What is the difference between plant protein and animal protein?

Answer 1

One distinction between plant protein and animal protein is that animal protein contains carnitine, which is not an essential amino acid for humans. Your intestinal bacteria feed on the carnitine in animal protein and produce trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO). TMAO promotes the growth of fatty deposits on the walls of your arteries and and slows the removal of cholesterol from the arteries' walls.

Another distinction is that animal proteins contain very large amounts of sulfur, especially in the essential amino acid methionine and the conditionally essential amino acid cysteine. Your body makes other sulfur-containing amino acids out of these, including keto-methionine, cystine, homocysteine, cystathionine, taurine, and cysteic acid.

Even though you need a small amount of sulfur-containing amino acids, an excess of these amino acids beyond your needs causes the following problems:

1. Your body breaks down the sulfur-containing amino acids into powerful sulfuric acid. Excess acid causes your body to use calcium from your bones to maintain pH. This can lead to osteoporosis and kidney stones.
2. Your body breaks down methionine (which is very high in animal protein) into homocysteine, which is a risk factor for heart attacks, strokes, closure of your leg arteries (peripheral vascular disease), blood clots in your legs (venous thrombosis), cognitive impairment, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, and depression.
3. Methionine feeds cancerous tumors. Normal cells can get the sulfur they need from other sulfur-containing amino acids, but cancer cells, including breast, lung, colon, kidney, melanoma, and brain cancers, need methionine. Meat and dairy products also raise the levels of a powerful growth-stimulating hormone, called insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), which magnifies the effects of methionine to promote cancer, including cancers of the breast, colon, prostate, and lung.
4. Sulfur from high-methionine (animal) protein is toxic to the tissues of your intestine, and can damage your colon, leading to a disease called ulcerative colitis.

Casein, the main protein in dairy foods, incites cancer progression.

The absence of casein and the lower amounts of carnitine, methioine, and cysteine in plant protein have several advantages:

1. Plant proteins do not incite cancer progression.
2. A diet based on plant food is low in carnitine, which keeps your arteries healthy.
3. Plant-based diets are low in both calories and methionine. Low-calorie diets slow the aging process and prolong life. Low-methionine diets also prolong life.
4. Plant protein makes you smell better. The high sulfur in animal protein causes bad breath, body odor, and flatulence that smells like rotten eggs.

Answer 2

On the contrary, plant protein is easily digested by humans as compared to animal protein. Plant based foods are rich in protein. Most people, when pressed, do realize that seeds, nuts, and legumes are a rich source of protein but most people don't realize that it is impossible to be protein deficient on a healthy vegan diet. Even more surprising to some is the fact that raw leafy greens, the nutrient-packed food that many people eat way too little of, are an excellent source of protein. Raw spinach for example, is about 49% protein by weight. One single leaf of spinach contains 10 grams of protein! No wonder Popeye ate spinach when he needed super-human power.

The only way one can become protein deficient is if one is literally starving. This is hardly a problem for most Americans. What is a problem is too much protein in the American diet.

An even more surprising thing to learn about protein is that proteins are not qualitatively the same - plant based proteins are healthier for humans than proteins derived from animal source foods.

Finally, and most important of all, there's no biological requirement for animal flesh in the human body…none at all. Eating animal products means that we are making ourselves complicit in the unnecessary, violent demise of sentient individuals. Farmed animals are invariably exploited and killed for even the smallest mouthful of meat, eggs, and dairy. Yes, eggs and dairy. For example, egg-laying hens and dairy cows are killed at a young age (they are killed long before their natural lifespan) because their production value to the farmer becomes no longer economically feasible. Even on the smallest, most free range family farm, the dairy and egg farmers see these individuals (the cows and chickens) only as commodities, things of economic value. Inefficiently producing (mature) animals are never set out to green pastures to live out their natural life if they are not seen as an economic value to the farmer. Then, there are the couple of day old male chicks - the baby males of the hens exploited by egg farmers and young male babies of the cows bred for dairy exploitation….what happens to them? Baby male chickens will never grow up to be able to lay eggs. Baby male cows will never be able to be impregnated so that they will lactate. Find out for yourself what happens to these individuals and you will then understand why consuming eggs and dairy products are even worse than consuming animal flesh, from an ethical standpoint. Thank you for considering to choose vegan eating with the most honesty you are capable of. Your best effort will be the most worthwhile effort.

Answer 3

They're not.

Protein molecules are composed of amino acids, which contain nitrogen and sometimes sulphur. Your body uses amino acids to produce new proteins and to replace damaged proteins.

Your body can synthesize most of the 21 amino acids that you need to make protein, with the exception of nine essential amino acids (histadine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine) that must come from your food.

Fortunately, all unrefined foods have varying amounts of protein with varying amino acid profiles, including leafy green vegetables, tubers, grains, legumes, and nuts. All the essential and nonessential amino acids are present in these foods in amounts that meet or exceed your needs.

