Top 10 "Healthy" Foods That Are Killing You! (Most People Eat These Daily)

Hello Health Champions. Today i want to talk about

some foods that are usually promoted as the very healthy foods that we should

eat a lot of but especially in some people they can

actually cause health problems and they can be

the very foods that they need to avoid if they want to at all be able to

recover from their conditions coming right up

hey i'm dr ekberg i'm a holistic doctor and a former olympic decathlete

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notification bell so you don't miss anything i'm going to give you my top 10

list of healthy foods that could actually be

killing you but i want to let you know it's a useless list and why do i say

that because it's useless unless you know

exactly why the foods are on there so here's the list for those people who

just want the list now you can take that and you can go and compare it to other

useless lists and continue to be more and more

confused alright no don't do that stay with me so

that you can start understanding because then if you know why these foods do what

they do for some people then you can also

understand why other foods that are similar might be

doing similar things and you can help other people understand

this as well in talking about this i also want to dig

a little deeper into why some people don't get

better when some people do so a lot of people get better just by

working on insulin resistance they lose weight

their aches and pains their arthritis their brain fog goes away

but then there's some people who do all the same things

and they might even lose the weight and reverse their insulin

but they still don't feel so good what's going on here

so we're going to talk about how to fix the

other 20 and i think by understanding this we might actually

be able to reverse 90 percent of the other

issues for the rest of the 20 % of people and most of what's going on

when you're not getting better when it seems

tough is that there's an allergy or a sensitivity

or an intolerance of some kind it's your body is reacting you're having

an immune response whenever you put something

in your body it doesn't do well it doesn't blend well there's

there's a reaction and now it's going to start manifesting in a gut flora

imbalance and small intestine bacterial overgrowth

or a leaky gut and then down the road you might even

get some autoimmunity another thing i want to point out is that the foods

we're talking about is not bad for everybody they're not the

worst foods in the world they're not like beer

and donuts and fast food all right these are

healthy for a lot of people or at least moderately healthy for a lot of people

but we're going to talk about why they hurt

some people so at the core of these issues

is inflammation and sensitivities and leaky gut and then once you have

leaky gut now you get more sensitivities because

particles that are supposed to be too big to get

through the intestinal lining now they slip through

and you have more immune responses and more inflammation so now

all these three feed each other and if this is allowed to go on for a while

now you also have some autoimmunity you start developing chronic

autoimmune responses and now all four of these variables start to

feed each other and that's why it's so difficult to get

out of this that's why so many people they try

for months or years to do all the right things

but it's so frustrating because they feel really stuck

so how do so many people get into this whole

mess well it often starts with antibiotics or anti-inflammatory drugs

that are very irritating on the intestinal lining

there's also of course a genetic predisposition

and stress is hugely influential because when you stress you turn off your

parasympathetic nervous system you don't digest well and you don't heal

well and when you don't heal that includes the

leaky gut of course we have to put sugar on this

list as well of causes because sugar promotes

inflammation it promotes insulin resistance

it upsets the balance of your bacteria in the gut

and the list goes on and on and then we're going to go into a little bit more

detail today on something called lectins because these

can also wreak havoc and promote all of these factors number

10 on the list of healthy foods that might kill you is

vegetable oil and i put quotation marks on vegetable oils because

there is no such thing the soybean oil is actually a legume

it's a bean corn oil is from a grain and canola oil is from a seed

none of these are vegetable oils but what they do is they promote them

as healthy because we've all been told so many times that eat more fruits and

vegetables eat more fruits and vegetables so

if something is a vegetable or from a vegetable that's got to be good for you

right so because they're not vegetables all of

these food types actually contain lectins now

in this case they don't contain a whole lot because

the oil is mostly the fat portion they only have

trace amounts of protein in there but if you're sensitive then that can still

be an issue the really big deal about why

these are so bad except that they're processed and

basically dead empty calories is that most of the fat is omega-6s

and in the body we have omega-3s which are anti-inflammatory we have omega-6s

which are pro-inflammatory and the closer we have that ratio

to one to one the better things work the easier it is for the body to balance

inflammation but with all of the foods that we have and the meat

that we have that's grain fed we're pushing the omega-6 balance

up so today and a lot of people we have a

20 to 1 ratio so we're pushing things toward pro inflammation and the more of

these oils we eat the further we push that out

of balance in order to really understand why these

foods are on the list and why they're ranked the

way they are we're going to look at all the different factors of how do they

promote insulin resistance do they promote

inflammation how common is this food as an allergy do

a lot of people react to it does it promote

leaky gut and autoimmunity and is it toxic in itself it's it's is it

such a potent toxin that it fits into a receptor or

interfere with a metabolic pathway or a signal pathway

so the biggest problem with vegetable oils is

inflammation they get a big red x because they promote

inflammation through those omega-6s then they get

a tiny little x because they don't have a lot of lectins but just even a trace

amount of lectins could promote allergies leaky gut and

autoimmunity in some sensitive people it's not really

toxic per se i wouldn't call it a poison it's

