The Jenke experiment is devoted to a current topic: How healthy is meat consumption? And what happens if you eat a kilogram of cheap meat every day?
Jenke wants to know again. In the last episode of the "Jenke experiment", the RTL moderator dealt with a brand new topic. The repetition is about meat – where it comes from and what triggers it if we eat it every day.
What is an experiment for Jenke in this case is everyday life for some people: he decides to eat cheap meat every day. But the quantity is a challenge even for meat lovers: it should be a kilogram, every day, for two weeks. After that, it goes into cold withdrawal – followed by 14 days of vegan nutrition.
14 days of cheap meat and painkillers
The experiment begins with a well-known picture: Jenke sits at the doctor and can be checked out. He's still fine, he's in top shape. Nevertheless, the doctor warns that meat can cause so-called silent inflammation. Exactly what that means will be felt early enough by Jenke, he notes from the off.
This is followed by 14 days of cheap meat. But it would not be the Jenke experiment if a moral component had not been cleverly installed: Jenke enjoys his sausages, steaks and roulades in a holiday home on a farm. You can hear his neighbors squeaking through the window – it's a pair of pigs. And as if that wasn't torture enough, Jenke should ultimately decide about their lives: If he decides to eat plant-based foods after the experiment, pig lady Elsa stays alive.
Every day you see Jenke stuffing liver sausage and masses of cheap meat into himself for two weeks. The latter is actually necessary, because if you suddenly see the huge plate of meat in front of you, you realize how much a kilogram is. You don't have to wait 14 days for the result – Jenke has to see an emergency doctor after the second night.
The moderator's pain was almost unbearable. But it is not the digestive tract, but the hand that keeps Jenke from sleeping. In practice, he receives the diagnosis that neither he nor the audience can believe after such a short time: The acute gout attack, an inflammation of the joints, is said to have been triggered by the massive consumption of meat.
Anyone who knows the Jenke experiment knows how to proceed: Of course, the moderator continues to eat cheap meat. Pain tablets are also on the menu.
Then the spit turns: Now it is peppered with vegetables instead of meat. Jenke eats vegan for 14 days, all animal products are deleted from the menu. Then there is the final consultation with the doctor.
Jenke experiment with a clear result
After two weeks and thus 14 kilograms of meat, Jenke's blood values show a clear result: his LDL value, also known as "bad cholesterol", is said to have increased by a full 30 percent during the meat phase.
But the doctor also has good news: In the vegan phase, the value fell again, at the end of the experiment even better than before. The uric acid levels that were responsible for the gout attack would have normalized again under the plant-based diet. At the same time, the good intestinal bacteria are said to have multiplied 10-fold, while Jenke did not use animal products. They ensured a good mood, which the moderator was able to emphasize again and again during the experiment.
"I find it frightening that after only 14 days of excessive meat consumption, it can be medically proven how harmful this is to my health – if you extrapolate that …", Jenke sums up the experiment and ultimately made a decision: Elsa – we remember, the neighboring sow – may survive. And from now on the moderator will be vegan.