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Okay, we're going to start off. I love this handle. It's at Bulletproof Coconut on Instagram.

Hmm, here's the question. Why are certain quest bars okay if they contain sodium, casenate, almonds and corn fiber?

Okay, where to start?

Quest bars way long time ago were really one of the first and only approved certain quest bars on our list of good foods.

If you remember, and you probably don't, quest bars originally used a different fiber as part of their mix.

And then quite frankly, from what I can tell for economic reasons, they changed to corn fiber.

And back then, I got on the phone with them and said, well, what the heck are you guys doing?

And again, I have no relationship with quest bars. And they said, oh, well, guess what?

It doesn't have any lectins in it. And they were right. Corn fiber do not have lectins. The lectins are proteins.

And so corn fiber is a actual excellent, soluble fiber. So that's why corn fiber is okay.

Almonds, as you know, many people do react to the lectins in almonds.

And in fact, in upcoming books, I'm going to continue my warning that almonds are often in my trouble making autoimmune patients.

One of the most sensitive foods to avoid. A fun fact, way back when the original program in my offices was called the Matrix Protocol.

And almonds of any kind were not allowed. We've found through the years that about 90% plus of people will tolerate almonds, okay.

And that's why certain foods with almonds, certain products with almonds make it onto our list.

Same way with sodium casinate. It turns out that when you modify these protein molecules that they no longer contain the troublesome lectins.

And spoiler alert in my upcoming book on locking the keto code, I'm actually going to allow you to have pea protein isolate, soy protein isolate, pea protein hydrolysate, and soy protein hydrolysate.

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