the increase in like soy or isoflavones.

And so it's interesting that sometimes research or whatever they read, right, the population may read, that creates fear, but it's not science-backed, right? And so there hasn't been an indication that yes, consuming tofu or consuming soy-based products is directly correlated to cancer.

So I haven't found a research that actually shows that.

What are the benefits? The benefits are, well, it's a complete protein, right? So you do get all your amino acids with a soy-based product.

It is also going to have more protein in general versus like, for example, if I have a client that is wanting to add more protein with dairy-free milk, right? I might suggest soy because it's going to have more protein versus like a non-sweetened almond milk, right? Or any other protein.

plant-based milk for that matter.

So the benefit is more protein, right? You also have those phytochemicals and antioxidants that are found in soy products that actually help with inflammation and they help with like healing ourselves, right? So those are some of the other benefits as well.

Thank you.