 Next question is from Anil P. Fitness. White rice versus brown rice. Is there really a difference? So glad you brought this up because this gets asked a million times. So okay, brown rice is a whole grain. It's got the germ over it and the whole or whatever that makes rice difficult to chew or okay. Does that make it healthier? No, in fact, it reduces its bioavailability. It increases the odds at which it's gonna cause potential gut issues. So this is where what we've learned through mainstream, baloney health and fitness advice is totally wrong. Yes, on paper it's got more fiber and whatever. Therefore it should be better. No, just like a rock is full of minerals, but if you eat a rock it's not gonna improve your health. Brown rice actually is harder to digest, it can cause more issues and cause more potential gut issues and there are things in brown rice called anti-nutrients that actually reduce. It doesn't say, doesn't it strip you of nutrients? It can actually reduce the absorbability of certain nutrients. White rice is a far better. Now people think, well, we gotta take something off of food to make it healthier. Yeah, okay, we did a recent podcast where we talked about how vegetables and plants have certain components in them to make them more difficult to digest as a defense mechanism. This is what the carnivore advocates talk about all the time. They say that, oh, plants have defense mechanisms. Therefore they're bad for you, which they go too far with that. Yes, there are defense mechanisms in plants, but that's why we process them and we cook them. And one of the things that we discovered as humans is that if you just eat the white rice and you boil it, it's very, white rice is very easy to digest. It's one of the foods that is really low on the scale of potential food intolerances. It's a great source of starchy carbohydrates. You try to eat the same amount of rice and make it brown, and a lot of people have gut issues from it or start to notice problems. So the difference between the two in terms of application, white rice is much easier to digest and probably better for you from a nutrient perspective in the sense that it doesn't reduce your absorbability of certain nutrients. Not to mention, it tastes way better. And it tastes way better. And if you flip the back over and you look at the macros, it's like you're splitting hairs. Yeah, they're almost identical what you're getting from a nutrient level, and it tastes better. I remember when I first learned that a long time ago, I never looked, I used to be a brown, I remember in my early 20s, I thought brown rice was healthier, and so I was eating brown rice with everything and chewing it down going like, this tastes like shit eating it. I found that out and was like, oh my, I never look back. I never again did brown rice. I think it's ridiculous. Like so unless you're some weird person who actually thinks that brown rice tastes better than if that's the case, then by all means, but you're splitting hairs is the difference. But you still see it like Chipotle or one of these like, you know, restaurant chains will all of a sudden promote like brown rice versus white rice. And it's just still something that's out there that's portrayed as like the healthier option. You know it's like that too? Sweet potato french fries versus regular french fries. You think that you're getting this as healthier thing. I'm doing good. But they're both deep fried and when you actually look at the macro difference on it, the fries will actually be a little bit lower calorie. One thing that I noticed was. But there's this, you know, we know sweet potatoes healthy, so you just, you think that they're a better choice. Sweet potatoes, for me personally easier to digest, believe it or not, white potato can sometimes cause a little bit of gut issues. Yeah, so it's phytic acid is what it's called in brown rice that reduces the absorption of certain vitamins and minerals. And in fact, in some, in third world countries, by the way, they don't eat brown rice. They eat white rice because they find in a lot of third world countries, obviously their food intake is low and challenged and they don't have lots of variety. And they find when they eat lots of brown rice that the children would develop nutrient deficiencies. And it wasn't until they switched to white rice that they solved this issue. So now that being said, again, if you like brown rice, that's fine, go for it. But if you're thinking that it's this healthier option, it's not. White rice is for most people probably better.