Welcome everyone. This is Dr. Mercola helping you take control of your health and today we are joined by Dr. Stephen Gundry who has written a new book, The longevity paradox, which has been out for a bit I just had an opportunity to review it and

We're going to discuss that you may know him from his previous book the plant, which is really a landmark book from the perspective of sharing

information about really a foundational component of health, which is the damage that lectants can do to your health.

And he discusses that a bit in this book, of course, too, and we'll probably start out with that,

but it really is probably in my view one of his

biggest contributions to the health field is helping most of us understand this and

the damage they can have to your health. So welcome and thank you for joining us

today. Well, thanks.

It's great to be back on your program.

Yeah, so for those who may not have seen our previous interviews,

why don't we start with the lectin issue because and how they affect impact our gut

buddies as you refer to them are beneficial bacteria and because it really is a foundational topic that we need to fully appreciate.

Yeah, I think the longer I've been at this and the more biological markers of

inflammation that have become available from the last few years inflammatory

cytokines the more I've actually been impressed with the harm that certain plant lectons are capable of doing.

In fact, just two weeks ago I was up in Boston at the American Heart Association's

vascular biology meeting where I think I made a case that dietary lectins

are responsible for an autoimmune attack

on the surface of our blood vessels as measured by a cytokine called high L16

which basically pulls inflammatory cells to a site and I showed in people that removing dietary lectants from them would reverse dramatically

a score that's now been validated for risk of acute coronary syndrome in the next five

years called the pulse score out of USC and showed that removing dietary lectons lowered the pulse score dramatically and it did so by lessening

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