Mon, Dec-16-19, 14:55
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Plan: EpiPaleo/Primal/LowOx
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Progress: 136%
Location: USA
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Lectin-Based Food Poisoning: A New Mechanism of Protein Toxicity
I've been avoiding beans all year as part of my anti-inflammatory diet. But I didn't think one cashew would hurt me. I was wrong.
I was so tickled to find something in the breakroom that I could eat that I grabbed a handful of nuts to go with my coffee. I ate ONE cashew at 9 AM and minutes later I started feeling nauseated. By 11 AM I had to hurry upstairs to get dill pickle spears from the cafeteria. Then I sipped mint green tea all day.
Deviled eggs for lunch went okay, and just now, a steak. And this article explains so much:
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Lectin-Based Food Poisoning: A New Mechanism of Protein Toxicity
Plant lectins that are not efficiently degraded by digestive enzymes, and that have an affinity for the surface of gut epithelial cells, such as those present in the Leguminosae family, can be poisonous. Acute symptoms following ingestion include nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
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Lectins potently inhibit plasma membrane repair, and hence are toxic to wounded cells. This represents a novel form of protein-based toxicity, one that, we propose, is the basis of plant lectin food poisoning.
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Ow. I knew cashews are beans, not nuts, but I'm going to be super careful from now on. Further delving helped me figure out why those frozen cauliflower crust pizzas upset my stomach so very much:
Lectins – Are Your Food and Diet at Risk?
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What Foods contain the Worst Lectins?
The worst lectins are found in the following foods:
Grains (wheat, quinoa, oats, buckwheat, rye, barley, millet, corn, and possibly rice, although most of the lectins in rice are not in the part that gets eaten)
Legumes (any kind of bean plus peanuts, which have a particularly bad lectin)
Soy
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I do not get along with peanuts, and now I know why.
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Dairy, in particular, is a group of foods that isn’t usually associated with lectins, but the lectins in milk are actually “designed” by nature to cause leaky gut, since infants who are drinking milk actually need to get a mother’s hormones and antibodies directly into their bloodstream in order to develop their immune system (thanks to Sarah (The Paleo Mom) for pointing this out).
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Cheese I get along with. I avoid milk.
Cauliflower is low in lectins, yet I can't go near the frozen cauli-crust ones. It's the brown rice flour. Loaded with lectins.
That's okay. I'd rather eat what's good for me.
Just like gluten, the more I'm away from it, the more violent my reaction when I do get exposed.
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