Whey Protect
Grassfed Whey with low heat extraction to retain active immunoglobulins and antioxidants. Meet your protein goals and protect the body against infection, toxins, and regulate inflammatory response.
1-2 scoops daily or as desired in smoothies, protein shakes, and recipes.
Note: It is best to first blend your ingredients and add whey at the very end to not over-mix, see more in How to use
Contains 30 scoops which lasts 1-2 months with typical use.
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Safety
- Safe with breastfeeding
- Safe during pregnancy
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Safe for Kids
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Smoothies, Protein Shakes, and Beyond!
Whey Protect is an easy daily staple to support meeting your protein goals and your immune resilience. We use this powerful protein powder in smoothies for our children, protein shakes after the gym, and add scoops into nutflour muffins and other baked goods.
Protein is key for muscle maintenance and gains
Ample protein intake is needed to aid in muscle protein synthesis for metabolism, body composition, and longevity. Our body is in constant need of amino acids for various brain and immune functions and if you don't consume enough, your body will pull from its muscle. Our Whey Protect is an easy to digest source of protein that is rich in leucine an amino acid that has been show to aid in muscle protein synthesis.
Meet your Protein Goals and Enhance your Immune Health
Our Grassfed Whey has always been a top selling product in the Naturally Nourished line due to our quality sourcing and low heat processing to retain antioxidants and beneficial immune compounds such as lactoferrin and immunoglobulins. When you use Whey Protect you can feel confident that you are providing your body with a shield of defense against pathogens (bacteria, virus, parasites, mold), toxins, and oxidative stress.
Work against the muscle loss of the aging process
Research demonstrates 3-5% muscle loss per decade starting at age 30! This process of muscle wasting known as sarcopenia can increase the risk of obesity and diabetes while reducing mobility, energy, and longevity. The best way to offset the muscle loss of aging is through the consumption of easily absorbed whey due to its leucine content serving to enhance muscle protein synthesis.
Benefits of Whey Protect
- Promotes lean body mass and muscle
- Immune support with immunoglobulins
- Improved bone density
- Supports leaky gut repair
- Detoxification with cysteine and glutathione
- Enhanced antioxidant status
- Anti-inflammatory with lactoferrin
- Weight loss with satiety and appetite regulation
Benefits
Unique benefits to Whey Protect:
• Gastrointestinal Health: Systemic and Gut Immunity – Whey contains biologically active molecules capable of enhancing intestinal health through various mechanisms, including prebiotic effects, antimicrobial and antiviral properties, immune support, and in helping to repair gut permeability. Glycomacropeptide and lactoferrin have been shown to support the growth of beneficial Bifidobacteria. (references 1-3)
• Bone Health – Milk basic protein (MBP), a fraction of whey, was found to be a promoter of bone health by stimulating osteoblasts, inhibiting osteoclastic activity and improving bone density. (references 3,10)
• Immunoglobulins (include IgG1, IgG2, IgA and IgM) – help bind and inactivate bacteria in the GI tract. IgG has been shown to also
bind the toxin produced by Clostridium difficile, thus reducing the severity of this infection.(1)
• Glycomacropeptide – a powerful stimulator of cholecystokinin, an appetite suppressing hormone that has essential roles related to
GI function. Glycomacropeptide also inhibits the cholera toxin by binding to receptors in the intestinal tract. (1)
• Lactoferrin – possesses metal-binding properties for Fe, Cu, Zn, and Mn. It is also a delivery vehicle of essential metals to the newborn. Lactoferrin acts as support for the non-specific immune system, playing a strategic role in the first line of defense against many pathogens that enter the body via mucosa. Lactoferrin has bacteriostatic and bactericidal activity against gram-negative, gram-positive bacteria and H. pylori.(9) Lactoferrin also demonstrates anti-inflammatory activity. (3) Fungicidal activity, particularly against Candida species. Lactoferrin inhibits replication of viruses in the early phase of an infection and prevents entry of viruses into the host cell.(1-3)
Whey Protect is a superior protein powder!