just really bad in general then what about avocado oil and olive

oil are they vegetable oils no

avocado and olive are fruits and like i mentioned initially there is

actually as far as i've been able to find there

is no such thing as a vegetable oil number nine is a shocker

to most people but bear with me you don't have to stop

eating these things you just need to understand which ones to eat

meat and fish and poultry can be bad depending

on what we feed these guys right because if they're grain fed then

they're going to have omega-6s in them they're going to have some

lectins in their meat so whatever they ate you eat all right

and lectins if we dig a little bit deeper

lectins are known as anti-nutrients that means they

interfere with the absorption of nutrients even if you eat

other foods alongside that are perfectly fine

you still can't absorb the nutrients properly from those

lectins can fit into insulin receptors and either act as insulin or block

insulin so it has the potential of promoting insulin resistance of

increasing blood sugar and also of increasing weight gain and

preventing fat loss these lectins are a form of

sticky proteins and they stick to carbohydrates

so on your cell surfaces for example in your gut lining and in your blood

vessels there's a protective layer where there's some little antennas

of carbohydrate portions sticking out and these

lectins they attach and they make these cell surfaces deteriorate

so now if that happens on the gut lining it very strongly promotes leaky gut

and in the blood vessels it can promote atherosclerosis or heart disease

and the assessment of mechanisms for this is going to be

exactly the same as the vegetable oils because they're only getting this stuff

because they're eating the same things that they made the

vegetable oils from but this is a little bit worse because

the oil is mostly the lipid portion but lectins which are proteins

you're going to get more of them because you're eating something that contains

a lot of protein it's not they haven't refined

and removed the protein but here's the good news

like i said it only is bad depending on what they feed them so you can still

eat these as long as you eat wild caught fish

and you eat grass-fed meat and you eat poultry and eggs that have been raised

without eating grain and corn and soy and so forth number eight

on the list is alcohol and alcohol is often promoted as

healthy because it's very relaxing they have associated it with

lower cholesterol and lower heart disease and

red wine for example contains something called resveratrol that has been

found to be very beneficial but there's not really enough resveratrol

in there to make any difference unless you drink like a hundred bottles

a day which i wouldn't recommend when we look at what alcohol

causes it's not really a promoter of insulin resistance

but when we go down the list here it primarily is promoting

leaky gut it increases intestinal permeability

and in doing that it can promote inflammation

and allergies and autoimmunity even if you're not really allergic to

alcohol that's very very rare but it can increase

other allergies it can increase how prone you are to get other allergies

and alcohol is a toxin both to the liver and the brain but it is

sort of like sugar and fructose it's a natural molecule so it's

dose dependent the dose makes the poison

number seven is something called night shades

and these are foods that for most people they don't really create a

problem and that goes for a lot of the things

we're talking about today that these are not bad for everybody

they're a little bit bad for everybody but not bad enough to

really be a big deal but for some people they're a

deal breaker right and night shades they are the good

veggies a lot of these are low carb they're loaded with vitamins and other

good things but they're also loaded with lectins

especially in the skin and in the seeds so if you peel them and de-seed them and

cook them now you're going to reduce the lectins

and if you pressure cook them then they're okay

because you're going to pretty much eliminate all the lectins

some of the very popular foods with lectins are potatoes

tomatoes bell peppers and eggplant and these are all in a family

called nightshades so what do these nightshades cause they

can promote insulin resistance a little bit first of all depending on

how much starch is in there like potatoes have a

lot of starch but the others don't they can still

indirectly promote insulin resistance through the lectins though because they

can fit into the insulin receptors

the rest of them they're pretty strong on

inflammation allergy leaky gut and autoimmunity

if you're sensitive right they create a little bit of a problem in everybody

but it's like if you have a strong immune

system if you have strong barriers then these things may never

become an issue so that's where you kind of

want to try it out if you're suspecting that you

have some issues then give it a shot and see what happens

if you're feeling a whole lot better then there's a good chance there's a

problem number six is dried fruit very often promoted as super healthy

who hasn't heard that oh you need to get a trail mix

quick energy it's all super good for you and things like yogurt raisins

right well raisins to start with is 66 sugar

and 77% net carbs but as if that wasn't enough they

take the raisin and now they coat it with sugar

right that's not enough sugar let's add some more sugar

and while we're at it let's coat it with some artificial flavor

and some artificial color and some synthetic

yogurt powder because if we call it yogurt

then it's got to be a health food right right so don't fall

for it know that this is just pure sugar so it strongly promotes insulin

resistance because all of this sugar it's not glucose it's

not like a potato it is sugar which means it's 50

glucose and 50 fructose for the most part

there's some variation in different fruits but pretty much

and therefore it's going to promote inflammation

allergies not a big deal there's not a whole lot of people that are allergic to

it not so much leaky gut and autoimmunity

is it toxic well just because of the fructose it is actually

toxic fructose is toxic to the liver and that's why sugar is so

devastating for the liver and why it promotes insulin resistance

and fatty liver so much number five

good food that kills you is agave syrup i get so many questions in the clinic

about this everyone comes in and oh i've been told

this is the good thing and my doctor said

this is the one to do because it has a low glycemic index

