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hey guys today we’re gonna talk about

anti nutrients in vegetables and other

foods plants don’t like to be eaten

they’ve developed certain defense

mechanisms to help them survive over

millions of years because they can’t run

away and this is to prevent the insects

and other predators from consuming them

okay so let’s start off with

phytoestrogens okay so certain plants

like flax and soy have these little

chemical compounds called vital essence

and they can actually create a little

bit of a birth control effect in insects

so for the purpose of surviving because

if you can make sterile all these

insects and they won’t reproduce the

plant survives so that’s an ingenious

strategy but the problem that I see is

not the phytoestrogens that you’re going

to buy from the health food store that

are good for hot flashes or other health

conditions but the type of soy oil in

soy protein isolates that are put out in

certain veggie burgers and also even put

in baby formulas we don’t know the

long-term effects also the massive

amount of soy oil which is mostly

genetically modified in your salad

dressings in your foods we don’t know of

the long-term effects of that all right

moving along to phytic acid phytic acid

is another chemical that is an anti

nutrient it prevents the absorption of

many minerals including zinc iron

calcium things like that now it is in

seeds and nuts and it’s actually in the

brand part now the thing about phytic

acid is that some people take it for

health benefits let’s say for example

you have excessive amounts of iron in

your body which is common with men

because men and women don’t have the

ability to get rid of excessive iron

women do on their cycle but men don’t so

when you build up iron it creates a lot

of problems with your heart and the

damaging effect of it being an oxidant

on your body

alright so phytic acid named ip6 you can

look that up and I actually did a video

on that

has the property of being a key later it

binds with certain minerals specifically

I am so if you have high amounts of iron

it will pull it out it also has

anti-cancer benefits and there’s other

other benefits as well so a lot of these

compounds have pluses and negatives

let’s move on to lectins lectins are

certain proteins in plants and they’re

used as a protective mechanism because

what they’ll do is they’ll break down

certain parts of our digestive tract and

they will put holes in our gut lining

and create leaky gut that’s a simple

version there are nightshades white

potato soy brown rice grains now I

actually have a link of all the lectin

foods rated from high to low put that

down in the description but the problem

with lectins is that certain people are

sensitive to them and it can aggravate

inflammation in the body so if you have

an autoimmune condition you should be

avoiding lectins but the vast majority

of people do not have a problem with

lectins but for example gluten is a

lectin and that’s in grains all right

now we have ox lids oxalates are

chemical compounds and by the way our

body makes them as well but they also

come from foods that combined with

calcium and create crystals and create a

lot of problems with kidney stones and

even inflammation and arthritis it can

accumulate in different parts of the

body the highest amount of oxalates

isn’t parsley then spinach peanuts

almonds chocolate and I put a list down

below if you want a rating list of all

the foods high in oxalates then we have

subpoenas which basically it’s a it’s

like a detergent that will dissolve a

cell membrane and it’s another

protective mechanism in certain plants

like the nightshades

it’s in legumes amaranth buckwheat so as

you can see there’s a lot of anti

nutrients in the food that we eat

there’s also I don’t even mention this

but there’s some enzyme inhibitors that

block the enzyme to help break down

protein you should germinate like the

seeds and the nuts soak them in water

overnight

this is why older cultures and probably

your grandparents pickled the foods and

fermented foods to decrease the anti

nutrients in increase the nutrient

availability of certain foods so there’s

a couple things you can do number one if

you don’t have any problem consuming

vegetables and these foods then eat them

but if you start bloating you may have a

condition called SIBO which is small

intestinal bacterial overgrowth but to

explain SIBO in a thumbnail sketch it’s

basically a situation where you have the

good bacteria that normally should be in

the large intestine now in the small

intestine so when you’re eating the

vegetables and you’re having the fiber

go in it’s fermenting in a different

place and you’re getting a lot of gas

and bloating a couple things you can do

if you actually have this condition you

can just cut out your vegetables for a

month increase acidifier for the stomach

take certain herbal antibiotics like

garlic and thyme and oregano and that

will help to eliminate that and also do

in a minute fasting but you may just

need to change the vegetables you’re

consuming maybe you switch your

vegetables from cruciferous vegetables

which a lot of people are sensitive to -

more leafy greens for example I can do

leafy greens in large amounts but I

can’t do broccoli for example but it

really depends on an individual when you

steamed or cooked cruciferous vegetables

they’re easier to digest and they also

recommend rotating the form of

vegetables that you’re consuming for

example some days I will consume just

green salad okay other days I will

consume pickle the vegetables without

any green salad at the farmers market I

found a great source of pickled

vegetables and without any sugar always

make sure it doesn’t have the sugar in

there and I actually my system does very

very well on these so I will do like

maybe three or four cups of pickled

vegetables per day for a while and then

I’ll go back to my leafy greens and then

I’ll rotate to something else now if you

have an autoimmune condition or some

type of arthritis I would eliminate

lectins and see if you do better okay

now if you have kidney stones

I would eliminate oxalates but the cool

thing about the ketogenic diet is you’re

eliminating beans grains rice potato so

you already eliminated a lot of the anti

nutrients just by doing that anyway

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