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Nuts and Seeds: Why Avoid Them?
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Intro
00:00:51
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Hi, Christian Yordanoff here. Today I'm going to 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 are extremely suboptimal foods. In fact,
00:01:13
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At one point, I'm going to get, with the help of a designer, I'm going to 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.
00:01:26
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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.
00:01:44
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just one level above ultra-processed garbage like Twinkies and Snickers and corn for Corn Flakes and stuff like that. And I'm going to explain why now.
00:01:58
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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-6s, 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.
00:02:25
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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 have to do a whole episode about this, but I saw a study that saw meat intake...
00:02:44
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was positively correlated with life lifespan. But that that's a whole separate 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.
00:03:06
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However, All we have to do, instead of being allowed for um sort of this sophistry, this magic to be um What's the word i'm looking for?
00:03:21
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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?
00:03:33
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What are they missing? And what do we need as mammals? As mammals, what do we need? What's most compatible in terms of nutrition?
00:03:46
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which foods are most compatible with our physiology as mammals. And he doesn't really have to take a genius to understand that the most compatible thing for a mammal
00:04:01
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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.
00:04:27
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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, right?
00:04:39
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They've been saying, eat fish. Don't eat meat. Replace. If you're going to eat... animal foods or meat, make sure it's fish or chicken because chicken, why why is chicken better?
00:04:50
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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.
00:05:05
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So if you're eating chicken, you're basically eating seeds.
00:05:13
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basically seed oils okay so i 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 have so many so many ideas and so many ways to kind of go that i keep getting dragged and 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 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? Well, they have what are known as well anti-nutrients, right?
00:05:52
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And straight up toxins. There's a paper I cite in my book, How to Actually Live Longer Volume 1. code the The paper was called, Is There Such a Thing as Antinutrients? 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 antinutrients? And that stuff that paper will come up.
00:06:19
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And in there, they have a table that I adapted for the book. And in there, we have two, four, six categories of antinutrients, lectins, oxalates, phytate, goitrogens, phytoestrogens, tannins.
00:06:37
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And then we have the food sources. 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.
00:06:50
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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 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.
00:07:17
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The work of Alessio Fasano, I think he's an MD, he's a researcher that did a lot of work around gluten, zonulin and stuff like that.
00:07:28
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So it's very clear that eating gluten-containing foods, which are grains initially, ah has detrimental effects on the intestinal 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 going to benefit from that actually coming to the limelight, right?
00:08:02
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Who's going to benefit? Certainly not the seed oil industry, not the corn industry, not the big agriculture industry. So who's going to fund that research, right? But the point is... 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...
00:08:31
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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.
00:08:53
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um Maybe at this point even more. 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 frigging leaves like spinach and leafy greens are super healthful.
00:09:18
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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 bioavailable.
00:09:37
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right So you're not going to absorb it because a lot of, like the they say, oh, spinach is a great source of calcium. If you're plant-based, you can get loads of calcium from spinach. It's 5% bioavailable.
00:09:49
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You can look that up on the on on PubMed. It's 5% bioavailability, that calcium in spinach. It's joke. 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 ah vitamins like the folate and then their heat lay bile and they can get destroyed the b vitamins and stuff like that they're heat um vulnerable to heat
00:10:31
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Okay, so similarly with nuts and seeds, when they're raw, they have a lot of toxins. right like almonds, they have cyanide and whatever other... um So phytic acid.
00:10:46
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So goitrogens, these are more in like the brassicas, so kale, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, ah broccoli. These are more ah the goitrogenic type compounds. these These are implicated in hypothyroidism. They block iodine uptake or they inhibit it.
00:11:06
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And then soy... 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 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 going to feel terrible.
00:11:32
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You might ah feel very sick, like beans, legumes, grains, cereals, Most of those you cannot eat raw. Okay?
00:11:43
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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.
00:11:59
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So you can then cook them. You can roast the nuts. But then what happens? 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.
00:12:23
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And why is that bad? It's because
00:12:28
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when you damage omega-6 fatty acids and omega-3s for that matter, right? But when when unsaturated fats get damaged or peroxidized, they break up into smaller compounds that some are called aldehydes. There's other things.
