Anti-Nutrients and Plant Toxins: The Truth About Lectins, Phytates, Oxalates, and More...

The Nutrition Science Podcast

Dr. Adrian Chavez

Science, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.8 • 633 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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PLANTS ARE KILLING YOU AND SUCKING NUTRIENTS FROM YOUR BODY!! This is a common claim among "animal-based" diet proponents and it has caused a lot of confusion for people. So on this episode of the show I want to discuss the topic of anti-nutrients and toxic substances found in plant foods. In this episode we discuss What the different compounds are that are classified as "plant toxins" What foods these foods are found in How to reduce our exposure to these compuonds when approp...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed
0:05.8	science-based decisions about nutrition and your help.
0:10.6	Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez,
0:16.5	and in this episode, we're going to be talking about plant toxins and anti-nutrients.
0:30.0	So if you haven't heard these terms before, these have been made popular by individuals who are proponents of an animal-based or carnivore diet.
0:38.2	So people who are promoting to avoid plant foods, and this is one of the justifications that they're using is that plant foods have these plant toxins and antinutrients that are having a negative impact on our health. So what we're going to do
0:43.6	in this episode is I'm going to discuss what those plant toxins and antinutrients are and what
0:50.3	their actual effects are in our bodies because there is some truth to some of the claims
0:56.6	that are being made around the potentially harmful effects of some of these compounds.
1:01.1	So it is something that I think is worth discussing in more detail.
1:06.1	So that's what we're going to do in this episode.
1:08.8	Before we get started, I want to thank those of you who left reviews, right about 300
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