What Happens to Your Body If You Replace Red Meat With Fish for 30 Days
What Happens to Your Body If You Replace Red Meat With Fish for 30 Days
Red meat and fish both provide complete protein with all essential amino acids. The differences lie in what accompanies that protein: red meat delivers saturated fat, heme iron, and in the case of processed meat, nitrites and sodium.
Fish delivers EPA and DHA omega-3 fatty acids, iodine, selenium, vitamin D, and significantly lower saturated fat content. These accompanying compounds produce dramatically different downstream effects on cardiovascular health, inflammation, thyroid function, and brain chemistry — independent of the shared protein benefit.
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