- Now you've heard of the saying,
you are what you eat. It's not true.
Truth is, scientifically, you are what you absorb.
- Hey everybody. This is Klaus from plant-based News.
In this video we hear from Dr. Michael Clapper,
an acclaimed Plant-based physician
who talks about the four common pitfalls
for people to avoid if they
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- The problems that people run into.
When I meet people who try to be Vegan
and it isn't working for them,
there's usually a number of reasons why.
They're not choosing the right food.
You just want to be a whole food Plant Based Diet
and you can't do this on Oreo Cookies,
Granola Bars, and Energy drinks.
You gotta really eat the real healthy food folks.
This will not turn you into a healthy person.
Now, you may see this
when you walk into the grocery store.
As you walk by this it may actually call your name
and I'm crunchy and chewy and delicious.
Why don't you take a couple bags of me home.
I've often heard it,
they pronounce my last name correctly.
It's remarkable.
This is not food.
It was Michael Pollan says
this is certainly not whole or vital food.
This is, this is edible food like substances
in brightly colored packages and boxes.
You do not want to eat edible food
like substances in brightly colored packages and boxes
because it's full of free radicals
and salt and sugar and things that will damage you.
So what do you do It's tempting.
What do I do when I see this,
I realize these are pleasure trap food
is Dr. Goldhammer was telling you this morning
these are foods that stimulate
your Goodie Gland release Serotonin
and Dopamine in your brain,
but they don't provide nutrition.
They just tease your sensory circuitry
and make you eat a lot of food that you shouldn't.
They stimulate our pleasure centers in the brain.
They're a pleasure trap food
you don't want to eat them.
So what do you do?
What do I do is when I see these things,
I'm in all tempted I take out my three-word Magic Wand
pointed right at the display,
and I say out loud that's not food
and then I walked down the Soap aisle
so i don't have to look at the stuff.
Another problem is that the people
don't absorb the nutrients they need.
Consequently they develop deficiencies
of vitamins and minerals
we'll talk about these specifically.
What am I talking about Nutrient Malabsorption.
So rules for thriving on a Plant Based Diet.
You gotta eat the fricking food.
You can't do this out
as I said out of packages and boxes.
You need real life soups and salads
and greens and fruits and vegetables
and foods that grew out of the ground.
It's gotta be fresh, gotta be whole
gotta be vital food not processed
to the greatest extent possible.
It's gotta look like this.
Okay you, you keep your belly full of this stuff.
You're gonna wind up lean and healthy
with normal blood pressures and normal blood sugar.
The Potbelly will go away,
your joints stop hurting
and you turn into a normal, healthy human being.
This is the key to health.
I'm already Vegan
this is what your body is meant to run on.
We have the same digestive system
that our Gorilla and Bonobo cousins
have that are up in the trees.
And this is what this lovely lawn
digestive system runs so beautifully on.
We want to eat food like it was growing in the garden, okay.
You want to eat potatoes, not Potato Chips.
You want eat corn, not Corn Chips.
Eat food like it was growing in the garden.
Food has grown as Dr. Diehl says.
So eat whole unprocessed foods.
You gotta absorb the nutrients.
What does that mean?
Now you've heard the saying,
you are what you eat. It's not true.
Truth is scientifically you are what you absorb.
If those nutrients don't make it
from the food across your intestinal membrane
and into your bloodstream
and delivered to your tissues
you might as well not have eaten it.
Absorption is the key to thriving on this kind of food.
So that's the case we have to realize
that animal foods are real easy to to bite and digest
because they just have this soft
floppy membrane around them.
Plant foods have this rigid cell wall,
that's what makes plants plants.
And it's made of cellulose
and we don't have enzymes to break down Cellulose.
Cellulose is what's used to make paper in two by fours
and all the nutritional goodies
that we want out of the carrot
or out of the Apple are all locked up
in this chamber of cellulose.
That's what makes plants plants
in order to get, in order to absorb
the nutrients out of the plant foods,
you gotta break down those Cell walls.
How do you do that?
Mother nature gave us 32 of the best juicers
on the planet and the invitation is to use them.
We really need to break down those cell walls
and that's what your grinding teeth are about.
So this is high fiber food folks,
these fresh salads and soups, they are full of fiber.
You gotta take the time to break that fiber up.
So I tell people put a fork full of cell in your mouth,
put the bloody fork down,
make Salad Puree in your mouth before you swallow it.
Take an extra five seconds
to really chew the food to a puree.
You're gonna absorb so much more food.
Plus you that's when you taste it
you're gonna enjoy it much better.
People don't have good dentition
then throw the soup in the blender.
So we do blended salads, blended soups all the time,
perfectly legitimate thing to do.
And turn off the television and be with your food.
Okay. We become a nation of mindless shovelers
and we have shoveled this food in.
And it's not good for digestion or for our gratitude.
