250: Neutralize anti-nutrients
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Grains, seeds, nuts, and legumes have anti-nutrients that make them difficult to digest and restrict our absorption of important minerals. Looking to the traditions of the past, we discover the secret for making the most of them in our diet today. In this episode, Sally Fallon Morell, the President of the Weston A. Price Foundation, explains principle #6 of the Wise Traditions diet: the importance of fermenting, soaking, and sprouting grains, seeds, and nuts for optimal nutrition and ease of digestion.
Sally goes into detail about the benefits of traditional preparation methods, and of the risks that result when we do not take care to prepare these foods in this way. Best of all, she gives clear tips for what steps beginners can take to neutralize anti-nutrients. She also gives us an overview of what the proper preparation of nuts, seeds, grains, and legumes looks like, all around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | So all of these traditions in traditional cultures we really need to pay attention to. |
| 0:07.0 | And the grain one is paramount because grains are a very important part of our diet and there's no reason to leave them out. |
| 0:15.0 | One of the things that happens when you do soak them is you make them more nutrient-dense. |
| 0:20.0 | You liberate the minerals, B vitamins go up manyfold. You start to create vitamin K, you start to create vitamin K, you start to create all sorts of things in there. From the Westin A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast for |
| 0:39.0 | Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts. We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional |
| 0:45.2 | wisdom to help you before you kill them. Plants try to |
| 0:59.5 | kill you after you kill them. A friend told me this one day and it sounds kind of funny but it |
| 1:04.8 | makes sense. Plants don't have claws to defend themselves and so they can't stop |
| 1:09.3 | you from cutting them or killing them but grains, seeds, and nuts actually do have a way to defend themselves |
| 1:16.4 | after you harvest them in the form of anti-nutrients that can challenge our digestion |
| 1:22.0 | and limit the absorption of the nutrients. |
| 1:24.0 | This is episode 250 and our guest today is Sally Fal and Morel. |
| 1:28.0 | She is an advocate for ancestral eating, |
| 1:30.0 | the president of the Westinay Price Foundation, |
| 1:32.0 | and a popular author and speaker. |
| 1:34.6 | Today Sally explains how we can neutralize the anti-nutrients found in seeds, grains, and nuts. |
| 1:40.1 | It's Principal number six of the Wise Trad traditions diet, the wisdom of fermenting, soaking, and sprouting grain seeds and nuts for optimal nutrition and ease of digestion. |
| 1:50.3 | She goes into detail about the benefits of the proper preparation of these foods and of the risks that result when we don't take care to prepare them this way. |
| 1:59.0 | She talks about worldwide traditions when it comes to properly preparing them, why so many have gluten sensitivities these days and what to do about that, the best |
| 2:08.0 | grain to soak and how to go about it, and much more. |
| 2:11.8 | In a nutshell, sorry I couldn't help myself, she helps us figure out why and how to |
| 2:16.9 | eliminate the bad stuff and how to celebrate and benefit from all that nuts, seeds, and grains have to offer. |
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