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Lectin-free snacks. Eat this. Not that. Sunflower seeds. I know you see all the ballpires

eating their sunflower seeds and don't follow their example.

Sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds are loaded with lectins, sunflower oil, pumpkin seed oil,

loaded with lectins.

Instead, use Sotcha-Ince seeds.

Use baronut seeds, lectin-free, loaded with protein, or just munch on some pomegranate seeds.

Now, you'll notice I've talked about a couple of seeds, and some people think that I tell you to avoid all seeds.

That's not true at all.

There are certain seeds and certain nuts that you probably should avoid.

On the other hand, there are certain seeds that are really good for you.

So just because it says a seed doesn't mean it has lectins, but these are great for you.

How about chips?

Now, I hope everybody watching knows that potato chips are really bad for you.

They're usually cooked in lectin-rich oils, omega-6 oils.

They're usually made from potatoes, which are lectin bombs, in and of themselves.

Corn chips's the same problem.

They're almost always cooked in high omega-6 oils.

And 70% of my patients with leaky gut have antibodies to the various components

of corn. Now, there are a number of grain-free chip products on the market. As I've seen

through over 20 years with my patients, just because something is grain-free or even lectin-free,

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