The Real Explanation About Why Legumes Are Hard To Digest Antinutrients

​Legumes are hard to digest antinutrients. 

Legumes are high in oxalic acids and phytic acids. These are antinutrient plant chemicals that block your ability to absorb minerals and nutrients and also lead to inflammation.

Legumes are not beans they are actually a seed of a plant. Seeds are actually the most toxic part of the plant. It's the babies of the plant.  The plant puts a lot of toxic chemicals in the seed to defend it. To protect the "baby" 

It's really common sense if you think about it. the purpose of a seed is to sprout to birth the plant for growth. Seeds are not designed to be eaten. 

The beautiful nature of the fruit is that around the seed is a colorful flesh that is sweet and desirable.  Not bitter and full of plant toxins. The seed of a fruit gives back to the earth to produce an abundance of real food that is perfectly digestible. Plants and seeds are indigestible for humans. 

Legumes contain enzyme inhibitor compounds. What this does is inhibit your ability to properly digest them and also stress out the pancreas so the pancreas fails to produce enzymes to break down this high-fibrous plant matter. 

Legumes are also high in lectins and lectins are hard on the intestinal tract. (gut wall) these indigestible proteins cause inflammation and may lead to a leaky gut. 

Lectins are very high in seeds and legumes are seeds not "beans" 
If you eat a lot of legumes and also have inflammatory bowel issues and digestive problems you can find relief and healing by cutting these foods out of your diet. 

But legumes are high in iron, magnesium, potassium, and calcium. Unfortunately, these are the primary minerals that don’t get absorbed due to high phytate levels. It's not about nutrients. It's about the BIOAVAILABILITY of nutrients. 

Some legumes like soy contain Phytoestrogens are not actually estrogen, but they act like estrogen. Inside your body, phytoestrogens bind to the same receptors that estrogen binds to, but phytoestrogens give a much weaker signal than estrogen. Because the signals are weak, your body will often overproduce estrogen, which will disrupt your entire hormonal system.

This proposes a problem that leads to metabolic and endocrine dysfunction. 

You also want to avoid eating legumes from cans because the lining of most cans contains BPA. This is an endocrine disrupting chemical. 

Legumes are high in saponins. Saponins are compounds that are found in many plants, including most legumes. They have a particular chemical structure that allows them to bind to the surface of your intestinal cells.

Once saponins bind to your intestinal walls, they often cause the cells lining your intestines to either “open up” or else to die. In either case, the effect is a Leaky Gut.

Once that happens, saponins, bacteria, and other things start leaking into your bloodstream. An immediate effect is that saponins start destroying the cell membranes of your red blood cells (as well as leading to general inflammation in your body). 

The main reason people get gas on beans is simply because they are hard to digest and undigested high plant matter will cause fermentation in the colon leading to uncomfortable gas. 

People from thousands of years ate a very low plant matter diet except for fruit. Legumes were not a priority by any stretch of the matter and still shouldn't be in today's world as a bioavailable good source of nutrition. You try to get the nutrition when in reality you are just causing inflammation by eating these plants. 

I'm not a fan of legumes and never have been in studying diet, regeneration, and nutrition. Swap out your toxic "beans" for a nutritionally dense grass-fed steak and absorb the nutrition and actually digest it properly. You don't have to worry about phytate antinutrients and oxalic acids binding to your minerals and enzyme/protein inhibitors blocking your ability to digest properly and absorb properly. 

Legumes are peasant foods not an optimal source of nutrition. The best choice and the only approved legumes that's the less detrimental to the body is chickpeas. ~ Don Duplechain

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