404: Dr. Steven Gundry on Boosting Your Mental and Physical Energy
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2021
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: http://bit.ly/drstevengundry404
Dr. Steven Gundry (IG: @drstevengundry) is one of the world’s top cardiothoracic surgeons and a pioneer in nutrition, as well as medical director at The International Heart and Lung Institute Center for Restorative Medicine.
He's the author of many New York Times bestselling books and is the founder of Gundry MD, a line of wellness products and supplements.
Today we're focusing in on Dr. Gundry's latest book, The Energy Paradox: What to Do When Your Get-Up-and-Go Has Got Up and Gone.
In this episode, we discuss:
- We are in an energy crisis
- Being tired is not normal
- Autoimmune disease is always associated with fatigue
- Leaky gut underlies chronic diseases & autoimmune diseases
- Eating the Standard American Diet is the perfect way to produce leaky gut
- Lectins cause leaky gut
- LPS (lipopolysaccharides) are bacterial particles that promote inflammation
- Lectins in peanuts and other foods we need to be aware of
- The microbiome is a major defence against lectins
- Why people living with an autoimmune disease should eat lectin-free
- Should you cut out 100% of the gluten from your diet?
- What are postbiotics?
- Farts are an important communication system
- Fiber is converted into postbiotics
- Insoluble fiber irritates the lining of your gut
- Examples of soluble fiber
- Polyphenols are prebiotics
- Olive oil is rich in polyphenols
- Melatonin supports your mitochondria
- Eating whole foods helps your mitochondria from getting overwhelmed
- Time restricted eating/intermittent fasting gives your mitochondria a break
- Butyrate stimulates mitochondria biogenesis
- Why Dr. Gundry chooses to eat within a 2-hour eating window
- How to become metabolically flexible in 6 weeks
- You'll have more energy exercising on an empty stomach
- Needing energy drinks is a warning sign from your body
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Related links:
Dr. Steven Gundry - The Energy Paradox (book)
Dr. Steven Gundry's websites - Dr. Gundry and Gundry MD
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Dr. Steven Gundry - The Plant Paradox (book)
Dr. Steven Gundry - The Longevity Paradox (book)
Dr. Steven Gundry - Diet Evolultion (book)
Listen to Dr. Steven Gundry previously on TUHP (episodes #202 and #287)
Listen to Dr. Jason Fung previously on TUHP (episodes #369 and #380)
Dr. Satchin Panda - The Circadian Code (book)
Listen to Dr. Satchin Panda previously on TUHP (episode #353)
Related episodes:
Dr. Tom O’Bryan – You Can Fix Your Brain (#403)
Danielle Walker on Finding Health After Being Diagnosed With an Autoimmune Disease (#401)
291: Dr. Joseph Mercola – KetoFast • Near-Infrared Saunas • Stop Eating Before Bed
089: Dr. Josh Axe – Eat Dirt • Leaky Gut Is The Root Cause Of All Disease • Soil-Based Organisms
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast. |
| 0:02.7 | Step number one is it's not what I tell you |
| 0:06.0 | to eat that's important. |
| 0:07.8 | Number one, it's what I tell you not to eat. |
| 0:10.6 | We can eat anti-inflammatory foods, |
| 0:14.0 | we can take all these probiotics, |
| 0:17.3 | but if we're constantly introducing lectins |
| 0:21.8 | whose job it is to create leaky gut, |
| 0:26.0 | then we're barking up the wrong tree. |
| 0:30.1 | So job one is to get these foods out of your diet. |
| 0:35.1 | Now job two is to get a healthy microbiome. |
| 0:42.0 | And the part of the book that's kind of exciting is |
| 0:46.0 | most people have heard about probiotics, |
| 0:50.2 | friendly bacteria. |
| 0:52.4 | And a lot of people are beginning to understand prebiotics. |
| 0:58.7 | Prebiotics are the foods that probiotics eat. |
| 1:04.6 | And when I tell all my patients, look, |
| 1:08.0 | if I have a choice of giving you probiotics |
| 1:13.1 | or prebiotics, I'll spend my money |
| 1:17.6 | getting prebiotics rather than probiotics. |
| 1:21.8 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health Podcast, episode 404. |
| 1:30.6 | I'm Jesse Chapus and I'm here to take your health |
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