00:12:46
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There's various sort of different classifications, but... um these are directly damaging to our cells. Some are genotoxic, um car carcinogenic.
00:13:00
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So that's what that's what happens. You're kind of damned if you do, damned if you don't. Like if you take almonds, because there's a lot of fat in almonds, there's a lot of omega-6s, omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids.
00:13:15
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So raw almonds, not good. Cooked almonds, a lot of peroxidized fats potentially. So then when you eat those, they're either causing damage or they're depleting your antioxidants.
00:13:27
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So not really 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 you know what you're at a birthday party and there's some almonds on the cake, God, we're not going to go crazy with that to that level.
00:13:49
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just saying on a day-to-day basis because I've had some people tell me, I'll ask them, what do 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 we we really need to work on that because...
00:14:11
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maybe that's causing your hormonal imbalances and your sleep problems. Eating very, very low 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 and bring up something.
00:14:33
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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.
00:14:46
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You don't need to be going out of your way to get more into your diet because you're already getting way, way, way, way too much. Probably orders of magnitude,
00:14:58
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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 protein? First of all, plant proteins' amino acid profiles are quite different from animal sources.
00:15:20
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And there's that balance of protein or of amino acids in plant protein. It's more compatible for the biochemistry,
00:15:33
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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 not optimal if you just eat muscle meat.
00:15:52
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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 meat 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,
00:16:14
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Like we do with my clients, ah most people don't get enough of the right amino acids, the proper balance of amino acids. or And here's the thing, it has to be ingrained into your lifestyle because this longevity stuff, it has to be a lifestyle.
00:16:30
Speaker
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 three, six or whatever, 12 months, you you're equipped with the tools, knowledge and habits that to to achieve your longevity and health optimization goals. You understand?
00:16:59
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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 ah it's a gradual process. We can't really, that's why this is volume one, this book.
00:17:15
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there's going to be a lot more to unpack in future future volumes. and a lot of And most of it, you know 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 So what I did was I went to ChatGPT. I use that now for research. It's really awesome.
00:17:37
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And I told ChatGPT, give me a list of a bunch of different sources of protein, animal and plant. Give me the biological value. So the BV, that is that is basically the bio bioavailability or how much of that protein are you going to absorb, right?
00:17:58
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and So then you have, then I told it, give me how much protein per 100 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 100 grams.
00:18:19
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And then the gold standard is whole eggs, that biological that has biological value of 100. but So you you can um you basically absorb most of the protein when you eat an egg. right Egg white is 93%.
00:18:33
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ah 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.
00:18:47
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But it has 26 grams of protein per 100 grams. So then ah the adjusted would be closer to 21. Now, so whole eggs...
00:18:59
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right now so whole eggs That will be 13 grams adjusted. Whole milk will be three about 3 grams per 100 grams or milliliters adjusted.
00:19:14
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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.
00:19:30
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Okay. And then here, so that's the biological value of all the animal foods would be 70 and above. So if you exclude cottage cheese, it's all 80 and above, right?
00:19:43
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So college cottage cheese is 70 biological value. So seventy about 70% bioavailability. Mozzarella cheese is 80. Cheddar cheese is 84. Pork is 85, right?
00:19:54
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So then we 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 66 oats is sixty lentos is sixty six ah peas is 65 the protein but here's the thing black beans have 21 grams per 100 protein so when you adjust with that 59 biological value you're getting
00:20:36
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grams of bioavailable protein per 100 grams so you have to eat
00:20:43
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To get 120 grams of protein from black beans, you have to a kilogram of it, right? 2.2 pounds. And you would be shitting your pants till next Tuesday doing that.
00:20:57
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Whereas to get that amount from beef, you would have to eat, what is it? Basically 600 grams.
00:21:13
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So, and then then there's the ratios of amino acids. to that that That's a whole different story. and So, yeah, so we so you know you hear things like oh you oats or lentils are a source of protein. Lentils have 9 grams of protein. When we adjust it with this kind of biological value, that's 6 grams of protein per 100 grams. so So you have to eat half...
