Excellent Information!
Especially about how unhealthy most edibles are. :) The other downside is when they're so amazingly tasty... it's too easy to over medicate. lol I personally cannot use banana anything (wrong secretor status of the "A" blood type. Gives me mucus issues. lol), and erythritol gives me headaches and digestive issues. :( Definitely check to make sure you easily digest the ingredients you're using. The easier they digest, the faster and more completely the cannabinoids are absorbed into the body.
Some Neutral for all Blood Types Ingredients:
- Brown Rice Flour
- Brown Rice Syrup
- Blackstrap Molasses
- Certified Olive Oils (99% of what's on store shelves in the USA is not pure olive oil)
- Clarified Butter (Ghee)
Brown rice flour works extremely well as a wheat flour substitute. Not great for bread you can slice, but excellent for all smaller baked products. Certified pure olive oil and ghee will absorb more cannabinoids than other oils, while also digesting easily and releasing the cannabinoids for all blood types. :D
Thanks for your great comment @thecleangame!
For me, it all has to do with the mix of bacteria strains that are calling my gut their home.
I've moved to "low lectin" eating as a result. It starves off candida and noxious fungus which cannot process the oligosaccharides (derived from vegetables and fruit) and flour made from green bananas is a resistant starch which feed the beneficial bacteria strains that we all need to keep our gut microbiomes flourishing and in good working order.
Anything made from brown rice has a high lectin load and generally does the opposite along with damaging the mucosal lining of the gut wall, (which in folks who are sensitive to lectins) will cause "leaky gut" and drive inflammation through the roof.
We choose our lectins by blood type, since each blood type (and parental influence) has an effect on how well you digest a lectin. Lectins aren't 'bad' when they're easily digestible. :)
Interesting that none of my family (3 blood types) have had any issues with brown rice flour or brown rice. Going on 8 years now? Fantastic stuff, especially with pancakes. Your comment is the first I've heard of any warnings about it.
So, rubbing the brown off makes rice ok, eh? The science I've been following says it's healthier with the brown coat on, but then it's info from years ago. It's certainly tastier than white rice. lol:)
Anything that still has the bran attached is exceptionally high in lectins, so yes, brown rice has a higher lectin load than plan old white rice does. 12 grain, whole wheat bread has a higher lectin load than heavily refined white flour does (as another example).
I'm wouldn't eat refined white flour either, but it does have a lower lectin score than whole grain does.
Hrmm, well I'm barely able to handle wheat flour. Though I'm the only blood type the lectins are 'neutral' for, I have pathogens from parents which lean it toward avoid for me. Only tolerable in small amounts before sleepiness and other issues creep in.
BRF? I can eat massive amounts, along with lots and lots of brown rice without any noticeable side effects. Crazy, eh? Anyway, cool information. Thanks!
Yeah. It's crazy alright. I've completely overhauled my eating lifestyle in an attempt to drop inflammation levels in my own body. Been Paleo for 7 years, dancing around ketogenics all that time. I'm A- (no big surprise there) and do better when I drop most animal protein as per my blood type. I wasn't paying any attention to lectin load and now I am. Eating animal protein once a week, mostly green leaf and cruciferous veg while avoiding high lectin vegetables and have cut fruit way back too. I've also started supplementing with various mushroom supplements. We shall see what happens...my life is one big experiment at this point. LOL!
Most, I like that. :) A is the closest to being a 'vegetarian' but we still need some animal proteins in there. lol Glad to see you're approaching it intelligently.
Keep Being Awesome! :D
To follow that train of thought, ripe bananas have a huge "lectin"load and these lectins are what cause the damage to the gut as they affix themselves to the gut wall and eat holes through it. I would like to suggest that it is the lectin content of ripe bananas that cause mucus for you...which is really an inflammatory sensitivity reaction. I have recently being following the work of Dr. Stephen Gundry who has written a great book on the subject of lectins and how they work. It's called The Plant Paradox.
It is indeed the lectins which cause issues for me, I'm the wrong blood type and don't digest them very well. ;) I'll have to look at his book, I've been researching lectins in my food for 10 years now. :)
Thanks! :D