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there are they're mostly bound to phytic acid in plants or their complex with oxalic acid which is oxalate which is found in plants when you are trying to get any of those minerals and plants they are much much less bioavailable than they are in animals
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nuts seeds grains and legumes are containing compounds phytic acid and oxalates which will chelate and rob your body of minerals in the gut they will deplete you of minerals if you think you are getting any of these divalent cations selenium zinc calcium manganese magnesium etc iron these are going to be depleted from your gut with the chelating compounds in these plants
i've got the suspicion that it's pretty darn bioavailable to get these minerals from animal foods relative to plant foods because there's not these plant molecules oxalates phytic acids that are chelating that are in the plant sort of biochemistry and operating system
many of these nutrients are less bioavailable at baseline so for instance if you're eating like almonds thinking that you're going to get magnesium that magnesium is very poorly bioavailable in the almonds because of phytic acid and oxalates so other minerals in things like grains or beans whether it's oats whether it's wheat like these especially all the seeds it's very poorly bioavailable because of these big molecules that chelate it
so for instance if you're eating like almonds thinking that you're going to get magnesium that magnesium is very poorly bioavailable in the almonds because of phytic acid and oxalates so other minerals in things like grains or beans whether it's oats whether it's wheat like these especially all the seeds it's very poorly bioavailable because of these big molecules that chelate it
horrible like it's so full of phytic acid which is this large molecule that chelates minerals so you're eating oatmeal I was eating oatmeal with milk and I just wasn't absorbing any calcium and anything any other calcium in my gut with the oats is going to get the majority of it is going to get or at least a significant portion of it is going to get chelated which means it bites onto it and you don't absorb it right
yeah I was going to ask there's something actually in oats that doesn't allow you to absorb many of the other like nutrients yeah yeah minerals specifically like calcium magnesium zinc so any divalent cations like the minerals we get pulled out and the same compound phytic acid is in things like beans it's in nuts it's in grains and so people don't understand that these foods are like negative Foods they're pulling
they contain phytic acid a compound that is a large molecule that keates these minerals and prevents their absorption into your body