👉Read Labels, Avoid Excipients!
Toxic Additives and Excipients like citric acid, carrageenan, gums (xangthan, guar, etc), soy lecithin, sulfites, Titanium Dioxide etc. can disrupt energy metabolism, and trigger inflammatory responses in the body that increase stress hormones and lower metabolic function.

👉Cut out PUFA aka Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids
We will do more posts on this, but in a nutshell, PUFAs lower the metabolic rate, and cause an inflammatory cascade in the body damaging tissues, nerves, cells, and cellular function.

PUFAs include:
nuts
seeds
nut and seed oils and butters
fish oil
vegetable oils
soybean oils
and more

👉Cut out foods high in anti-nutrients
Those foods would be Green Leafy Vegetables, Cruciferous Vegetables, some fruit peels and seeds, nuts an seeds, beans and legumes, and some grains.

Most people don't realize this, but plants have natural defense mechanisms in them to keep bugs, birds and animals from eating them. The leaves, stems and seeds have the highest concentration of these defense mechanism to ensure the plants survival and the reproduction of the plant.

However plants do create fruits that smell and taste sweet to encourage animals to eat them, and these fruits have little to no toxins. This also helps animals spread the seeds of the plant over the surface of the plant as they eat, and then ultimately eliminate the seeds.

"The toxins of plants include phenols, tannins, lectins/agglutinins, and trypsin-inhibitors, besides innumerable more specific metabolic inhibitors, including “anti-vitamins.” Unsaturated fats themselves are important defenses, since they inhibit trypsin and other proteolytic enzymes, preventing the assimilation of the proteins that are present in seeds and leaves, and disrupting all biological processes that depend on protein breakdown, such as the formation of thyroid hormone and the removal of blood clots." Ray Peat PhD

Antinutrients are nutrients that inhibit absorption of other nutrients or block the bodies ability to utilize those nutrients. Some antinutrients include oxalates, phytates, lectins, trypsin-inhibitors, pectin and goitrogens. We will expand on these in later posts.