Meat today is 'injected' with something that directly damages the nerves (neuropathy); even bone-broth fat carries it; liver concentrates more toxins than meat, and milk even more.

Original statement

اللحمه ما فيهاش مشكله على فكره اللحمه مشكلتها انها محقونه حاجه بس يعني حتى شوربتها شوربه العظم الدهون اللي طالعه منها في مشكله في حاجه محقونه فيها بتضر الاعصاب انا معارفش ايه هي

verbatim according to source. Translation by the project; the Arabic wording is authoritative.

Translation

Meat today is 'injected' with something that directly damages the nerves (neuropathy); even bone-broth fat carries it; liver concentrates more toxins than meat, and milk even more.

Origin

Source status

Video transcript (own words)

Attribution

Elawady (machine transcript)

Video

Dr Diaa Al Awady د ضياء العوضي is live! الكورتيزون حياتك (Open source)

Published

17 October 2025

Timestamp

0:16:53 (location in the original video’s automatic YouTube caption track; confirms where the words occur, not who speaks)

Attribution uncertainty

Archive transcript (YouTube CC or AI-generated); no timestamps; wording may contain transcription errors; spoken live-stream language, context partly conversational.

Claimed mechanism

Injected substances (antibiotics, drugs, growth promoters) and feed additives accumulate in meat, fat and especially liver.

Claimed health effect

Peripheral neuropathy; toxicity.

Population concerned

Meat eaters.

Geographic restriction by Elawady

none found

Diverging source versions

Scientific assessment

Unclear / insufficient evidence – The data do not allow an assessment either way.

Certainty of evidence: very low – Any assessment is very uncertain.

1. What was claimed?

Meat is contaminated by injections that damage nerves; liver and milk even more.

2. What is demonstrably correct?

Veterinary drug residues and contaminants can occur in meat and offal, and the liver, as the organ of detoxification, can accumulate some residues; this is why maximum residue limits and withdrawal periods exist (general regulatory knowledge; not sourced here).

3. What is wrong or exaggerated?

No substance is named and no evidence is given that meat causes neuropathy. The claim is internally inconsistent with the food list, which allows liver and organ meats freely (✅) while restricting muscle meat (see C-MEAT-03).

4. What remains unclear?

Residue levels in Egyptian meat and liver (to be assessed by the residues topic).

5. Which studies support it?

None for neuropathy. A small Egyptian ELISA study reported high hormone residues in chicken and cattle meat, but its method cannot distinguish natural from added hormones and it did not study nerve outcomes (I-RES-09).

6. Which studies contradict it?

In EU monitoring for 2023, 0.11% of 548,194 samples (602) were non-compliant for veterinary drug residues (I-RES-07). The EU sets maximum residue limits, including lower limits for muscle than for liver and kidney for some drugs, and prohibits some substances entirely (I-RES-01). No study linking meat at usual intakes to neuropathy was found.

7. What applies to Germany and Europe?

EU residue monitoring 2023: 0.11% non-compliant samples (I-RES-07); maximum residue limits are set by Regulation (EU) No 37/2010 (I-RES-01).

8. What is known about Egypt?

One small Egyptian study reported hormone residues above reference values in chicken and cattle meat, with methodological limits (I-RES-09). No Egyptian data on nerve damage from meat were found.

9. What practical conclusion is appropriate?

The neuropathy claim cannot be verified; it should not be presented as established.

Assessment details

Rationale for certainty of evidence

The claim is vague (he states he does not know what the substance is). No evidence was found that meat at usual intakes causes neuropathy. EU monitoring shows low non-compliance for veterinary drug residues (I-RES-07); Egyptian residue data are sparse and methodologically limited (I-RES-09).

Source quality

Elawady's own words (machine transcript), explicitly speculative ('I don't know what it is').

Regional transferability

Depends on national veterinary drug control.

Individual exceptions

None.

Regional scope of the claim

depends on production conditions

Last reviewed

26 October 2026 provisional

Scientific evidence in detail

Not supported by high-quality evidence – There is no good evidence for the claim; this alone does not prove it wrong.

