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Trying to understand how much lectins are a problem----nuts are flour substitution, a staple for LCers.

https://www.caltonnutrition.com/nuts/

3 problems with lectins. Nuts also contain other antinutrient compounds: oxalic acid, tanins, oxalic acid, trypsin inhibitors.

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“Lectins are a plant’s most powerful weapon. Believe it or not, plants don’t really want us to eat them. A plant’s goal is self-preservation, and lectins are its premier defense system. Lectins are sticky proteins that coat your intestinal tract, making it difficult to properly absorb micronutrients.

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While micronutrient loss is our key concern, it is also important to understand the other ways that lectins can negatively affect our health. To begin with, lectins make us fat in two unique ways. First, they attach to insulin receptors on fat cells. Remember, insulin is the fat-storage hormone. And once attached, lectins never detach, indefinitely telling the fat cell to store more fat! To add insult to injury, lectins also attach themselves to the receptor sites for leptin, the hormone that tells your brain when you are full, and block its effect on satiety. The end result is that you are prone to overeating because you never get full and more of what you eat gets stored as body fat. That harmless bowl of lectin containing nuts over cocktails hardly seems harmless anymore, does it?

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Lectins also aid in the creation of leaky gut by binding to your intestinal walls and acting like chisels, forcing apart the cells that protect the rest of you from the undigested foods inside. Many food allergies are actually immune system reactions to lectins.”

On inflammation-----

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Many people spend a lot of money to include a good omega 3 supplement to offset their higher levels of omega 6, but is that really possible? Take a look at this chart from Rich Food, Poor Food and you can quickly see how much omega 3 and omega 6 your favorite nuts and seeds contain. Take almonds and pumpkins seeds, for example, in just 1 oz. (not very much) of almonds and 1 oz. of pumpkin seeds you have more than 9.2 grams of omega 6 (9,200 mg) and only .052 grams of omega 3 (52 mg). That is a ratio of 177:1 (omega 6 to omega 3)…NOT GOOD. But let’s say you are taking a high quality fish oil that delivers around 600 mg of omega 3 per capsule. You would have to take more than 15 fish oil capsules just to get back to a 1:1 ratio of omega 3 to omega 6 to counter act just 1 oz. of almonds and 1 oz. of pumpkin seeds. Not only would this cost a ton of money, the fact is no one is ever going to do this.

A chart is listed with a number of common nuts and seeds----on how to soak in water, how long and with how much salt.

Flax is listed. CHia is listed. How does one soak chia seeds?

SO CONFUSED !!!!