67. Dr. Steven Gundry: Understanding Energy Blockers and Getting to the Root Cause of Fatigue, Exhaustion, Brain Fog and More

Ancient Health Podcast

Medicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Dr. Steven Gundry is a surgeon, medical researcher and New York Times best-selling author. His book, The Plant Paradox, dives into harmful compounds in foods that are considered “healthy” and how plants have defense mechanisms that cause myriad health issues. His latest release, The Energy Paradox, expands upon gut, microbiome and mitochondrial health issues and how fatigue, brain fog, exhaustion and more are telling signs of deeper issues. Dr. Gundry shares his insight into how to increase energy production and he and Dr. Axe share their recommendations on foods and supplements to maintain energy balance.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Everybody, Dr. Axe here, welcome to another podcast and so excited today to have Dr. Steven
0:13.2	Gundry MD. He's one of the world's top cardiothoracic surgeons. And really, he's a pioneer
0:19.5	nutrition. He's authored the best-selling books, The Plant Paradox, and the Longevity
0:25.8	Paradox. Also, he's got a new book out called The Energy Paradox. So today, we're going to be talking
0:31.4	about how to naturally boost your energy, reduce inflammation, and heal your body using food as medicine.
0:38.9	And I followed Dr. Gundry for years. He also has a very popular podcast. And he's an expert
0:44.6	in helping people heal from things like autoimmune disease, diabetes, leaky gut syndrome, heart
0:50.0	disease, and neurodegenerative illnesses. And want to welcome today, Dr. Steven Gundry. Hey,
0:55.9	welcome to the show, Doc. Hey, thanks for having me and I've been following you for years as well.
1:00.5	So it's a mutual admiration society. So there you go. Awesome. Love it. All right. Well, let's dive
1:05.8	in. We want to talk about energy today. And we want to talk about lots of things, inflammation. It
1:12.2	just generally how to heal our bodies. One of the first things I'd love to ask you, though, is I
1:16.6	think that one of the things I saw now, I used to be in full-time practice. I haven't practiced in
1:21.4	many years. But when I was one of the biggest complaints my patients had when they first would
1:26.8	come in to see me was, I'm, I've just got low energy. I'm fatigued or I'm just, I feel overwhelmed.
1:34.0	I've a lot going on. But, but, but low energy was sort of a common theme. You know, and I think
1:40.1	that there are different things. Maybe they can cause it. You know, obviously there, you know,
1:43.6	people today might think, Oh, it's because of my thyroid or it's because of my adrenals or it's
1:48.3	because something else. What do you see being at the root causes of a lot of this, this problem
1:56.4	with low energy today? Yeah, you're right. You know, I actually continue to see patients six days
2:01.9	a week. And even on the weekends, my, my day off is Friday when I'm at Gundry MD. So I,
2:10.0	I actually don't have a day off. But yeah, I continue to see patients. It's interesting. When I
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ancient Health Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ancient Health Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.