Love to grill! Value-oriented grill master, buying meats on sale at HEB & Kroger & occasionally splurging at Costco / farmers mkts. And making them taste great!
Eating beef instead of chicken is one of the biggest single upgrades you can make to an already healthy diet. Beef contains roughly three times the bioavailable nutrient density. Iron, zinc, B12, creatine, taurine, carnosine, the fat-soluble vitamins, the lot. This is not a small difference. This compounds.
Here is what that looks like over a lifetime of choosing one over the other.
Month one. Slightly more energy. Slightly better recovery from training.
Month three. Noticeably better sleep. The afternoon slump is gone.
Year one. Your hairline is holding the line. Your nails grow faster. The thing in your shoulder that used to click no longer clicks.
Year three. You stop getting the winter cold that everyone in the office gets. Your jaw looks more defined in photographs. You can see the veins in your forearms without having to pump them up.
Year five. Friends start asking if you have had something done. You have not. You have eaten beef.
Year ten. You stop ageing in a way that is visible to anyone who has not seen you for a while. Old colleagues run into you in the street and assume you have been somewhere medicinal.
Year fifteen. Your testosterone is higher at forty-five than it was at thirty. Your wife has stopped commenting on it because she has gotten used to it.
Year twenty. You are mistaken for your own son at the wedding.
Year thirty. Strangers at the bus stop ask you for advice without knowing why.
Year forty. The local paper writes a piece about you. The headline is something about an unbroken streak of decades.
Year fifty. Children begin to follow you in the park, sensing something they cannot name.
Year sixty. You are quietly approached by a representative of the Crown.
Year seventy. You are knighted for services to the national gene pool.
It compounds. Worth knowing.
The chicken eater is, at this point, on his third hip.