In 1914, Thomas B. Osborne and Lafayette B. Mendel conducted studies on rats, which suggested that they grew best when fed a combination of plant foods whose amino acid patterns resembled that of animal protein. That makes sense, as all baby mammals, rats and humans included, grow best when fed the perfect food for baby mammals: their mother's milk. The term "complete protein" was coined to describe a protein in which all eight or nine essential amino acids are present in the same proportion that they occur in animals. "Incomplete protein" described the varying amino acid patterns in plants. It's a misleading term, because it suggest that humans (and other animals, one would assume) can't get enough essential amino acids to make protein from plants.

Fortunately, the theory that plant proteins are somehow "incomplete" and therefore inadequate has been disproven. All unrefined foods have varying amounts of protein with varying amino acid profiles, including leafy green vegetables, tubers, grains, legumes, and nuts. All the essential and nonessential amino acids are present in any single one of these foods in amounts that meet or exceed your needs, even if you are an endurance athlete or body builder.

Answer 4

In many ways, plant protein is better than animal protein.

Protein molecules are composed of amino acids, which contain nitrogen and sometimes sulphur. Your body uses amino acids to produce new proteins and to replace damaged proteins.

Your body can synthesize most of the 21 amino acids that you need to make protein, with the exception of nine essential amino acids (histadine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine) that must come from your food.

Fortunately, all unrefined foods have varying amounts of protein with varying amino acid profiles, including leafy green vegetables, tubers, grains, legumes, and nuts. All the essential and nonessential amino acids are present in these foods in amounts that meet or exceed your needs.

In 1914, Thomas B. Osborne and Lafayette B. Mendel conducted studies on rats, which suggested that they grew best when fed a combination of plant foods whose amino acid patterns resembled that of animal protein. That makes sense, as all baby mammals, rats and humans included, grow best when fed the perfect food for baby mammals: their mother's milk. The term "complete protein" was coined to describe a protein in which all eight or nine essential amino acids are present in the same proportion that they occur in animals. "Incomplete protein" described the varying amino acid patterns in plants. It's a misleading term, because it suggest that humans (and other animals, one would assume) can't get enough essential amino acids to make protein from plants.

Fortunately, the theory that plant proteins are somehow "incomplete" and therefore inadequate has been disproven. All unrefined foods have varying amounts of protein with varying amino acid profiles, including leafy green vegetables, tubers, grains, legumes, and nuts. All the essential and nonessential amino acids are present in any single one of these foods in amounts that meet or exceed your needs, even if you are an endurance athlete or body builder.

Whenever you eat, your body stores amino acids, and then withdraws them when it needs them to make protein. It is not necessary to eat any particular food or any particular combination of foods together at one sitting, to make complete protein. Your body puts together amino acids from food to make protein throughout the day.

One distinction between plant protein and animal protein is that animal protein contains carnitine, which is not an essential amino acid for humans. Your intestinal bacteria feed on the carnitine in animal protein and produce trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO). TMAO promotes the growth of fatty deposits on the walls of your arteries and and slows the removal of cholesterol from the arteries' walls.

Another distinction is that animal proteins contain very large amounts of sulfur, especially in the essential amino acid methionine and the conditionally essential amino acid cysteine. Your body makes other sulfur-containing amino acids out of these, including keto-methionine, cystine, homocysteine, cystathionine, taurine, and cysteic acid.

Even though you need a small amount of sulfur-containing amino acids, an excess of these amino acids beyond your needs causes the following problems:

1. Your body breaks down the sulfur-containing amino acids into powerful sulfuric acid. Excess acid causes your body to leach calcium from your bones to maintain pH. This can lead to osteoporosis and kidney stones.
2. Your body breaks down methionine (which is very high in animal protein) into homocysteine, which is a risk factor for heart attacks, strokes, closure of your leg arteries (peripheral vascular disease), blood clots in your legs (venous thrombosis), cognitive impairment, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, and depression.
3. Methionine feeds cancerous tumors. Normal cells can get the sulfur they need from other sulfur-containing amino acids, but cancer cells, including breast, lung, colon, kidney, melanoma, and brain cancers, need methionine. Meat and dairy products also raise the levels of a powerful growth-stimulating hormone, called insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), which magnifies the effects of methionine to promote cancer, including cancers of the breast, colon, prostate, and lung.
4. Sulfur from high-methionine (animal) protein is toxic to the tissues of your intestine, and can damage your colon, leading to a disease called ulcerative colitis.

The lower amounts of carnitine, methioine, and cysteine in plant protein has several advantages:

1. A diet based on plant food is low in carnitine, which keeps your arteries healthy.
2. Plant-based diets are low in both calories and methionine. Low-calorie diets slow the aging process and prolong life. Low-methionine diets also prolong life.
3. Plant protein makes you smell better. The high sulfur in animal protein causes bad breath, body odor, and flatulence that smells like rotten eggs.

Answer 5

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