Many foods, especially plants that we use for food ,have toxins in them that can inhibit our uptake of vitamins and minerals. Ingested in excess or at length these can damage the gut.
Toxins, Uptake Inhibitors and Antinutrients
We hear quite a bit about what foods have certain vitamins or minerals in them that are "good for us."
We've also heard stories about how many vitamin supplements that people take go right through their gut, without being absorbed by our bodies and out into the sewage. Sometimes still in the pill form.
What if I were to tell you that this can happen when you are eating "real" food also, not just supplements.
Many times we forget that the determination of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, etc., is made in a laboratory. It is not usually determined from examining or comparing these values to the actual food that has been processed by the human gut.
From the moment that you place food in your food, there are many reactions that must take place for you to receive the optimum nutrition from that food.
The very structure of some foods keep us from utilizing their nutrients and can even damage the gut.. Other foods have compounds they produce that keep us from taking the nutrients into our system.
We'll discuss this phenomenon in later posts.
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