Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast, the weekly podcast where Dr G gives you eat help you live longer? Well according to a growing amount of research it

actually can. In fact the less animal protein you eat probably the better off you are. But if you want to live the longest

healthiest life possible and don't like the idea of adopting a completely

vegan diet, don't worry. Because today I'm going to share some alternative ways to limit your animal protein intake

without having to give it up.

On this episode of the Dr. Gunnery podcast I'll be sharing details about my five day

modified vegan fast in both the Plant Paradox and the Longuity Paradox books. I'll also

share my tips and instructions for fasting mimicking and intermittent fasting.

Both of these things can help you live a longer, healthier life.

So stay tuned to hear more. Okay, so let's start first with

why limiting animal protein helps your health. Well, I've written about this in the plant paradox and the

longevity paradox and let me start with the Adventist community of Loma Linda, California where I was a professor for

a great part of my career. As you know, the Loma Lindons are one of the blue zones of the world and well Melinda is the only blue zone in

North America or South America and I think that's important to know because the Adventists as a religion in general are promoting

vegan or vegetarian belief and eating.

And in fact, in our hospital there was only a

vegetarian selection of food there was no animal products except for cheese and eggs.

But what's interesting in the long-term studies of some of the longest living people in the world,

the Adventists of Loma Linda, it's actually the vegans that have the longest lifespan

and best health span, followed by the Lacto-Ovo vegetarians, followed by the Pescatarians, followed by the chicken eaters, followed by those who cheat and have other forms of animal protein.

And this has been now studied for well over 20 years on an ongoing basis and my colleagues at Loma Linda have published on this and I've documented

in my books and sadly for every amount of animal protein that's added to the Adventist diet, we see increases in heart

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