So potatoes. Everyone loves them, everyone loves them, everyone eats them, but most people have no idea there's a smarter way to prepare them.

That completely changes how your body responds.

So let's get into it.

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I get a lot of questions about potatoes.

Now, a potato is not a potato is not a potato.

Let's start with a basic definition.

So, potatoes, like white potatoes or russet potatoes, or even purple potatoes, are a American plant. They are part of the nightshade family of vegetables. And like any nightshade,

unfortunately, they contain lectins primarily in the peel and also in the eyes. Like that.

Sadly, potatoes, any of these potatoes, whatever color they are, are still mischievous

from a lectin standpoint. And as I wrote about in Gutcheck, one of my newer books, many of us

react to a lectin that's called an aquaporin that's present in potatoes.

That's not in the peel.

That's not in the eyes.

It's in the flesh.

So even if you peel potato, it doesn't necessarily make it safe.

But let's suppose you just have to have potatoes. Remember, these are starch

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