Almonds

“I'm hitting my protein targets, but I'm not getting essential fats. Olive oil, avocado, almonds. I mean, these things are crucial, I think, for somebody in this situation. And I can't stress this enough that that's such so common.”

“Harvard did a study which says that anti-inflammatory foods is mostly green leafy vegetables, salmon, mackerel, walnuts, almonds, berries. Oranges, cherries, olives, super anti-inflammatory.”

“Is that real? Yeah. Yeah. We can, yeah, it's fucking bananas. My doctor told me almonds aren't even good for you. Well, you know, it's, he said, they're okay for you, he said, but you know, there was a time in the Mediterranean where they were, there were poisons, they have strychnine in them and it's one of the first domesticated plants and what people realized, whoever homo sapiens or”

“It's not even almond juice. It's not like we're extracting. It's almond tea almost.. We're taking almonds, pulverizing them and brining them in water. Essentially leaching out the flavor of the almond and then adding a bunch of shit to it and sugar and whatnot. Adding a lot of sugar. My friend Duncan was like, dude, almond milk is good for you.”

“He said, your oxalates are kind of high. He goes, are you eating almonds? And I said, yeah. Yeah. I eat almonds all the time. He's like, yeah, cut back. He goes, that's where it's from. Really? Yeah. So you find out how much, how much oxalates are in almonds. I just listened to him. And also it's a lot of like, um, a lot of that gluten-free flour stuff.”

“If you buy a lot of that stuff, it's like almond flour a lot of the times. Right. Almonds are a high oxalate food. Eating them can raise oxalate levels that circulate, get filtered by the kidneys and appear in urine, which may increase kidney stone risk. Insusceptible people.”