Grains are not easy to digest
This is a question with regard to diet, the question goes like that “I was wondering what your opinion is on eating grains and seeds and I read somewhere that it says we cannot break open the cellular structure of insoluble fiber through chewing and the three hours of our digestive process in the stomach making the nutrients in the grains and seeds completely unavailable to us. Since this is so, eating grain requires excessive insulin in the effort of digestion which creates a very high acid environment. As we are told to eat them, I was curious as to whether it was right? Many thanks “
I have written about them extensively in my book “TIMELESS SECRETS OF HEALTH AND REJUVENATION” but let me summarize it in this way. Grains are, in fact, not easy to digest, give them to cows which is common practice nowadays, you see what happens, they look like nine months pregnant… very, very large, bloated and they get ill very, very quickly. So giving humans too many grains to eat, you can expect there is a lot of fermentation as a result of not completely digesting these grains. Particularly if they are whole wheat grains, so, that means entire seeds.
You go to some bakeries and you see like seven grain or seven seed breads wherein they pack in every seed you can think of that can be used for baking breads, now that is almost an impossibility, you look at birds, birds have a goiter and a goiter is used to keep seeds, to be there for long, long time, to allow them to swell, to become expended and to ferment… that means to allow bacteria to digest those seeds or grains in the goiter. Now, we do not have that goiter, everything moves right into the stomach and you are absolutely right, if the grains are eaten and you do not masticate properly, on top of it, it is very hard to digest them quickly and if they are not digested quickly it can lead to fermentation, later on you can attract a lot of Candida bacteria that finish up the job of fermentation and that can create toxins and a lot of irritation, gas, bloatedness and them some of the toxins end up going in the blood stream and can make you feel unwell even in the head, your thinking is not clear, your memory recall may suffer or you are just not happy. So, a lot of that is true, so what do you do about it?
Well, if you soak the grains and the seeds before you cook them or use them then, you are basically helping to predigest them, so that is a practice that has been one on this planet for a long time. So if for example, if you eat pumpkin seeds, which can be extremely beneficial for many conditions, like for men prostate, and have many, many nutrients good for the brain and have certain fats in them, good for the joints, so there are many benefits from it, however, if you eat it in a raw form when you have not soaked it, you may not digest much of it and therefore it becomes just wasted money and it can also leave these foods undigested and create more digestive problems and bloating.
So I do recommend to soak grains and seeds before you cook them and not to have the heaviest seeds, something just does not cook, even long cooking will not break them down, you know that your body will not break it down especially if you eat it in a raw form which is virtually impossible to make use of those kinds of foods. So many people believe that eating whole grains, whole wheat food is a lot better than if you strip parts from the grain and eat it in its more refined manner, and, I can tell you that it depends on the body type.
There are some people who can break them down more easily… the whole grains… than the body types that have a slow metabolism. Hyper metabolic people they are called the Vatas, which is described in the book “TIMELESS SECRETS OF HEALTH AND REJUVENATION“, they have a better handle on those kinds of whole grainy type foods where as the opposite body type the Kapha type stands no chance with their slow, low metabolism, they have no ability to break down these sort of tight and dense structures of grains and seeds, some of them, they may not benefit from those kinds of foods anyway, they prefer to have more light foods that are not heavy in texture, light grains, like barley is a great one for them, they can easily digest it whereas, the Vata body type does not do very well with barley for example, it is too light for them, they need heavier structures.
So again it depends on who you are, what body type you have, that will determine whether you are more prone to not digesting them or you are more likely able to digest those kinds of foods, but overall, I recommend to make sure that the seeds are soaked in water, ideally twenty-four hours before taking them that includes sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, any of that kind and grain foods just as much. Rice, I recommend as basmati rice, it does not need much soaking beforehand, but half an hour before is good enough or two hours or six hours before cooking makes it very well cook, it is very easy to cook, it cooks in no time when you soak them beforehand.
Hope that answers your question and bon appétit.
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