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Nuts

Nuts are the hard-shelled fruit of certain plants that are rich in beneficial nutrients. These include various types of edible seeds, walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts, cashews, pistachios, and others. They are packed with healthy fats, proteins, fibre, vitamins, and minerals.

Category
Food/Dietary Supplement
Molecular Formula
N/A
Mechanism of Action
The beneficial effects of nuts are primarily due to their nutrient content, including monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, fiber, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and various bioactive compounds like antioxidants.
Evidence Grade
A

Other Names

  • Edible Seeds
  • Tree Nuts
  • Ground Nuts

Primary Benefits

  • Heart Health
  • Weight Management
  • Control Blood Sugar Levels
  • Improve Digestive Health
  • Boost Brain Function

Recommended Dosage

Children 1-2 ounces per day
Adults 1-2 ounces per day

Side Effects

  • Allergic Reactions
  • High Caloric Intake if Consumed in Large Amounts

Precautions

  • Allergy
  • Excessive Consumption

Interactions

  • May Lower Blood Sugar Levels, Interfering With Diabetes Medication

Key References

  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3257681/
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6146358/
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“And then you need to eat some nuts. You get some good things from nuts.”

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“humans were really only consuming small amounts of polyunsaturated fat both omega3 and Omega 6 but let's talk about the Omega 6 primarily here they're in meat and they're in nuts and seeds”

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“I also really regulate their diet. But to be honest with you, their diet is usually fixed by the time they come to me because these are people who are really sick. They've seen 30 doctors. They have mystery symptoms. So, by the time they come to me, they're gluten free. They're dairy free. They're soy free. They're nut free. They're egg free.”

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“So generally speaking I have a pretty healthy diet i eat a lot mostly a plant-based diet although I do eat some meat um I'm I'm an omnivore but uh mostly a lot of uh you know legumes beans and nuts um leafy greens i try to have a”

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“I eat a lot of broccoli, cauliflower, lentils, hemp protein, berries, nuts, seeds”

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“the five pillars of every longevity diet in the world are whole grains, greens, tubers like sweet potatoes, nuts, and beans.”

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“we know that people eat a handful of nuts a day live about two years longer than people who don't and if it's walnuts they seem to be the healthiest associated with about three extra years of life expectancy”

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“I'm eating this organic paleo diet vegetables salads nuts meat eggs fruit and and my Eczema is still problematic for me so what's going on here”

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“I added back fruit looking at kind of the plant kingdom and thinking the leaves of plants and the stems of plants like celery or the roots of plants or the seeds of plants which are actually seeds nuts grains and beans they all have defense chemicals and they all have more defense chemicals than the fruit.”

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“And we talk about the Mediterranean diet. It's kind of a vague term, you know, was it pasta and pizza or is it, you know, olive oil and fish and nuts and like, you know, so what is it exactly?”

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“they basically randomized people to either a liter of olive oil a week or basically a big handful of nuts every day compared to a low-fat diet.”

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“as vegetables nuts and those are the major ingredients in there and the reason for that is that we're we're thinking now what happens after you do three cycles of this we're thinking what if you were to do 300 cycles of this right and I don't want even though I could get more benefits from a lower more ketogenic diet a lower carbohydrate diet I don't want to do that because I don't want people to go back and forth in this yo-yo manner to very low carb very high carb.”

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“I think the 60/30/10 is an ideal diet if you for all time so 60% carbs mostly from vegetables and legumes, 30% fats mostly from olive oil, nuts and a fatty fish, and 10% protein mostly from legumes and fatty fish.”

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“The longevity diet, which I just published an article describing why the longevity diet should be adopted. It's a high carbohydrate, but not high refined carbohydrate and not a low sugar, low refined carbohydrate, high carbohydrate composed of lots of legumes, lots of whole grains, nuts, et cetera.”

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“It's better to not have saturated fats, animal fats and again, the epidemiology agrees with that but when we are talking about these monosaturated fats, olive oil, nuts, probably certain fish like salmon, that seems to be consistently associated with living longer.”

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“It feels like somewhere around 70% carbohydrate, 20%. No, maybe. Maybe 50, 60% carbohydrate 'cause I have lots of nuts, olive oil.”

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“when you're shopping at the grocery store choose the perimeter you know all the fruits and vegetables nuts seeds legumes um whole grains like quinoa oats um brown rice or or even regular rice is fine um just choose organic because organic has less arsenic um pasture eggs uh pasture raised or grass-fed uh cheese I I do a lot of goat cheese uh that I love because goat cheese is just easier to digest”

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“what foods have iron in them or iron rich so primarily red meat is where a lot of people turn to but if you are more plant-based then we look at leafy greens we look at nuts and seeds but using a lot of vitamin C with that prly adding um a little bit of olive oil on our salads uh maybe cooking in an iron skillet to improve the amount of iron that comes into the food”

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“because the calories are contained from the fat Etc and then you probably break down about another 60 to 70% as it passes through your stomach your small intestine your large intestine okay but you have loads of material arriving at your colon which is your large intestine that's undigested which is good for two reasons one because you're giving all of this food to your microbiome which we know is great for your health your microbiome is having a party with these nuts”

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“having fiber though from the whole food is always going to be better and so with nuts fiber is essentially the cell walls of the nuts so it's having that role in reducing that bio accessibility that we talk about at slowing those nuts down so that's always going to be better having that fiber in the whole food in its original structure in the way nature intended”

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“we ask people to change 20% of their energy from either having typical UK snacks or having 20% of their energy from almond nuts for 6 weeks and then we looked at various health outcomes”

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“the Improvement in blood vessel function following having almond nuts versus having typical UK snacks equated to a 30% reduction in cardiovascular disease”

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“people who consume nuts do not gain weight.”

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“20 to 30% of the calories from nuts are being excreted.”

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“I eat a lot of like just nuts and seeds. I'll put hemp seeds on everything, right? And it's just like it's great texture, like pumpkin pumpkin seeds.”

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“Like walnuts, that's like the the go-to snack for me. Just like have a handful.”

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“the global burden of disease study looked at dietary intake over 27 years 195 countries and what they found was that lack of these plant-based foods. So lack of phyitochemicals and fibers and other components of plant-based foods from fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds contributed more to global mortality than removing things such as processed meats or red meats or sugar sweetened beverages.”

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“resveratrol that's in grapes and berries, pistachios, dark chocolate. We know that that can activate our antioxidant defenses.”

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“I'll bring tree nuts. Tree nuts. Walnuts, almonds, macadamia, pistachios. Um I love nuts. U tree nuts. And you know, not the pack prepackaged kind, but I like to, you know, kind of like toast them up myself and see flavor them myself.”

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“omega-3 fats other good fats and polyphenols um and there's a whole category of other things that can be helpful so in terms of the omega-3 fats the fatty fish is really important we talked about things like olive oil avocados nuts and seeds great for the brain”

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“the second that you described is that afternoon you know you're in meetings around a table and you start to get as you said those wonderful head nuts and people listening you you all know that where the of head goes down and snaps back up it's not that people are listening to good music and sort of doing this head bobbing it's that they falling prey to what we know is a genetically hardwired pre-programmed drop in your afternoon alertness it's called the postprandial dip in alertness”

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“a Savory breakfast is what it's based around protein eggs uh fish meat tofu nuts Dairy protein powder dinner leftovers”

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“So, if you're looking for the ALA, plant sources would be walnuts, flaxseeds. Those are probably the highest.”

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“today I'm carrying around like my venison jerky sticks and my nuts and that way it's like I don't have to eat something else.”

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