Humans + Grains…. Do They Add Up?

Do humans and grains go together? Should humans eat grains?

Grains are inflammatory and lead to disease and sub-optimal health. Here’s why I avoid them.

When I see clients eliminate grains (rice, corn, wheat, rye, oats, quinoa, and millet), the results are wide-ranging and permanent. Benefits include neurological improvements, emotional well-being, healthier bowels, decreased pain, better sleep and weight, and improved energy!

Humans and Grains – Best to Avoid?

Grains are inflammatory for several reasons:

1. As protection, seeds coat themselves with toxic substances and indigestible coatings. This combination prevents many animals from eating or digesting many types of seeds, having the seeds often pass through the bowel intact.
2. Wheat, oats, rice, and corn are grass seeds. Our stomachs, teeth, and enzymes did not evolve to graze on grass, as occurred in horses, camels, and elk. These animals have digestive systems that can convert the toxic seed coating into digestible food. They don’t need the higher protein and fat diets “hunters” need. As hunters, we did not eat quantities of grass seed. Our diets were mostly animals, leafy plants, fats and tubers.
3. We currently eat modern, hybridized forms of grains our immune systems don’t recognize as food.  Our body attacks these “foods” and creates harmful inflammation.
4. Grass seed is high in starchy calories, and has more inflammatory Omega 6 fats than the anti-inflammatory Omega 3’s. See our Rosita Cod Caps, and Systemic Formulas CVO Cardiovascular Oil for great Omega 3’s.

Healing the intestinal lining is of primary importance in regaining health. Removing grains from your diet is the first step to healing the gut wall. By doing this, we reduce Dysbiosis, fermentation and Candida, the overgrowth of yeast in the body.

My Diet For Human Beings DVD teaches you about the foods we evolved to eat. You can also read “Why Most Grains Are Bad for You and What to Do About It” to learn more.