 Next question is from Aaron Kirsch 7. What is better, raw or cooked vegetables? What are the benefits or detriments of both? This is so funny. The whole raw versus cooked debate, I think, is so silly because people don't understand the total context of assimilation and what you can digest. Well, it all came from when people started sharing the research around when you cook the vegetables, you lose some of the nutrients. And so when we study them like that, so if you look at something that's been boiled for 15 minutes and you compare it to it in its raw form, the raw form just looking at it like that looks like it's more nutrient dense. It's got more nutrient value, but then I know where sal's going to go right now, which is the whole digestive process has to come out. But at face value, it looks like obviously you've gotten rid of nutrients, so it's a worse option. Yeah, it's like, okay, look, if you could look at a rock outside and analyze it, and it's full of minerals, because I mean, you're going to eat the rock and get all those minerals. No, it'll destroy you. You know, here's the interesting thing about plants. So animals have, they've evolved to have their own defense mechanisms. You got to remember that humans are the apex predators on earth, and we have been for a long time. Animals evolved having sharp teeth, hooves, they can run fast, they can move, they've got good hearing, sight and smell. Plants don't go anywhere. So what kind of evolution, how did they evolve to defend themselves? Well, they evolved with compounds that made them difficult to digest or compounds that made them actually poisonous in many cases. For example, we eat wheat all the time. Humans have been eating wheat for, you know, tens of thousands of years, especially relatively recently. But if you were to go outside and grab some wheat, and you didn't grind it, mill it and process it, and you just ate it, it would shred you. It would totally shred your gut. Potatoes, we've been eating potatoes forever. Potatoes are one of a staple in most modern societies. If you picked a raw potato and ate it, it would destroy your gut. Though we cooked plants as a way of neutralizing a lot of these defense mechanisms. This is how humans were able to consume lots of plants. The way humans consume wheat is we mill the shit out of it. Even back in the day, they would grind wheat powders forever. And then we would cook it, and then we would boil it, and that's how we're able to unlock the nutrients and eat them. Plants, a lot of plants are this way. Look, you can even do this experiment. Go eat a cup or two cups of raw broccoli, see how you feel. Then go eat one or two cups of very well cooked broccoli and see how you feel. Notice your digestion, notice your bloat, notice how you feel. It makes a huge difference. So cooking vegetables is one of the best ways you can get to be able to consume a lot of vegetables and unlock those nutrients. Yes, you destroy a lot of nutrients in the plants when you cook them, but it doesn't matter. You're neutralizing a lot of these compounds that cause issues. It doesn't matter if you can't assimilate the raw ones. It doesn't matter if it affects you negatively. Now the plants that you can eat, raw and you don't need to cook, are fruit. Here's why. Why can we eat fruit without cooking them? Because plants evolved creating these fruits so that animals would eat them and then put out the seeds. It's like that's what they wanted. But roots, leaves, especially stems and roots, those are typically very difficult and not impossible to digest. If you look at animals that survive just on plants, they chew, look at cows, right? They chew the shit out of grass. And they have two stomachs. Four, I think they're four. Then they digest a little bit, then they spit it, they put it back in their mouth, chew it some more, bring it back down, and they chew it some more. And they get gnarly farts. They get gnarly farts. So no, it's silly to this whole raw versus cooked debate. You're better off cooking your vegetables, especially if you eat a lot of vegetables. And of course, some of them are fine eating raw. There's lettuce and stuff like that. But otherwise, yeah, otherwise you're better off cooking your vegetables.