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Nuts and Seeds: Why Avoid Them?
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Suboptimal Foods: Nuts, Seeds, and Grains
00:00:45
chrisyzen
Hi Christian Jardinov here. Today I'm gonna talk to you about nuts and seeds and why they are not really in any way shape or form good for your health and they're extremely suboptimal foods in fact at one point I'm going to get with the help of a designer I'm gonna create a really nice cheat sheet on the kind of optimal diet, Christian's diet pyramid kind of thing you know for longevity and whatnot and I'll tell you nuts, seeds, grains and all that other BS beans and legumes and cereals they are going to be right at the bottom of the pyramid just one rung
00:01:38
chrisyzen
just one level above the ultra-processed garbage like Twinkies and Snickers and Cornflakes and stuff like that.
Fats Debate: Polyunsaturated vs Saturated
00:01:50
chrisyzen
And I'm going to explain why now. And I know, I know before you say, but what about all the experts, all the experts and all the blah, blah, blah? I mean, the experts have been telling us for decades and decades to eat polyunsaturated fats, heart healthy omega sixes, to not eat meat, to not eat, um you know, eggs and saturated fat and butter. They're so bad. They will clog up your arteries, all that saturated fat.
00:02:19
chrisyzen
So the experts are ah wrong again, as has been proven time and time again about the meat and all the all the other stuff, right? In fact, I'm going to have to do a whole episode about this, but I saw a study um that saw meat intake was positively correlated with life lifespan. But that that's a whole separate
Questioning Nut Health Claims
00:02:43
chrisyzen
issue. But the point is that The experts, and I know there's been a lot of epidemiological studies, that so statistical number crunching, number massaging has shown that increased nut consumption is correlated with you know better health outcomes and stuff like that. However, all we have to do, instead of being allowed for um sort of this sophistry, this magic to be
00:03:13
chrisyzen
um What's the word I'm looking for? Weaved in front of us, right? Instead of allowing that to to happen, we should look at very basic things, like what's in nuts and seeds? What are they missing?
Nutrient Compatibility: Animal vs Plant Foods
00:03:29
chrisyzen
And what what do we need as mammals, right? As mammals, what do we need, what's most compatible in terms of nutrition? which foods are most compatible with our physiology as mammals and it doesn't really have to take a genius to understand that the most compatible thing for a mammal
00:03:55
chrisyzen
to build and rebuild itself is going to be constituent parts, vitamins, minerals, proteins, amino acids, fats that make up and that a mammal. And that is, when you think about it, that is um what what the animal foods provide. you know I personally don't think chicken and fish are optimal in terms of of the the the meat, the animal foods to eat. And that's another thing that the experts have been saying,
Anti-Nutrients in Plant-Based Foods
00:04:33
chrisyzen
right? They've been saying eat fish, don't eat meat, replace. If you're gonna eat animal foods or meat, make sure it's fish or chicken because chicken, why? Why is chicken better?
00:04:45
chrisyzen
we'll get into chicken actually um but let's start let's start actually nuts and seeds are involved here because chickens and pigs nowadays even organically raised they eat a lot of corn gra ah grains you know soy so if you're eating chicken you're basically eating seeds
00:05:07
chrisyzen
basically seed oils. okay So it's here's the thing, I'm sorry, just i'm I'm kind of a little bit over all over the place because I have so many so many ideas and so many ways to kind of go that I keep getting dragged and I i don't really always have time to plan the episode super meticulously because I have a ton of other stuff to do with clients and whatever else.
Harmful Lectins: Gluten's Impact
00:05:34
chrisyzen
But here's here's the let's let's start looking at what do seeds, not basically grains and a lot of lot of vegetables, what do they have? What they have what are known as anti-nutrients and straight up toxins.
