Grains, nuts, seeds and tubers

An Electrical and Biological Nightmare

This chapter explains, in short, concepts and clinical experiences to help you understand the benefit of refraining from ingesting grains, nuts, seeds and even beans and potatoes or tubers of all kinds.

From an elemental view, grains, nuts, seeds and tubers contain a wide range of nutrients and fiber.  The issue with the consumption of grains, nuts, seeds and tubers lye in the biological and electrical compatibility with the human body. Some insight into the world of botany will help you understand the difference between the elemental facts and natural biological truths.

Most of the nutrients and fiber in grains, nuts, seeds and tubers are indigestible and when eaten, process through us as anti-nutrients. Anti-nutrients are chemical combinations of actual nutritional elements presented in forms that block our bodies from obtaining the nutrition they contain, so that instead of recognizing them as food the body sees them as what they are, which is toxin.

Plants and animals reproduce.  Animals have the advantage of movement to keep away from predators.  Plants do not have the ability to move and escape from being eaten.  Instead nature has provided for their self preservation through the evolution of several innate capabilities to survive.  One of these is the production of chemicals referred to as anti-nutrients, which are natural pesticides stored in the seed, their offspring, as a way of survival.  These natural pesticides cause severe health degeneration and illness to all those creatures that eat the seeds, the offspring of the plant. A causative factor in the escalating rise of infertility, digestion, and immunity issues in our population today is from ingesting these natural pesticides.

These anti-nutrients are also enzyme blockers which cause the predator to eventually lose the ability to create enzymes for digestion and can ultimately cause its death through the inability to break down and use its food.  The enzymes the body stops making are protease, pepsin, amylase, trypsin, lactase, chemotrypsin and lipase.  They are also the main enzymes needed by an omnivore or carnivore for survival and proper digestion.  Can you see the negative impact on the human, who is an omnivore, with the ingestion of grain, nuts, seeds and tubers?

The functions of these enzymes are to break down animal fats and protein in the human GI tract.  Without them we are unable to receive the life sustaining amino acids and minerals that comprise the animal fats and proteins. Lacking the availability of these amino acids and minerals our bodies will slowly degrade and become ill and eventually die of malnutrition.

Today, everywhere, there is evidence of malnutrition and digestion disorders.  Some of the named diseases are gastritis, allergies, ADD, dental cavities, constipation, hemorrhoids, IBS, ulcers, GERD, iron deficiency anemia, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, eczema, leaky gut syndrome, acidosis, acne, colon cancer, osteoporosis, arthritis, and candidiasis to name a few.

The high starch content is another ill effect of consuming the grain, nuts, seeds and tubers.  In order for humans to use starch, it first has to be converted to glucose or blood sugar.  This conversion from starch to glucose requires the chemical, insulin, which is created in the pancreas.  In a diet high in grain, nuts, seeds and tubers we see a parallel high insulin level in the body.  High insulin levels have many negative health effects on the human body, including diabetes, acne, chronic infections, celiac disease, most autoimmune disorders, anemia, dehydration, human growth factors, seborrhea, impotence and premature ejaculation, prostatisis, high blood pressure and other heart diseases, dementia, nerve damage, obesity, hypoglycemia, graves’ disease and other thyroid failures, fatty liver, depression, anxiety, hyperinsulinemia, malnutrition, gall bladder diseases, hormone level disruption, insomnia, migraine headaches, blurred vision, chronic fatigue syndrome, kidney diseases, dizziness, sugar cravings, muscles weakness, fainting and even coma.

Additionally, grain, nuts, seeds and tubers contain insoluble fiber.  The definition of insoluble is “an element that cannot be dissolved, not soluble”.  The human body is only able to use elements that are soluble.  In an attempt to ferment or digest insoluble fiber, huge amounts of acids are produced in the stomach to break down the fiber into a usable element.  This process of attempting fermentation or digestion of this insoluble fiber takes a lot of additional time. The fermentation or digestion process then must carry over from the stomach into the intestines causing several health problems.  Issues that can result from this problem with insoluble fiber are disbacteriosis, ulcers, ulcerative colitis, IBS, leaky gut syndrome, GERD, atherosclerosis, hemorrhoidal disease and anal fissures, cancer, H. Pylori overgrowth, appendicitis, malnutrition, bloating and gas, constipation and/or diarrhea, enteritis, hernia, duodenal epithelium, dental cavities, esophagitis, Barrett’s disease, halitosis, and gingivitis.