You can get more nutrition out of beans
and peas legumes if you soak them overnight,
before you put them in the soup
before you put them in the stew.
So soak them overnight, they start to sprout,
It starts to pre-digested the sugars in there
makes the protein more available.
The next morning, spill off
the soaking water and rinse it a few times,
and then put that in your soup pot.
You're gonna get a lot more nutrition out of everything.
Certainly legumes beans, peas, chickpeas,
lentils, but also nuts, seeds, grains,
as much as you can soak them overnight.
And when you make a soup
the minerals go out into the soup broth.
So soup certainly have a role
in a whole food Plant Based Diet.
Especially if you're a woman of reproductive age
you're losing Iron every month in the Menstrual flow
you want to increase Iron absorption.
So squeezing some Lemon Juice
vitamin C increases Iron absorption.
So a squeezing, some lemon juice on your broccoli
will increase the absorption of Iron.
You can absorb Zinc better
with some in the presence of garlic and onions.
And zinc is a tough one sometimes for Vegans to get.
So sauteing your, your greens
or cooking them with garlic and onions
will increase the absorption of Zinc and Iron.
Again this is all on my video
thriving on a Plant Based Diet.
When you cook, when you cut cruciferous vegetables
let them sit on the counter for five to 10 minutes
enzymes get activated that
make nutrients nitric oxide,
pre precursors, more available for you.
So take your time, slice up the broccoli or the kale
and then go start getting your soup ready
but let the veggie sit out for a little bit
and you'll be able to absorb more Nitric Oxide Precursor.
Iodine is an issue for Vegans.
As I mentioned yesterday in base of our neck
we've got this gland called the Thyroid Gland.
It puts out a hormone Thyroxine
that regulates how fast your cells burn energy.
And it's a vital hormone you need it.
Here's a model, here's a diagram of Thyroxine
and these four purple balls are atoms of Iodine.
So every, every molecule Thyroxine,
has four atoms of Iodine.
So you need some Iodine in your diet.
The fish eaters get Iodine because
the ocean's full of it
and so the fish will have it.
But we don't eat fish if you're a Vegan
and I think we've been clear cutting the ocean.
We've strip mined the ocean.
We're we're, we've used fishing up you know,
it's done it's time to let the fish off the hook.
You know, we it's time to let the oceans heal.
So if you're not eating fish where are you,
where are you gonna get your Iodine?
Well, there are Sea vegetables that pick up Iodine,
and one of them is Wakame.
You see that the Japanese restaurant
and you soak it for a few hours or overnight,
and throw a gob of it into
your Super Salad three times a week.
You'll meet your Iodine needs that way.
ARAME you see that in salads
made with Sea vegetables and again,
a gob of it soaked and thrown into
your Super Salad three times a week will work nicely.
Are you concerned about contamination
of the Sea vegetables go to the website.
I like Maine Coast here, but go to their
their website and look for their nutritional analysis
for contaminating minerals, etcetera.
Dulse is another Sea vegetable
that has plenty of Iodine.
And again, a tablespoon or so
two, three times a week will meet your Iodine needs.
Do be very careful with Kelp.
There is so much Iodine in Kelp
that if you take Kelp tablets or leaves of it
you will flood your thyroid with too much Iodine
and really caused the hypothyroidism
you're trying to prevent.
And that's why it comes in sprinkle bottles
there in just a couple of sprinkles.
A few times a week is plenty of,
of, of Kelp to put on your salad.
Don't use too much of it.
And don't use Hijiki at all
It picks up Arsenic from the ocean.
Well people say, well, how about Sea Salt?
Comes from the sea, she's full of Iodine.
Gotta have a lot of Iodine and Sea Salt, right?
Wrong actually there doesn't there's not
really much functional Iodine in Sea Salt at all.
Why not? That doesn't make sense.
Well, it does If you remember
some old high school Chemistry.
Remember this one The Periodic Table of Elements here.
This column, this is the Halogen column,
Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine, Iodine, Astatine.
And they all celebrate they
all share some common properties.
One of which we all know of Chlorine.
When you go in the, when you go in the swimming pool.
What do you smell coming off of it?
You smell Chlorine cause Chlorine evaporates it's volatile.
And in fact, all of the halogens, these are all volatile
and that means they evaporate into the air.
Well, that includes Iodine.
It's a volatile halogen.
So what does that mean?
Well, how do you make Sea Salt?
You take big vats of seawater
put them out in the hot sun
and evaporate the water off
to leave the Sodium Chloride behind.
Well, with all this hot sun,
guess what else evaporates from the Sea water the Iodine.
And for that reason you're not gonna find
much Iodine left in actual Sea Salt.
And so for that reason,
if you want to use Sea Salt...
then you can use just a pinch of iodized, Sea Salt.
You want to Sea Salt where
they've added the Iodine back in.
And you certainly can get iodized Sea Salt
and if you're gonna be using
a Sea Salt Dinosaurs make sure it's iodized.
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