Dr. Steven Gundry has worked in medicine for over 40 years and is probably best known for my work as a cardiologist and heart surgeon. He now teaches people how to avoid surgery by using his unique vision of human nutrition.
Dr. Gundry is the director of the International Heart and Lung Institute and he’s the founder and director of the Center for Restorative Medicine.
Dr. Gundry is the author of two books and over three hundred articles published in peer-reviewed journals. His latest book is titled The Plant Paradox and is the focus of today’s show.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Dr. Gundry was eating “healthy” and exercising daily but his health was falling apart
- The war that goes on between plants and animals
- What are lectins?
- Lectins are one of fundamental causes of autoimmune disease
- Reversing vitiligo by following The Plant Paradox program
- Quinoa, squash, cucumbers, and pumpkin aren’t healthy foods
- The microbiome-immune system connection
- Lectins are found primarily in the peels and seeds
- Half the world’s production of Tums (calcium carbonate) is mixed into cattle food so they keep eating
- Pressure cookers destroy all lectins minus gluten
- Stop eating brown rice
- Should you keep some gluten in your diet?
- Are grains & beans making you gain weight?
- Lectins can appear in the flesh of animals
- Animal protein ages us
- Why wild seafood gets two thumbs up
- Shrimp and crabs are not bottom feeders
- Fruit might as well be candy
- You weren’t designed to eat grains, beans, nightshades, peanuts, cashews, and chia seeds
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Related links:
Dr. Steven Gundry – The Plant Paradox (book)
Dr. Steven Gundry – Dr. Gundry’s Diet Evolution (book)
Dr. Steven Gundry’s websites – gundrymd.com & drgundry.com
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Dr. Gundry’s YouTube Channel
Marni Wasserman – Plant-Based Diet For Dummies (book)
Michael Pollan – The Botany of Desire (book)
Loren Cordain (books)
The Okinawa Diet (book)
William Warner – Beautiful Swimmers (book)
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273: Dr. David Perlmutter – Grain Brain • Cholesterol Is Your Friend • What Is Keto Cycling?
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Garbage is right Bridget, and no far from it adeel– he has not proven himself in the slightest. Gundry, while quick to point how stupid we are compared to those clever Asians who mill their rice, lacks the peer reviewed science to back up his fantastic claims. In fact the science backs a plant based diet, the very one he speaks out against, to combat and/or reverse heart disease, cancer, obesity etc and on and on. Shame on Marni and Jesse for having this self interested glory seeker on their program. Please examine T C Campbell’s rebuke of the nonsense Gundry spoke:
http://nutritionstudies.org/the-plant-paradox-by-steven-grundy-md-commentary/
After having guests such as Dr Joel Kahn and Dr Esselsytn on the podcast and finding it a trustworthy source of info, it is disturbing to have wasted an hour of my life listening to this gibberish.
Yes I agree 100%and I believe giving him a platform to speak confuses people even more about making smart choices. People are being bombarded with false heath claims not backed by reputable peer reviewed science and are so confused on what to eat and this podcast made it worse.
Greger is full of false health claims not backed up by science, period. 😀
I disagree
he has proven case studies , and the results speak the truth.
Hi Bridget, I think most of his argument is for people specifically with autoimmune conditions. This can be a helpful course of action for a period of time, not necessarily permanently. We have had Dr Greger on the show. Lots of opinions to share, always!