Protein Powders are no longer for muscle-heads and gym rats anymore! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quick, easy, convenient, great tasting (hopefully) meals that perfectly fit your calories and macronutrients (protein, carb, fats).\u00a0 \u201cPrecision Nutrition\u201d as I call them.\u00a0 What was once for just muscle heads, gym goers, and the elderly (e.g. Ensure \u2013 which is disgusting!), has now been realized by everyone as a great way to meal, snack, fuel up, recover, and lose weight!\u00a0 But with so many out there, how do you decide which one is right for you?\u00a0 Let\u2019s figure it out\u2026we\u2019ll start at\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A: They are concentrated sources of protein<\/strong>, from either animal or plant based foods, and turned into a powder, then mixed with other nutrition such as carbohydrate sources, fat sources, vitamins\/minerals, probiotics, etc.. Think of it as pulling\/extracting the protein from various foods and drying it out, then pulverizing it into a powder. There you go, protein powder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A: When you read the back (Supplement Facts Panel) on the back of the protein powder products, you\u2019ll see (3) forms \u2013 Protein Concentrates<\/strong> (60-80% protein, 20-40% fat\/carbs), Protein Isolates<\/strong> (90-95% protein), and Protein Hydrolysates<\/strong> \u2013 which is just a process that further breaks down the protein into smaller pieces and has been said to be quicker to absorb (this has been debated in research). <\/p>\n\n\n\n A: They are all great. They serve different purposes<\/strong>. If you\u2019re looking for a product that has less carbs\/fats, you\u2019ll go with an Isolate because it doesn\u2019t contribute any more carbs\/fats. If you are looking for, let\u2019s say, a meal replacement, where you want to have more carbs\/fats, the Concentrate could be a good choice. In protein concentrates there are some immune and health factors which the carbs\/fats provide, it does go under less processing, so therefore concentrates can be supportive in that area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A: There are animal-based<\/strong> ones, and then ones that come from plants<\/strong>. Animal based are predominately from milk and are \u2013 Whey, Calcium Caseinate, Milk Protein Isolates (combo for Whey\/Calcium Caseinate), and Egg. Then the major plant based ones are \u2013 Soy, Pea, Brown Rice, and Flaxseed. You do see others, especially in plant based (because that\u2019s all the rage) such as Pumpkin Seed, Chia Seed, Quinoa, etc. but they don\u2019t have much protein or are expensive to extract the protein, therefore they used in less amounts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A: No. It was theorized that animal based was more inflammatory. However, research has shown there is no difference<\/strong>. The inflammatory markers after taking animal or plant based were the same. However, plant-based proteins traditionally have more fiber, this is a huge benefit when consuming protein. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A: Basically you formulate for (3) types, that then relate to how someone is planning on using the nutrition in the shake. Weight Loss<\/strong> (low carb\/low calories\/low sugar), Meal Replacement<\/strong> (balanced amount of protein\/carbs\/fats), Muscle\/Weight Gainers<\/strong> (high carbs\/calories), and then ones you make for specific nutritional lifestyle<\/strong> like Keto or Atkins types of plans. Remember, these are \u201cmeals\u201d and the main elements in meals are Calories, Protein, Carbs, and Fats. So these powders just adjust these numbers and you find the best numbers for your nutritional lifestyle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A: My top brands are from Youngevity (I formulated the FItShake & Keto Shake), KOS (love their plant based shakes \u2013 Chocolate Peanut Butter favorite!), and Momentous (incredible performance based shakes). The main way I use them is to get in my protein per day<\/strong>, I have to eat 300-350g per day and it\u2019s super hard with just food, so I drink (3) per day \u2013 morning, post workout, and before bed. 70% of the time they are from Plant based sources and my post workout is from Animal (Whey) source. Whey is quicker absorbing, so I use it when my muscles are really broken down. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Protein Powders are no longer for muscle-heads and gym rats anymore! Quick, easy, convenient, great tasting (hopefully) meals that perfectly fit your calories and macronutrients (protein, carb, fats).\u00a0 \u201cPrecision Nutrition\u201d as I call them.\u00a0 What was once for just muscle heads, gym goers, and the elderly (e.g. Ensure \u2013 which is disgusting!), has now been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-tips","category-higher-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.proze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proze.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Q: What forms do they come in?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Q: Which one is better?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Q: What types of protein do they use in the powders?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Q: Is Plant better than Animal?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Q: What types\/categories of protein shakes are there and how will I know?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Q: What and how do you use them?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n