Pre-Cut Vegetables and Endotoxins 

Endotoxins can construct up on pre-cut greens and undermine a few of their advantages.

You could bear in mind once I launched the endotoxin idea literature in my video The Exogenous Endotoxin Theory, which sought to clarify how a single Sausage and Egg McMuffin meal might cripple artery perform inside hours of consumption. Possibly it’s as a result of such a meal causes irritation inside hours of consumption by inducing low-grade endotoxemia, endotoxins within the bloodstream, as I beforehand mentioned in my video Dead Meat Bacteria Endotoxemia. Endotoxins are structural elements of gram-negative micro organism like E. coli, as you’ll be able to see beneath and at 0:35 in my video Are Pre-Cut Vegetables Just as Healthy?. Sure meals, like floor meat, have excessive bacterial masses, so the thought was that the endotoxins within the meals had been triggering the irritation.

Critics of the idea argued that as a result of we have already got so many micro organism dwelling in our colon, so many endotoxins simply sitting down in our massive gut, just a few extra endotoxins in our meals wouldn’t matter a lot when it comes to inflicting systemic irritation. In spite of everything, we have about two kilos of pure micro organism down there the place the solar don’t shine, so there may very well be about an entire ounce of endotoxin. The deadly dose of intravenously injected endotoxin could be just some millionths of a gram, so we might have 1,000,000 deadly doses down there. Nonetheless, the obvious paradox is defined by compartmentalization. It’s location, location, location.

Poop is innocent when it’s in your colon, however it shouldn’t be injected into your bloodstream or eaten for that matter, notably with fats, as that may promote the absorption of endotoxins within the small gut. That goes for well-cooked poop, too.

As you’ll be able to see within the graph beneath and at 1:44 in my video, you’ll be able to boil endotoxins for 2 hours straight with no detriment of their capability to induce irritation. You possibly can simply kill off any micro organism when you boiled your poop soup lengthy sufficient, however you’ll be able to’t kill off the endotoxins they make, similar to you’ll be able to’t cook the crap out of the meat. The consumption of meat contaminated with feces doesn’t simply trigger meals poisoning. It will possibly spill out onto the animal’s pores and skin in the course of the evisceration course of when the digestive tract is ruptured. 

Even when slaughterhouse staff trim off “seen fecal contamination,” the trimming itself can, mockingly, typically result in a rise in sure fecal micro organism, regarded as attributable to “cross-contamination ensuing from the dealing with to removing fecal contamination” from one carcass to the following. Then, even when correctly saved within the fridge, endotoxins begin accumulating together with the bacterial development, as you’ll be able to see within the graph beneath and at 2:30 in my video. 

What about different meals? The very best ranges of endotoxins had been found in meat and dairy, and the bottom ranges in recent fruit and veggies. That was testing complete fruit and veggies, although. “Most spoilage organisms can’t penetrate the plant’s floor barrier and spoil the inside tissues.” That’s why fruits and veggies can sit out within the fields all day within the solar. However, as soon as you chop them open, micro organism can acquire entry to the inside tissues, and, inside a matter of days, your veggies can begin to spoil. So, what does that imply for all these handy pre-cut veggies today?

Whereas endotoxins weren’t detectable within the majority of unprocessed greens, when you damage the protecting outer layers of greens, you diminish their resistance to microbial development. So, whereas freshly lower carrots and onions begin with undetectable ranges, day after day after they’ve been chopped, you begin to get the expansion of micro organism and, together with them, endotoxin buildup—even when they’ve been stored chilled within the fridge. Not as a lot as meat, however not insignificant both, as you’ll be able to see within the graph beneath and at 3:27 in my video. Sufficient to make a distinction, although? You don’t know till you place it to the take a look at.

What would occur when you switched folks between meals anticipated to have a decrease endotoxin load to meals containing extra endotoxins? For example, going from intact meat, akin to a steak, and complete fruit and veggies, to extra like floor beef, pre-cut veggies, and extra ready-made meals, as proven beneath and at 3:39 in my video. After only one week on the lower-endotoxin eating regimen, folks’s white blood cell rely, which is an indicator of whole physique irritation, dropped by 12 p.c, then bumped again up by 14 p.c after simply 4 days on the higher-endotoxin eating regimen. In addition they misplaced a pound and a half on the lower-endotoxin eating regimen and slimmed their waists a bit. 

They weren’t consuming in any other case an identical diets, although. It seems to be like they had been consuming extra meat and cheese on the higher-endotoxin eating regimen and maybe getting extra meals components within the ready-made meals. So, how do we all know endotoxins had something to do with it? That’s the place the onion examine is available in. One other examine was designed based mostly on two meals that differed of their content material of bacterial merchandise however had been in any other case nutritionally an identical. So, researchers in contrast freshly chopped onion to prechopped onion that had been refrigerated for just a few days. The pre-chopped onion wasn’t spoiled; it was nonetheless earlier than the “finest earlier than” date. So, wouldn’t it make any distinction?

Inside three hours of consumption, the recent onion meal prompted vital reductions in a number of markers of inflammation. That’s what fruit and veggies do—they scale back irritation—however these results weren’t noticed after consuming the pre-chopped onions. For instance, three hours after consuming freshly chopped onions, researchers noticed a major drop in inflammatory standing, however there was no vital change three hours after consuming the identical quantity of pre-chopped onions, as you’ll be able to see within the graph beneath and at 5:06 in my video. So, it’s not just like the pre-chopped onions prompted extra irritation, like within the meat, eggs, and dairy research, however it did seem that among the onion’s anti-inflammatory results had been extinguished. “In conclusion, the fashionable development in the direction of eating minimally processed greens”—pre-cut greens—“somewhat than complete [intact] meals is more likely to be related to elevated oral endotoxin publicity.” It’s nonetheless higher to eat pre-cut veggies than no veggies, however reducing your individual is perhaps the healthiest.

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