3 Reasons Eating Meat Will Kill You?

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]Right, thanks for joining me where today we're dealing with people who are wrong on interwebs again. Unbelievable, I know. This is Sha Hashmi, an MD who therefore knows absolutely everything.

[00:00:11]Of course, let's find out whether it's true or not. Right. Sure. If you ate chicken this week, you may have accidentally eaten a processed meat.

[00:00:23]I'll explain it in a moment. But first, here is the number that changed how I counsel patients. There's a study of over 63,000 people that was followed for 15 years and what it found was that highest consumers of red meat had a 40% increased risk of complete kidney failure. False.

[00:00:45]Not true. Sure, there are no extent studies available anywhere on this planet with the capacity, the capability or the research design that would be required to inform on risk. I'm aware most of these studies misappropriate the word risk, misrepresent the concept risk and write about risk in the conclusion sections of their papers. That doesn't make it appropriate.

[00:01:18]It is scientifically illiterate.

[00:01:23]It is epistemologically unacceptable and frankly only someone who is themselves scientifically illiterate sha or totally unaware of the required standards of epistemology could possibly fall into such folly.

[00:01:48]So it's not a good start for you.

[00:01:53]It isn't just how much protein you eat.

[00:01:56]It is which protein. Today I'm going to rank the six proteins from worst to safest in your opinion.

[00:02:05]which so far, Sean, I haven't seen anything from you that would fill me with any confidence that your opinion on this topic is remotely robust, reliable, valid, correct, or even worth hearing. But nonetheless, let's hear it. And number three on the safe list might actually surprise you.

[00:02:30]If you've been told to just eat less protein, but nobody explained which proteins matter, I get it. Welcome back to the channel, everyone. I'm Dr. Sean Hashmi. I'm a board-certified nefologist and obesity medicine specialist.

[00:02:43]>> So, not trained in nutrition then at all.

[00:02:47]Mhm. And if you were any good at those two specializations in medicine, Sean, you would not have time to make YouTube videos.

[00:03:00]you'd be doing those things. Why are you not sought after to do those things that you are trained to do?

[00:03:08]Why am I making videos? Well, because I'm a retired academic. I'm a professor emiritis or emmeritus, depending what part of the world you come from. Okay. I have all the time in the world. Well, I did until I bought a farm. It'll be great. They said, "Buy a farm. You'll love it."

[00:03:25]Oh, well, we all have learning curves.

[00:03:26]Um, Sean's getting his learning curve taken care of for him today. You're welcome, Sean. Stick around until the end. Sean, you have a lot to learn.

[00:03:37]>> And as always, if you're new to the channel, please hit that subscribe button. I share evidence-based health tips with you.

[00:03:43]>> Yeah. No, you don't, Sean.

[00:03:47]Okay. I have watched this video through once before I pressed record. And I can assure my fine viewers that Sha is not evidencebased.

[00:03:57]And by the end of this video, you'll agree with me, any of you that have seen well more than 5 minutes of my videos before, and will be able to just about answer this individual in sync with the way I do it pretty much. So, let's crack on with that each and every week. Now, let me be direct with you.

[00:04:17]>> As a nephrologist, I recommend a predominantly whole food plant-based diet.

[00:04:23]>> There you go, boys and girls. Have we seen enough already?

[00:04:28]That should be enough for us to go.

[00:04:30]Okay, not only are you not evidence-based, also you're an imbecile.

[00:04:37]Sorry, just the facts. I like to be direct, too, Sean.

[00:04:42]There is absolutely no support anywhere on this planet in actually scientific literature that could possibly excuse, let alone recommend such a destitute dietary approach for a human being.

[00:05:05]Okay? So to come online and make a video where you claim to be evidence-based and then 2 seconds later tell us you're a vegan.

[00:05:15]You're done. Sorry, pal.

[00:05:19]We will listen to as much of the rest of this as we need to to get the points across to prove pretty much absolutely that you are indeed an imbecile as I've alluded to. Uh and then we'll be able to move on with move on with our lives, won't we?

[00:05:35]Okay, let's get it done.