00:05:49
chrisyzen
There's a paper I cited in my book how to actually live longer volume one. cold the The paper was called, is there such a thing as anti nutrients, a narrative review of perceived problematic plant compounds. It's something along those lines. You can you can stick that into into a search engine is there such a thing as anti-nutrients and that stuff that paper will come up and in there they have a table that I adapted for the book and in there we have two four six categories of anti-nutrients lectins oxalates phytate goitrogens phytoestrogens tannins and then we have the food sources
00:06:35
chrisyzen
and the health implications so lectins you may have heard of the most famous lectin gluten who hasn't right so gluten is a lectin and so other lectins are found in legumes cereal grains seeds nuts and some fruits and vegetables it's also they're also used as like signaling molecules in in mammals and just like in living things so it's not to say all lectins are bad or whatever but there's like we know gluten is we know for a fact gluten increases intestinal permeability the work of Alessio Fasano
00:07:15
chrisyzen
he's a and I think he's an MD, he's a researcher that did a lot of work around you know gluten, zonulin and stuff like that. So it's very clear that eating gluten containing foods, which are grains initially, ah has detrimental effects on the intestinal
Nutrient Bioavailability: Spinach and Cooking
00:07:33
chrisyzen
lining. okay And if if gluten and and those specific types of grains, the cereal grains have that effect, why Would we assume that all the other ones where we have not elucidated the mechanisms yet? Because who cares right who what industry is gonna benefit from that actually coming to the limelight, right? Who's gonna benefit certainly not the seed oil industry not the corn industry not the aggregate the big agriculture industry So who's gonna fund that research right? But the point is
00:08:07
chrisyzen
if gluten does that and other things we know are problematic who's to say that potentially dozens if not hundreds of other compounds in these nuts and seeds and grains just seeds in general are also not problematic and we already know so lectins altered gut function and inflammation, oxalates which are found in not just um these are more kind of um in but so basically spinach is the biggest source so spinach by far has the highest oxalate content of any food and spinach I don't think I've touched spinach in like three years um maybe but this point even more
00:08:51
chrisyzen
I just don't buy leaves. like how just like How badly are we brainwashed as a society yeah where we think or we're sort of molded to think that ph friggin leaves like spinach and leafy greens are super healthful. Yes, they have magnesium. That is that is absolutely correct. And they'll have like folate and stuff like that. But if you don't cook the bejesus out of those leaves, that a lot of those minerals like the magnesium won't be
Toxins in Raw Nuts and Seeds
00:09:30
chrisyzen
bioavailable.
00:09:31
chrisyzen
right so you're not gonna absorb it because a lot of like the they say oh ah spinach is a great source of calcium if you're plant-based you can get loads of calcium from spinach it's five percent bioavailable you can look that up on the on PubMed it's 5 freaking percent bioavailability that spinach in ah that calcium in spinach right it's a joke and the iron and the other minerals right so then you can cook the spinach or the leafy greens or whatever else um and then that will destroy a lot of the vitamins right so you might make you might inactivate and destroy some toxins but then the actual freaking
00:10:14
chrisyzen
ah Vitamins like the folate and then their heat labile and they can get destroyed the B vitamins and stuff like that their heat um vulnerable to heat Okay, so similarly with nuts and seeds when they're raw they have a lot of toxins and right Like almonds, they have cyanide and whatever other. um So phytic acids. So gortrogens, these are more in like the brassica, so kale, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, ah broccoli. These are more ah the gortrogenic type compounds. these These are implicated in hypothyroidism, the block iodine uptake, where they inhibit it. And then soy.
