I recently isolated what might be a root cause of my 2019 burnout, oxalates and other anti-nutrients: https://www.webmd.com/diet/foods-high-in-oxalates https:/

I recently isolated what might be a root cause of my 2019 burnout, oxalates and other anti-nutrients: https://www.webmd.com/diet/foods-high-in-oxalates https://www.webmd.com/diet/foods-high-in-oxalates I've been a gym rat for 20+ years and tried to build my physique from primarily vegetarian sources. My favorite staple was bean burritos. But my joints were always achy (I couldn't survive without 1500/1200 glucosamine/chondroitin), my skin was broken out, I was bloated, I had chronically low energy, and I suffered from depression and anxiety for so long that I didn't know that I was (because they were my baseline for 2 decades). When I hit 40, suddenly I couldn't digest anything I had been eating. I believe the main culprits were: * Dehydration (exacerbated by creatine and not using a shaker for protein) * Almond butter (tree nuts are inflammatory and shells eat holes in intestinal lining) * Casein (slowest digesting protein, sits in intestines, promotes bad bacteria, many people are sensitive like with lactose) * Beans (oxalates, phytic acid) * Wheat (gluten irritates small intestine once immune system is sensitized, glyphosate disrupts intestinal flora and may be even higher in non-organic oatmeal) I experimented with autoimmune protocol (AIP) diets but never found a "cure". I made a full recovery, but it took 2-3 years of trying everything I could think of. The best things are: * Pumpkin seeds (like in Nature's path granola available in bulk at CostCo) * Spinach and broccoli * Rice * Kefir * Daily "stress" B complex with ~100% of each vitamin (the body can't store it, so a weekly 8000% B complex leaves 6 days of deficiency) * Psyllium husk capsules with meals (1 is usually enough) I've found that the body doesn't really care where protein comes from. So any whey protein is just as effective as meat, especially when taken with meals. But rare beef has (hormones?) and micronutrients which can't be mimicked by other foods, so is critical for healing micro tears. I'm looking forward to incubated meat because weightlifting progress is greatly enhanced by eating 1-2 pounds of meat per day, but I can't justify that ethically. The one meat substitute I can tolerate right now is Impossible breakfast sausages with 3 eggs and granola in the morning, and the bonus is that it's indistinguishable from meat. Some of the other ones trigger the shocked/hungover feeling I get the next day if I eat too many legumes or nightshades. So I endorse meat substitutes as long as they've had the anti-nutrients removed. But like milk substitutes, they may not have the healing qualities of the real thing. It's almost always best to get health advice from older people. Young lifters especially often make recommendations which aren't sustainable. And IMHO the backlash against meat substitutes comes from people procrastinating on their healing journey, who don't want to face the cognitive dissonance of how their personal choices affect others and the planet. And yes, I agree that humans evolved as scavengers and are meant to eat meat, I just think that tech has reached a point where we can do better.