 What eating processed flour and vegetable seed oils does to your body? Welcome back to the doctor Gundry podcast some of my listeners might not know about me is that I actually do have a sweet tooth and I love to bake all kinds of cookies cakes and treats But when it comes to common baking ingredients like processed flour and seed oils well Traditional flowers like all-purpose flour or whole wheat flour you've got to stay away from these things They are made from wheat, which is one of the worst things for your body. It contains multiple different lectins including gluten and Gluten is really disastrous unfortunately to so many people causing leaky gut and Just because you've been told you don't have celiac disease, which is the extreme form of gluten intolerance Does not mean that you're not Sensitive to the effects of gluten in fact the vast majority of my patients with leaky gut are Sensitive to gluten yet. They do not have celiac disease and there's been unfortunately a lot of Misconception that the only way to measure whether you're sensitive to gluten is to look for Celiac disease markers, and that's absolutely not true So in general stay away from wheat which contains gluten stay away from rye and barley which contain gluten interestingly enough corn flour 70% of my patients who react to gluten react to corn as if it was gluten and Oats even if oats say gluten free there is a protein in oats That cross reacts with gluten and so many of my patients eating their gluten-free oats It's this protein in oats that's still a trigger for them Okay, so what do you use instead of that? Well, there are plenty of substitutes in place of these lectin loaded flowers For cookies almond flour and coconut flour and xanthan gum make great tasty good mouthfeel cookies Cakes you can also use almond flour and coconut flour Fun stuff you can add millet flour and tapioca starch for a fluffier cake Pie crust almond flour and tapioca starch works good, but a word of warning Almonds contain a lectin in their peel that many of my autoimmune patients react to So if you're going to use almond flour, please please look for the word blanched almond flour Don't just get finely ground up almonds There is actually a big difference that we can see in our patients blood work. So Blanched almond flour Okay, so how about vegetable oils like you know processed seed oils? Well, there's a very important caveat that I think is bears repeating Recently we've been seeing more and more health gurus Tell us that the reason We have so much bad health is that these processed seed oils are loaded with Oils that we should not have in our diet specifically an omega-6 fat called Linolake acid and An omega-3 fat called alpha linolenic acid sounds very similar So linolenic acid is a short chain omega-6 Linolenic acid is a short chain omega-3 now Seed oils in general are unusual in the diet but Both linolenic acid and linolenic acid are essential fats by essential That means you have to have them in your diet Because we do not manufacture them. In fact fun fact Your mitochondrial membrane has a special fat called cardiolipin And cardiolipin comes from that omega-6 fat Linolenic acid And so without Linolenic acid in your diet. You actually can't make A proper mitochondrial membrane to make energy As you've read in several of my books alpha Linolenic acid that short chain omega-3 Is probably the reason why the lion heart diet or the neon heart diet Was so successful in preventing heart disease in people who were given additional alpha linolenic acid in their diet And compared to not getting it in their diet and these people actually Stopped their heart disease from progressing So both of these are seed oils Where do they come from? Well alpha linolenic acid great source is actually flax seeds The best source surprisingly is perilla oil And an everyday decent source that has both Linolenic and linolenic acid is Organic canola oil So these are not The evil empire that people want them to be made out to be Well, what about the studies suggesting that these processed foods are the cause of Metabolic and flexibility diabetes heart disease Well, as I showed in unlocking the keto code These studies Combined the processed flowers and sugars With these oils and when in experiments The processed sugars were removed and just the oils were used They found no adverse health benefits So what's happened is we Implicated these oils As the real cause of the problem Whereas it wasn't the oils which are essential and they're essential for a reason because we have to have them They've just been combined with all these highly processed Wheat and grain products That become sugar in our bodies Much more rapidly than even table sugar So whenever we look at these studies carefully and we say oh the reason Processed foods are so bad for you is because they're made with these industrial seed oils And they're made with processed carbohydrates Let's be really careful about who we want to implicate and remember studies looking At for instance alpha linolenic acid this omega-3 fat shows that it has tremendous health promoting properties And studies looking at linolenic acid that short chain omega-6 fat shows that it is the major component Of the mitochondrial membrane And without them all of us would sputter to a stop Now one last proviso normally in nature There's about two to three parts omega-6 fats two omega-3 fats For instance if you're eating grass-fed grass-finished beef The ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 is about two to three to one Unfortunately because almost all of our animals are now fed corn and soybeans Which are predominantly omega-6 fat And omega-6 fats come from grains The current ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 in our diet Is 20 to 30 omega-6 to one So this ratio has completely gotten Wacked on its head And it's no wonder that our Diet is suffering So just because something says you know organic chicken Or organic Farm-raised salmon Just remember that those fats Are not the fats that these animals normally would have eaten in fact sad to say that Salmon wild salmon has really wonderful levels of Long-chain omega-3 fats DHA and EPA But farm-raised salmon that are fed corn and soybeans Unfortunately don't have those omega-3 fats In fact, they now have omega-6 fats in excess And so you took a food that was originally Balancing in the amount of omega-3 fat And now you completely flipped it by changing its diet So final point to take home You are what you eat But you are what the thing you're eating ate Take that to the bank I think you're going to love this one And if you think you don't like the sliminess of okra and that's been a turnoff These are not slimy. They're crispy and they taste better than any potato chip you'll ever have in your life And your gut buddies are going to love it and you'll block whatever lectins you're eating