00:11:03
chrisyzen
that has phytoestrogens, okay, so endocrine disruption, hormonal disruption, and tannins. These are also found in a bunch of different foods. They can also inhibit certain absorption of certain ah
Genotoxic Risks of Damaged Fats
00:11:16
chrisyzen
minerals. So you have a lot of toxins in, and we know that they have toxins because certain seeds, if you eat them raw, you're gonna feel terrible. You might ah feel very sick, like beans, legumes, grains, cereals, most of those you cannot eat raw okay so if you can't eat those raw it's because there's toxins it's very likely that all seeds have those either toxins or or compounds that are just not compatible with human metabolism maybe they're not intended toxins or whatever but they're not compatible with human metabolism so you can then cook them you can roast the nuts but then what happens
00:12:00
chrisyzen
Yes, you inactivate and or destroy some of those toxins, but you then cook the bejesus out of the polyunsaturated fats that are in the nuts and the seeds, especially. And why is that bad? It's because when you damage omega-6 fatty acids and and omega-3s for that matter, right? but when when unsaturated fats
00:12:31
chrisyzen
get damaged or peroxidized they break up into smaller compounds that some are called aldehydes there's other things there's various sort of different classifications but um these are directly damaging to our cells some are genotoxic um car carcinogenic so that's what that's what happens you're kind of Damned if you do them if you don't like if you take almonds because there's a lot of fat in almonds There's a lot of um omega-6 is omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids. So raw almonds not good cooked almonds a Lot of peroxidized fats potentially. Okay So then when you eat those, there's ah they're either causing damage or they're depleting your antioxidants. So not really a very optimal um food to to eat on a daily basis. Every once in a while, it's totally fine. Like if you're having a cake and
Protein Bioavailability: Plant vs Animal
00:13:34
chrisyzen
you know what you're at a birthday party and there's some
00:13:37
chrisyzen
Almonds on the cake god, you know, we're not we're not going to go crazy with that to that level I'm just saying on a day-to-day basis because I've had some people tell me for the last you know, what you have for dinner What do you have for dinner? not Normally, they'll tell me um I might have like a handful of nuts or Something like that. I'm like, okay that's we we really need to work on that because Maybe that's causing your hormonal imbalances in your sleep problems and eating very very low
00:14:13
chrisyzen
carbohydrate ah dinner and a lot of polyunsaturated fats that have endocrine disrupting qualities and so on and so forth right so but here let me just pause for a second bring up something So then the other thing, so okay so for a lot of people believe the fats in nuts are healthy fats, but they're they're not healthy fats. Omega-6 fats are not healthy fats. You don't need to be going out of your way to get more into your diet because you're already
00:14:46
chrisyzen
getting way way way way way way too much like probably orders of magnitude at least an order of magnitude more than you need per day but here's the other thing then they'll tell you oh but they're also source of protein Are there, okay, yes, they're a source of protein, but are they a source of decent proteins? First of all, plant proteins, amino acid profiles are quite different from animal sources. And there's that balance of protein or of amino acids in plant protein, it's more compatible for the biochemistry,
Longevity as a Lifestyle
00:15:27
chrisyzen
of a plant you know it's not really it's not optimized for like a mammal or a human so if you eat beef for example that Those amino acids are you know in a much better um ratio. It's much better ratio. It's not optimal if you just eat muscle meat. Definitely not. I'm not just saying eat meat and you'll be fine. Protein wise, you have to be very much smarter about your protein intake in today's world because we just we're we we value as a society, we value the muscle meats and there's a lot of good nutrition in the rest of the animal that we just don't, unless we go out of our way a little bit,
00:16:09
chrisyzen
Like we do with my clients, ah most people don't get enough of the right amino, ah the the proper balance of amino acids or not. And here's the thing, it has to be ingrained into your lifestyle because this longevity stuff, it has to be a lifestyle. Don't just do like a program for three, six months and then suddenly ah you have to crack the code and everything is dandy. the whole The whole point of me offering programs to work with clients is so that by the end of the program, be that 3, 6 or whatever, 12 months, you you're equipped with the tools, knowledge and habits
00:16:48
chrisyzen
to To achieve your longevity and health optimization goals you understand so it's about Yes habit changes you have to become a different person Really and do different things on a daily basis and kind of value slightly different things. So it's a it's a gradual process We can't really that's why this is volume one this book there's gonna be a lot more to unpack in future future volumes and a lot of and most of it you know it's we already do it with my clients just it's a matter of researching and supporting your arguments soundly so they're a little bit more watertight and so on but here's so what I did was I went to chat GPT I use that now for research it's really awesome and I told chat GPT give me a list of
00:17:36
chrisyzen
of a bunch of different sources of protein, animal and plant, give me the biological value. So the BV, that is
Biological Value of Proteins
00:17:45
chrisyzen
that is basically the bioavailability or how much of that protein are you going to absorb, right? and so Then you have, then I told it, give me how much protein per hundred grams you get of each protein. And then adjust, give me a third um so column, adjust how much protein, but only bioavailable protein you get per hundred grams.
