Controversial Thoughts: What I think about mushrooms, olive oil, and avocado oil

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Paul Saladino, MD

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🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Both plants and fungi are stuck in the ground and can't move and both have developed defense chemicals to protect themselves from predation.

99.5% of animals are edible

Only 20-30% of plants are edible

And only 20-30% of mushrooms are edible

Listen to the video for more detailed information here but this is the take-away: mushrooms are survival food and I'm not convinced they have unique benefits we can't get from meat, organs, or other less toxic plant foods.

Olive oil: tallow is better and most is rancid/tainted

Same is true for Avocado oil. Tallow is better and contains uniquely valuable nutrients like stearic acid, fat soluble vitamins, and odd chain fatty acids.

Email us at [email protected] if you have any questions about how to eat an #animalbased diet!

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0:00.0	What is up you guys? Welcome to another edition of Controversial Thoughts. On today's episode,
0:05.4	I wanted to answer some of the most common questions I get about animal-based diets in the way I
0:10.5	think about which foods are more toxic and less toxic and which oils are preferred. Specifically,
0:15.7	the common questions I get here are what about mushrooms, what about olive oil, what about
0:20.8	coconut oil, and what about avocado oil. So let's start with mushrooms. When we are thinking about
0:26.6	mushrooms and plants, so fungus and plants, and animals, we have to think about the position
0:32.1	in that these organisms, these life forms occupy within an ecosystem. Animals can run away from you.
0:37.6	They have built-in defense mechanisms, teeth, horns, hooves, legs to move around. Plants don't have this.
0:44.7	So evolutionarily, plants develop spines, hard shells, thorns, but also defense chemicals.
0:50.9	Fungye are also generally sessile, generally stuck in the ground. Some fungus move a little bit.
0:58.8	There's like slime molds that move a little bit, but generally fungi are stuck in the ground.
1:03.6	Mushrooms are stuck in the ground generally, or they're growing on trees. Different types of fungi.
1:09.2	So just like plants, fungi have had to develop defense mechanisms because they are an organism
1:15.5	that is in the ground, or on trees. They are generally non-motile. So some fungi encase their
1:22.2	whole body in very hard shells. You've ever seen a rachy mushroom. It's like almost like wood.
1:27.8	It has a very, very hard shell. It's not very easy for an animal to go and bite it, although some might.
1:34.4	In the cell wall of fungi, it's called kitan, which is a pretty difficult to digest substance that
1:40.0	protects fungi, but we can denature it by boiling them. But a lot of times, if you eat a mushroom,
1:45.1	it has kitan in the cell wall, which most fungi do. They're not going to digest much of it,
1:50.0	because that cell wall is very good defense mechanism. And if you know anything about my
1:54.8	ecology or the kingdom of fungi, you'll know there are many, many, very, very poisonous mushrooms.
2:04.0	I've often said, I think this is something I got from Steve Rinella when I was in Montana
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