202: Dr. Steven Gundry - The Plant Paradox • What Are Lectins? • Fruit Might As Well Be Candy
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2017
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
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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Dr. Steven Gundry - The Plant Paradox (book)
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Marni Wasserman - Plant-Based Diet For Dummies (book)
Michael Pollan - The Botany of Desire (book)
William Warner - Beautiful Swimmers (book)
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| 0:00.0 | people who have the highest level of what's called the omega 3 index have the largest |
| 0:06.2 | brains and the largest areas of memory as they age compared to the people who have the |
| 0:11.8 | lowest levels of omega-3 index, they have the most |
| 0:15.2 | shrunken brains and the smallest areas of memory called the hippocampus. us. Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:35.2 | This week our featured guest is Dr Stephen Gundry. He's worked in medicine for over 40 years and is probably |
| 0:41.7 | best known for his work as a cardiologist and heart surgeon. |
| 0:45.4 | He now teaches people how to avoid surgery by using his unique vision of human nutrition. |
| 0:50.8 | Dr. Gundry is the director of the International Heart and Lung Institute and founder and director of the Center for Historic of Medicine. |
| 0:57.0 | He's the author of two books and over 300 articles published in peer-reviewed journals. |
| 1:03.0 | Dr. Gundry's latest book is The Plant Paradox, |
| 1:06.0 | and it's the focus of today's show. |
| 1:08.0 | I have to say, being a nutrition junkie, |
| 1:11.0 | this information was so groundbreaking even for me. I have spent years teaching people |
| 1:16.0 | information about health and nutrition and especially within the plant realm |
| 1:20.0 | and Dr. Gundry has really side-ipe me with some of his information and I think you guys are going to get so much out of this and maybe make some modifications in your diet so we'll see what happens. |
| 1:32.0 | So here's some of the highlights of what we talk |
| 1:34.2 | about in today's show. We get into the war that goes on between plants and animals, |
| 1:38.7 | what lectins are and that's pretty much the basis of his book, what piece of cookware you can use to remove lectins |
| 1:44.7 | from your food? Why white rice is actually better than brown rice? And fruit may as well be candy. |
| 1:50.4 | Lots of great information and I hope you guys are ready. Here we go with Dr. |
| 1:54.8 | Stephen Gundry. Hi Dr. Gundry welcome to the show how are you today? |
| 1:58.2 | Great glad to be here finally. All right we're excited to have you on the show after a little technical difficulties in the beginning. |
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