For those that find the spinach/sunflower seed diet helpful, interesting info about spinach

I often research different foods, mostly fruits, nuts and veggies, to read up on different info and benefits. I have been eating a lot of spinach salad recently so I was looking up some nutrients in spinach. While on whfoods.com I was reading on the other benefits of spinach. I found this little bit about inflammation interesting and maybe part of the reason people find benefit from adding spinach to their diet!

Excessive inflammation, of course, typically emerges as a risk factor for increased cancer risk. (That's why many anti-inflammatory nutrients can also be shown to have anti-cancer properties.) But even when unrelated to cancer, excessive inflammation has been shown to be less likely following consumption of spinach. Particularly in the digestive tract, reduced inflammation has been associated not only with the flavonoids found in spinach, but also with its carotenoids.



Interesting that it specifically mentions less inflammation in the digestive tract! Just wanted to share!

Thanks for sharing. I love spinach!

I think it was because spinach is high in magnesium and something else? But,it's also high in oxalates that can cause kidney stones for some, highly absorbant and can help with loose stool, high in fibre...etc.

I take spinach for its high chlorophyll,L-glute, and raw iron content mainly. Also popeye was a cool dude. Unlucky for me, I can only eat it in salad form when my guts are operating at near 100%, otherwise it rips me up. Plus I cant digest as much as I would like to consume.. so I juice it. Usually a 10 oz bag lasts a week and its a pretty rough shot so another veggie like celery and/or carrot helps dilute it.

This is a rough guess but I would ponder the protein content in spinach mixes with some of the oil in the sunflower seeds creating highly absorbing lipoproteins. Maybe thats why supplementation held a certain benefit for some. Idk

Spinach mostly forms kidney stones when its oxalic acid is heated. This interlocks with calcium and often forms crystals in the kidneys. I could elaborate further but its too exhausting.