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Plants usually don't like their seeds eaten (unless of course they're sure that you'll not digest it or somehow still help them reproduce). And we didn't co-evo
by AntiImperialist 6y ago
Plants usually don't like their seeds eaten (unless of course they're sure that you'll not digest it or somehow still help them reproduce). And we didn't co-evolve with grains much. We domesticated them fairly recently.
Unlike many other toxins plants put in their seeds to protect them, gluten doesn't seem to have been made just for defense. They just came up with a protein to feed their embryos... and turns out it was also toxic to herbivores. Of course, herbivores which co-evolved with these plants evolved ways to digest gluten... but when humans adopted it, we ran into problems.
The good thing is most of these problems can be avoided by not eating what plants don't want us to eat.
- lm28469 6y agoDoesn't it only affects like 1% of the general population ? It's an auto immune disease, not a "plants don't want use to eat that" disease. If anything it's the opposite of what you're saying, most people are perfectly evolved to eat seeds, a tiny minority have a genetic issue that makes them unable to.
- AntiImperialist 6y agoNo, we didn't co-evolve with plants eating their seeds. We found out ways to process them to make them edible and domesticated them, much later and have been doing so for a very short time. Most of the ones we eat are still toxic to us. Some of us are affected more than others.
- flybrand 6y agoFor a tiny portion of the population, a common food product is a low grade toxin. 10% have the genetics, 1% have Celiac - although that number is rising with awareness.
- Miner49er 6y agoNot just with awareness, it is rising in general. It's not just that we are better at finding it, it's that it is actually increasing too.
- thrower123 6y agoI suspect the prevalence is also rising because people don't just sicken and die mysteriously, because they can't eat the food that makes up 75% of their calories, due to Celiac now.
- sudoaza 6y agoTrue, way to go is to pre sprout or activate the seeds by leaving them in water for a day or two.
- AntiImperialist 6y agoYes, sprouting does waste away some of these proteins which are not good for us. Then, we're left with carbs which we can process much better, and fibre which we don't process but it's mostly OK to eat. But, overall, I think we're better off eating other things.
- Frondo 6y agoAre you getting your information from that pop-nutrition book where the author keeps using the phrase "seeds of grasses"?
- AntiImperialist 6y agoNot sure which one you're referring to but grains are seeds of grass.
- Frondo 6y agoOh, I found it -- "Wheat Belly" by William Davis, is this your source for your comments?