#314 Q&A How Much Zone 2 Cardio, Best Pre-Workout Routine for Exercise Performance and More

Siim Land (0:00)

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Well I eat raw, fruits are raw, so maybe like a few vegetables raw as well, carrots or something, salads. I don't eat like meats and stuff raw because I think that cooking it actually increases the bioavailability of certain proteins and such. Obviously you don't want to like overheat it, you don't want to overcook it, overfry it or something that would destroy the nutrients etc. But slightly heating it up a little bit does actually, because I mean like cooking made us human or cooking helped us to grow our brains a lot and get access to a lot more nutrients and micronutrients and calories essentially, because raw food is harder to digest as well, like you actually burn a lot of calories to digest raw food, especially if it's like you know plants and vegetables. So yeah, like eating let's say raw meat would also like, you would lose a lot more calories for digesting that raw meat compared to cooked meat. So actually it's more bioavailable in that sense, the calories at least.

Why do you consider canola oil bad for health? Canola oil, I mean, it's just empty calories. There's no like nutrients in canola oil first and foremost. Like there's no magnesium, there's no other like micronutrients. It's just calories and fat, which is, you know, I mean too much. This by itself is going to be bad if you have like a ton of food, especially processed food that has a ton of this canola oil on it. Then you're just going to get more calories and that by itself will have like a negative effect on your health. That aside, canola oil is also generally, you know, processed in a way that makes that fat oxidized. It's under a lot of heat. It's under a lot of this basically exposed oxygen, sunlight, etc. Those kind of things, pressure that will oxidize the fats. And because it's a polo and saturated fat kind of oil, then it's very like vulnerable to that oxidation and it goes through lipid peroxidation, which will have like a huge negative effect on your own body. It's going to like increase inflammation and oxidize stress, promote mutagenesis, carcinogenesis. Yeah, just bad. It's very harmful to your body. I mean, there's like, you know, a certain amount your body can deal with. Your body has good thion, it has other anti-oxidant defense systems. So even if you eat like the worst kind of, you know, oils, like, you know, restaurant, you eat food that was cooked in canola oil, I wouldn't be like super worried about it as long as you don't do it like every day and frequently. Because yeah, like a lot of people may underestimate your own body's ability to deal with this, you know, crap and damage. Your body is very powerful in the sense that it can even deal with all this like margarine and canola oil in small amounts. And if you do it infrequently, it's not that you eat one, you know, teaspoon of canola oil and you're immediately like, you know, wrecked for the 10 years of your life. It's not like that. But yeah, like ideally, you would just wouldn't want to use canola oil. It's like, first of all, no nutrients, no benefits, only causes harm and it's only like anti calories.