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Picking the Best Protein Powder · Mocktail Minutes

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  Hello, everyone.
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  Welcome back to this week's episode of Till minutes, this is Bailey and we don't have Brianna today.
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  So it's going to be a quick, short and sweet episode as she is downward count with the flu.
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  Her kiddos were sick last week.
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  And fortunately she was not able to escape the sickness.
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  So we didn't want to leave you guys hand without an episode this week.
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  So I'm going to focus.
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  We've talked about protein before we've talked about nutrition labels.
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  I'm going to focus today on specifically protein powder.
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  What to look for.
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  And how to kind of choose the best one.
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  Now, when it comes to protein powder in general.
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  It's not it's okay.
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  If it's not always like the perfect one what's most important, I think is how much are you using it for me?
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  For example.
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  I use protein powder nearly every morning.
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  So I want to make sure I have a high quality.
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  Protein powder.
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  Cause I'm using every day.
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  If you're using it like.
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  Twice a month, maybe not as important.
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  So, I mean, we still want to get the best quality we can, but understand like sometimes that's not a priority, so.
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  Use these steps to kind of figure out what best suits you, your lifestyle.
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  Your budget, your tastes buds.
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  And I hope these tips are helpful.
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  Mt with protein.
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  Is it required, especially like with a weight loss journey no.
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  Now required, but it's definitely helpful because it's going to give you a quick boost to your protein intake.
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  This is the easiest way I can get my protein in the morning.
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  It's quick.
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  It makes my smoothies tastes good.
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  So I love it.
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  Now it's going to help support your protein needs, especially if you're having a hard, hard time incorporating protein, or if you're limited on time.
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  And in general, I see women especially are not getting enough protein.
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  Especially at this breakfast me like two eggs for breakfast, not enough protein.
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  So this is going to be an easy way to increase it.
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  And this is why.
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  It can also be super important to choose a quality protein powder, not just get one.
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  Just because it's the cheapest.
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  And to be honest, I do order mine.
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  I do not find mine in this store because.
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  It is one that I love.
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  It tastes good gradients.
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  I liked they do heavy metal, heavy metal testing.
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  So let's get into what I look for on protein powders in general.
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  Now we're choosing a protein powder, some general things to look at.
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  Out of sugars, that'll be on your nutrition label and it'd be spaced out under your carbohydrates.
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  You have added sugars listed.
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  Ideally.
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  Like less than three to five grants about sugar.
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  Protein powder.
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  I mean, it should be mainly protein because it's a protein powder.
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  Now, if we were to only have protein in this protein powder as not going to taste very good.
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  So that's why other ingredients are added.
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  Now we got to look at these other ingredients.
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  What are they?
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  How are they impacting our body?
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  So taking a peak at those added sugars.
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  And we recently just did episodes on added sugars.
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  As well.
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  So also thinking about.
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  Those artificial sweeteners that can sneak in there too.
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  Because that's a good way where they can be like, oh, it's low carb.
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  No added sugars.
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  But we still want to avoid these artificial sweeteners as much as we can, because they're not great for gut health and sucralose is one.
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  That I kind of look at really quickly on your ingredients because it is so often you so fit as sucralose personally, for me.
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  It's a no-go.
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  Other things to kind of think about is, well, I guess while we're on the ingredients, Thinking about.
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  Where this protein is coming from.
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  So there are different types of protein powders.
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  You have your whey protein, which whey protein is going to be kind of your best option.
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  If you can tolerate it.
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  That's the key part.
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  If you can tolerate it.
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  A lot of people.
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  Don't tolerate whey protein.
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  Well, And protein can be a little bit tricky because I see people trying out different protein powder and like, it just made my stomach heard.
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  It's the protein.
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  But thinking about these quality protein powders, if we're getting a random one and has also all these artificial sweeteners added to it, it has some different.
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  Like oils added to it.
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  Some other miscellaneous ingredients.
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  Maybe it wasn't necessarily the way it was artificial sweeteners.
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  That's disrupting your gut health.
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  So Wayne is going to be the best option.
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  If you can tolerate it.
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  The next best option, I would say in egg based protein, because those are both going to give you your complete.
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  Protein sources here and have all the essential amino acids and this ones.
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  Other options for protein powders.
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  If he can't do whey protein, a protein isn't going great.
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  And I really like a protein because like I said, complete protein source, but it's also tolerated very well.
