Hi guys, I'm Gwyneth Paltrow. Welcome to the Goop Podcast.

Every Thursday, Goop editors will be sitting down with provocative thinkers, industry disruptors,

and culture changers. I'll take turns interviewing barrier-breaking

guests as we talk about shifting old paradigms and starting new conversations.

Today's guest is a cardiologist by training. Dr. Stephen Gundry graduated

Cum Laude from Yale, pre-med, then got his MD from the Medical College of Georgia

before completing his surgical residency at the University of Michigan.

He served as chairman and head of cardiothoracic surgery at Loma Linda University School of Medicine

for 16 years. In 2001, he met a so-called hopeless patient with heart disease, who ended

up turning around his health by making some surprising diet changes.

His experience changed the trajectory of Dr. Gundry's career, who went on to explore

the powers of nutrition and search for cures for notoriously difficult to treat diseases

and disorders. He is the founder and director for the Center for Restorative Medicine,

based in Palm Springs, California. And he shared his fascinating research and dietary

philosophy in his books, The Plant Paradox, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution, and The Plant

Paradox Cookbook.

I've got a paper on 102 people with biomarker proven autoimmune disease, like rheumatoid arthritis,

like lupus, like MS, who followed the Plant Paradox program, and was in six months, 90 out

of 102 of them were off of all of their medications.

Dr. Gundry sat down with our chief content officer, Elise Loonon, to talk through his

theory on lectins, the potentially harmful plant-based proteins that he studied extensively,

and some of his other insights into the root causes of autoimmune disease.

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