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Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

This Man Thinks He Knows What Causes All Disease | Dr. Steven Gundry on Health Theory

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory

Impact Theory

Business, News Commentary, News

4.75.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Best-selling author of The Plant Paradox, Dr. Steven Gundry, sits down with Tom to discuss the dietary cause of leaky gut, the problems with eating meat, and why olive oil may be the best thing for you. PrepDish: Go to PrepDish.com/health to get two weeks completely free. ButcherBox: Use the discount code: "IMPACT" at butcherbox.com to get 20$ off and FREE BACON FitPlan: Go to Fitplanapp.com/subscribe and use discount code: IMPACT to get 30 days completely free Four Sigmatic: Visit foursigmatic.com/impacttheory and use discount code: "IMPACT" for 15% off your order SHOW NOTES Evolution in diet distinguished humans from chimps/gorillas [5:05] Why a “leaky gut” is not pseudoscience [6:55] Hippocrates' theory on how to remain healthy [9:08] Why removing lectins from your diet will do you wonders [11:15] Why do we suffer from food allergies [13:55] Lectin-like compounds correlate with high rates of diseases [15:40] Why some cultural food habits are better than others [18:22] Debunking certain food myths [19:27] How meat may be negatively affecting your gut [22:20] Are you what you eat? [23:55] Why we should adopt diets from the past [26:46] The problems with red meat [30:56] How animal protein affects longevity [32:56] How to change your relationship to hunger through fasting [35:45] The foods you must be eating [38:53] One key tip to improve your health [41:53] DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE The Plant Paradox by Dr. Steven Gundry: https://amzn.to/2Bj8HBF The Plant Paradox Cookbook by Dr. Steven Gundry: https://amzn.to/2OzcRqz Dr. Gundry’s Diet Evolution by Dr. Steven Gundry: https://amzn.to/2KRy6Si The Longevity Paradox by Dr. Steven Gundry (available for pre-order): https://amzn.to/2B9P7Yo FOLLOW STEVEN GUNDRY Website: https://gundrymd.com/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/2xZVkzo Instagram: https://bit.ly/2KQ57hy Facebook: https://bit.ly/2kttvho

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome to Health Theory.

0:05.0

Today's guest is Dr. Steven Gundry.

0:07.3

He's a heart surgeon, medical researcher,

0:09.4

former president of the American Heart Association,

0:12.1

and New York Times best-selling author

0:14.4

of the deeply fascinating book, Plant Paradox.

0:17.8

He's performed 10,000 surgeries and holds a record

0:20.9

for longest survival of a pig to baboon heart transplant.

0:25.0

And what I want to know is how do you,

0:27.6

somebody who eats a primarily plant-based diet,

0:30.1

how did you come to the conclusion that there are some plants

0:33.1

that are okay and some that are actually outright bad for us?

0:36.3

Well, I actually all started it with a major at Yale University

0:39.5

as an undergrad back in the dark ages,

0:41.9

where we could actually design our own major.

0:44.9

And we could actually develop a theory that we wanted to defend.

0:49.7

And my theory was that you could take a grade,

0:52.4

a manipulate its food supply and its environment

0:55.9

and prove you would arrive at a human being.

0:58.5

Over generations?

0:59.7

Over your long period of time.

1:01.6

Okay.

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