New Meta Analysis on Plant Based Meat Alternatives (PBMA) and Cardiovascular Disease

[toasty7718]

Dr. Matthew Nagra is a naturopathic doctor who does a lot of fact-checking online when it comes to claims about nutrition. 
 

He collaborated with some colleagues and pulled together many studies examining the effects that PBMAs have on CVD and the results are pretty counterintuitive. Despite being ultra-processed, they still fare well in mitigating risk of developing CVD.

https://onlinecjc.ca/article/S0828-282X(23)01882-2/fulltext

Edited June 27 by toasty7718

[Michael569]

Interesting , thanks for sharing. The results are pretty much in line with what I would expect from replacing red meat with plant based alternatives regardless of the source of the protein (e.g,. mycoprotein, pea, soy isoflavones etc). I'm excited for the days when we'll finally have enough data to confirm that this stuff is actually by far superior to red meat and processed red meat in terms of disease risk mitigation and longevity. 

Small observations tho (maybe irrelevant) 

Not sure if we could call this a proper meta analysis since there is neither a forest plot nor PRISMA flowchart so not sure if they actually followed PRISMA guidelines of meta-analysing data. This seems to me more like a systematic review without the MA but maybe I'm wrong. 

Also, their choice of keywords seems a bit.......non-exhaustive?  At least compared to what you usually see in similar trials which is like 5 lines of keywords. I wonder if someone went back and went really crazy with keywords if they would identify other RCTs that should have been plugged in and hadn't been? 

.....but mostly this is small stuff and irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Overall I think this is a pretty decent trial but I'd love someone well versed in research methodology to run a review video on this because if it shows up that the study had a flawed methodology, the low carbs, the ketos and the news will use this as a strawman and all the the baby will be taken out with the bathwater....

This is kinda of stuff that will be shared among vegan communities, news, health articles and used as an ammunition in debates, which is awesome, but I'd like to see this getting replicated, peer-reviewed and maybe published on NIH eventually to give us a beacon of hope and inspiration for more research in this direction without fear of backlash for the researchers involved

Still, these are awesome results and I'm really delighted to see more of this type of research coming up. Fingers crossed for the future 

Edited June 27 by Michael569