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so the topic of today is oatmeal and I

used to love oatmeal I used to have it

every single day as a breakfast and I

was told that it was healthy and so

today I want to share uh three things

that you probably have never heard

before relating to oatmeal and the

reason I’m bringing this up is because

if you’re consuming oatmeal for health

reasons you may change your mind after

watching this video now of course I’m

not telling you not to consume oatmeal I

just want to give you some additional

information to think with that is not

necessarily easy to find when you type

oatmeal on the internet and I’m not

going to even cover what you probably

already know the sugary type of oatmeal

in these little packets this instant

oatmeal tons of sugar you know you

already know that’s really bad I want to

talk about the oatmeal that’s actually

not sweetened but it’s interesting even

in the packets of instant oatmeal that

has tons of sugar apparently you could

still have a little claim there that

says that it’s heart healthy I mean

you’ll see articles out there that’ll

say that oatmeal is one of the

healthiest foods that you can possibly

eat it’s considered a superfood it will

lower your cholesterol it will help your

diabetes and blood sugars it will make

your heart healthy so the first thing

I’m going to dive into I’m going to put

a bunch of studies down below so you can

verify what I’m saying is true

is some studies done on oatmeal in

relationship to blood sugars and Insulin

as well as cholesterol now when you read

these studies it does definitely say

that there is a significant Improvement

in cholesterol as well as blood sugars

okay both and that’s pretty exciting I

mean like wow because if something is

cholesterol friendly or it’s blood sugar

friendly then you know sign me up but if

you actually read the studies it will

say there’s a significant decrease in

cholesterol and blood glucose compared

to the control

now what is this mean compared to a

control what is that all about well

you’re comparing it to something else

right and that comparison is white bread

that’s right white bread so if you

compare anything to white bread it’s

going to be better in a significant way

so let’s say for example you eat some

white bread okay and let’s say it spikes

your blood sugars by 10 points

and then when you eat uh the oats it

only spikes your blood sugars by five

points and then we can say in the study

there’s a significant difference there’s

a a much less like 50 percent less spike

in blood sugars than the controls but

that 50 Improvement is not just you know

adding this to your diet and seeing an

improvement in blood sugars it’s

compared to something else and then when

you read on in the study it says the

Improvement in blood sugars only

occurred right after the meal okay it

didn’t occur later on probably because

there’s a a nice Spike of blood glucose

when you eat white bread so that was one

point the other thing that they

mentioned the studies is that part of

the study was just consuming three grams

of beta glucan not consuming oatmeal but

just that compound and that created a

lowering of cholesterol and so then by

inference and we can just say well

there’s beta-glucan in oats and just by

deductive reasoning it then must create

the same effect act but that’s a little

confusing because that’s an isolated

compound versus eating it as a whole

grain and then there’s other studies

that 29 participants enrolled in the

study they all had diabetes and they did

not see any change with blood glucose

levels between the two so when we talk

about the benefit there’s only certain

studies they’re talking about and so

when they quote it’s heart healthy

they’re kind of cherry picking certain

parts of studies and not giving you the

full understanding of what it really is

going to do to your cholesterol levels

or blood sugars in fact the best thing I

think you should do is just start

testing your blood sugars when you

consume it and then not consume it and

then you’ll know for yourself but also I

could not find any of these studies

involving the instant oatmeal with all

the added sugar okay somehow those

studies are really hard to find

in relationship to them improving your

blood glucose levels or insulin levels

or cholesterol levels the next topic is

gluten free right because we all know

that oats are gluten free well

apparently they do have a a type of

gluten it’s called avanin okay and this

protein has been known to increase

cytokines which are in like an

inflammatory response in your body but

here’s the Catch-22 it’s delayed you may

not feel any symptoms for days later so

it’s going to be very hard to make the

connection between the two

but if you have irritable bowel syndrome

or inflammation or celiac

you may find that eating oats can worsen

the situation and you have to realize

that these glutens which is just a

category of a lot of different types of

proteins

it’s like one of the primary uh triggers

for autoimmune diseases especially

Hashimoto’s which is a thyroid problem

number three weed killer called

glyphosate it’s interesting that the FDA

when they did the reports or studies on

different foods they kind of omitted

oats for some reason but we don’t have

to worry about that because Monsanto did

their own studies and that was the

creator of glyphosate and they said that

it’s completely safe so we don’t really

have to worry about that but of course

the World Health Organization did say

that glyphosate is a carcinogen and

there was a lawsuit that was one in

court by someone being exposed to

glyphosate

and winning millions of dollars because

they developed cancer and the type of

cancer apparently increases the risk for

is called

Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma but another

organization called ewg which I’ll put a

link down below when they found traces

of glyphosate weed killer and over 95

percent of samples of oat products and

it’s not that this oat is genetically

modified

they use glyphosate as a pre-harvest

drying agent because it can kill the

plant really quick and dry it up and

that’s what they use not only in oats

but in wheat I mean this kind of goes

beyond the genetically modified foods

like in the corn the soy canola that

type of thing so anyway if you do have

oats of course you know steel cut would

be much better than the the process

instant oats and if you’re going to eat

it make sure it’s organic okay unless

you want some weed killer in there but

you may also want to try something

you might want to just skip your

breakfast all together and do

intermittent fasting you’ll probably be

shocked to find out how good you

actually feel by not doing a breakfast

in general but that being said if you

want to do a breakfast I think eggs

would be a much better choice now since

we’re on the topic of breakfast if you

have not seen my video on how to

transition out of

doing a breakfast in the benefits I put

that video up right here check it out