Episode 38: Dr. Paul Mason
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
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The Health Benefits of Flavonoids
There were no randomized control trials done when we adopted a grain based agricultural system 10, 12,000 years ago. Less than five percent of them will be absorbed anyway so if they did have antioxidant properties they wouldn't do very well and why are they there? They've actually been trying to discourage herbivore consumption of different food it's a protective mechanism. Just because you force the body to deal with the toxin doesn't make it good says Dr Mason.
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