[00:05:37]>> Plants are the gold standard for kidney protection. Period.

[00:05:40]>> No, there is no evidence anywhere on this planet that can support that ridiculous claim. Simply untrue, Sean.

[00:05:45]Sorry about that.

[00:05:46]>> But I also live in the real world.

[00:05:49]>> Clearly, you don't. Okay. Goodness gracious.

[00:05:54]>> And I know that many of you are not going fully plant-based tomorrow. Here's the deal.

[00:05:59]>> Or indeed any other time.

[00:06:02]The villain in this story is not protein itself. It's what I call the meat triple threat.

[00:06:09]>> Ah, the meat triple threat.

[00:06:15]So Sean is going to give us three reasons why he thinks meat will kill us.

[00:06:23]Of course, these are going to be three air swings, three misses, and Sha is out of here.

[00:06:32]So, let's go.

[00:06:34]>> Three things that come with certain proteins that silently destroys your kittens. The acid load, the invisible phosphorus, and number three, the gut toxins.

[00:06:45]>> Swing, swing, swing. You're out of here.

[00:06:48]We'll deal with the details in a minute.

[00:06:51]>> I'm going to rank six proteins for you from worst to safest.

[00:06:55]>> Yeah, we probably won't get that far in this video. All we need to do is debunk your three claims as to three reasons why you think meat is bad for us in some way and we're done.

[00:07:05]So, we'll do that.

[00:07:06]>> But which tier you fall into depends on understanding why these proteins behave differently inside your body. Now, most people hear kidney disease and think cut protein. Well, that that would only be true of people who are really very badly miseducated.

[00:07:28]>> It's an outdated oversimplification.

[00:07:31]There's a major study in Jason Journal of the American Society of Nefrology and it found that total protein intake was not the main driver of kidney failure risk. Right. Well, we've already covered risk. There are no studies extent on this planet that can inform on risk still.

[00:07:52]A step further though, this claim is not the major driver. Major driver implies a cause and effect relationship.

[00:08:01]There are absolutely no studies that can establish a cause and effect relationship between any aspect of the diet and human beings and any hard health outcome of any kind would require an experiment on humans which ethics committees quite rightly frown upon Sean. They don't allow it.

[00:08:21]Even if they did, it's not practically possible to achieve such a study. Uh and neither is it financially viable in any way, shape, or form. Right. So, we're done with that nonsense. What's next?

[00:08:35]>> It was specifically red meat.

[00:08:38]>> No, nonsense. Again, that's a cause and effect claim.

[00:08:42]Absolute garbage, Sean.

[00:08:45]>> And here's the key finding. Replacing just one serving of red meat with another protein source reduced the risk of >> No, we've covered this. Sean, absolutely not. Epistemologically unacceptable, scientifically illiterate, and it's the statement of an arrogant imbecile.

[00:09:07]Sorry about that.

[00:09:08]>> Kidney failure by up to 62%.

[00:09:13]>> Up to So that value could include no change, couldn't it? Up to.

[00:09:21]And it's not a cause and effect thing anyway. Still, right, what's next? Let me say that one more time.

[00:09:28]>> What's the point, Sean? It won't change any of the facts to hand. Those facts being, no, this study does not inform on risk at all.

[00:09:38]No, this study does not inform on cause and effect. Still, and no repeating a number that says up to some such number, some ridiculous fabricated number is not going to change any of those facts.

[00:09:54]Okay?

[00:09:56]One swab 62% reduction in what Sean what is the outcome metric there fish eggs dairy none of them has significant association with risk so no association with risk was established by this study it is incapable still these studies look at incidents retrospectively in a given population that population under the conditions they were living at that time. It's not extrapolable to any other population. It is not a prognostic tool.

[00:10:37]It's nonsense. It's anti-science and it's frankly offensive that you would try and use this clap trap to subserve your theological desire to encourage people to eat plants.

[00:10:54]which is an entirely inappropriate thing for them to do. Still >> soy and legumes, they appear to be protective. The conversation is not >> protective is also a cause and effect claim. So just rubbish. Sean, can we get to the actual three reasons that you think meat is a problem, the three mechanistic speculations, the the three reasons that you're going to propose meat will kill us? Let's hear those.

