For anyone following a low-lectin lifestyle, the word “lectin” usually brings food to mind. There is another side of lectin biology that rarely enters the dietary conversation.
For people who pay attention to lectins, one of the most practical questions is also one of the hardest to answer: after eating a lectin-containing food, how long does that lectin remain in the body?
Many nutrition questions are difficult to study directly in humans.
Lectins sit in an uncomfortable space between nutrition, immunology, and everyday lived experience.