00:18:13
chrisyzen
And then the gold standard is whole eggs, that bio that has biological value of 100. So you you can um you basically absorb most of the protein when you eat an egg, right? Egg white is 93%, whole milk is 91, so milk is really good. But he has low it has a a low amount of protein but per 100 grams. And then beef is 80% BV, biological value. but it has 26 grams of protein per 100 grams so then ah the adjusted would be closer to 2021 right now so whole eggs
00:18:58
chrisyzen
That will be 13 grams adjusted. Whole milk will be three about 3 grams per 100 grams or milliliters adjusted. Beef will be 20. Chicken breast will be about 24 grams per 100. Cheddar cheese will be ah about 21 grams. of This is biological or rather bioavailable after we adjust for the biological value. Okay, and then here so that's the biological value of all the animal foods would be 70 and and above so if you exclude cottage cheese It's all 80 and above right so cottage cottage cheese is 70 biological value so 70 about 70% bioavailability mozzarella cheese is 80 cheddar cheese is 84 pork is 85 right so then we
Impact of Anti-Nutrients on Mineral Absorption
00:19:52
chrisyzen
look at things like kidney beans right so we we have 59 pinto beans 59 biological value wheat 64 brown rice is 57 oats is 60 lentils is 66 ah P is 65 the protein but here's the thing black beans have 21 grams per hundred protein so when you adjust it with that 59 biological value you're getting 12 12 quote-unquote by of grams of bio available protein per hundred grams so you have to eat
00:20:37
chrisyzen
to get 120 grams of protein from black beans, you have to eat a kilogram of it, right? 2.2 pounds and you would be shitting your pants till next Tuesday doing that. Whereas to get that amount from beef, you would have to eat, um, what is it? Basically 600 grams.
00:21:06
chrisyzen
right so and then the then there's the ratios of amino acids too that that's a whole different story and then so yeah so we so you know you hear things like oh you oats or have a source or lentils are a source of protein lentils have nine grams of protein when we adjusted with this kind of biological value that's six grams of protein per hundred grams so you have to eat half a kilogram or more than a pound of lentils to get 30 grams of protein which is like a five ounce steak 150 grams of of beef it's insane all right so talking about nuts and seeds having protein is is just really it's it's a fairy tale you know chills seeds they have 55 biological value so 17 grams per hundred
00:22:01
chrisyzen
of protein you're left with just over 9 grams per hundred and are you gonna eat 200 grams of chia seeds in a day no you sprinkle sprinkle a bit on your whatever oats hope hopefully don't eat oats So that that's this is the the point is so the fats are not they're not optimal fats for mammals because these Omega 6
Fats in Body Structures
00:22:30
chrisyzen
fatty acids they peroxidize very easily when they're just exposed to heat or light.
