Do Not Eat Peanut Butter until You Listen to This!

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I’m going to tell you about the healthiest peanut butter. Peanuts don't typically cause health issues, but they can cause bloating for some people, and it's still important to consume the right peanuts.

Peanuts are not nuts—they are legumes that grow in the soil. Conventional peanuts are heavily sprayed with pesticides and fungicides, which seep into the soil and penetrate their thin shells. This is why you should always choose organic peanuts and peanut butter.

Glyphosate is also commonly found in peanuts. Glyphosate can act as an antibiotic and is found in many GMO foods.

Always read the label on your peanut butter and ensure it doesn't contain hydrogenated oils. Hydrogenated vegetable oils don’t actually come from vegetables at all—they’re seed oils! Also, avoid peanut butter with added sugar.

Monoglycerides are sometimes added to peanut butter. A French study linked this ingredient to cancer and found that it can increase the risk of certain cancers by 46%.

Look for peanut butter that only contains peanuts and salt. Organic Valencia peanut butter that contains only Valencia peanuts and sea salt is the best option. Valencia peanuts contain the least amount of aflatoxins. Aflatoxins come from mold and can be very damaging to the liver.

Try to have your peanuts with a meal rather than as a snack to avoid spiking insulin.

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0:00.0	You know the worst thing you could do to a person is take away their peanuts.
0:03.8	Okay and I'm not going to do that. I'm just going to talk about what type of peanuts you should focus more on because if you
0:10.1	end up buying the wrong type of peanuts or peanut butter you may find that your
0:15.3	health is going to suffer. There's this one ingredient in 80% of all peanut butter you don't
0:21.5	want it in your body and if you eat the right type of
0:23.7	peanut butter or peanuts I don't think there's going to be a lot of health issues
0:28.1	but I recently started the carnivore diet just to test it out for a couple weeks. From the elimination of the nuts, my
0:34.8	bloating went away. So I'm not going back to peanuts. You can, if it doesn't blow chew, but I have also gone back to vegetables as well.
0:44.3	So my diet right now is a combination.
0:46.4	It's like 50% carnivore and 50% plant-based
0:49.7	because I do like my salads.
0:51.7	But let's talk about the difference between conventional
0:53.7	peanut butter or peanuts. Now when you're consuming conventional peanuts,
0:57.0	unfortunately peanuts are probably one of the most heavily sprayed with pesticides and insecticides and especially fungicides
1:07.3	out of many different things that you might eat. A peanut is not an actual nut, it's a lagoon, and so when they spray, it gets into soil and it gets down into where the peanut is, and this peanut shell is very, very thin.
1:21.0	Unlike a walnut, which is a hard shell, you really need to do organic peanuts or peanut butter.
1:27.9	That's number one.
1:28.9	There's also an herbicide called glyphosate, which can act like an antibiotic. It's in a lot of different
1:34.6	GMO foods and that's been known to be in peanuts simply because they rotate the
1:38.7	crops from a GMO food to a peanut back and forth. I think it's cotton seed or it could be canola. I'm not 100
1:45.8	percent sure. The other thing is you must read the label because if it says
1:49.8	hydrogenated anything, don't consume that. Now you maybe you've heard of partially
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