Hello, welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host, Evan Brand. I'm a certified functional

medicine practitioner and a functional nutritional therapy practitioner. Today we're talking about

solicilates and oxalates and some of these crazy terms that you may have heard of, but you're

not really sure of what they are. Essentially, because fruits, for example, don't have teeth like

animals, they have to bite you in other ways and they

bite you with anti-nutrients. So you may have heard about oxalates being high in certain nuts

and you may have heard about lectins being high in certain food items. These are literally protective

mechanisms for these plants because they don't want to get eaten. They want to spread their seed

and they want to be undigested after the whoever eats them poops it out. They want to have the ability to grow more

plants, right? So these protective mechanisms in plants are generally not a problem, but for some

sensitive people and for children quite often, these things do become a problem. So we're going to dive

into some of these different, I guess you'd

call them food irritants, natural food irritants. Maybe that's the best way to describe these.

And this is why so many people do great with a meat-based diet. And that's what I had for breakfast.

I had a grass-fed sirloin steak and it was absolutely delicious. I put some herb sea salt on there

and it was phenomenal. And my daughters, herb sea salt on there and it was phenomenal.

And my daughters, both of them just ate it up also. And they did some pastured eggs,

did a little bit of some pastured pork too. But in general, grass fed beef is kind of my staple.

So unless you have the red meat allergy because you got bit by a lone star tick, in that case,

I'm really sorry. That sucks.

That is the worst. I haven't heard of any cure to reverse that yet. So, ah, hang in there.

You got to focus on other good meats. But anyhow, let's get into this podcast. If you need help clinically, I love to help you work through some of this stuff. Figure out what's working for you,

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