[00:11:16]>> Should I eat protein? The conversation is which protein is safe for my kidneys?

[00:11:22]And there are three reasons certain meats destroy kidneys while others do not.

[00:11:28]>> No, that's another statement of cause and effect. You just said there are three reasons that meat destroys your kidneys.

[00:11:35]That is not true, Sean.

[00:11:37]>> This is the meat triple threat.

[00:11:39]>> Ah, yes. The triple threat. Dum dum dum.

[00:11:43]So, he's going to suggest that eating meat will cause an acid problem, which is false. It does not. It will not. It cannot.

[00:11:51]Homeostasis is still a thing, Sean.

[00:11:55]Still works.

[00:11:58]And it'll be fascinating to hear about exactly which acid you're talking about.

[00:12:03]I already know cuz I've watched this through. Uh it seems that Sean here is a devote of one Dr. James Dicoly no ideas who has been trying to convince people for 2 years that I don't understand this and he still hasn't managed it cuz I really do. Uh so I can preempt no there's not an acid problem with eating meat. Uh invisible phosphorus he says he's going to say this will be interesting. Invisible phosphorus. Can't wait to hear about that. And gut toxins. Well, he's going to talk about TMAO.

[00:12:40]Don't know how many times I've dealt with that one. We'll do it again for Sean's benefit cuz clearly he hasn't done his background.

[00:12:48]>> Start with threat number one. Acid load.

[00:12:51]>> Which one's it?

[00:12:52]>> Remember, every food you eat produces either acid or base when your body breaks it down.

[00:12:58]>> Absolute nonsense. Once again, completely false. When you break down food, your body produces carbon dioxide and water. Which one of those is an acid, Sean?

[00:13:11]Or a base.

[00:13:14]>> Should we wait for that?

[00:13:18]>> Okay. No, we measure this with something called PRL. P R A L, which stands for potential renal acid load. potential.

[00:13:31]Are we done?

[00:13:36]Cuz acidity problems need to be measured with a pH meter.

[00:13:41]What pH derangement are we talking about in the human body, Sean?

[00:13:46]Cuz homeostasis takes care of this. It does not occur. The pH is maintained throughout the lifespan within a very very tight physiological range indeed with almost no variation to speak of at all.

[00:14:02]And I'd be fascinated to hear about which acid you think is causing this acid load.

[00:14:08]>> Animal proteins, especially red meat, >> oh, here we go.

[00:14:12]>> Are loaded with sulfur containing amino acids.

[00:14:15]>> Right. So now you're implying that the acid concerns sulfuric acid.

[00:14:22]Well, what is the K value of sulfuric acid please Shan?

[00:14:28]See this is the problem with individuals like Sha theolog who think that because they have an MD degree and several board certifications that they know everything about everything when actually they have a very specialized very limited knowledge range. Sha's particular expertise as a nephrologist.

[00:14:50]Well, I would have thought it would require him to know a bit more about basic first principles, basic concepts of the physiochemistry of the human body and metabolism, but apparently it doesn't. Either that or Shaun's not being honest about his background in some way. Or or maybe Shawn doesn't even exist. Maybe Shawn's an AI generated bodybot bot. Who knows? People have accused me of being one of those. Isn't that hilarious?

[00:15:14]H. Anyway, there it is. So, no, the K value of sulfuric acid, even if that was being produced, which it isn't, would tell us immediately that sulfuric acid cannot exist at physiological pH in any aquis solution at physiological temperature.

[00:15:37]That's against the laws of physics.

[00:15:39]Wrong.

[00:15:44]Oh dear. What's next?

[00:15:45]>> When your body processes them, they generate a high acid load. Nonsense.

[00:15:52]Absolute rubbish. No such thing occurs.

[00:15:58]What exact acid load are you referring to? Are you referring to the sulfate onions? Cuz that's not an acid, Sean, is it? Certainly isn't sulfuric acid.

[00:16:15]Sorry about that.

