Is Heme Iron the Reason Meat Is Carcinogenic?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2021-02-24

The connection between heme iron and cancer. Rectal biopsies taken before and after eating meat determine the potentially DNA-damaging dose of heme.

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This is the final installment in a nine-video series on plant-based meats, which includes: 
• The Environmental Impacts of Plant-Based Meat Substitutes (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-environmental-impacts-of-plant-based-meat-substitutes)
• Are Beyond Meat and the Impossible Burger Healthful? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-beyond-meat-and-the-impossible-burger-healthy)
• Are Pea and Soy Protein Isolates Harmful? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-pea-and-soy-protein-isolates-harmful)
• Plant-Based Meat Substitutes Put to the Test (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-based-meat-substitutes-put-to-the-test)
• The Health Effects of Mycoprotein (Quorn) Products vs. BCAAs in Meat (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-health-effects-of-mycoprotein-quorn-products-vs-bcaas-in-meat)
• What About the Heme in Impossible Burgers? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-about-the-heme-in-impossible-burgers)
• Does Heme Iron Cause Cancer? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/does-heme-iron-cause-cancer)
• Heme-Induced N-Nitroso Compounds and Fat Oxidation (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/heme-induced-n-nitroso-compounds-and-fat-oxidation)

If you want all nine of the videos in the plant-based meat series in one place, you can get them right now in a digital download (https://drgreger.org/collections/videos/products/plant-based-and-cultivated-meat-digital) from my webinar a few months ago. 

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