00:21:38
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a kilogram or more than a pound of lentils to get 30 grams of protein which is like a ah five ounce steak 150 grams of of beef it's insane right so the talking about nuts and seeds having protein is is just Really, it's it's a fairy tale. You know, chia seeds, they have 55% biological value. So 17 grams per 100 of protein, you're left with just over 9 grams per 100. And are you going to eat 200 grams of chia seeds in a day? No, you sprinkle sprinkle a bit on your whatever.
00:22:20
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Oats. Hopefully you don't eat oats. So that's this is the the point. is So the fats are not they're not optimal fats for mammals because these omega-6 fatty acids, they peroxidize very easily when they're just exposed to heat or light.
00:22:42
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or oxygen so we are very warm creatures right almost 37 degrees 98 whatever fahrenheit not don't know the fahrenheit's too well but we are very warm And we know that these oils, that that these fats in these nuts from, let's say, you got some almond oil and walnut oil and maybe your favorite influencer or practitioner said, this is amazing, the domain blah, blah, blah.
00:23:12
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And you put that in the fridge, you know that sooner or later it will go ransom in the fridge. Now imagine these fats are on your body. okay then you know so that So that's one thing. Then the protein aspect.
00:23:26
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Then the fact that a lot of these minerals are bound up to various things like oxalates or phytates or whatever else.
00:23:38
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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?
00:23:49
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Vitamins. um Not that many vitamins. There's vitamin E, which is good, but
00:23:56
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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.
00:24:09
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you know 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.
00:24:24
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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.
00:24:48
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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 sometimes give is, imagine your house, started you having you started having holes in the wall because of like storms or whatever, and then each hole in the wall, that brick kind of gets knocked out for whatever reason.
00:25:28
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And then 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.
00:25:48
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So now your the structure of your house is more and more, becomes more and more vulnerable to damage. Because if imagine you have a polyunsaturated fatty acid in your,
00:26:03
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um the the vascular endothelium, the blood vessel lining.
00:26:13
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that If that gets peroxidized damage that particular in that location, that fatty acid, the next thing that's going to happen is there's damage there. So the immune cells will come and there's going to be potentially inflammation.
00:26:26
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and maybe ah ah over a long enough timeline, if that damage continues unabated, unmitigated, um well this is how this is one way that you can have things like atherosclerotic lesions occur imagine that was in your kidneys or your liver so the more of these polyunsaturated fatty acids we have with this with these warm creatures with high metabolism the more susceptible we are to damage and
00:26:58
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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' that's that's polyunsaturated fats and potentially iron other minerals ah Sort of creating this lipofuskin So Yeah, so fats, not great for the most part.
00:27:31
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Protein, bioavailor bio unavailable. Minerals, dubious in terms of how much are you going to actually absorb of those. um Antinutrients, toxins, peroxidized fats, omega-6 fatty acids becoming part of us, making us less resilient.
00:27:52
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And, yeah, you you might get some vitamins, but what vitamins are you going to get? You're not going to get vitamin C. You're not going to get vitamin B12. um Probably not going to get vitamin a or k ah Just vitamin E of the fat-soluble vitamins, really.
00:28:09
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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. I know corn has niacin, some form of B3, I think B1.
00:28:27
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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.
00:28:37
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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.
00:28:49
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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.
00:29:00
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Even if it comes from like a bird. Like a chicken. Because we are much more. ah similar in terms of metabolism. We all we both have, with let's say, chickens, comparing chickens, we have hearts, we have livers, and we have a lot of the physiology, we share that, right?
00:29:19
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So the vitamins 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.
00:29:32
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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, let's say in the winter, it needs to survive. It it actually needs to survive. it It's not inert. It has some slow little tiny little metabolism going on.
00:29:56
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So the polyunsaturated fats are like a source of energy. And they can then allow it so they allow it to survive by not freezing.
00:30:07
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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.
00:30:19
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And then another way, I'm going to cover this in more depth on the Omega-3s episode that I'm going to do at some point on why Omega-3s are a bad idea to to supplement or to take.
00:30:30
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just period. um if you look at
00:30:36
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creatures or on 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 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 helped to for those, metabism they help their metabolisms continue working even in those kind of really cold freezing temperatures.