and it has been cleared as okay for type 2 diabetics and this is a travesty

it's a tragedy because agave syrup is 60 to 90 percent fructose

okay sugar is bad enough it's 50 50. high fructose corn syrup

is like 55 fructose and 45 glucose this is 60 to 90 percent

fructose this is high fructose corn syrup

on steroids so even though it's a little bit

more natural product it might have remained a little bit of a mineral or a

vitamin in there it's not a source of nutrients but what

it is it's high fructose corn syrup on

steroids so the pattern is going to be the same

as the dried fruit but just a little bit more because it's

all about the sugar hurting the liver promoting inflammation

and insulin resistance and i had to laugh when i looked at the

label of this bottle it said crafted for bartenders so

they're supposed to mix drinks with this stuff and basically

what they're saying is if we don't get to kill your liver

with the alcohol then let's make sure that we get

a second shot at it with this high fructose syrup

number four on the list is beans and legumes

now a lot of people around the world are eating this as a staple how bad can it

be well for some people it is devastating

we're talking soy and peanuts are two of the most common types of

beans and legumes they're high in starch they're very high

in lectins and when it comes to being an allergen

they're extremely common in my clinic we'll go through the top

five here but soy and peanuts are number four and

number five of the most common allergens and

sensitivities that we find so it upsets a lot of people soybeans

especially are very very hard to digest and when we

look at the mechanisms do they promote

insulin resistance yes a little bit but the starch is

mostly glucose it doesn't really have a whole lot of sugar

but inflammation allergy leaky gut autoimmune is pretty strong

so all in all beans and legumes if you can handle them fine eat it in

moderation but if you suspect something then stay away and see what happens

item number three on the list is a lot of people's

favorite vegetable except it's not a vegetable it is a grain

it is very high in starch very high in sugar

it's very high in lectins and in my office

i would say that it's the third most common allergen there's a tremendously

common allergy and the problem is corn is in everything

even if you don't eat the corn on the cob you have corn starch

and corn syrup in just about every processed food there is it

is very difficult to digest and as if that wasn't bad enough virtually

all the corn you can find today is genetically modified how does it fare

over here well it promotes insulin resistance and

inflammation it's a very very common allergen like we said

it promotes leaky gut and autoimmunity as well food number two

skim milk now so many commercials that "Got milk?" and we're told

that if kids don't get the milk they are not

going to get any calcium and all these myths are

out there so one of the problems with skim milk that makes it a lot worse

than whole milk is that there is no fat to buffer the sugar that skim milk has

60 percent of the calories come from sugar from the lactose in there so it's

basically a sugar food it's not as bad as

sucrose because that's glucose and fructose

lactose which is in milk doesn't have the fructose but it's still a sugar it

still raises blood sugar pasteurization

is a problem because it changes the properties it makes it much more

difficult to digest a lot of the enzymes and bacteria that

are native to the milk they help us digest

it when we pasteurize it we destroy those

we also denature some of the proteins in the milk with the heat they don't

look the same to our enzymes afterwards and when we homogenize it we break down

the fat into much much tinier particles so it

actually irritates that gut lining as well

it is the second most common allergen I have virtually no people coming into the

office who are not sensitive to milk so it doesn't

promote insulin resistance a whole lot but it is

a strong promoter of all the others because it is such a common allergen

allergens create inflammation it's like you're

lighting a spark and a fire in the body when when you have it

and as if milk isn't bad enough then let me blow

up this picture for you and here is your recommended serving you

serve it with sugar and sugar and the number one

worst of the healthy foods is wheat it encompasses all of the things

that make grains problematic and whole grains are actually worse in

some regards because even though they contain more nutrients

they have about the same blood sugar response and

they contain much more of the lectins so wheat is very high in starch it is

very high in lectins and it's the number one allergen that i

find in my office there are so many people even though the celiacs

disease people are the ones who sort of set on fire every time they eat it there

are so many people that have lesser sensitivities to wheat that they

don't really know about is it a GMO? Not technically because

by the time around the in the 1980s when wheat was hybridized they didn't

have the GMO technology they couldn't do

sophisticated gene splicing but they radiated it

and bombarded it and changed it in so many different ways that in

a lot of ways it's worse than a gmo it is not even close to what

wheat used to be thousands of years ago and it is also quite toxic because

most of it is raised with something called

glyphosate or other pesticides and how does it look over here

well it is strongly promoting insulin resistance and inflammation like

i said it's the number one allergy that i see it promotes leaky gut

and autoimmunity and it's not a poison in itself but through the

glyphosate and all the chemicals used to raise it it can be quite

toxic as well so here's the list of food from one to ten

but now you know why the foods are on the list

and why they're ranked that way and they may not be ranked that way for everybody

this is just a suggestion you can take your

understanding and start applying it just like we have an immune system

different people have a different ability to protect themselves

from the lectins and from these allergens

so it's not like these foods are terrible for everybody

they're probably a little bit bad for everybody they put a little bit of

stress on the body but if your defenses are strong enough

you may not have a big issue with them however

if you have some issues that haven't resolved

then why not give it a try cut some of this

out for 30 days and see what happens let me know in the comments below if you

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