Dave Asprey on “Our Moldy World – Mycotoxins”
March 22, 2012
Dave Asprey of Bulletproof wrote a blog article titled “My Moldy World – Mycotoxins.”
From the article:
Frankly, I wish we were only dealing with antibiotic forming molds and hallucinogens in the food supply. It’s much worse than that. We are facing extremely potent xenoestrogens that cause rapid weight gain and decimate fertility in all mammals including people. There are also potent mutagens that cause cancer. On top of that, we have other mycotoxins implicated in a host of cardiovascular and nervous system diseases, and others that depress RNA synthesis. These things are in our food supply, and many are unregulated.
Other than studies on mycotoxins, I have never seen a nutritional study control for the presence of mycotoxins in the diet even though mycotoxins can have a huge impact on weight gain. Cattle ranchers know about this –they use a purified form of the zearalenone mycotoxin to quickly fatten cattle on less food. (Of course, when you eat those cattle, you will quickly fatten too…)
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