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Welcome to the Primary Blueprint podcast.

You know, the first line of defense.

From our studios in Malibu, California.

...that the body has a phoomeneum system.

Welcome back to the Malibu Studios.

It's host Brad Kearns here with Mark Sisson.

And the questions are piling up again as we mix in some other fun stuff.

And we're trying to respect the people in chronological order, but then all these new questions come up.

And so if you don't hear your question answered on the air, we do want to say that we really appreciate it.

We talk through some of these offline and, you know,

try to hit those topics and try to grasp, you know, maybe six questions together. So here's one that's

been a hot topic lately about resistant starch from Stu and Victorville writes in and says,

Dear Mark, thank you for talking about all the benefits of resistant starch. And I know you mentioned

a green banana, which seems like an easy way to integrate some resistant starch into my diet.

First, is it okay to slather it with some peanut butter or almond butter?

And second, if you consider that a yellow banana, a right banana has 25 grams of carbs and probably minimal resistant starch, would a yellow banana, a ripe banana, has 25 grams of carbs and probably minimal

resistant starch, would a green banana consequently have very few carbohydrate grams and thus

very few calories?

Great question.

And so the first part of that is can you slather it with peanut butter or some other

thing? Absolutely. It's a good idea. Let's you slather it with peanut butter or some other thing? Absolutely.

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