00:22:36
chrisyzen
or oxygen so we are very warm creatures right almost 37 degrees 98 whatever Fahrenheit don't don't know the Fahrenheit's too well but we are very warm and we know that these oils that these fats in these nuts from let's say oh you got some almond almond oil and walnut oil and maybe your favorite influencer or practitioner said, this is amazing. The main blah, blah, blah. And you put that in the fridge, you know, that sooner or later to go rancid in the fridge. I imagine these fats are on your body. Okay. Then, you know, so so that's one thing. Then the protein aspect, then the fact that a lot of these minerals are
00:23:27
chrisyzen
bound up to various things like oxalates or phytates or whatever else. So there's a lot of minerals that are actually not bioavailable, okay especially if you don't cook these nuts, seeds, whatever. So what's left? Vitamins. Not that many vitamins. There's vitamin E, which is good, but mean it's kind of it comes with a lot of polyunsaturated fats. So it's not optimal. it's not It's not a good way to get vitamin E because those polyunsaturated fats need that vitamin E to protect them. you know
00:24:05
chrisyzen
So you don't want you don't want those polyunsaturated fats to to be making up your body, to be becoming part of you, because that's what happens. What you eat is what you become. So if you get a lot of, let's say every day you eat 100 grams of nuts, that's your thing. And you've been doing that for a long time. That means that something in the order of like, 20 maybe 30 maybe 40 50 or so grams of fat I guess more like about 30 grams of fat um Just from that 100 grams that you're getting is coming from fatty acids that are polyunsaturated
00:24:42
chrisyzen
And so some of them you might store on your body, some of them you know you might burn for energy, some of them you might be making rebuilding because you're constantly regenerating your cells in your body, including your heart cells, your brain cells, your intestinal lining, your blood vessels. So the more you consume these polyunsaturated fats the more of them make up your body ah the analogy i sometimes give is imagine your house starting you having you started having holes in the wall because of like storms or whatever and then each hole in the wall
00:25:19
chrisyzen
that brick kind of gets knocked out for whatever reason and then instead of instead of putting a brick in there to fill the hole you take like a plastic coke bottle and you just put it there and then over time because that's all you you're getting in terms of materials or a lot of your materials are plastic coke bottles you're just jamming plastic coke bottles in these walls so now your the structure of your house is more and more becomes more and more vulnerable to damage because if so imagine you have a polyunsaturated fatty acid in your um the the vascular endothelium the the blood cell the blood vessel lining
00:26:07
chrisyzen
that
PUFA Peroxidation Risks
00:26:08
chrisyzen
if that gets ah peroxidized damage that particular in that location that fatty acid well next thing what's going to happen is you know there's damage there so the immune cells will come and there's going to be potentially inflammation and maybe ah ah over a long enough timeline if that damage continues unabated and mitigated well this is how this is one way that you can have things like atherosclerotic lesions occur or you imagine that was in your kidneys or your liver so the more of these polyunsaturated fatty acids we have with these with these warm creatures with high metabolism the more susceptible we are to damage and
00:26:53
chrisyzen
over time as we age we become less and less able to deal with that damage so this is why some people start getting age spots a little bit earlier maybe in their 50s or whatever um maybe even earlier that's that's polyunsaturated fats and potentially iron other minerals ah sort of creating this lipofuscan so Yeah, so fat, not great for the most part.
00:27:25
chrisyzen
protein bio available bio unavailable minerals dubious in terms of how much are you are you gonna actually absorb of those anti
Adaptability of Fats in Organisms
00:27:36
chrisyzen
nutrients toxins peroxidized fats omega-6 fatty acids becoming part of us making us less resilient and Yeah, you you might get some vitamins. But what vitamins are you gonna get? You're not gonna get vitamin C. You're not gonna get vitamin b12 and probably not gonna get vitamin A or K ah just vitamin E of the fat soluble vitamins really um then maybe some some some of the the B vitamins maybe you'll get like B5 and a little bit of I guess B3 and the corn has niacin
00:28:19
chrisyzen
some form of B3, I think B1. So you'll get some B vitamins. But again, the metabolism, so think about it this way, right? The seed is the baby of the plant. It's it's progeny. So in the seed, just like in an egg that a chicken lays, in the seed is everything that that plant it requires to create a new life. just like in an egg, it has the protein, the fat, the bunch of different vitamins, minerals. So an egg is much better nutrition for a human, even if it comes from like a bird, like a chicken, because we are much more
00:29:00
chrisyzen
ah similar in terms of metabolism we all we both have with let's say chickens comparing chickens we have hearts we have livers you know we have a lot of the physiology we share that right so the vitamins and minerals in there and the protein is that's more compatible for mammal or another ah living thing in well ah an animal as opposed to a plant whereas in the seed the reason the seed contains polyunsaturated fats is because they remain liquid at very low temperature so if the seed is covered by frost
00:29:41
chrisyzen
let's say in the winter, it needs to survive. It it actually needs to survive. it It's not inert, has some slow little tiny little metabolism going on. So the they are the polyunsaturated fats are like a source of energy and they can then allow it so they allow it to survive by not freezing and then the with that energy it can then sprout break through the ground in springtime right so we don't have those sort of characteristics and then another way to I'm gonna cover this in more depth on the Omega 3s episode that I'm gonna do at some point on why Omega 3s are a bad idea to to supplement or to take just period um if you look at
00:30:31
chrisyzen
creatures or ah life forms that are more ah um that that survive and thrive in higher latitudes like polar and I guess not maybe not polar bears but like whales you know salmon cold water fish seals things like that they have a lot of omega-3 polyunsaturated fats because they are an antifreeze of sorts they help they help to for those, metab they help their metabolisms continue working even in those kind of really cold freezing temperatures. Then when you go to towards the tropics, the fats become a lot more saturated, like look at coconuts, coconuts and palm palm oils.
