The Effects of Endotoxin in the Human Body

You’re about to learn how eating raw vegetables and other starchy foods produce poisons in your gut that can damage your metabolism and overall health.

The human digestive system can digest many foods, but there are some foods that it cannot digest. A cow eat’s grass because it has rumen designed to digest cellulose, whereas a human cannot digest cellulose. The question is what happens inside our bodies when we eat cellulose?

When we eat poorly digestible foods, they sit in our digestive tracts and support bacterial overgrowth. The bacteria then feast on it and excrete toxic byproducts called Endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide). Couple that with the consumption of unsaturated fats, which increase the leakiness of the gut, and you’ve got a recipe for the efficient production and assimilation of poisons from the gut into the bloodstream.

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Health Effects of Endotoxin

Feeling Stressed Out and Irritable
Insomnia
Depression
Gas/Bloating
Acne
Lethargy
Decreased Libido
Eczema
Thin and Wrinkly Skin
Low Appetite
Brain Fog
Pebble Stools
Metallic Taste in Mouth
Suppressed Immune System
Suppressed Thyroid
Blood Coagulation (Clotting)
Endocrine and Nervous System Disorders
Increased Oxidation of Fats
Inhibits Glucose Metabolism
Increases Iron Retention
Increases Estrogen

Foods that Cause Endotoxin Production

Grains	Seeds & Nuts
– Breads – Cereals – Whole Grains – Crackers – Baked Goods, etc.	– Peanuts – Cashews – Almonds – Sunflower Seeds – Brazil Nuts, etc.
Above-ground Vegetables	Fruits
– Broccoli – Spinach – Lettuce – Peppers – Celery, etc.	– Grape skin – Plum skin – Berries

Eat What You Can Digest

I’ve read many times that we cannot digest cellulose, but had no idea the negative impact it had on our health when we went ahead and ate cellulose anyways. I felt a bit shocked when I first learned the damage that endotoxin can cause and some of the foods that promote it. Above ground vegetables – Really!? When you look at it logically, you come up with the following:

Fact 1 – We cannot digest cellulose
Fact 2 – Cellulose undigested promotes endotoxin growth
Fact 3 – Endotoxin damages the human body

I’ll never try and tell you what is best for you, but what I will do is encourage you to experiment for yourself to find what is right for you. I think you’ll find an improvement in health is waiting for you as soon as you reduce or eliminate non-digestible cellulose from your diet.