0:00 so the topic of today is oatmeal and I used to love oatmeal I used to have it every single day as a breakfast and I was told that it was healthy and so today I want to share uh three things that you probably have never heard before relating to oatmeal and the reason I'm bringing this up is because if you're consuming oatmeal for health reasons you may change your mind after watching this video now of course I'm not telling you not to consume oatmeal I just want to give you some additional information to think with that is not necessarily easy to find when you type oatmeal on the internet and I'm not going to even cover what you probably already know the sugary type of oatmeal in these little packets this instant
0:45 oatmeal tons of sugar you know you already know that's really bad I want to talk about the oatmeal that's actually not sweetened but it's interesting even in the packets of instant oatmeal that has tons of sugar apparently you could still have a little claim there that says that it's heart healthy I mean you'll see articles out there that'll say that oatmeal is one of the healthiest foods that you can possibly eat it's considered a superfood it will lower your cholesterol it will help your diabetes and blood sugars it will make your heart healthy so the first thing I'm going to dive into I'm going to put a bunch of studies down below so you can verify what I'm saying is true is some studies done on oatmeal in relationship to blood sugars and Insulin
1:30 as well as cholesterol now when you read these studies it does definitely say that there is a significant Improvement in cholesterol as well as blood sugars okay both and that's pretty exciting I mean like wow because if something is cholesterol friendly or it's blood sugar friendly then you know sign me up but if you actually read the studies it will say there's a significant decrease in cholesterol and blood glucose compared to the control now what is this mean compared to a control what is that all about well you're comparing it to something else right and that comparison is white bread that's right white bread so if you compare anything to white bread it's going to be better in a significant way
2:19 so let's say for example you eat some white bread okay and let's say it spikes your blood sugars by 10 points and then when you eat uh the oats it only spikes your blood sugars by five points and then we can say in the study there's a significant difference there's a a much less like 50 percent less spike in blood sugars than the controls but that 50 Improvement is not just you know adding this to your diet and seeing an improvement in blood sugars it's compared to something else and then when you read on in the study it says the Improvement in blood sugars only occurred right after the meal okay it didn't occur later on probably because there's a a nice Spike of blood glucose when you eat white bread so that was one
3:05 point the other thing that they mentioned the studies is that part of the study was just consuming three grams of beta glucan not consuming oatmeal but just that compound and that created a lowering of cholesterol and so then by inference and we can just say well there's beta-glucan in oats and just by deductive reasoning it then must create the same effect act but that's a little confusing because that's an isolated compound versus eating it as a whole grain and then there's other studies that 29 participants enrolled in the study they all had diabetes and they did not see any change with blood glucose levels between the two so when we talk about the benefit there's only certain studies they're talking about and so when they quote it's heart healthy
3:50 they're kind of cherry picking certain parts of studies and not giving you the full understanding of what it really is going to do to your cholesterol levels or blood sugars in fact the best thing I think you should do is just start testing your blood sugars when you consume it and then not consume it and then you'll know for yourself but also I could not find any of these studies involving the instant oatmeal with all the added sugar okay somehow those studies are really hard to find in relationship to them improving your blood glucose levels or insulin levels or cholesterol levels the next topic is gluten free right because we all know that oats are gluten free well apparently they do have a a type of gluten it's called avanin okay and this
4:38 protein has been known to increase cytokines which are in like an inflammatory response in your body but here's the Catch-22 it's delayed you may not feel any symptoms for days later so it's going to be very hard to make the connection between the two but if you have irritable bowel syndrome or inflammation or celiac you may find that eating oats can worsen the situation and you have to realize that these glutens which is just a category of a lot of different types of proteins it's like one of the primary uh triggers for autoimmune diseases especially Hashimoto's which is a thyroid problem
5:25 number three weed killer called glyphosate it's interesting that the FDA when they did the reports or studies on different foods they kind of omitted oats for some reason but we don't have to worry about that because Monsanto did their own studies and that was the creator of glyphosate and they said that it's completely safe so we don't really have to worry about that but of course the World Health Organization did say that glyphosate is a carcinogen and there was a lawsuit that was one in court by someone being exposed to glyphosate and winning millions of dollars because they developed cancer and the type of cancer apparently increases the risk for is called Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma but another
6:10 organization called ewg which I'll put a link down below when they found traces of glyphosate weed killer and over 95 percent of samples of oat products and it's not that this oat is genetically modified they use glyphosate as a pre-harvest drying agent because it can kill the plant really quick and dry it up and that's what they use not only in oats but in wheat I mean this kind of goes beyond the genetically modified foods like in the corn the soy canola that type of thing so anyway if you do have oats of course you know steel cut would be much better than the the process
6:55 instant oats and if you're going to eat it make sure it's organic okay unless you want some weed killer in there but you may also want to try something you might want to just skip your breakfast all together and do intermittent fasting you'll probably be shocked to find out how good you actually feel by not doing a breakfast in general but that being said if you want to do a breakfast I think eggs would be a much better choice now since we're on the topic of breakfast if you have not seen my video on how to transition out of doing a breakfast in the benefits I put that video up right here check it out
