85 Protein Quotes

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Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life. — Michael Behe

One macronutrient, in particular, demands more of our attention than most people realize: not carbs, not fat, but protein becomes critically important as we age. — Peter Attia

Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life. — Randy Schekman

We'd die quite quickly without amino acids, the organic compounds that serve as the building blocks for every protein in the human body. — David Sinclair

Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases. — T. Colin Campbell

I know this will overwhelm some of you, but someone has to say it. All plants have protein. All plants have all amino acids. — Will Bulsiewicz

It turns out that moving our muscles produces proteins that travel through the bloodstream and into the brain, where they play pivotal roles in the mechanisms of our highest thought processes. — John Ratey

No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human cancer as animal protein. — T. Colin Campbell

They're called supplements for a reason--to be used sparingly, and never as a substitute for real food. My focus is always on meeting my protein needs through whole foods, and yours should be too. — Rich Roll

One of these is called target of rapamycin, or TOR, a complex of proteins that regulates growth and metabolism. — David Sinclair

I believe nicotine plus caffeine equals protein. — John Daly

Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses. — Janine Benyus

We now had impressive evidence that low protein intake could markedly decrease enzyme activity and prevent dangerous carcinogen binding to DNA. — T. Colin Campbell

The body needs nutrients in refined, usable forms — Gary Brecka

Food is an important part of a balanced diet. — Fran Lebowitz

Short Protein Quotes

  • The people who eat the most animal protein have the most heart disease, cancer and diabetes. — T. Colin Campbell
  • I make lots of casseroles that have protein, veggies, carbs and good fats all together. — Tori Spelling
  • When you fast, you lower protein and certain amino acids and you control pathways in the body. — Valter Longo
  • I don't combine proteins and carbohydrates. — Ruby Wax
  • The simple answer as to why we get fat is that carbohydrates make us so; protein and fat do not — Gary Taubes
  • I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron. — Sasha Cohen
  • Nuclear DNA encodes all the proteins and enzymes that make you you, basically. — Hendrik Poinar
  • I got quite good results from protein plates. — Gabriel Lippmann
  • I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites. — Jack LaLanne
  • Being an athlete, you try to get protein. — Ronda Rousey

Vegan Protein Quotes

When you're vegan, you spend your time chasing protein, and you're eating food that's way too high in carbs. I could never catch up on protein. — Rick Rubin

People feel poorly because they are nourished by foods you wouldn't feed to your dog and cat. The rich western diet is full of fat, sugar, cholesterol, salt, animal protein - all the wrong foods for people. — John A. McDougall

I've found that a person does not need protein from meat to be a successful athlete. In fact, my best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet. — Carl Lewis

The primary benefit of a vegan diet is that the removal of animal products usually necessitates a higher amount of nutrient-rich plant produce. The cons of a vegan diet could be the inclusion of too much heavily processed food, including seitan and isolated soy protein, flour, sweeteners and oils. — Joel Fuhrman

When I tell people that I'm vegan, the first question asked is, 'How do you get enough protein?' This immediately tells me that they are uneducated and know little or nothing about nutrition. — Robert Cheeke

But all the vitamins, amino acids, protein etc. needed to get stronger can be found in abundance in plant foods. Anything that is a fruit, nut, grain or seed is vegan and there are thousands of those. — Robert Cheeke

Being shorter or taller depends on details of the diet. Vegetarians can obtain a balanced diet, with sufficient complete protein, vitamins, minerals and micro-nutrients. It's trickier for vegans but it can be done. — Richard H. Steckel

Cows' milk protein may be the single most significant chemical carcinogen to which humans are exposed. — T. Colin Campbell

Egg Protein Quotes

For protein I am pretty simple, I like chicken, steak, and eggs. For carbs I love low fat popcorn. It has a lot of volume for very little calories and is very filling. It also has about 10g of fiber per bag! — Layne Norton

What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period. That's it. Animal protein is bad for you. Dairy is bad for you. Forget the ads: Milk and eggs are bad for you. — Roger Ebert

I usually eat six times a day, small meals. For breakfast, an egg and a corn tortilla, salsa and cilantro, and some ham. For snacks, I'll have an apple, some string cheese, a yogurt. For lunch I'll have salad with protein in it and for dinner usually steamed vegetables and chicken or fish. — Sprague Grayden

I eat an egg every morning, and when I'm done, I almost always have the thought: There. Now even if I'm captured and starved, I'll be able to live off the protein of that egg for a while. — Miranda July

I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk. — Vijender Singh

Protein is important and hard for me to get in a hurry. We're busy. I don't always remember to thaw the chicken for dinner. I always have eggs, and they're light and satisfying. I never feel stuffed at the end of it. — Summer Sanders

Eggs give me protein after a good work out. The cheesier, the better! — Shanola Hampton

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More Protein Quotes

Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment. It enables the diabetic to burn sufficient carbohydrates, so that proteins and fats may be added to the diet in sufficient quantities to provide energy for the economic burdens of life. — Frederick Banting

Heat shock proteins are a fascinating area of research with potential implications for aging and disease. — Rhonda Patrick

Doctors, good doctors, are doing unthinkable things, like injecting biologically active messenger RNA that produces this pathological spike protein into pregnant women. I think when the doctors wake up from their trance they’re going to be shocked to think what they’ve done to people. — Peter A. McCullough

