Many influencers on social media have posted on the wonderful health benefits of bone broth. From curing flu to reducing skin wrinkles, it seems there is nothing that bone broth can do!
A review of the research really does not support the hype. In fact, a Consumer Labs deep dive found that 4 out of 10 bone broths failed their assessments for various reasons. It also dives into much of the research around collagen, protein, and heavy metals.
In the end, recommend bone broth if you like a good Pho or stew -- not because you are curing an ailment!
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Transcript:
Hey y'all, Dr. Wells here from Nutritional Physical Therapy. Today we're going to talk about a social media fad and that's on bone broth. So something that has been hitting the news more lately, obviously more in the social media realm, is this notion that bone broth can do so many wonderful things. That bone broth, A, has high amounts of collagen, it has protein, it has all these phytochemicals and things that can heal gut issues, all the way to preventing COVID and reversing flu.
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So let's start with the reality of bone broth. first off, my friends at consumerlabs.com recently did an analysis on bone broths and they found that 6 out of the ten popular bone broths only passed their testing. So there's 4 out of ten generally available bone broths, almost half, didn't pass their testing.
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part of the reason why is like 11 in particular didn't have the protein concentrate that they recommend that they um labeled so you're going and thinking i'm getting ten grams of protein from this broth and you're only getting like 6 that's an issue right uh secondly uh their other concern was some of them weren't actually bone broths they were actually just uh water with like added uh meat byproducts and flavoring and so it wasn't even bone broth per se so Other authors, such as my friend from nutritionalfacts.org, Dr.
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Greger, has found some bone broths have high amounts of cadmium, lead, and or, well, not so much mercury, that's more fish-based, but for most, like chicken, and chicken has a higher level of arsenic, and some cow bone broths have higher levels of cadmium and lead in them, so The Consumer Labs analysis didn't show that, but the big thing is within the analysis and research that they've collated and that I've looked at is the number one reason why you should be consuming bone broth is that it tastes good.
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and that it makes your pho or your stew delicious you should not be using it based off the fact that it has huge amounts of collagen because most of the analysis that that shows it's very small amounts so if you have a ten grams per protein or ten grams of protein per serving like only 2 or 3 maybe up to 4 grams of that is maybe collagen so if you're wanting a high dosage of collagen you know for supporting joint health or whatever take a supplementation especially a high-grade supplementation to really know that you're getting the dosage and accurate amount so in the end does bone broth cure cancer prevent flu or covet or like help heal your gut no it doesn't it tastes good so stop spreading myths around social media and sign up for our courses today.