00:31:17
chrisyzen
coconut oil and palm oil that those are mostly saturated fats right and tropical fish
Mindful Eating and Moderation
00:31:24
chrisyzen
have a lot less omega-3s and whatnot and a lot more saturated fats so that isn't that indicative of of what those organisms need if they need something that's more resilient saturated fat is a hell of a and more not saturated fat those are a hell of a lot more resilient to peroxidation due to heat and and the other thing is it's also um these polyunsaturated fats if they're in the skin ah somewhere where they can be exposed to the UV light of the Sun
00:31:58
chrisyzen
that is another way for them to become damaged and peroxidized and damage the skin that's another way for early wrinkles age spots ah potentially various C words of the skin ah and if you know what I mean so that is another reason why we don't want to be loading up or not. Now again I'm just um'm just saying on a regular basis if you're gonna go out here and there and go to a restaurant or ah a birthday party or or an event and there's a nibble and you want to take two nuts or you're gonna have a little snack or whatever like that's not
00:32:36
chrisyzen
we We shouldn't really worry over those relatively minor details. I'm talking what are you eating for breakfast, lunch and dinner, when you're at home, when you can when you have control over the food you're eating.
Historical Context of Suboptimal Foods
00:32:49
chrisyzen
If you have control of the food you're eating, Simply make more optimal choices. That's what I'm saying. I'm not saying ah Don't eat XYZ forever more right? I'm not the I'm not that kind of guy. I with my clients I tell that I give them the guidelines and
00:33:08
chrisyzen
And then I tell them, these are the guidelines. This is the reasoning behind it. And do your best with it. Don't stress if you can't ramp up to to those guidelines very quickly because of travel, work, these kinds of arrangements, eating out, business meetings or whatever whatever else. But these are the guidelines. Do your best to implement them. And lo and behold, what happens? The clients that implement them really well, do amazingly and sometimes within days people are like oh my god I feel like I had one lady she said something like the other last week I felt better than I had felt in a very long time stuff like that
00:33:51
chrisyzen
so it can happen very quickly when you're eating real food and not eating garlic I don't want to offend you or anything if if you like nuts and I liked k nuts I used to eat a lot of k nuts because I love cashews I loved almonds peanuts which are legumes technically but whatever so I love nuts pistachios and stuff like that So I'm not trying to like be condescending or offensive, but it is garbage food. When you look at it, just when you observe from a um a little slightly more objective lens, who was given access to grains, grains and these kinds of cereals to eat? Was it the people that were highly valued? No, it was slaves. It was prisoners, gladiators.
Sustainability: Nuts vs Livestock
00:34:39
chrisyzen
And who else? Slaves, prisoners, gladiators, plebs, you know, serfs. They were subsistence foods. They were famine foods. that's what you Those were fallback foods. And a lot of sort of people that have been brainwashed by the plant-based propaganda, they'll say, you know, oh, I'd much rather have some almond butter than a life having to a life having to be sacrificed for my breakfast or whatever. I'm like, listen, i I live in the south of Portugal and there's almond trees everywhere. And I walk past an almond tree and I think to myself, um like you know, when the leaves fall and the almonds remain, it's like an unpicked tree, just wild, whatever.
