Plant Foods Can Be Beneficial, But Also Poisonous
Here is an excellent article on the three main antinutrients in plant foods:
https://shawnwells.com/2020/07/02/your-guide-to-lectins-phytates-oxalates/
What I like about the above article is that it doesn't have a strict one-size-fits-all mentality.
There's a way to go vegetarian and still be low in lectins, phytates, and oxalates, which is something I've been trying to do for a long time. When eaten together, pea protein isolate and rice protein isolate form a high-quality complete protein while being low in antinutrients. By isolating the protein from these two plant foods, much of the antinutrients are processed out of them.
Yet, it's interesting to note that antinutrients can have beneficial properties. For example, phytic acid (inositol hexaphosphate) can have anti-cancer properties:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17044765/
It's even sold as a supplement:
Years ago, I tried an IP-6 supplement with beneficial physical (and even metaphysical) effects. Again though, it's up to each individual to figure out what antinutrients benefit them, and which antinutrients cause them harm. For example, I love tomato sauce, but tomatoes definitely weaken me. Yet, I tolerate gluten well.
It all depends on who it is, as everyone has unique microbiomes and immune systems.
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