Sacred
Cow Trailer from Diana
Rodgers on Vimeo.
A good
documentary on how meat has been demonized in favor of high-caloric carbs, a
trend that has effectively brought about metabolic disease, obesity, and diabetes on a
grand scale. You've heard this a thousand times, I am sure. It's not like red meat is a panacea, and so though I am not sold on a keto exclusive diet, I do know that beef has its place in a healthy weekly diet. Age concerns should be factored in, too, for the
consumption of red meat increases iron overload in your body. Nutrition journalist, Bill Sardi, explains that our bodies when young and growing in our teens require lots of red meat, iron, and calcium, and then at a certain age, like a kind of barrel, our bones are filled up with adequate amounts of these heavy minerals. Our job after, say, age 40 for men is to maintain what we have but careful not to overload. Iron overload is a concern because it is implicated in many age-related diseases, like cancer, type II diabetes, arthritis, gout, and others. The key is to manage iron overload. That can be achieved through diet by limiting, not eliminating, red meat. If you like the taste of red meat and how it satisfies, then you can manage the iron overload by way of supplementing with IP6, a heavy mineral chelator. Quercetin, vitamin C, and vitamin D are also iron chelators, but IP6 targets the condition pretty effectively.
Post-menopausal women and men in their 50s have shared with me how their cravings for meat diminishes with age. This may be their bodies telling them to avoid iron-rich foods.
Of IP6/Inositol brands, I like Solaray's IP6/Inositol.
Quercetin is another mineral chelator. So if you enjoy your meats and you are of a certain age, you should be managing iron overload with one of these two supplements. Caffeinated coffee also chelates iron, but the problem with caffeine is that it blocks vital Thiamine or B1 vitamins from getting absorbed into your muscles and nerves.
If you're interested to learn more about managing iron overload so as to avoid age-related diseases, then check out these articles here. A book list on the topic of IP6 appears at the bottom of this post.
When husks (bran) were separated from rice, the B vitamins were
removed, which led to deficiency diseases of pellagra and beri beri. However,
in addition to B vitamins, these rice polishings (bran) provided phytic acid
(IP6), also called inositol hexaphosphate, an important mineral binder and
antioxidant. [Free Radical Biology Medicine 8: 61-69, 1990; J
Biological Chemistry 262: 11647-50, 1987] IP6 is found in every living
cell in the body and is also an important second messenger for the nervous
system. The low consumption of whole grains has led to reduced consumption of
IP6 and the development of iron, copper and calcium overload diseases
(hemochromatosis, Wilson's disease, kidney stones, mitral valve, calcium
cataracts) and other iron-overload sequelae such as hypertension,
atherosclerosis, brain disorders, liver disease, colon cancer and other
maladies. IP6-phytic acid has been mistakenly branded as an anti-nutrient
because it interferes with mineral absorption among growing children.
Nutritionists fail to recognize that most of the anemia in developing countries
is caused by intestinal parasites, not the lack of iron, and that nature favors
iron anemia over iron overload, since iron is a major growth factor for
bacteria, viruses, fungi and tumor cells. Bran has never been fully restored to
the food supply, and the world is still suffering from deficiency
diseases.
Here are a few books on IP6:
IP6 with Inositol, Question & Answer Book, L. Coles Stephen & David Steinman, 2015.
IP6: Nature's Revolutionary Cancer Fighter, Abulkalam M. Shamsuddin, 1998.
IP6 + Inositol: Nature's Medicine for the Millennium! Discover How a Cocktail of Simple Molecules Can Prevent and Fight Cancer and Other Diseases, Abulkalam M. Shamsuddin, 2011.
Too Good to Be True? Inositol + Cal Mag IP6, Dr. Kim Vanderlinden & Dr. Ivana Vucenik, 2004.
The Iron Time Bomb: How Iron Adversely Affects Your Health: How to Use Nature's Mineral Chelator, IP6 Rice Bran Extract, for Better Health, Bill Sardi, 1999.
