Did you ever wonder why you could be eating a healthy whole food diet and still not getting better?

Hi, this is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today we are joined by a leading expert of truly innovative novel thinker who can answer that question and that individual is Dr. Stephen Gundry, who is trained as a cardio thoracic surgeon,

doesn't do much of that anymore.

He really focuses on treating people naturally.

And he actually worked at the National Institutes of Health

with a prestigious fellowship there there and was a professor of surgery and pediatrics in cardio thoracic

surgery and head of that surgery department at the Loma Linda University School of Medicine in California, which you might recognize as being popular for vegetarian proponents. So he's got quite an interesting background. There's no question. You guys know that I read about 150 books a year. most of those are health books and it gets, I can read many of these books.

The reason I can read so many is, well I walk for two hours a day on the beach, but I also, I can, a lot of books I can read it under an hour because they're just saying the same old stuff and you don't have to read it a hundred times to know it's but Dr. Gunnery's book which is The Plant Paradox is not one of those.

It's really truly a resource you need to have and

understand in your library, if you're at all

interested about health because it my biggest

disappointment with the book is that I didn't read it before I published my book so because

I would have integrated a lot of what he has in there about the lectins and

these the plant paradox and

fed of fuel I believe are the two best books for health books for 2017.

So with all that preface welcome and thank you for joining us today.

Okay, thanks for having me.

Obviously, I'm a big fan of yours as well, and let me

you.

Well, great.

So, I think we should probably I'll let you take take control here because you're really the

expert in this area but the primary focus of your book as I understand it is to really understand the issue that these plant lectins have these proteins that they make in defense and that you've been studying for well over a decade and seeing truly profoundly

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