The Healthiest Foods You Need in Your Diet

I'd like to discuss the absolute healthiest foods that you should be eating now how do we figure this out so let's just take a look at what the definition of food is food is that which is eaten to sustain life provide energy and promote the growth and repair of tissues so if you eat something that doesn't sustain life that doesn't give you energy that doesn't help your tissues grow and repair it's not food and if we take a look at what foods create the most disease well Ultra process foods that's a real polite way of

saying junk Foods so before we get into the actual Foods what are ultr processed foods the word Ultra means to the extreme processed in the specialized definition of food means something that has been altered using either chemical or mechanical or heat or other methods to change something something into something else and so they can start out with corn and turn that into something that doesn't even resemble corn okay that's alter processed and I don't know why they can even call this food because it doesn't sustain life you can't live on it it doesn't give you

energy it makes you tired there are basically no nutrients except for the few synthetic nutrients that they spray on it and it doesn't promote growth especially and we're talking about like even a growing child that needs high quality amino acids and high quality fatty acids so if we look at a scale from I'm going to call it nonfood all the way to the other side of some whole food that has bioavailable nutrients so that means it would have to have vitamins minerals trace minerals amino acids and fatty acids and other things too and I think

fiber um might be important as well simply because fiber is something that your microbes do eat and I'm not talking about added fiber just the fiber that comes within certain foods but we do know the essential things essential fats essential proteins but there's no essential carbohydrates we can actually live without carbohydrates on the flip side there are some important nutrients in vegetables vitamin C folate pottassium magnesium and phytonutrients which have a lot of additional interesting properties that go beyond just U basic nutrients anti-inflammatory antioxidant Etc however that being said you can find in grass-fed beef

a lot of phytonutrients that's right there's not a lot of research in this area as far as the difference between the two uh or the bioavailability but they're in there like I'm demonstrating right here in this picture and you can see the level of phytonutrients in my cattle and you can see it's much higher especially than the grain fed and this is probably because uh my cattle get no grain it's all grass-fed grass finished and even in eggs right you can get certain phytonutrients which are plant-based compounds so you don't always have to get these

phytonutrients from Plants now if you look at a vegan's diet you can't really get all of the nutrients without adding or supplementing to a vegan diet especially B12 and other nutrients that are not as bio valuable and then we also have DHA which is omega-3 and also uh the amino acids are different from plant to animal you can still do it being a vegan I'm not saying that you can but it's just a little more difficult you have to combine certain things to get the complete amino acid profile the bottom line is there's just more

quality amino acids in animal products than there are in Plants now in vegetables you have also um certain anti-nutrients but for example like cruciferous vegetables you can cook them you can steam them and reduce a lot of these anti-nutrients nuts also have uh antinutrients soak them overnight it's called germination even roasting nuts reduce the antinutrients on one extreme we have the alra process ingredients right which really is composed of three or four main ingredients with a lot of additional chemicals so let me just give you one example this was my favorite snack in college let's

just take a look at what the ingredients are corn vegetable oils corn canola Andor sunflower oil so number one realize that corn is not like sweet corn okay it's called Dent corn or field corn uh you can't eat it I mean it's disgusting so they're processing it to put it in a powder and then flavoring it and putting all sorts of things on it to make it taste edible and then the seed oils are highly inflammatory and then we have molto dextrin it has worse effects on your blood sugars the actual sugar it's highly processed

monosodium glutamate of course just to stimulate your appetite artificial colorings artificial flavorings and natural flavorings and then some other chemicals too now what's interesting about this is take a look at the fats I don't know if you can see total fats 8 gram that's per serving size 12 chips that's 10% of all the calories I mean people think that saturated fats is the worst thing right in here but it has one gr then what is all the other fats in there unsaturated fatty acids that's the thing that's creating a tremendous amount of damage in our

bodies because it's the vegetable oils highly processed highly inflammatory yet when we think about junk Foods um no one's really saying to avoid the unsaturated fats it's all about the saturated fats this is why some companies will say hey this junk food has no saturated fats and you think oh wow that's healthy not quite and the last thing they have on there is guaranteed fresh okay guaranteed fresh like like taking an apple off of a tree type fresh you know the purpose of ultra processed food is to increase shelf life and make it cheap and

make it very tasty okay and so I really think the um the essence of healthy foods is really how much life that food has how dead can you make a food when you're cooking it five times using aive pressure chemicals heat it's in the Pet Foods it's in infant formulas 67% of all teens calories are alter processed foods and so yes they all have chemicals and everything but I think the thing that's really important to understand is the basic three ingredients number one the synthetic sugars the basic synthetic starches which is like modified food starch

or mdex and the synthetic oils which are the unsaturated seed oils those are the things that you need to really pay attention to and make sure they're not in your refrigerator all right let's finally get to the the purpose of this video which is the list of the healthiest foods um number one beef as in red meat the exact food that everyone's saying to avoid and I'm not talking about grain fed I'm talking about grass-fed grass finished and so you can't just lump in grass-fed cows that are on pasture that are rotated with all the

processed meat and also I've never met anyone who is allergic to beef beef is high in glutamine glutamine heals your gut in fact it's the highest source of glutamine and so many people have got inflammation this is why someone that goes on a beef diet or a carnivore diet starts to uh heal their gut in a lot of other inflammatory conditions you notice I didn't say chicken chickens are fed grains which really dramatically increase the omega-6 fatty acids however there are certain chickens that are soy and corn free that you can get which I don't

know where you can get them but they're much healthier all right number two wild caught fatty fish like salmon for example I mean an average person at least in the US consumes 32% of all their calories in the form of these seed oils and number three which is shellfish clams oysters shrimp lobster crab things like that you not only can get the omega-3 fatty acids but you can get all the trace minerals and you get high quality protein I mean oysters are just loaded with zinc then number four is eggs I think it's really important

to buy the highest quality eggs you can find uh organic pasta raised super amounts of nutrition especially in the yolk they're also very high in choline which can help a fatty liver okay number five is fermented vegetables I'm mainly talking about either Sauer crop or kimchi and the reason I put those in the list is because they're great probiotics the sauerkraut has like 10 times the vitamin C of any vegetable it's loaded with the prebiotics of fiber and the probiotics which are the microbes plus it's made from cabbage which has a lot of great things

for gut health glutamine and I think a lot of people don't realize that these microbes contribute so much to your health I mean just take a look at what happens after an antibiotic to your heal goes right down the tubes so we need to emphasize foods for our probotics all right number six I'm going to include the leafy greens that could be anything from arugula to spinach to just high quality lettuce that's grown on soil you also have folate vitamin C you have potassium and magnesium yes it's true that spinach is high in oets but

if you consume cheese with spinach or or you cook your spinach you can reduce oxalates number seven organ Meats I personally don't like liver even though I know it's super healthy I can't eat it for some reason but I do like cod liver and I get it in a can it's loaded with omega3 fatty acids and it has a lot of other good things and I like the taste doesn't taste like liver number eight certain herbal spices and I'm talking about garlic uh onion uh Sage thyme sea salt which is not an herb but it's

just something I want to throw in there basil and cinnamon all these herbs have special compounds that can help in various ways now there's one popular video I explain a lot more about the number one food that is the most anti-inflammatory and I want you to know more about this so check out this video I put it up right here