Growing Younger Everyday What Works For Me
What you want is the most bioavailable nutrients. Plants have antinutrients and this is something that is overlooked when it comes to plants.
Many books list all those great nutrients in vegetables but you won’t get them all of them in your system because they’ll be leached out by the antinutrients.
Study
An study that was done on zinc absorption alone, with black beans, and corn tortillas.
Zinc is a really important mineral we need for our body and the thyroid is a real zinc hog that likes zinc a lot.
This a was study done with oysters, which are high in zinc, to determine how much zinc is absorbed by itself and other items.
Results:
- Eating the oyster by itself – close to 100% zinc absorption.
- Eating the oyster with Black Beans – around 30% zinc absorption.
- Eating the oyster corn tortillas – around 0% absorption.
So, the animal proteins eaten with some of these plants will leach out nutrients.
Not only do the plants leach vitamins and minerals from the oysters but they also leach vitamins and minerals already in your body.
This is important because healing is all about getting lots of nutrient dense vitamins and minerals into the body and amino acids to help repair your body from within.
And getting the most bioavailable forms into your body is what’s going to get into the bloodstream and help the body heal.
Eliminating all the plants can go a long way toward increasing the vitamins and nutrients coming into the body.
Another example:
Meat iron is 85% absorbed.
Legumes .84% is absorbed, so almost none of the iron is absorbed and you just get toxic lectins.
