You Will Never Eat A Vegetable Again After Watching This

[00:00:00]Hello guys, Frost here and today I want to paint you guys a picture of what a vegetable actually is. Similarly to how I did in my seed oil video, I painted you guys a picture so you could actually look at linoleic acid and omega6 and you could understand what this fat is actually doing in nature. You know, the mainstream, they don't look at it this way. They look at things through correlation studies, through very poor outcome data, outcome data, but they're not really kind of getting into reality and painting a picture of what the seed oil is. I illustrated that depending on your latitude, omega6 concentrations will go up in that in those natural areas and that animals use omega6 to kind of hibernate, to slow things down.

[00:00:41]Uh fish use the omega6 to keep their membranes fluid in cold temperatures.

[00:00:44]Same with seeds. And now people all over the world are eating these this cold temperature molecule and we see it build up in Americans fat tissues. We see it slow everything down, lower the metabolic rate, raise serotonin, all these things. I painted a picture of omega6. Today I want to do the same thing with vegetables. So let's hop right in. First question, what is a vegetable? You know, a lot of people think a tomato, an avocado, a cucumber are a vegetable, but those are fruits.

[00:01:10]So, a vegetable is the leaves, the stock, the stems, and the roots of a plant. That's a vegetable. So, spinach is a vegetable. Celery is a vegetable. A potato is a vegetable, but it's a root vegetable. We'll get into why those are a little bit different later, but the idea is that a vegetable is the structure of a plant. The fruit is what the plant will make if it has fruit to spread its seeds. So, that's why fruits have less anti-nutrients. They taste good to us.

[00:01:37]uh they have those bright colors that we have vision that makes the fruit stand out. They look very appealing even to babies. Babies got dopamine when they see a fruit. So same with meat, same with milk. So these this is literally ingrained into us. Just like how babies look at attractive faces for longer.

[00:01:54]It's just encoded into our physiology to actually like fruits. Vegetables is not the same case. Actually, the first case against vegetables is actually their nutrient composition. Uh, so vegetables don't have the active form of vitamin B6. They don't have B12. They don't have retinol, which is the real vitamin A.

[00:02:11]They don't have vitamin D3. It's an animal hormone. And largely, they don't they don't have vitamin K2. If a vegetable does have vitamin K2, it's because of bacteria that from fermentation. So, it's actually an organism, not the plant itself. So, you know, plants don't have creatine, they don't have torine, they don't have carnitine. And those are not essential but they are shown to be beneficial when we consume them exogenously. Especially creatine there's a lot of literature on that. So you know when you eat red meat you get creatine you get torine which is an osmolite. Generally plants are deficient in the full array of nutrients we need whereas meat does have every nutrient you need to some degree. Same with dairy in a way as well. Uh depends on the animals dairy. Same with eggs.

[00:02:50]They have everything but vitamin C essentially. So from a nutrient standpoint, the stems and leaves of a plant are very deficient compared to other foods. Secondly, when we think logically, this is why babies spit out broccoli and spinach. The plant does not want you to eat the green leaves that it uses to photosynthesize. That's the structure of the plant. When you eat the green leaves, the plant dies. When you eat the fruit, it tastes good. You spread it seeds. So even first principles if you put if you put spinach raw spinach up to your tongue and it tastes bad but then you put the fruit up to your tongue and it tastes great that's your own body telling you what you should eat. No human naturally would ever choose to eat the green leaf over the fruit of a plant. This is very obvious and everyone innately knows this and this is why you know if vegetables are so great for you why would babies spit them out when they're unconditioned? But they'll eat fruit, they'll eat milk, they'll eat meat, you know infants, toddlers etc. So the reason that these plants don't taste great to our senses is that they are defended because the plant does not want you to eat the leaves or anything to eat the leaves. This is a common evolutionary path among all plants. And this is due to things like oxalates, oxylic acid, phytic acid, tannins, lectins. And these are compounds that the plant puts in its leaves. Even caffeine like in tea leaves as an insecticide meant to kill insects to eat that try to eat the tea leaves. These are compounds plants put in its structure to defend itself and these have many properties in humans. They can steal our minerals like oxalates and spinach can steal your calcium. Uh this can cause kidney stones. This put Chris Hemsworth brother Liam Hemsworth in the hospital. He started drinking lots of green smoothies full of oxalates and he got a calcium oxalate kidney stone. He had to go to the hospital. You can get oxalate toxicity this way. Spinach is very high in these oxalates. Extremely high. And yeah, I mean the picture is clear. They they don't taste great to our senses for a reason. They are the defendant part of the plant. They are deficient in micronutrients compared to other foods. Uh they do have some minerals, but again, a lot of these minerals will be bound to the oxalates, the phytic acid. So, you know, that's why if you were to eat spinach, you should cook it. But then it begs the question, why are we trying to eat a food with toxins that we're trying to neutralize to then get some minerals?

[00:05:05]And then there's some issues with the insoluble fibers, which we can get into.

[00:05:08]When you look at the food holistically, it's really not a great idea. A lot of people force themselves to eat vegetables because they think they're good for them. I would say the evidence points to the contrary. The overall picture of vegetables. And then again, this leads me to another piece.

[00:05:23]Vegetables are deficient in macronutrients. You know, when you look at a typical green leafy vegetable doesn't really have carbs, proteins, or fats. It's not actually giving us nutrition. From the mainstream lens, this is seen as a good thing because it fills your stomach up with unusable plant matter and then it keeps you full.