The over whelming amount of sugar, insoluble fiber and starch working its way through the GI tract are food for the opportunistic bacteria, fungi and yeasts. These are bacteria, fungi and yeasts that naturally occur in our GI tract and are a very integral part of our immune and digestion systems.  However, when allowed to over eat and proliferate on sugars, insoluble fiber and starches these bacteria, fungi and yeasts will become pathogenic and cause a very unhealthy internal environment.  In this feast of optimal food for them the E.Coli, Salmonella, Candida, Listeria, Streptococci, Klebsiella, Clostridium and Aspergillus will eventually cause the GI tract and the whole human to suffer greatly.

There is no such thing as a necessary carbohydrate. This may be a challenging statement to accept, so I repeat, there is no such thing as a necessary carbohydrate. Drs. Eades write in their book, Protein Power, “The actual amount of carbohydrates required by humans for health is zero.” The doctors eloquently dismiss the carbohydrate myth along with several other dietary myths in satisfactory detail in their book. The valid point to their discussion is that every cell in the human body has the ability to create its own sugar or energy as it requires. Thus the ingestion of carbohydrates especially in the quantities they are generally consumed today serves only to damage the internal environment of the human body.

Finally, there is the Lectin connection. In her book, “The Vegetarian Myth” Lierre Kieth explains very well the point of Lectins, another anti-nutritive factor in seeds that interferes with protein digestion.  In a diet high in grains, nuts, seeds and tubers the lectin intake is also very high.  These lectins do not break down in the stomach while they actually attach themselves to the intestinal walls causing inflammation and irritation.  This happens as the presence of high amounts of lectins on the intestinal membrane damages and shortens the villi, upsetting the balance of intestinal microorganisms and accelerating cell death.  The overwhelming number of lectins in the GI tract, then have the ability to transfer through the damaged mucosa lining and infect the rest of the body via the blood and lymphatic systems.  Once in the blood and lymph the devastation is massive, leading to autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, thyroid inflammation, Crohn’s disease, food and chemical allergies and sensitivities, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes, mellitus, lupus, skin rashes, celiac disease and asthma.

Hopefully you now see the importance for humans NOT to consume grains, nuts, seeds and tubers in the majority or if at all in our diets.  The overall devastation to the human body is unmistakable and undeniable.  This concept, of not eating grains, nuts, seeds and tubers may be challenging to your belief structure, but the effects on the human body are real and clear after handling thousands of clients in my clinic. Even my own personal physical health issues along with the health of my children and wife really started to excel after we personally stopped eating grain, nuts, seeds and tubers.

This concept of eating little or no grain, seeds, nuts and tubers becomes even clearer when we look at ancient Egyptian history.  There is a misconception derived from viewing the hieroglyphs of beautiful figures represented as god-like entities, giving us the impression this is the way the Egyptians actually appeared, or at least the population of hierarchy. The common Egyptians were predominately farmers and all Egyptians consumed mostly grain, nuts, seeds and tubers.  Their staple foods consisted of coarse ground whole grain flat breads along with vegetables and some fruit.  The Egyptians consumed fish and poultry in very small quantities and virtually no red meat.  They did use goat and sheep milk to make cheeses and milk was a beverage reserved for the people of higher societal rank, as owning these animals was a privilege of wealth and status.

Reviewing the archeological, paleontological records of the Egyptian mummies reveals that they had health issues similar to what we have  today. They suffered dental cavities and gum disease.  Their teeth were weak and deformed from the lack of adequate protein intake and showed severe deterioration and wear.  Their teeth were ground flat and worn off from chewing huge amounts of insoluble fiber which takes a large amount of chewing to break down so the stomach can do its job. This also indicates high acid levels in the body which eat away at the enamel making the teeth weak.

Another sign of inadequate protein intake noted was in bone density and size.  Bones, being the easiest to study, hold a lot of information as to the overall size and health of the people. The Egyptians’ overall size diminished over a 3,000 year period of time becoming smaller and weaker.

Records from the paleopathologists suggest other common diseases between the Egyptians and folks today such as obesity, high blood pressure and other heart problems, stroke and diabetes.

An anthropologist from the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Kathleen Gordon, writes in one of her papers; “Not only was the agricultural ‘revolution’ not really so revolutionary at its inception, it has also come to represent something of a nutritional ‘devolution’ for much of mankind.”

Lierre Keith, in her book, The Vegetarian Myth, quotes Dr. Loren Cordain, in his article “Cereal, Grains: Humanity’s Double Edge Sword”:

Cereal grains as a staple food are a relatively recent addition to the human diet and represent a dramatic departure from those foods to which we are genetically adapted. Discordance between humanity’s genetically determined dietary needs and his [sic] present day diet is responsible for many of the degenerative diseases which plague industrial man . . . [T]here is a significant body of evidence which suggests that cereal grains are less than optimal foods for humans and that the human genetic makeup and physiology may not be fully adapted to high levels of cereal grain consumption.