223. Oatmeal is NOT a health food
Paul Saladino MD podcast
The Problem With Phytic Acid in Oats
If you're eating oats or other grain-based foods, corn or beans that have high amounts of phytic acid, a lot of the minerals in those foods are not going to be absorbed. Phytic acid is something plants use to hold on to chelate means to bite onto minerals. So if you eat oysters with corn like a corn tortilla in the study, you don't absorb much of the zinc at all. You can essentially rob your body of nutrients if you're eating these things together. And then we have something that's just really important and grains and actually overlaps the vegetables.
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