After hearing Mark Sisson's statement about humans not being designed to eat grains, I decided to do some research. The first book I ordered was Mr. Sisson's The Primal Blueprint. However, I also found some books I could download immediately onto my Kindle, and the first book I got was Melissa Smith's Going Against the Grain. I started reading that book straight away.
From Ms. Smith's book I learned a couple of key things: grains and legumes contain phytates that hinder the absorption of iron, calcium, magnesium, and zinc; I also learned that many people have hidden celiac disease. Another book I downloaded at the same time was The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First by Mark Hyman M.D. I read part of this book, but then switched to a different one, Good Calories, Bad Calories by science writer Gary Taubes.
These books, all four mentioned, were very interesting and very informative. In each one several ideas were repeated: grains cause health problems of all sorts. (Different writers identify different ones with various studies to back them up.) From reading these books I got the idea to do my own personal research project on myself.
That is the next part of the story.
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