But the issue with corn is that it's also high in mycotoxins. These are mold forming toxins. And so we want to reduce our exposure to that because those mycotoxins drive inflammation in our body. Hey, welcome back to the podcast today. We're answering the question. One of the most frequently asked questions I get are popcorn and chips cooked in beef tallow healthy. And so I'm going to break down seed oils, beef tallow, avocado oil. Right. What are the what's the healthiest popcorn? What's the healthiest chips? I'm going to answer that question in this episode. You guys are in for a treat here. And if you know anybody that's interested in learning more about this particular question, popcorn and chips, what's the healthiest kind? Share this episode with them. Leave us a five star review. And if you're looking for health coaching, if you have health goals, you want to customize personalized plan based on your lab work, based on your unique health history, reach out to us, drjockers.com. 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So don't miss this chance to fill your best. Go to purehealthresearch.com. Use the coupon code Jockers to save 35% off today. One of the most common questions I get is popcorn healthy. Now, I will tell you this and people that ask this typically, they don't really want to hear my answer because popcorn, you know, although it has a low glycemic impact is really not a healthy food because it's very, very low in nutrients, three cups of popcorn is equivalent to about 93 calories. Now, 72 of those calories are from carbs. So it's a low calorie food, right? But most of it's coming from carbs and those carbs are going to increase our insulin levels. Okay. And it doesn't have protein. It's very, very low in protein. Another big issue with popcorn is that the corn is GMO, right? Typically it's genetically modified. It's sprayed with glyphosate and they use vegetable oils, right? And so you're going to find things like sunflower, safflower, cottonseed, peanut oil, canola oil, all these toxic seed oils that are extremely damaging to our mitochondria. Now, the question was, how about if it's cooked in beef tallow or maybe grass-fed butter, that's a much better oil source, right? We're going to get more nutrients in it. It's going to be a lot better for our body. And so there's some benefits to doing that. However, anytime we cook starch, okay, we're going to form something called acrylamide. Acrylamide is a significant pro-inflammatory agent in our body. And it comes from cooking starch at high heat. So for example, if we're cooking, you know, popping popcorns, we're going to have some acrylamide. Now, I will say that corn in general is not a high source of acrylamide when we cook corn, okay? Whereas another question was about potato and we'll go into that. Potato becomes higher in acrylamide when we cook it. But the issue with corn is that it's also high in mycotoxins. These are mold-forming toxins. And so we want to reduce our exposure to that because those mycotoxins drive inflammation in our body. So the more that we can avoid that, the better. So I don't consider corn to be a really healthy food. Now, corn on the cob, like if you were to get just pure corn, corn on the cob, it's going to be better, in my opinion, than like something like a popcorn. But in general, still not a very healthy food. It's very low in nutrients, but at the same time, it increases blood sugar and it may be carrying toxins into our body. So our goal when it comes to nutrition is let's eat food that has maximal amount of nutrients, but minimal amount of toxins, right? Lowest amount of toxins, highest amount of nutrients. Corn really doesn't fit the bit there. So it's more of an inferior food source in general. But when it comes to popcorn, because it's so low calorie, I don't think it's a significant, as significant an issue as many other processed foods. The real key is the oil or the fat that you're going to use with it. That is why I recommend if you're doing popcorn, use real butter. Get an organic popcorn, right? Just the kernels, organic. And then make it yourself with real grass-fed butter. Butter is rich in fat soluble nutrients, conjugate and a little linoleic acid and saturated fats, as well as something called pentadeconoic acid, this fatty 15, which is needed to support the healing of the mitochondrial inner membrane. In fact, fatty 15 has been shown to help dislocate linoleic acid from what that we get from seed oils from the mitochondrial inner membrane. So we get less oxidative stress in and around our mitochondria. And that's really key because the healthier our mitochondria, the better we're going to be able to stabilize our blood sugar and burn fat for fuel. So getting grass-fed butter in your system is really, really important. And so if if the popcorn is a way to carry that grass-fed butter into your system, then I would say that's a good thing. But in general, corn's not the, you know, it's not the best, healthiest, nutrient dense food. So you could also get butter, right? By putting on a grass-fed steak, you could put butter on steamed broccoli, right? Or something along those lines, a better carrier source for the butter. But if you really enjoy your popcorn, I'm not going to take it away 100%. Okay. Just have it in moderation and make sure that it's organic and cooked with grass-fed butter. And of course, for blood sugar stability, it's always important to have something like popcorn after a high protein meal that's also rich in antioxidants. So let's say you had a big salad with arugula tomatoes. You had a steak on the side. That's going to be antioxidant rich as well as rich in protein. So there you go. 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And we're always a concern about the glycemic impact and acrylamide. Whenever it comes to any sort of cooked starch, we have to consider glycemic impact. How high does it raise your blood sugar in your insulin? And also what are the levels of acrylamide? Okay. Now what we found is that potato chips are higher glycemic and higher in acrylamide than corn chips. For example, one study found that potato based chips contained 23% more acrylamide than corn based chips. So it would actually be better to do some sort of corn chip rather than a potato chip. Now I'm not saying potatoes are bad. It's just when we cook them at such a high temperature, we're causing the acrylamide formation. Okay. Now there is a brand called masa chips. This is the kind of chips that we have at our house. Now I personally, I don't, I'm not a big chip lover, but my wife is. And so we have the masa chips, which are cooked in beef tallow. It's corn chips cooked in beef tallow. And they use something called a nyxtamalization, which is an ancient process used over thousands of years by the traditional Mesoamerican cultures to improve the healthful effects of eating corn. What does it involve? Well, they boil the corn with naturally occurring minerals, namely limestone, which makes the corn more digestible. It reduces mycotoxins that commonly affect corn. We talked about that and makes nutrients like vitamin B3 niacin more bioavailable. The result is a healthier, tastier food that maximizes the nutrient potential of one of the world's oldest crops, which is corn. Okay. So people have been eating corn for a long time. I know I already talked about how I think corn is more of an inferior food in general, which I still believe that it's just, it's, it's just the case. Okay. If you were to look at steak or you were to look at something like arugula or even an apple, there's a lot more nutrients in any of those foods than there are in corn. Right. And so corn is just, it's an inferior food, but it is an ancient food. Okay. And it's something that pretty much all of our ancestors were consuming something like corn or, or, or something very similar to corn throughout their lives. And so this is something you can use. Masa chips, right? Cooked in the beef tallow. They use that, that method of boiling the corn, right? With the limestone to add back mineralization and also to make it more digestible. Now, again, always important to make this or to have this, I should say, with protein and healthy fats. So have them with homemade guacamole. So you got the avocado. You can also do salsa where you've got antioxidants in there. So lots of colorful fruits and vegetables. And then you got to have protein in there. So let's say maybe some, some grilled chicken, right? Or grilled steak. And now you got a complete meal. The problem is going to be when you are consuming chips all by itself, or if you're consuming popcorn all by itself, you've got nothing there to help stabilize your blood sugar and your insulin levels. So make sure you get the protein, the antioxidants in there. And then if you have a little bit of those carbs, not going to be an issue, right? Now, if you want to check out the masa chips, I'm going to have a link in the show notes, but you can also go to masachips.com forward slash doctor David Jockers. I think that gives you some sort of discount on your initial order of the masa chips. They're great. You're going to love them. They taste amazing. But again, don't overdo it on chips. Just because it's a healthier chip does not mean you should be consuming it every day. It's something that you should have as a treat every now and then, right? And that's really the best approach to consuming chips, consuming popcorn, even if they're cooked in a healthy fat. 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