[00:05:40]Therefore, weight loss because weight loss is good in all contexts, you know.

[00:05:45]So, but if you actually eat appropriately, you can eat a ton of food and stay pretty lean, which is my case up to 4,4,500 calories on some days. So, you know, it's that's not the solution. And the solution is definitely raising your metabolic rate and having everything function properly so you can turn what you eat into energy and have all those luxuries. That's the key to everything and not be slowing everything down, which is what a lot of people do with vegetables. You know, there's broccoli has grogens which impair iodine getting into your thyroid. I mean there's so many harms that these vegetables can have, especially the green ones and excess. But even things like uh you know the carotenoids which are pre-formed vitamin A that you find in carrots those can also cause issues for the thyroid.

[00:06:29]That conversion requires T4. So there are even the root vegetables aren't innocent. I'll touch on the root vegetables. I've explained this before.

[00:06:39]Root vegetables typically have antimicrobial properties as opposed to the anti-nutrients because since roots are in the ground, animals haven't really been eating them as opposed to green the green leaves. So, you know, a boiled cooked potato or carrots, those are way better, I would say, than the green leaves. And they taste better because you're actually getting carbs from them. You're actually getting some decent minerals, some carbs. You're getting some sort of fuel from a root vegetable as opposed to the leaves.

[00:07:07]That's why they taste better. You know, there's actually something there. I would say you should probably not eat the skin of root vegetables if you are to eat them. Those are more defended than the inside.

[00:07:19]Of course, we have associative data sets that show that people who eat more vegetables have better outcomes. Well, they say they eat more vegetables. We're not actually observing them. And this is, of course, because people who have been told that they're healthy will also have other good health habits which we cannot actually control for. We can fabricate the data set and try to estimate, but it's not science by definition. It's kind of working with what we can do on humans. And I would say it's not the best approach to actually determine what we should be eating. The associative data sets have shown that, you know, a glass of red wine a day is going to make you live longer. But let's actually break that down. Does that make sense? Same thing with vegetables. Like let's actually look at it from all angles unbiasedly from an educated point of view. Does it make sense that alcohol is actually bringing us longevity? And that's the same way I look at eating green leafy vegetables as a human. Does it does do the different pieces connect? Now with meat, the isotope data shows we've been getting almost all our protein from meat for millions of years. Uh then it also shows we've been eating some root vegetables and also shows we've been eating fruits. The anthropology dictates that and honey. So as I was saying, the anthropology shows that we've been eating meat, we've been eating seafood, we've been eating fruits, we've been eating honey. Some people are very adapted to eating dairy like the Europeans. They've been harvesting dairy which I think is great. But in terms of eating green leaves, I mean, when you observe tribes, they don't do it either.

[00:08:43]They're eating, you know, the hods are eating honey. They're hunting. They're eating fruits if they find it. Sometimes some root vegetables, maybe even grains as opposed to the green leaves. They're eating something they can get macronutrients from. That's the classic point. They're just not picking green leaves off a tree and eating them. And it's really crazy that they've been propagated as being, you know, a salad being very healthy. Another thing, a key here is when you eat something like a salad, all these vegetable fibers go through the digestive tract undigested.

[00:09:14]Of course, we cannot digest fiber. We don't have cellulose, which is an enzyme to break down cellulose. We don't do that. And these can actually cultivate an overgrowth of bacteria. So, we have a lot of people with small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, SIBO, that are eating lots of salads and vegetables, and this is cultivating this overgrowth of gram negative bacteria. So it's it can cause issues in that sense too. You know it can spur autoimmunity with things like lectins. Lectins from plants which are a plant toxin. They can bind to the insulin receptor and they can cause issues with that. They can also mess with leptin which is a satiety hormone. They can cause you to overeat.

[00:09:52]You know when you're just looking at vegetables from my lens I'm not really seeing the argument to just be straight up eating them. And uh hopefully you know I'll say it one more time.

[00:10:02]Micronutrients not there. Macronutrients not there. Toxins are there.

[00:10:07]Anthropology not there to eat them.

[00:10:09]Logically, not the part a plant wants to eat. We do not have the defenses other animals do. We're not a cow, a herbivore.

[00:10:17]We like the fruit more than the vegetable for a reason. And when we break that down, we see why. All the benefits of fructose and glucose and the minerals from fruits, low antiutrients.

[00:10:26]The piece is very clear to me, very clear. Um, of course, I'm always open-minded. And I'd like to see any counter arguments down below if anyone has any. Totally open-minded. And yeah, that's that's my that's my take on vegetables. Uh if I were you, I wouldn't be going out of my way to be eating raw spinach. Uh if you are going to eat it, cook it. But even then, again, it's an opportunity cost to fill your stomach and you can never get rid of all the oxalates. So that's my take. Uh if you want to use maybe herbs or certain vegetables like as a seasoning on top of something, I could kind of get it. it's probably not very harmful, but eating it as a main course, I would I abstain from that. So yeah, guys, as always, if you want to see all my health protocols and more info like this, you can check out my community down below. I do coaching calls every week. I can it helps you in the coursework break down how to structure your diet, your macronutrients, what foods to eat. You can ask questions to the community and myself. You know, if you are maybe lactose intolerant, you have some specific question about your diet, I can help you dial that in. That link will be down below. Thank you guys for watching.

[00:11:33]Peace.