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Controversial Thoughts: How broccoli could be bad for you

Paul Saladino MD podcast

Paul Saladino, MD

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

What if vegetables aren’t good for you, after all?
What if that spinach is causing your joint pain?
What if that kale is causing your stomach issues?
What if that broccoli is messing up your digestion and your thyroid?

If you think about things from the perspective of plants, the idea of plant toxicity makes much more sense.

Plants don’t want to be eaten, but they can’t run away like animals. This makes them very vulnerable to predation- thus, they have had to develop many defense chemicals.
In this week’s episode of Controversial Thoughts I discuss how broccoli might just be bad for you and how I think we’ve gone wrong in our thinking about vegetables...
I’d you’re new to the idea of #animalbased diets this video is for you!
#theremembering

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is up you guys welcome to another edition of Controversial Thoughts.

0:05.4

So today I wanted to spend some time talking about the problem with plants.

0:14.2

Something I've talked about a lot in the past but as always and thankfully there are lots

0:20.0

of new people coming into this world.

0:22.2

I've been working with George St. Pierre this month.

0:24.9

He's doing an animal-based eye feeling really good.

0:27.2

I've been working with Marlon Chitoveira, another UFC fighter at 135.

0:32.8

He's doing great on an animal-based diet and I think that's bringing a lot of new people

0:36.3

into the space.

0:37.7

So I wanted to do kind of a review summary of the problem ideologically that I have with

0:45.6

vegetables and plant foods in general and the way that I think about this.

0:51.4

So when I tell people how I eat they're always incredulous that I don't eat vegetables.

0:57.1

But our vegetables super good for us isn't this what we've been told for our whole lives.

1:02.1

And this is really one of the key tenants of nutrition that I call into question with

1:08.0

my work.

1:09.2

Now another friend of mine sent me something from Ronda Patrick today on her reels.

1:14.1

She was talking about a randomized controlled trial.

1:17.2

So actually an interventional trial with coffee showing that including coffee in the diet

1:21.7

reduced DNA damage by 28%.

1:25.0

And there are these studies out there with plant compounds, whether it's whole coffee or

1:31.3

blueberries or whatever.

1:33.6

And they do show that some of these compounds can reduce DNA damage in situations.

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