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Know Your Poison: Deuterium

So far, we’ve dealt with two of more than a dozen antinutrients and defense chemicals found in plant ‘foods’ that we will cover in this article series. Next on the list is deuterium, a compound that most dieticians, nutritionists, doctors and clueless trainers don’t even know exists. Hydrogen comes in two “shapes”: we have regular hydrogen, which is actually called protium, and then we have deuterium. Deuterium has the same properties as hydrogen, except […]

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Know Your Poison: Goitrogens

Goitrogens are a number of chemical agents that come in various forms. You’ll find them in antibiotics, plastics, pesticides, NSAIDs, environment pollution, and in some plant-foods. Actually, all goitrogens are derived from naturally occurring plant pesticides called glucosinolates. Plants have three main types of goitrogens; goitrins, thiocyanates, and flavonoids. Goitrin is the result of the enzymatic breakdown of the glucosinolate called progoitrin. It targets thyroid peroxidase (TPO), which is an enzyme found in the

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Know Your Poison: Phytic Acid

In this part of covering all the toxic plant chemicals, we will look at phytic acid; one of the few antinutrients that at least some people actually know exists. While it fades in comparison with some other plant defense toxins, it’s still a very serious and dangerous one. As with all antinutrients, they are simply chemicals that bind to nutrients that the plant, or seed, need in order to grow. Phytic acid is no

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Know Your Poison: Saponins

Saponins are antinutrients that belong to a class of defense chemicals found in abundance in certain plants. They are also known as ‘amphipathic glycosides’ from the soap-like foam they produce when shaken in watery solutions – and the fact that they are used as a model for detergents. The latter is very disturbing, and we’ll get to it in a moment. Saponins have a water-soluble carbohydrate bonded to a fat-soluble triterpene or steroid structure.

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Know your poison: Oxalates

In our last post, we looked at the dangerous lectins. Another very sinister defense mechanism in plants are oxalates (oxalic acid). The definition of oxalic acid is “a poisonous strong acid (COOH) that occurs in various plants as oxalates and is used especially as a bleaching or cleaning agent and as a chemical intermediate”.Oxalic acid is actually lethal in high doses. There have been a few recorded deaths of oxalate poisoning after overconsuming oxalate-rich

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Know Your Poison: Lectins

Plants, unlike animals, cannot run away from predators. To defend themselves from herbivores, insects, fungi and other threats, they produce toxic defense chemicals. One of them is known as lectins. Lectins are a plant defense mechanism that mainly protect the seeds, but can be found in other parts of the plant as well. As with anything living, the highest priority of the entity is reproduction. Therefore, seeds tend to have a higher concentration of

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Backwards Thinking 101: Poison Yourself For A Tiny Increase In Glucose Metabolism

Here we go again with the idiotic backwards thinking once introduced by “natural medicine” thousands of years ago when people had no idea of cause and effect. Well, to be honest, most people today, including these scientists, researchers, doctors and whatnot have absolutely no idea of cause and effect, and much less of simple biology, physiology, and biochemistry. Embarrassing! Quick Summary “In this 12-week randomized controlled trial, summarized by Examine.com, in 33 adults (18

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Disrupting Your Circadian Rhythm Will Increase The Risk For All Kinds Of Health Problems

Recently the shills at Medical News Today posted an article based on new research on the topic of exercise and our circadian rhythm. Although most of this should be common sense, let’s see what they actually got right and what they didn’t (or simply ignored to tell you.) “Over the past few years, researchers have come to have a better understanding of how the body’s circadian rhythm impacts overall health.” Really? Most of this

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Acute Poisoning For Achieving Fat Loss Is Not Healthy Nor Very Smart

Today we return to Examine.com and a summary of another totally useless study where they do not understand the simple biochemistry and biological reaction of taking a poison. And no kind of “word play” as in rewriting polyphenols as poly-lean-ols will make it more believable. In that case, try calling it poly-poison-us instead. So, let’s see what they f**ked up this time. Quick Summary In this systematic review of 13 randomized controlled trials involving

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Fasted Morning Lifting Is Only Bad If You F**ked Up Your Diet And Metabolism

Today we’ll look at another great example of the huge problem of people being deceived into believing that consuming carbohydrates and running on a toxic and damaging glucose metabolism is normal and natural when, in fact, humans are made to run on a fat metabolism while being in ketosis. And unfortunately, this big misconception (fraud) is reflected in almost any “nutritional” study ever conducted, as it simply means that every participant is, or has

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