Research question: Does meat today contain an 'injected' substance that damages nerves (neuropathy), with even higher concentrations in liver and milk?

Study results as reported by the authors. Our assessment follows below.

Open questions

Egyptian monitoring of beta-agonists and other residues in meat and liver.

How deeply was this checked?

5 linked studies: 0 checked in full text (0 of them with a structured risk-of-bias assessment), 5 on the basis of the abstract, 0 bibliographically only. No formal assessment with two independent reviewers and no independent human expert review has taken place yet.

Last scientific review: 26 October 2026

In plain language

Dr. Elawady said that meat is 'injected' with something that damages the nerves, but he also said he does not know what it is. We found no studies showing that eating meat in normal amounts causes nerve damage. Drug residues in animals are a real food-safety topic, which is why there are legal limits. He also said liver is more contaminated than meat, yet the system allows liver freely.

Studies on this claim

Regional context

Germany / EU

EU residue monitoring 2023: 0.11% non-compliant samples (I-RES-07); maximum residue limits are set by Regulation (EU) No 37/2010 (I-RES-01).

Egypt

One small Egyptian study reported hormone residues above reference values in chicken and cattle meat, with methodological limits (I-RES-09). No Egyptian data on nerve damage from meat were found.

• Food-safety governance and official controls
• Pesticide residues in fruit and vegetables on the EU/German market (incl. imports from Egypt)
• Pesticide residues in produce sold on the Egyptian domestic market
• Antibiotic (veterinary drug) residues in poultry meat and eggs
• Antimicrobial use in food animals and antibiotic growth promoters
• Hormones in poultry, meat, milk and farmed fish
• Dioxins, PCBs and PFAS in eggs and other animal foods
• Aflatoxin M1 in milk and dairy products
• Aflatoxins in groundnuts (peanuts)
• Heavy metals in fish
• Farmed fish (aquaculture): drugs, water source and controls
• Import controls and the meaning of RASFF notifications for Egyptian products

What applies in my country?

General scientific assessment

Unclear / insufficient evidence The claim that meat causes nerve damage through unknown injections is unsupported and cannot be verified.

The following areas of food safety are relevant to this statement:

• Pesticides and pesticide residues
• Veterinary medicines and antibiotics
• Hormonal growth promoters
• Contaminants (heavy metals, PFAS, PCBs, dioxins, nitrate)
• Pathogens (Salmonella, Campylobacter, etc.)

Eggs · Poultry · Dairy · Fish and seafood · Red meat · Fruit and vegetables

Limits: legal rules describe what is allowed, not what every single food contains. Measurement data come from samples and are meaningful only together with their method details.

Country of residence or purchase Compare with another country

References

1. Report for 2023 on the results from the monitoring of veterinary medicinal product residues and other substances in live animals and animal products (EFSA news: 'Veterinary drug residues in food - non-compliance stays low in 2023'). EFSA. EFSA news 2025
2. Commission Regulation (EU) No 37/2010 of 22 December 2009 on pharmacologically active substances and their classification regarding maximum residue limits in foodstuffs of animal origin. European Commission. Official Journal of the EU 2010
3. Hormonal residues in chicken and cattle meat: A risk threat the present and future consumer health.. Kamaly HF & Sharkawy AA. Food Chem Toxicol 2023 · PMID 37956705 · DOI 10.1016/j.fct.2023.114172
4. Clinical and pharmacological profile in a clenbuterol epidemic poisoning of contaminated beef meat in Italy.. Brambilla G et al.. Toxicol Lett 2000 · PMID 10713468 · DOI 10.1016/s0378-4274(99)00270-2
5. Evaluation of Heavy Metal Content in Feed, Litter, Meat, Meat Products, Liver, and Table Eggs of Chickens.. Korish MA, Attia YA. Animals (Basel) 2020 · PMID 32331361 · DOI 10.3390/ani10040727