Ep. 286: How Many Vegetables Part 2: Lectins & Oxalates

In this episode, we're talking vegetables again! Specifically, we're talking about lectins and oxalates!
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The Paleo View (TPV), Episode 286: How Many Vegetables Part 2: Lectins & Oxalates
Intro (0:00)
News and Views (0:40)
Thank you to our listeners who have made it through all 286 episodes of our podcast, bad jokes, puns and all!
Sarah shares her current favorite pun.
Matt and Stacy's son Cole would be rolling his eyes.

The gap between what parents and kids think Youtube is for and how they use it.
Sarah's been breaking out "when I was a kid" a lot lately to her daughters.

We got amazing positive response from the vegetable podcast last month.
We love that our listeners love learning and gaining information!
Thanks for tagging us in your photos and letting us know we're helping you to eat more veggies!
If you haven't listened to the first veggie podcast yet, it lays the groundwork for today's episode.


Listener Questions (12:50)
LECTINS: Bits and pieces from questions by listeners Sarah and Rita regarding the The Plant Paradox diet, which an very anti-lectin diet and involves eliminating grains, legumes, nightshades, as well as large number of vegetables and fruits with a higher lectin content, such as most things with skin and seeds.
Listener Sarah would love to hear Sarah's take on lectins and any other information on the recommendations in this book.
Lectins are a broad class of carbohydrate-binding proteins.
There are many different ones, and they are highly specific for specific types of sugar.
Many are found in our bodies and some have vital roles in our health.
There are lectins in every form of life.
The original branding of the Paleo diet as anti-lectin is somewhat misleading.
Paleo aims to eliminate prolamines and agglutinins, which are most problematic for our intestines and hard for our bodies to break down.
A recent studied showed that even in healthy people, gliadin fragments were shown to trick the gut cells into bringing them into the body, where then bind with receptors in the liver and fat cells and turn on signals to gain weight.
This could help explain the connection between gluten consumption and obesity.

It is important for us to be more specific in describing the two classes of lectins we aim to avoid.
A frame work that generalizes all lectins and advocates omitting all of them from the diet is misunderstanding the science.

Nightshades have agglutinins, which are toxic lectins, and problematic.
Nightshades are a different botanical group with most being toxic to humans.

Anti-nutrients do tend to be concentrated in the peels of fruits and vegetables.
The peels are often also where higher antioxidant content is as well.

The only fruits and vegetables to arguably eliminate because of toxic lectin content are those in the Nightshade family (which are technically fruit).
Common Nightshades are: tomato, potato, peppers, eggplant, tomatill0s, goji berries.
Sarah has a comprehensive list of nightshades on her website.
Stacy doesn't eat most nightshades, here is an archive of nightshade-free recipes.


The big picture is that every food may have positives and negatives, for example: dairy and coffee.
It is easy to to take part of the information and focus on just the bad.
We try to take a more holistic approach when we're talking about foods and our individual needs.
Everyone is different, so you have to test what works for you.

Seeing zucchini on the list of veggies to avoid made Stacy laugh because it is one of the most mild vegetables and isn't on any many other "no" lists; it is tolerated well by most people.

Listener Sarah was curious how to explain the testimonies of all the people being helped by The Plant Paradox diet.
This diet also eliminates a lot of other things that are problematic for a lot o