00:31:11
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Then when you go to, towards the tropics, the fats become a lot more saturated. Like look at coconuts. Coconuts and palm palm oils.
00:31:23
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Coconut oil and palm oil, that those are mostly saturated fats, right? And tropical fish have a lot less omega-3s and whatnot and a lot more saturated fats.
00:31:35
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So that isn't that indicative of of what those organisms need. They need something that's more resilient. saturated fat is a hell of and monounsaturated fat, those are a hell of a lot more resilient to peroxidation due to heat.
00:31:52
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and And the other thing is it's also um these polyunsaturated fats, if they're in the skin, somewhere where they can be exposed to the UV light of the sun,
00:32:03
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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.
00:32:18
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So that is another... reason why we don't want to be loading up on nuts. Now, again, I'm just um'm just saying on a regular basis, if you're going to 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 want to have a little snack or whatever, like that's not 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.
00:32:54
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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 forevermore.
00:33:06
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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 then I tell them, these are the guidelines, this is the reasoning behind it and do your best with it.
00:33:21
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Don't stress if you can't ramp up to to those guidelines very quickly because of travel, work, these kind of arrangements, eating out, business meetings or whatever whatever else.
00:33:32
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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 like, oh my God.
00:33:45
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i 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.
00:33:57
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So it can happen very quickly when you're eating real food and not eating garlic. um I don't want to offend you anything if if you like nuts. I liked k nuts. I used to eat a lot of k nuts because I loved cashews.
00:34:09
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I loved almonds, peanuts, which are legumes technically, but whatever. So I loved nuts, pistachios and stuff like that. So I'm not trying to like be condescending or offensive, but it is garbage food.
00:34:23
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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, and who else?
00:34:47
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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...
00:35:00
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that have been brainwashed by the plant-based propaganda they'll say you know oh i 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 i'm thinking to myself how like you know when the leaves fall and the almonds remain it's like an unpicked tree just wild whatever just looking at how much how many almonds roughly are on one tree and how much water and over the course of a year in land and potentially other if you're farming it, how much water, land and
00:35:44
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other and labor it requires to get a tiny amount 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?
00:36:01
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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.
00:36:17
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But like spinach or tomatoes or a lot of these fruits, how much water do they have to consume? And in the end, you get a fruit that...
00:36:30
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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 ah 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 it cheaper per the kilogram than freaking nuts so they're actually way more expensive um At least for the consumer, I'm not sure about the actual 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.
00:37:09
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I'm not sure about that. i don't really care. All I care about is what what will help us stave off disease and degeneration for longest and maintain optimal health for the longest period of time.
00:37:26
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and I wholeheartedly believe that nuts, seeds, grains, legumes, all the seeds are not something we should partake in on a regular basis if those are our goals.
00:37:41
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If those aren't your goals, you can do whatever the hell you want. 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.
00:37:52
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It's frigging priceless. you know It's frigging priceless. So 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.
00:38:14
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We could probably be adults and just just change that aspect. So just like i ah stopped eating pistachios, I stopped eating pizza so often, bread,
00:38:25
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I love bread. Who doesn't like bread and pizza? Like we have this Italian um pizzeria nearby here and they do sourdough. They're Italian people.
00:38:37
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you know, it's amazing. It's amazing. the pizza And we had some a couple of weeks ago. 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.
00:38:49
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I'm not saying you should, but if you want to, you can. And you just be smart. Like with my clients, I tell them, like, if you're going to 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.
00:39:07
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But why don't we, if we're going to 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.
00:39:20
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because I've been doing this for so long that it's just second nature. Just like, what what do I need? ah Okay, but but bo takes a minute, 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.
00:39:35
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um So it it doesn't even have to be difficult or or just onerous 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.
00:39:49
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That's it. So, hope you now understand my stance on why nuts and seeds and all other seeds, just grains, the glu legumes, you name it. If it's a seed, it's likely not an optimal food for a mammal or a human being.
00:40:07
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okay It's edible. there's nutrition in it but it's way way way suboptimal right at the bottom of the pyramid in terms of food um suitability and and optimality just one sort of wrong over the ultra processed garbage like twinkies and sneakers 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.
00:40:47
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