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  By many people.
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  So that is a bonus there when it comes to that egg protein.
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  I personally have a dairy allergy.
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  So this is what I use.
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  But I have lots of people's.
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  I don't have a dairy allergy.
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  That just prefer to say protein for the taste.
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  For the quality of the one and I'll get into specific recommendations.
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  But for the quality of the one I recommend and they just tolerated a lot better.
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  Other types of protein.
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  I mean, you have plant protein, something to kind of be aware of here.
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  I would not recommend using plant Bertine daily if pregnant or breastfeeding, due to the number of heavy metals that can be present in pea and rice based proteins.
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  So plain protein, especially for using this, like, if you are vegan, you want to do more of like a sport-based wine because they will typically add.
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  Amino acids.
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  So you get a full amino acid profile.
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  Collagen peptides are another big one and they're kind of a hot commodity right now.
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  So collagen is a little bit different than protein powder.
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  But it's still a great way to add protein to your day.
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  Collagen is going to be derived from the height of bovine or Marine animals.
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  Whereas protein powder is the powder form of protein from plants, a eggs or milk.
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  College and was also going to be an incomplete protein.
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  So it doesn't have all the essential amino acids.
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  Yeah.
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  Compared to like a milk or your way or your egg based protein powders would.
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  But it's still a protein source.
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  I just because it might not be contributing to that.
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  Like, Creation of new muscle muscle protein synthesis.
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  Like we get those benefits from.
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  Complete protein sources because of the Lucene in it.
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  It's still going to have benefits.
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  So when I hear people saying like, oh, if you eat this amount of protein, It's going to be overdoing it.
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  It's not like doing anything for you.
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  Not true.
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  I mean, protein is.
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  Other benefits.
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  To wheat.
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  Than just.
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  Like building muscle protein is also going to be.
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  Helpful for your immunity and your enzymes and your hormones.
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  That collagen is great for.
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  You're Cartlidge you're doing your ligaments, your skin, your hair.
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  So there's other benefits than just muscle building for protein.
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  So collagen is also great to include, and I actually include it.
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  Daley along with my protein powder.
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  Other things too.
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  I look out for your labels and kind of the ingredients in it.
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  So we talked about what our officials, sweeteners, other things, just like, what does it sweeten within and general?
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  So avoiding, like dextran glucose, glucose, maltodextrin, these are forms of sugar.
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  And again, we want protein to be protein.
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  We don't want a bunch of these like random sugars in it.
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  Speaking of the protein, that protein source I had mentioned, we have our whey protein or a pea protein.
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  Plant protein.
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  So soy protein.
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  A lot of plant-based or vegan proteins are going to contain soy specifically like a soy protein isolate.
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  So we itself is not bad as long as it's high quality.
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  It's that high it's highly processed so that we don't want so avoiding like a soy protein isolate as a protein source and either protein powders or protein bars.
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  Vegetable oils are also something I look at in the ingredients.
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  These are put into protein powders to create like a richness.
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  Taste, but they can be high in omega six fatty acids.
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  And an abundance of omega sixes compared to may get threes.
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  Can.
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  Lead to inflammation.
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  We got enough stress leading to inflammation in our life.
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  Let's not add more.
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  Field of the fire.
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  So look out for ingredients like soybean oil, corn oil, safflower, sunflower, those types of things.
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  So, those are kind of your main ingredients.
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  That I look at.
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  Other things on the nutrition label.
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  Looking at that protein content.
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  Ideally you want a minimum of 20 grams.
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  Now if you have a protein powder, that's a little like 20 grand.
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  So you're aiming for 30.
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  You could just do a bigger scoop.
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  Totally fine, but keep in mind, like if it's 12 grams of protein and it has five grams of added sugar.
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  Well, if you're doubling that protein now you're also getting 10 grams of added sugar.
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  So looking at.
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  This.
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  Protein content.
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  Per scoop or serving that it has.
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  The other thing like to check would be the carb content.
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  Because again, this is a protein powder.
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  We don't need a bunch of carbs added.
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  Few grams is going to be expected because like I said, we want it to taste good.
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  And they're going to give a flavor.
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  So shouldn't be overdoing it in carbohydrates or fat here again, that protein should kind of be your highest macro nutrient.
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  When looking at the label.
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  One other thing to consider is do they do heavy metal testing?
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  Choose a company that does heavy metal testing on their products.
