Plants

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 …

Plants have been around much longer than our species and have developed ways to protect themselves. Plants are little mad chemists that have concocted thousands of natural pesticides to deter predators. Just like animals, plants don’t want to be eaten. Especially their roots, stalks, stems, leaves, and seeds. So, they …

I’m going to post these quick posts every so often as reminders for me. Our stomach pH is extremely acidic. And if you look at this across the animal kingdom, you see a trend that also points to some interesting things about our biology. Stomach pH categories typically refer to …

I’m going to post these quick posts every so often as reminders for me. We have been eating meat for millions of years and then just about 10,000 years ago we began agriculture. 10,000 years is a blip. Evolution and adaptation are a long game, we surely adapted tiny things …

One of the questions that comes up about just eating meat is how do you get vitamin C and all your nutrients? Nay sayers always bring up vitamin C because the FDA decided there isn’t any vitamin C in meat and decided to not even test for it, so it’s …

It’s everywhere! Plant based everything. There is this massive push for plant-based diets today. Bill Gates seems to be buying up land and pushing fake meat and other hidden ventures. Many industries are coordinating with each other and investing in each other. Food companies and pharmaceutical companies are cross invested …

Today vegetable oils are in pretty much anything you buy in a store and most restaurants cook with it. Our ancestors never consumed vegetable oils. They didn’t exist before the industrial era, and they couldn’t have existed because they are so toxic when they are initially extracted from the seeds. …

I found this amazing article about vegetable oils. This is very well done and wanted to share this. https://www.zeroacre.com/white-papers/how-vegetable-oil-makes-us-fat The article titled “How Vegetable Oils Make Us Fat” by THE ZERO ACRE EDITORIAL TEAM, published in May 2022, explores detrimental effects of vegetable oils on our health and weight. The …

Plant fungus is not something most think about when we think of food but there are sneaky compounds out there that you probably have ingested. These compounds are called mycoestrogens. These compounds, produced by fungi, possess estrogenic properties, meaning they can mimic the hormone estrogen in the body. They are …

Some plants contain phytoestrogens, which are naturally occurring plant defense chemical compounds used to damage the predator’s endocrine system by interfering with hormonal signaling pathways, leading to reduced feeding and growth rates, altered development, and even toxicity in some cases. These compounds mimic the activity of estrogen in the human …