[00:16:17]>> Your kidneys have to neutralize that acid to keep you alive. Well, kidneys do a lot of things to maintain homeostasis and keep us alive. They filter things in and out of the blood. It's not a stress or a challenge to them. That's what they're designed for. They're meant to spend a lifetime doing that. What's your problem? other than ignorance, arrogance, pretty severe Dunning Krueger and a theological devotion to the church of anorexia vigana.

[00:16:49]Suppose that's enough problems, isn't it? If I had that many problems.

[00:16:52]Goodness, I don't.

[00:16:55]>> Now over time that constant acid stresses.

[00:16:59]>> Remember, there isn't an acid still, Sean. Still no acid, let alone a constant one. Okay, sorry about that. Just the facts.

[00:17:10]>> Your kidneys triggers inflammation and leads to scarring.

[00:17:14]>> Yeah, look, inflammation and scarring does occur in kidneys. Absolutely. A nefologist should know that. Also, nefologist should probably have a better idea of the actual eTeology of that cuz it's not acid still. Other things will be causing that. Sean, blood pressure probably fairly important.

[00:17:33]Glycation, oxidation, probably pretty important.

[00:17:37]acid though. No, sorry about that. No, I suppose it's no shock really that an MD doesn't understand the ideology of disease processes. I mean, cardiovascular surgeons don't either.

[00:17:48]They think they do.

[00:17:51]I mean, I did a video very recently on a bloke, which I'll refer to in a minute actually when we get to their TMAO discussion.

[00:17:59]Okay. Right. So, no, no, meat does not cause an acidity problem. Absolutely not. Fundamentally not. Completely not.

[00:18:08]Sorry about that, Sean. What's next?

[00:18:10]>> What about plant proteins? They are neutral or actually alkaline?

[00:18:15]>> Oh, absolute rubbish. Who told you that?

[00:18:19]Based on what?

[00:18:22]Are you going to refer to any actual physics, any actual science, or anything remotely valid in this video? Seems like not.

[00:18:30]I've watched it through and I know it's not.

[00:18:33]They reduce the acid burden on your kidneys.

[00:18:36]>> Still isn't one.

[00:18:37]>> And here's the part most people miss.

[00:18:40]>> The part most people miss is don't listen to idiots like Sean.

[00:18:44]>> Threat number two is the invisible phosphorus.

[00:18:47]>> Well, this is hilarious.

[00:18:49]>> I call it invisible because it does not show up on most nutrition labels.

[00:18:54]>> It does not show up on the labels.

[00:18:56]That's why it's invisible.

[00:18:59]Good.

[00:19:00]>> And keep that in mind. Not all phosphorus is created equal.

[00:19:04]>> Yes, it is. All phosphorus is indeed created equal. Sorry about that, Sean.

[00:19:10]Just the facts again. It's like saying all calories aren't a calorie. Yes, they are.

[00:19:16]Okay.

[00:19:18]Goodness gracious. By definition, no. Okay. In plant foods like beans and lentils, phosphorus ah phosphorus from plants is okay but not from meats because theology veganism.

[00:19:38]Okay, this is why I despair sometimes. Other times I just laugh it off. This is one of those times I'm laughing at you, Sean. It's hilarious.

[00:19:49]Is bound to fight it. Your body cannot fully break that down. You >> That's an anti-nutrient.

[00:19:56]That's its design to stop you from gaining the benefit of absorbing the phosphorus. Sean, plants do that to discourage animals from eating them. They try and lock up their nutrients. Okay. Goodness gracious. Now, you're going to tell us that a meat diet will cause us to have a phytic acid or a phitate deficiency?

[00:20:18]I can't wait.

[00:20:20]>> Absorb roughly 20 to 40%. The rest passes through your gut. In whole animal foods like plain chicken breast or fish, the absorption is higher.

[00:20:33]>> Oh, did you hear that? Vegans, if you eat an appropriate diet for your species, you'll actually absorb the nutrient.

[00:20:44]If you eat it from plants, you probably won't or at least not as effectively.