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  And usually you can find this online when you look up their products where it might say it on the label or something, this is going to be especially a Porin.
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  Like I mentioned, those plant-based protein as these are more likely to have heavy metals in them.
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  So search the website and you can email them.
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  And you'll be able to find out if they do heavy metal testing.
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  Those are kind of the main things.
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  I look at my protein better.
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  So that was a lot of information.
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  But.
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  To sum it up a little bit.
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  At least less than five grams of added sugar, greater than 20 grams of protein.
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  Avoiding those like soybeans, safflower, corn, oral coin, corn oils.
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  Doing less carbs, more protein should be in your protein powder.
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  Doing complete protein sources from either like a way or an egg based protein and avoiding those artificial sweeteners.
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  Sucralose is a big one.
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  So.
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  My favorite protein powder and I recommend it all the time is drink wholesome.
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  They have great ingredients, minimal ingredients.
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  So my favorite wine, for example, Is the mocha flavor.
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  The mocha flavor only has eight whites, coconut cocoa.
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  Coffee.
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  Monk fruit.
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  So simple ingredients, you can compare that to a lot of protein powders that have a paragraph long of ingredients.
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  And I mean, this has 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ingredients.
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  That's it.
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  It's easy to use.
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  Yeah.
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  That protein boost.
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  And like I mentioned that a white or the egg based protein is easier to digest.
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  So a lot of people do.
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  Like this.
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  Powder for that reason.
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  They are third-party tested.
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  And.
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  It's also like it's additive free.
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  So with that short ingredients, they're not adding a bunch of emulsifiers stickers flavors, or like using those artificial sweeteners.
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  They use that monk fruit, which I would recommend over a super lows.
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  And then.
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  They do have an option if you don't like Monkfruit they do Maples.
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  Maple sugar.
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  So that is also another option that would increase the carbohydrate amount.
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  Honestly, either one is fine with me, kind of a personal preference.
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  I do prefer the monk fruit wine.
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  Just because I.
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  Add sweetness.
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  To my smoothie through fruit.
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  So the maple shore.
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  Maple sugar blend was just a little too much sweetness for me.
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  I just personally preferred.
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  The monk fruit sweetener.
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  So try either one out, but drink wholesome.
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  Is my favorite egg based protein.
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  My second recommendation for anyone would be just ingredients.
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  Just ingredients is also a great protein powder company.
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  They have lots of different items on their website, but protein is one of their things that is a great option.
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  They are similar to drink wholesome that they have simple ingredients.
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  And it's actually interesting to look at their labels because.
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  Like a strawberry versus a chocolate protein powder is going to have a little bit different ingredients.
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  It's not like it's flavored with natural flavors.
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  It's going to be flavored with actual, like strawberries.
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  So they're using more whole food ingredients.
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  It's just agreeance would be more of a whey based protein.
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  They do have vegan options as well.
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  So just ingredients or drink, Holsten other ones.
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  I like designer egg protein.
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  Naked nutrition garden of life.
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  Perfect supplements.
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  Shaklee.
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  Naked nutrition.
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  Be well by Kelly has a great one.
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  Within them as well.
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  And I'm sure there's probably others out there, but I don't want to overwhelm you with too many recommendations.
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  So top two.
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  Would I recommend drink wholesome or just ingredients?
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  Other things.
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  So protein powders actually, I mean, sorry.
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  Protein bars.
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  Or another great thing to have on hand.
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  So I was just gonna throw out some protein bars or like protein snacks that can be.
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  Great options to have.
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  I really like Aloha.
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  They're my favorite personally Paleovalley has great ones.
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  Chomps.
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  It's not like protein bar.
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  It's more just like Turkey or beef sticks, but those are great to have on hand.
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  IQ bars.
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  Kirklin protein bars.
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  They actually have their own brand.
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  The RX bars are great to have on hand.
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  There is one Nash bars, but they are very hard to actually get because they are constantly sold out.
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  So those are my protein bar recommendations as well for you to check out.
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  If you have any other questions.
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  About protein powders, protein bars, feel free to send.
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  Brianna or I a message on Instagram and hopefully we will both be back next week and we will get into the topic we were supposed to discuss.
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  So I'm talking about like weight gain over the weekend, or even like over a day, why it's happening.
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  And what you can do about it.
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  So tune in next week and we'll talk soon.
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  Bye.