Paul Saladino· MD
vegans would try to eat a ton of pumpkin seeds but most of that zinc is going to be bound by phytates by oxalates and as i've shown in the past it is very very poorly bioavailable
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vegans would try to eat a ton of pumpkin seeds but most of that zinc is going to be bound by phytates by oxalates and as i've shown in the past it is very very poorly bioavailable
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most molecules are meant to chelate those divalent cations and will cause problems with their absorption
when I talk about Fates which is essentially ftic acid and things like oats people always criticize me and say this isn't a big deal but they do and they have been shown repeatedly to prevent the absorption of zinc and other minerals