The Stakes Are Too High to Delay This is not a gray area anymore
Even more impressive, newer protein alternatives like proteins grown from microbes or fungi produce 62 times less emissions than animal proteins while using 2,000 times less land. Even grass-fed beef, often marketed as the "sustainable" option, emits 10% more greenhouse gases per kilogram of protein than industrial beef when you account for methane's potency. If just 10% of overweight adults and 20% of obese adults in the US start using these medications, total calorie consumption would drop by about 3%
So when we give them in pharmacologic doses, like in Mounjaro, those effects are enhanced. But even though the medication is mimicking hormones that are already present in the body, getting a bigger dose of them at once may lead to side effects
Moreover, flavonoids can also upregulate the activity of antioxidant enzymes, thereby enhancing the antioxidant defense system (Hostetler et al., 2017)