Whey is superior to plant based proteins based on amino acid composition and bioavailability as lectin/anti-nutrient free. Whey has been shown to be the most absorbable protein and with the best amino acid balance for muscle synthesis and repair.
Grassfed Whey is superior to Whey as milk from grassfed cows has higher levels of conjugated linoleic acids (CLA) and contains a proper balance of esstential fatty acids with low toxicity.
How to Use
As Whey Protect is non-denatured and does not have additives, it will perform very different than most protein powders or even other forms of whey you may have worked with. The powder is very airy due to the patented low-heat extraction process that aids in bioavailability of the vital nutritional compounds. This means that if you over-mix the grassfed whey it will create a foam.
My recommendation is to blend your shake or smoothie ingredients first and then add in the scoop of whey at the very end to just incorporate for 5 seconds in the blender or simply whisk or stir in manually.
I use this product in a lot of grain-free baking recipes as well to boost protein content in almond flour muffins or my daughter's almond butter pancakes in my Anti-Anxiety Diet Cookbook.
We recommend 1-2 scoops daily for adults and 1/2-1 scoop for kids.
Check out our favorite smoothie recipe in the YouTube video below.
Research
Whey protein, rich in muscle-building amino acids—especially leucine—is one of the best protein sources for increasing muscle protein synthesis, and thus, the growth of lean muscle.
Twenty grams of whey protein isolate has been shown to maximally stimulate muscle protein synthesis.
Thirty grams, 2x/day was shown to stimulate muscle protein synthesis significantly better than collagen—with and without resistance exercise.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7049534/
Twenty grams of whey protein taken after exercise significantly increased skeletal muscle mass, grip strength, and gait speed in healthy older women with sarcopenia.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ggi.13499
When combined with resistance exercise, whey protein significantly increases lean body mass.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07315724.2013.875365
Whey enhances workout recovery as seen in these studies:
Consuming 25 grams of whey protein after strenuous resistance exercise was shown to improve whole-body net protein balance and overnight performance recovery.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5537849/
A recent meta-analysis also found overall positive effects of whey protein on the recovery of muscle function following resistance exercise.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5852797/
Whey can also promote satiety and support health body weight:
Whey protein has been shown to decrease hunger, the desire to eat, and food consumption in obese adults. After 12 weeks, body fat was significantly reduced compared to controls.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28730743/
It has also been shown to significantly moderate blood glucose levels 30 minutes post-consumption.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26987021/
When used as a supplement combined with resistance exercise or as part of a weight-loss or weight-maintenance diet, whey protein has also been shown to improve body composition parameters.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24724774/
Whey contains biologically active molecules capable of enhancing intestinal health through various mechanisms, including prebiotic effects, antimicrobial and antiviral properties, immune support, and in helping to repair gut permeability. Glycomacropeptide and lactoferrin have been shown to support the growth of beneficial Bifidobacteria.
Yalçin AS. Emerging therapeutic potential of whey proteins and peptides. Curr Pharm Des. 2006;12(13):1637-43. Review. PubMed PMID: 16729875.
Whey protein. Monograph. Altern Med Rev. 2008 Dec;13(4):341-7. PubMed PMID: 19152482.
Marshall K. Therapeutic applications of whey protein. Altern Med Rev. 2004 Jun;9(2):136-56.
Milk basic protein (MBP), a fraction of whey, was found to be a promoter of bone health by stimulating osteoblasts, inhibiting osteoclastic activity and improving bone density.
Toba Y, Takada Y, Yamamura J, Tanaka M, Matsuoka Y, Kawakami H, Itabashi A, Aoe S, Kumegawa M.Bone. 2000 Sep;27(3):403-8.Milk basic protein: a novel protective function of milk against osteoporosis.
Lactoferrin found in non-denatured grassfed whey demonstrates anti-inflammatory activity as well as fungicidal activity, particularly against Candida species. Lactoferrin inhibits replication of viruses in the early phase of an infection and prevents entry of viruses into the host cell.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8535893/
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