Nuts to Eat, Nuts to Avoid and Why It Matters

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. Well that’s nuts. Well, what’s nuts with us? Today’s doctor Peter Mihllos, otherwise known as his nickname, live long and prosper. That helps all our listeners to live very, very long, longer than they would have Well, doctor Peter, we had a discussion at lunch last week and I was very very impressed. I never knew about the nuts. Well,

0:30 doctor Peter, tell all our audience, tell the millions of people that may be listening about nuts. And we’ve talked about pistachios is one of the best nuts you can eat. We talked about almonds, one of the best nuts you can eat. But the almonds, you said there has to be well without the skin, do you tell us? Well?

0:54 Speaker 2 Absolutely. What happens is that the two nuts that ought not to be great for us are peanuts. And we call peanuts peanuts, but they’re actually a lagume. They’re actually not a nut. And the other issue with peanuts is that they’re grown in humid environments and they tend to sit around, and peanuts have a tendency to grow mold

1:14 and you don’t see it. It’s on the microscopic level, and those molds are called aflatoxins, and those afflatoxins have been found to be associated with more liver cancer and other cancers that we can the immune system. And some peanut farmers they tend to have more of these types of cancers down in the South, and then they finally

1:36 associated with the peanuts. And I also tell when people buy peanut butter to but buy small batches. Don’t buy the big jars, buy smaller batches more often, and then you should refrigerate it because people leave them sitting around.

1:51 But if it’s not in a cooler temperature or cool dry place, then they have a higher chance of growing. Applotoxins also tell people to really look at the expiration date. Don’t eat peanut butter or or jar peanuts after the expiration date. But in general I try to avoid the other better choice is almonds and almonds butter. And also

2:16 there’s something called lectins and they’re like little microscopic razor blades on the surface of certain night shade vegetables like tomatoes. That’s why, for example, Italians peel the skin off with tomatoes, but a lot of people like my mother used to do and I didn’t know why she would soak the almonds or soak the pistachios, and soaking them actually destroys

2:37 those lectums, which act like little razor blades, and they make little cuts inside our gut microbiome, which creates something called leaky gut where bad bacteria.

2:46 Speaker 1 Let me get that straight, because I looked at some of the almonds I was eating last night and it has that little brown skin around it. Are we talking about the round skin around the white almond?

3:03 Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah, they’re much better if they’re put in water and soaked overnight. And the other problem that they sell these soaked in seed oils and they cover them with salt, So you don’t want salted, preferably bi organic raw nuts when you purchase them, and I always look for the organic option. So that’s one way to avoid.

3:26 Speaker 1 No, So you avoid the skin of the almonds, even though the almonds are one of the top three or four nuts that you can eat, and you avoid you avoid the peanuts. And the other thing we talked about at lunch is avoid cashews at all costs. Yeah.

3:50 Speaker 2 Cashews are a problem because they have oxalates in them that also cause kidney stones, and they also are processed through the kidney and they cause kidney stress. And they’re also part of the poison avin family, So if you look on doctor Google and you put cashews and poison ivy, you’ll find out they’re of the same family. So they’re

4:09 not exactly great for gut health, but overall nuts are great. So I’m going to go into the good nuts, like walnuts, which are excellent for you. They’re filled with omega threes, they have antioxidants, they’re good for brain health, and if you look at a nut, they’re actually they look like a little brain, and they have something called alpha andelaic acid,

4:27 which is good for inflammation and has also copper and manganese which is also good for the brain. And a recent big study found that the balance between zinc and copper and our brain have to be just right and that also may help prevent Alzheimer’s disease. And they found Alzheimer’s patients had an imbalance between the copper and zinc level,

4:50 and most doctors never really checked zinc or copper levels. The next one is Amban’s, which is excellent. It’s got high in proteins, it’s got a lot of fiber magnesium.

5:01 Speaker 1 But without but almonds, white almonds that means we’re not got.

5:05 Speaker 2 Skin on it, right. The ones that are have been these skins, just like tomatoes, you get these skins to get rid of those lectins. And they also found that the good, the good nuts, like for example, hazel nuts, also have that skin, so you have to soak them and get rid of it. But pistachios, walnuts, and hazel

5:25 nuts actually raise the HDL And the mnemonic is h is for happy cholesterol HDL and the LDL is the bad cholesterol. So nuts can lower LDL, but the hazel nuts, pistachial walnuts raise HDL. Pistachios are great because they’re high fiber, but they’re also good for your eyes. They have lutine and xanthonin which helps the retina and eye health, and

5:46 they’re lower in calories compared to other nuts, which ones. Nuts.

5:53 Speaker 2 Well, that’s the that’s the pistachios.

5:56 Speaker 1 Pistachios the eyes.

5:57 Speaker 2 And lower calories. The next one is the super nut, which I actually eat two of them a day because selenium and zinc are great for your thyroid function found in brazil nuts.

6:09 Speaker 1 Brazil nuts an accident for your thyroid function.

6:12 Speaker 2 Absolutely, zinc and brazil nuts are also good for our prostate. Now, Macedonian nuts are good because they have B one, thiamin and blood vessels, but they have a lot of calories. So of the nuts, they contain more calories than you might want to have.

6:30 Speaker 1 But there, you know, you know what you didn’t mention yet, my peacan pie.

6:36 Speaker 2 They can’t well, I was gonna mention that I avoid them because they’re very high in carbohydrate. And for those of us who have to be careful with our blood sugar because bloods high blood sugar is dead for antiaging.

6:49 Peacans have a little bit too many carbohydrates and the highest of all the nuts, they do have some high dose of manganese, which is good, but I don’t think peacns are worth it a stept on holidays to have some pea campie because of the high.

7:03 Speaker 1 Car so eat walnuts instead of peakits.

7:07 Speaker 2 Absolutely walnuts are probably, you know, really amazing good for hard help and they contain that alpha in the LOWERC acid which actually helps the brain and brain function and the materials and the lining of our brain need those healthy proteins. So that’s basically the summary of the good nuts and the bad nuts. And keep listening to WABC

7:33 for more good.

7:35 Speaker 1 I got a good another statement like live long and prosper the good, the bad, and the ugly. Nuts.

7:42 Speaker 2 Absolutely, and that’s why I dedicated three whole pages on nuts in our new book coming out, The Death of Aging, coming out in August.

7:50 Speaker 1 Looking forward to giving you that book party. Thank you so much.

7:54 Speaker 2 Thanks for always getting the truth out on the Cats round Table