Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast, the weekly podcast where Dr. G gives you the tools you need to boost

your health and live your healthiest life. Welcome to the Dr. Gundry podcast. So lately I've been hearing from a lot of people asking me the same question.

Dr. Gundry should I go vegan?

Well, as I discussed in the longevity paradox,

there is scientific evidence that some vegans do live longer than their non-vegan

counterparts. But does that mean that you need to go vegan to live a long healthy life.

Well, on today's episode of the Dr. Gundry Podcast,

I'm going to try and answer that question.

So stick around.

Because I'm also going to discuss the dangers of a vegan

diet, how you can get the benefits of veganism without giving up your favorite foods, and why some of my least healthy patients when they first

see me are actually the vegan ones so stick around you don't want to miss this one.

Okay, real briefly, what is a vegan diet? I can't tell you the number of people who meet me

and describe themselves as, well let's just use an example.

I'm a vegetarian. I only eat chicken and fish.

Seriously, I hear this all the time.

That's not a vegetarian.

I'm a vegan.

I only eat eggs and milk.

No, that's not a vegan. That's a vegetarian who's a lacto-ovo vegetarian. A

Pescatarian is someone who just eats fish as their source of animal protein.

So a vegan foregoes all forms of animal protein,

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