In this week's video, I'm talking about phytic acid.

If you have been around the paleo community or keto community for the last 20 years, you have probably been schooled on the horror of consuming phytic acid-rich foods.

What is phytic acid anyways? Phytic acid is essentially the storage form of phosphorus in the plant. Phytic acid is found in abundance in grains, seeds, legumes, and nuts.

I would also recommend sprouting, soaking, fermenting, or cooking your grains, nuts, seeds, potatoes, beans to increase their digestibility but I wouldn’t stress about completely clearing phytic acid from your meal.

Sprouting alone has shown to increase bioavailability of minerals in many grains from 40-98% depending on the grain.

When might you want to pay special attention to the amount of phytic acid you're consuming?

If you're a vegan or vegetarian

If you're eating a lot of soy products

If you're anemic

If you're getting sick all of the time

If you're not getting enough zinc

So, if you are concerned about iron, calcium or zinc you could always eat foods or supplements at another time during the day and in so doing bypass the phytic acid issue.

 

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In this episode, I'm talking about the limbic system and why compartmentalizing the human body has made it challenging for people with chronic ailments who don’t fit into a nice diagnosable, insurance ICD-10 code to be viewed as having a real objective medical issue.

I see patient after patient who has real physical ailments that are dismissed by family and physicians as just being crazy, depressed, overly emotional etc.

When the reality is they have a physical symptom, sharp pains in their legs and arms that are caused by a combination of chronic hyper immune response and limbic system trauma. This limbic system trauma could be anything from a car accident, to a coach yelling at them in front of their peers, to rape or a life of processed food intake.

You see our limbic system is the part of our brain involved with our behavioral and emotional responses to life. It is closely connected to our autonomic nervous system and our endocrine system (thyroid, pituitary, ovaries, adrenals testes). Thankfully, we can retrain the limbic system.  

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In this episode, I discuss the comfort zone trap and how to get out of it.

Comfort is a state of physical ease and freedom from pain. This may be psychological or physical pain.

For example, how often do we turn to coffee to perk ourselves up in the morning instead of walking outside and doing 20 jumping jacks? Or grab a Starbuck's sandwich on the way to work instead of taking a few minutes and preparing a wholesome breakfast? I think one of the biggest problems with what I will call comfort addiction, is that it is legal. It's is not a crime.

So what can you do?

I hope this is what you are asking.

If so, I'm going to share 4 steps to break the addiction of comfort and live the life worthy of the calling you have received. 

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In this episode, I discuss why iron deficiency in infants is often overlooked until an event (i.e. seizure, fainting with emotional exacerbation (crying), eating dirt, chronic infections) occur that force a parent to take their child in to be evaluated. And even then, many times their primary care doctor will overlook iron deficiency, all the while the child suffers.

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In this episode, we're focusing on technology, specifically, phone and social media addiction. The latest studies show that we industrialized humans check our phones up to 150 times a day. Does that seem excessive? Does that sound like a potential addictive response? Oh, and half of us check our phones within 5 minutes of waking up.

Let's discuss a few ways to break the addiction to technology and use it responsibly.

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In today's episode, I share about a young lady who went through the ups and downs of a sugar addiction and where she's at today.

Change isn't easy, that's why putting guardrails in place such as removing sugar from our cupboards, getting in the habit of saying 'no thanks' to dessert, gives us the upper hand when life throws us a curveball.

Life is going to show up, sometimes with pure joy and sometimes with intense aggressive challenges. This is why planning ahead and being vigilant when we are winning is so important.

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In this episode, I discuss not only the powerful benefits of cinnamon but using the right kind of cinnamon.

I use cinnamon in smoothies, oatmeal, granola (always homemade) coffee, tea, anything grain related. You can also sprinkle it on your yogurt, apples, or bananas, the options are endless.

Cinnamon supports:

• antiviral activity
• antibacterial activity
• antifungal activity
• inhibition of Clostridium Difficile Colitis
• inhibition of Alzheimer's (specifically Ceylon cinnamon)

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In this episode, I discuss how muscle can help mitigate cancer progression. If you are not building muscle, you are missing out on a high potency, anti-inflammatory support system.

Our muscles actually produce proteins that act as tumor suppressor compounds. These tumor suppressor compounds are called myokines. Myokines are released when the muscle is activated.

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In this episode, I discuss red meat and why we need to look beyond its vilification in the media or even by doctors to assess its health benefits for us as individuals.

Many of the studies that associate red meat or processed meats with heart disease fail to look at the lifestyle of the people eating the meat. More than likely these people are regularly consuming fast food and prepared foods. More than likely their fruit and vegetable intake is not robust.

Like we have we have talked about many times, food that is devoid of life-giving inputs such as vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals are going to create a diseased and dysfunctional body.  

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In today's episode Dr. Joel Noland and I discuss the role that fear and lifestyle factors play in overcoming the C virus and general disease and dysfunction in our body. It's important to put into context the probability of a positive outcome vs a negative outcome.

We believe that faith is an important part of our health and healing journey that needs to be emphasized now more than ever.

Dr. Joel Noland is a Naturopathic doctor, licensed Acupuncturist and owner of Sequoia Medicine. He specializes in freeing people from fear and turning the proverbial valley of despair into one of hope and joy. He has a unique ability to 'Sherlock Holmes patients out of problems' especially chronic autoimmune patients with multisystem involvement.

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