00:35:23
chrisyzen
Just looking at how much how many almonds roughly are on one tree and how much water and over the course of a year and land and potentially other if you're farming it how much water land and other and labor it requires to get a tiny amount of of almonds from one tree right once per year. so It's it's not even more eco to eat nuts and seeds or whatever, you know, like one cow Could probably feed a person for an entire year right when you when you look at it that way and A lot of these a lot of this agriculture. They're like, oh how how much water do cows drink? yeah, a cow drinks maybe a lot of water sure, but like spinach or or tomatoes or
00:36:16
chrisyzen
A lot of these fruits, how much water do they have to consume? And in the end you get a fruit that per calorie is actually more expensive and nuts are way more expensive per calorie than a lot of foods. And like ah here for me to order a kilogram of like brazil nuts or ah certain other organic nuts it would be like more the same price or more than meat that i can get organic like organic beef organic chicken is cheaper per the kilogram than freaking nuts so they're actually way more expensive
00:36:52
chrisyzen
um At least for the consumer, I'm not sure about the ah ah the actually ah the actual farmers doing it. So maybe that's why they're pushing it because there's a bigger ah in ah um incentive in terms of profit. I'm not sure about that. I don't really care. All I care about is what what will help us stave off. disease in the generation for longest and maintain optimal health for the longest period
Mindset and Habits for Longevity
00:37:20
chrisyzen
of time and I wholeheartedly believe that nuts, seeds, grains, the goons, all the seeds are not something we should partake in on a regular basis if those are our goals if those aren't your goals you can do whatever the hell you want
00:37:38
chrisyzen
but you're tuning into this podcast because you care about your health because you know that's your greatest most important asset there's no price you can put on it it's freaking priceless you know it's freaking priceless so but if if health and longevity are your goals then i think you could you would probably agree we can sacrifice a few things that are kind of tasty we're used to eating them and you know habits and whatnot we could probably be adults and just just change that aspect so just like I I stopped eating pistachios I stopped eating pizza so often bread I love bread who doesn't like bread and pizza like we have this Italian
00:38:24
chrisyzen
um pizzeria Pizzeria nearby here and they do sourdough. They're Italian people. So, you know, it's amazing. It's amazing the pizza. And we had some a couple of weeks ago. So we go there once in a while. That's the thing you can, you can, especially if you're healthy, you can get away with a lot. Not saying you should, but if you wanna, you can. And you just be smart, like with my clients, I tell them, like, if you're gonna do X, then make sure you take this, this, this, and other supplements before or after, just to kind of mitigate some of the damage. Because I'm always thinking, we can partake in that, sure, but why don't we, if we're gonna do that, just take some precautions, like take a couple of supplements before we leave the house, or I sometimes bring a few supplements in a little bottle with me, I don't care.
00:39:14
chrisyzen
Because I've been doing this for so long that it's just second nature. Just like, what what do I need? OK, blah, blah, blah, blah. Takes a minute to pop it in a little bottle. Then I just throw it on my palm and I drink them all with one sip of water. I don't even need to take them one by one because we're pro like that.
Building Positive Health Habits
00:39:30
chrisyzen
So it it doesn't even have to be difficult or or just honor us on a person. It's all about mindset and just building those micro habits that turn into macro habits. And then you get amazing results.
Debating Seeds, Grains, Legumes
00:39:43
chrisyzen
that's it so hope you now understand my stance on why nuts and seeds and all other seeds just grains the glues legumes you name it if it's a seed it's likely not an optimal food for a mammal or a human being okay it's edible
Conclusion: Further Resources
00:40:04
chrisyzen
there's nutrition in it but it's way way way suboptimal right at the bottom of the pyramid in terms of food um sort of suitability and optimality just one sort of rung up over the ultra processed garbage like twinkies and snickers that's that's kind of the that's kind of where i slot nuts and seeds and all the other the grains and whatever else So hope you found that informative and thank you for tuning in and check the episode description if you want to get a copy of my book if you still haven't gotten one yet and for my longevity program more details will be down below if you're truly interested in optimizing your health and longevity I want to take things to the next level and levels above that.