After a chemical analysis and on paper, most vegetables, nuts, seeds and fruits look like they contain some vitamins, minerals and even protein. Unfortunately for us, we do not have the complex digestion and fermentation chambers of herbivores. While vitamins and minerals are in chemical form, which cannot be absorbed by humans and need to be converted, other problems also arise, such as antinutrients, fiber, and poisonous plant defense chemicals.

 

The bioavailability and bioconversion rate of vitamins and minerals in plant foods are extremely low, in the neighborhood of 4 to 12 percent. So, right off the bat, you can multiply that label claim with .1 to get a fair idea of what you may be able to absorb. However, we have not yet adjusted for antinutrients such as phytic acid, oxalates and goitrogens, which bind to most minerals and make them useless. Another group of antinutrients are inhibitors like tannins, phytates, trypsin inhibitors, lucosinolates, and isothiocyanates, which bind to starch and protein to form complexes that our body cannot absorb. Same with fiber, it binds up protein and starch. In other words, protein claims can be reduced to about 50 to 70 %.

And if you boil, soak, sprout and rinse plant foods to reduce the content of antinutrients, some of the little nutrition that actually is present will be destroyed while most of the toxins will remain (and some may increase), rendering the unpalatable crap even more useless. When you take all this into consideration, any kind of plant food or food made from plants are totally worthless as nutrition. Most of them simply provide calories in the form of macronutrients (mainly sugars) – unfortunately, they do so by simultaneously poisoning us with toxic chemicals and antinutrients.

Any way you look at it, vegetables, nuts, seeds, grains, fruits and other plant foods are not only toxic, they are also an extremely poor choice for nutrition. We humans, as facultative carnivores, have the ability to survive on plant foods for short amounts of time (depending on your starting nutrition stores). But surviving is a far cry from thriving!

 

The only source of bioavailable vitamins, fat soluble vitamins, minerals, vitamin A, vitamin K2 (M4), Vitamin D3, EPA/DHA, heme iron, cholesterol, taurine, vitamin B12, and much more, are foods from the animal kingdom. These nutrients do not even exist in plants.

 

If you don’t eat animal foods on a daily basis, you are robbing yourself of nutrients and you will pay the price further down the road in the form of modern diseases, premature aging/deterioration, brittle teeth, hair loss, brain fog, muscle atrophy, a ton of other health problems and a heavily reduced life span.