223. Oatmeal is NOT a health food

Paul Saladino MD podcast

Paul Saladino, MD

Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Have you been led to believe that oatmeal is good for you? This podcast is for you! Paul does a deep dive on why you may want to cut oats (and chocolate, and leafy greens) out for good for reasons like heavy metal accumulation, antinutrients, and defense chemicals.

00:07:30 The problem with grains

00:11:45 Heavy metals in oats, greens, chocolate and fish

00:20:00 How saponins damage the gut

00:31:30 Cadmium and heavy metals in oats, vegetables and chocolate

00:48:15 Phytic acid

00:49:20 Pesticides in your oats

00:50:50 Mold contamination in grains

00:53:00 Takeaways on oats

References:

Influence of saponins on gut permeability and active nutrient transport in vitro: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Influence-of-saponins-on-gut-permeability-and-in-Johnson-Gee/b100e152961fa3beb84c676ac0ae43e74b52af9e

Reducing the damage of quinoa saponins on human gastric mucosal cells by a heating process: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6977518/

Triterpenoid Saponins in Oat Bran and Their Levels in Commercial Oat Products: https://figshare.com/collections/Triterpenoid_Saponins_in_Oat_Bran_and_Their_Levels_in_Commercial_Oat_Products/5002223

The biological action of saponins in animal systems: a review: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12493081/

Effect of oat saponins and different types of dietary fibre on the digestion of carbohydrates: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-nutrition/article/effect-of-oat-saponins-and-different-types-of-dietary-fibre-on-the-digestion-of-carbohydrates/95992869AEC98CFAB161548C043F93E7

Effects of saponins and glycoalkaloids on the permeability and viability of mammalian intestinal cells and on the integrity of tissue preparations in vitro: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20650190/

A major gene for grain cadmium accumulation in oat (Avena sativa L.): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6204970_A_major_gene_for_grain_cadmium_accumulation_in_oat_Avena_sativa_L

Toxicity of cadmium and its health risks from leafy vegetable consumption:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313975727_Toxicity_of_cadmium_and_its_health_risks_from_leafy_vegetable_consumption

Ideal Cereals With Lower Arsenic and Cadmium by Accurately Enhancing Vacuolar Sequestration Capacity: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6467212/

Cadmium Levels in Soils and Crops in the United States: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Cadmium-Levels-in-Soils-and-Crops-in-the-United-Chang-El-Amamy/18c4415de7340ae4b30ac9516c1acae4c4ed6300

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Transcript

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0:00.0	most of the problems with plant foods and these chemicals that they have, these defense chemicals,
0:04.1	are on the human gut. On this week's podcast, I'm pretty excited in a perhaps somewhat mischievous
0:12.5	way to talk about oatmeal. Yes, it's an entire podcast about oatmeal because I did some
0:18.6	social media content. It got a ton of engagement and there were a lot of people up in arms saying,
0:23.1	how can you criticize oatmeal? oatmeal is so great, but I just don't think oats are good for
0:26.5	humans and I will talk about that in this podcast. Many of the things I learned in this podcast
0:31.1	were new to me. It was interesting to see that many heavy metals concentrating grains like cacao,
0:36.7	I also talk about chocolate in this podcast. So if you like chocolate and oatmeal, this podcast is
0:41.4	going to break your heart. And I also learned about heavy metal accumulation of meaty greens,
0:46.1	something I hadn't thought about. But I think it creates a stronger argument around why
0:50.4	meat in organs, fruit, honey, raw dairy, an animal-based diet. In my mind, continue to be some of the most
0:55.8	nutrient-rich and least toxic foods on the planet. And making a lot of your diet is grains like oats
1:02.9	or leafy greens or even fish, high in heavy metals is not an idea for us long-term. So you
1:08.1	enjoy this podcast about oatmeal. There's some science in there, but generally it's pretty high
1:12.3	level about why this food is not good for humans. But many of the reasons oatmeal is not good for
1:16.4	humans are applicable to so many other things that I think you should avoid in your diet, grains,
1:20.4	leafy greens, etc. So enjoy this one. I also want to give a shout out to my sponsors,
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