Recovering Academic on Nostr: This is a great article about phytochemicals like phytooestrogens, oxalates, ...
This is a great article about phytochemicals like phytooestrogens, oxalates, phytates, and tannins.
Some of these you might know as anti-nutrients.
The authors detail pros and cons and summarise each compound.
I found it particularly interesting to encounter phytates as being useful in the regulation of iron and what the positive externalities of that can be—like protecting the colon from iron-induced lipid peroxidation and decreasing the production of advanced glycation end products.
It was also cool to read about the nuance in the phytooestrogen literature.
The article is called "Is There Such a Thing as "Anti-Nutrients"? A Narrative Review of Perceived Problematic Plant Compounds".
It is by Petroski & Minich and you can find it here:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7600777/#B216-nutrients-12-02929
Here is also a separate note about advanced glycation end products:
#plants #nutrients #food #nutrition #science
Some of these you might know as anti-nutrients.
The authors detail pros and cons and summarise each compound.
I found it particularly interesting to encounter phytates as being useful in the regulation of iron and what the positive externalities of that can be—like protecting the colon from iron-induced lipid peroxidation and decreasing the production of advanced glycation end products.
It was also cool to read about the nuance in the phytooestrogen literature.
The article is called "Is There Such a Thing as "Anti-Nutrients"? A Narrative Review of Perceived Problematic Plant Compounds".
It is by Petroski & Minich and you can find it here:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7600777/#B216-nutrients-12-02929
Here is also a separate note about advanced glycation end products:
quoting nevent1q…m789I have noticed that there are some who think sugar is a health food . . . However, there are many negative externalities to sugar consumption.
Let us have a look at one you might not know about: advanced glycation end products.
When functional proteins encounter a bombardment of sugar, some of those sugars haphazardly attach to the proteins, and this renders those proteins toxic.
The more sugar that is around, the more it binds to proteins like this. These sugary proteins interfere with an array of cell functions including lipid synthesis, inflammation, antioxidant defences, and mitochondrial metabolism.
Smashing sugar is not a health practice, even though one can get shredded and temporarily feel well and clear out polyunsaturated fatty acids from your cell membranes by pouring it all over your white rice instead of essentially any plant oil.
However, this is an unideal lever/trigger to pull. Advanced glycation end products accumulate, and they facilitate atherosclerosis, neurodegenerative disease, and other chronically inflammatory diseases.
If you throw caution to the wind and abuse sugar because you believe/have discovered that much of what sugar is blamed for is likely downstream of excess polyunsaturated fatty acid consumption (i.e., seed oils) and environmental toxins, etc., it is increasingly likely that you will end-up aging quickly, become progressively more sickly, have difficulty initiating movement, and eventually rapidly forget who you are: providing you manage to avoid heart attack and stroke.
Advanced glycation end products are only one of the myriad of negative externalities of a careless penchant for sugar.
Have a look into them!
#sugar #health #food #nutrition #longevity
#plants #nutrients #food #nutrition #science