Micronutrient Deficiency in Standard American Diet: Optimization Strategies
Nutrition profile of our modern meat, sugar, processed food diet is completely incongruent with our evolution resulting in severe micronutrient deficiency.
Nutrition profile of our modern meat, sugar, processed food diet is completely incongruent with our evolution resulting in severe micronutrient deficiency.
One way to manage histamine intolerance is to follow a low histamine diet. This means avoiding foods that are high in histamine or that can trigger its release.
Low levels of chronic metabolic acidosis is a common phenomenon in the Western world. Most people that eat the standard American diet are in a state of chronic acidosis and are not aware of it.
WHO dietary guidelines recommend a diet low in saturated fat (animal protein), sugar, and salt and high in fruit and vegetables as a requirement to tackle the epidemic rise of chronic diseases worldwide.
There are nine common nutrient deficiencies on the population scale affecting people eating a plant-based diet. If not corrected on time some deficiencies have terrible and non-treatable consequences.
Our natural optimal human diet is a diet that our hominin ancestors were eating for the last 30 million years, not anatomically modern humans in the Stone age.
There are easy and cost-effective strategies for optimizing the antioxidant value of our diet.
There are no phytochemicals or antioxidants in animal products. On average, plant foods contain more than 60 times as many antioxidants as animal-based foods.
Scarcity is the rule of protein in nature. In evolutionary terms, anthropologists have proven that hominins lived an average of 15 to 25 grams of protein a day. In the modern western type of high-protein diet we would consume that amount for breakfast only.
One of the first scientific studies on what hunger does to the mind was observed in a study remembered as the Minnesota Starvation Experiment performed by the University of Minnesota back in 1944.
It is not genes that matter but the way they express themselves.
When anthropologist studies showed that hominins lived on average of 15 to 20 grams of protein a day there was a so-called a “Great protein fiasco” back in the 1970s.
The base belief in the raw food community is that a raw food diet is the most natural and health-promoting way to live. What does evolutionary biology tell us?
Humans evolved for 50 million years from plant-eating mammals. Hunting is not natural hominin activity. The Paleo diet only existed for the last 200,000 years.
Marketed as a wonder of olive oil, the Mediterranean diet had nothing to do with any oil of any sort except in the measure that it can replace butter and lard.
Optimal antioxidant consumption is dependent on toxicity exposure. The minimum ORAC unit score is 8000 to 10000 daily just to counteract metabolism.
When your main source of antioxidants is coffee, you know that you have a serious problem.
Vitamins that regulate homocysteine levels are B12, folate, and B6. Most non-vegans get enough B12 but not enough folate while vegans get more folate but do not have any B12 if not supplemented.
When you eat animal protein you have four times the chance to develop all types of cancer. When you smoke you have a four-time chance to develop lung cancer.
Known associations with milk and dairy consumption are infertility, ovarian and breast cancer, leukemia, diabetes type 1, autism, arteriosclerosis, cataract, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, hyperactivity, congestion, pimples, and more…
Oxidative stress with chronic inflammation in the brain is associated with the development of neuropsychiatric disorders including major depression and anxiety.
We evolved to receive a burst of protective antioxidants when we eat but there are not present in meat. Inflammation and diet have a high level of correlation.
Chlorella is a vegan source of B12, iron and zinc, has strong chelation properties for heavy metals, potential to lower cholesterol, reduce anemia, and boost the immune system.
Some vegetable extracts rival leading chemotherapy drugs and at the same time target multiple different types of cancer cells.
Adventist Health Study showed that Seventh-day Adventists do have a measurable lower risk than other Americans for most of the Western diseases.
A typical representation of Neanderthals pictures them as killing the woolly mammoth. However a dental plaque tells a different story about the Neanderthal diet
Are humans omnivores in a true anatomical sense? There is a fundamental difference in the way the digestive tract works in plant vs meat-eating species.
Food-grade essential oils can be a convenient and consumer-friendly strategy for optimizing the antioxidant value and ORAC scores of our diet.
Amla is one of the world’s most powerful antioxidants with a ORAC score of 261,530. It is a rich source of phytochemicals that have various health benefits.
In some cultures, fish meat is not considered to be meat, and fish is allowed even during fast.
If we disregard the real genetic causes that cause no more than 5% of deaths, the real reason for chronic diseases is an evolutionary incongruent diet.
Sugar consumption is the main cause of cavities and tooth decay, combined with mineral deficiencies especially magnesium, zinc, copper and trace elements.
Are humans omnivores in a true anatomical sense? There is a fundamental difference in the way the digestive tract works in plant vs meat-eating species.
As the level of fat in the bloodstream rises the ability of the body to clear sugar drops. One of the diabetes causes is our maladaptation to a large fat intake
Antioxidant supplements do not show the observed health benefits of diets rich in fruits and vegetables while vitamin E, selenium, beta carotene, lycopene show an increased risk of cancer.
Vitamin C does not require enzymatic activity to be removed from the body and does not become pro-oxidant but a reduced form of more weak antioxidant.