There isn’t much debate on the downsides of consumption of animal protein. Study after study has demonstrated that heavily animal-based diets are associated with high cardiovascular mortality and cancer risk. — David Sinclair

Moreover the incorporation requires the same components needed for protein synthesis, and is inhibited by the same inhibitors. Thus the system is most unlikely to be a complete artefact and is very probably closely related to genuine protein synthesis. — Francis Crick

In a new study, 4 weeks of simple breathwork—inhaling for 5 seconds, then exhaling for 5, twenty minutes twice a day—led to a decrease in Alzheimer’s - related proteins in blood. — Max Lugavere

We found that CAS9 has the ability to make a double-stranded break in DNA at sites that are programmed by a small RNA molecule. What was so important was that we could really show how the CAS9 protein worked. — Jennifer Doudna

Most cancers require high glucose to proliferate and survive. In mice, a low sugar, high protein diet reduced tumor size & death rates, indicating that lowering blood sugar levels & increasing protein may be a way to prevent & treat cancer. — David Sinclair

The lower or lack of association between red meat intake and mortality in other countries or areas of the world indicates that red meat may contribute to mortality in the United States by providing a high protein content but also because it may contain other factors that contribute to damage. — Valter Longo

In the next ten years, one of the things you're bound to hear is that animal protein is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered. Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be. — T. Colin Campbell

The sauna robustly elevates heat shock protein levels that can persist for up to 48hrs. Heat shock proteins play a preventative role in neurodegenerative diseases and sauna use is associated with a 66% lower risk of Alzheimer's disease. — Rhonda Patrick

Every time you need protein, get yourself a boiled egg in. But your main meals would be chicken, or hummus, or white fish. You can lose about a pound a day. But you can do this stuff over a period of time, and you can have your happy days. It's about motivation and it has to be something that's realistic for you to keep up. — Tom Hardy

Well, originally we found resveratrol just in a test tube, looking for molecules that would turn on this enzyme, this protein that seems to defend against diseases in aging. — David Sinclair

This overall flow of genetic information—from DNA to RNA to protein—is known as the central dogma of molecular biology, and it is the language used to communicate and express life. — Jennifer Doudna

There are plenty of stressors that will activate longevity genes without damaging the cell, including certain types of exercise, intermittent fasting, low-protein diets, and exposure to hot and cold temperatures. — David Sinclair

A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here. — Francis Crick

If one compares the sequence of amino acids that go to form the protein haemoglobin, it becomes apparent that humans and chimps are identical and do not differ in a single site. — Simon Conway Morris

It now seems certain that the amino acid sequence of any protein is determined by the sequence of bases in some region of a particular nucleic acid molecule. — Francis Crick

I will meet you in the dirtiest city you can dream of. We will drink cocktails so sweet they pucker our cheeks, as we perch on cracked leather bar stools. I will buy you plates of calcium and protein and we will run through the streets in excellent danger. — Michelle Tea

That's where we're probably seeing the biggest deficits are these women that show up with no muscle mass eating no protein, doing very little strength training. I mean, to me, that is a recipe for a shorter life, but more importantly, a lower quality of life. — Peter Attia

A lot of the ketogenic diets out there are artificial ones and they impose an artificial condition, which is high animal fat and high animal protein butter and bacon. You can very quickly go from something very good to something very bad, which doesn’t appear as very bad when you first do it. It could be that when you do it you lose weight and you think,”I feel good. I’m losing weight.” And then eventually you could start having kidney damage, negative effects on IGF-1, atherosclerosis, plaque formation, etc. A lot of these ketogenic diets come from nowhere, but they keto promoters are able to convince hundreds of thousands of people to do it. — Valter Longo

The number one reason why marijuana is illegal is because the Pharma Cartel does not want you to grow your own medicine. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. The first car ever made ran on hemp oil. Hemp seeds are also the healthiest food on the planet with the highest protein content out of any plant. — Joe Rogan

Both the respiratory virus and the vaccine delivered to the human body contain the spike protein, the gain of function target of this bioterrorism research. — Peter A. McCullough

Lectins are plant proteins that protect the plant and its seeds from being eaten by basically hacking into the animal's immune system, causing the animal to have inflammation. — Steven Gundry

The amount of protein you eat at your first meal strongly predicts the amount of calories you’ll consume the rest of the day. More protein = fewer calories. — Max Lugavere

I watched a TV documentary about how animals are farmed, killed and prepared for us to eat. I saw all those cows and pigs and realized I couldn't be a part of it any more. It was horrible. I did some research to make sure I could still obtain enough protein to fight and, once satisfied that I could, I stopped. I'll never go back. — David Haye

Cold showers, ice baths, and saunas are ways of releasing specialized proteins from the liver called HEAT SHOCK and COLD SHOCK proteins. — Gary Brecka

If cultured meat replaces traditional animal husbandry, as is the stated goal, the ability to provide animal protein becomes an intellectual property controlled by the few and the powerful. — Mark Sisson

Being touched and caressed, being massaged, is food for the infant; food as necessary as minerals, vitamins, and proteins. Deprived of this food, the name of which is love, Babies would rather die. And often they do. — Frederick Leboyer

Explore the secrets of longevity in the Blue Zones and beyond! Turns out, it's not just about beans, rice, or grains. It's the low animal protein diet that truly sets them apart. — Steven Gundry

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