[00:20:49]It's one of the reasons that the diet is so destitute. And so it's one of the reasons why so many of you end up with such well serious health problems as a result of the destitution of nutrient in your diet. It's one of many reasons. Of course, some of the other required nutrients are completely missing from a from a vegan diet. Not not just limited by things like phitate, like completely missing.

[00:21:13]No.

[00:21:14]around 40 to 60%. But in processed meats, bacon, deli turkey, sausage, they add inorganic phosphorus as a preservative, >> right? So that's not the same thing as the biocolated forms.

[00:21:33]Cool.

[00:21:35]Nobody who is a sensible coach around modern carnivore diets is promoting the intake of a large amount of these kind of meats. It's not a good idea.

[00:21:50]The preservative treatment that is done is not not ideal, not helpful, not conducive to human health going forward perhaps. Nobody's arguing this point.

[00:22:00]That's fine. It's nonvisible though, Sean.

[00:22:04]>> And that type is absorbed at rates above 90%. It floods your bloodstream. I want you to remember.

[00:22:12]>> Yeah. And what's the ramification of this flooding of the bloodstream as you put it?

[00:22:18]>> Again, pretty light on details, Sean.

[00:22:20]It's probably because you actually don't know what they are.

[00:22:23]>> One rule at the grocery store. Pick up the package, turn it over, >> read the ingredients.

[00:22:29]>> Hang on. It's It's invisible. It doesn't show up on the label, remember?

[00:22:36]I'm confused.

[00:22:38]I wish I wasn't so easily confused by brilliant minds like Sea's.

[00:22:45]And if you see any ingredient that starts with FOS or ends in phosphate, put it back on the shelf. Things like sodium, tripolyphosphate, dodium phosphate, calcium phosphate. And you won't see it on the labels.

[00:23:00]Remember, you told us that it doesn't show up. It's invisible.

[00:23:06]So, we couldn't possibly hope to detect it and avoid it, could we?

[00:23:12]If there was any reason to avoid this phosphate preservative, but you haven't told us that there is one.

[00:23:20]You haven't given us any mechanism or any reason to fear the phosphate.

[00:23:25]Did you notice? We did. These are the invisible father.

[00:23:32]>> Oh my god.

[00:23:35]Wow.

[00:23:39]I love vegan logic. It's awesome, isn't it? Kids >> first additives that your kidneys just cannot handle. One label.

[00:23:47]>> In what way? What way can they not handle this? Cuz kidneys are designed actually to filter things out of the blood that ought not be there.

[00:23:57]I'm confused again. Check. That's all it takes. Threat number three is gut toxins. Red meat is rich in a compound called LC carnitine.

[00:24:08]>> Yes.

[00:24:08]>> And your gut bacteria convert carnitine into something called TM AO.

[00:24:14]>> That's right. They do. But once you've been eating a carnivore diet for oh around about 3 maybe 4 weeks, the gut bacteria has fully adapted to that and you have cultivated another group of bacteria that live on TMAO.

[00:24:31]They eat it up, they break it down and they excrete completely innocuous products in place of the TMAO.

[00:24:38]So almost as if this is a symbiotic relationship that has evolved over many hundreds of thousands and indeed probably millions of years.

[00:24:53]We've dealt with this. TMAO is a theoretical problem, not an actual problem. This is a theology. This is ridiculous.

[00:25:03]These are the words of an absolutely ridiculous theological clown who simply isn't worth listening to. Not one second longer. So, we won't. Three swings. Three air swings. Three misses.

[00:25:19]You're out. Sean, you're done. Your credibility is in the toilet. You're finished. Shut down your ridiculous YouTube channel. delete it after first making a video apologizing to your audience for your ignorance, your arrogance, your Dunning Krueger and your incompetence to profess on human nutrition, basic physiochemical properties of metabolism, the existence of homeostatic mechanisms which take care of all of these things on an ongoing basis. All of that and then disappear for all time.

[00:25:57]The rest of you get to the chopper. See you next time when someone else will be wrong on the interwebs because it doesn't look like sewing down, does it?

[00:26:04]No. See you then.