I promote the use of almond milk and butters (raw) in my program. I have eliminated both from my diet and have experienced dramatic improvements with some nagging health issues. The health issues were not severe, but impacted my quality of life a few times in the past several months, namely relating to mild joint/tendon issues and some adjacent skin issues.
Never enough to interfere with my workouts, and only just bothersome enough that I’ve been utilizing my various alternative options to manage the situation.
Had an intuition…as so often happens…and one that has been razzing me for the past several months…regarding almond milk and butter.
After all, this is a lot of “almond” to take in on such a regular basis, and how concentrated is this consumption?
Then we have the “age” thing to deal with, approaching middle age here (or am I already IN it, lol) and I have never, ever…until now?…had allergies of any kind.
(Have had enough other problems, no?…lol)…
Almond allergies?
Or is the lack of proper processing of the almonds…the enzyme inhibitors…causing a problem?
I am also open to the idea that the additives, enrichment of the almond milk may be an issue.
BUT…I ate some soaked, clean/peeled almonds when I was discovering all this, and my symptoms if anything seemed to flair.
Eliminated ALL almond stuff at that time.
And experienced near-complete tendon/joint resolution and interesting skin effects within 24 hours.
This sucks.
I’m doing a video on it very soon (next day or two) not to promote the idea that almond milks/butters are no good…but to simply make everyone aware of what I’m experiencing.