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Lewis HowesThe DAILY HACKS To End Inflammation & Increase Your LIFESPAN | Dr. Steven Gundry
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Dr. Gundry Explains Gut Bugs, Mitochondria, Lectins, and Eating for Longevity
- Gundry argues that a diverse gut and oral microbiome drives longevity and brain and heart health, citing centenarians, the naked mole rat, and links between mouth bacteria and Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and heart disease.
- He reframes ketones as signaling molecules that tell mitochondria to uncouple and protect themselves, and says foods like olive oil, polyphenols, goat and sheep cheese, fermented foods and prebiotic fiber produce this effect without a strict high-fat keto diet.
- He recommends a core longevity routine of olive oil, high-dose vitamin D3, timed-release vitamin C, DHA fish oil, polyphenols, and suppressing mTOR through time-restricted eating and a monthly five-day fasting-mimicking diet.
- He says plant lectins in grains, beans, nightshades, peanuts and cashews cause leaky gut and autoimmune disease, and that peeling, deseeding, or pressure cooking foods plus food-sensitivity testing can heal the gut and let people reintroduce foods.
- He advises limiting animal protein to two to four ounces a day, and describes patients who reversed heart disease by removing irritants, including 'Big Ed' and a diabetic man who avoided bypass surgery.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasMouth health is tied to brain and heart health.
Gundry says bacteria like P. gingivalis have been found in Alzheimer's brains and that flossing every other day lowered CRP in his experiment with about 500 people.
Feed gut bacteria with soluble, prebiotic fiber.
He says good bacteria thrive on soluble fiber and produce postbiotics that benefit the body, while bad bacteria crave sugar and saturated fat; he calls prebiotics more important than probiotics.
Ketones are signals, not a super fuel.
Gundry argues ketones tell mitochondria to protect themselves, make more of themselves and waste some fuel (uncouple), so he favors intermittent rather than continuous ketosis, which he says can harm muscle.
Polyphenols and fermented foods act as mitochondrial uncouplers.
He lists olive oil, brightly colored and bitter plants, red wine, pistachios (melatonin), vinegars, aged cheeses and goat or sheep MCTs as ways to get this effect.
Time-restricted eating and periodic fasting support longevity.
He cites mouse work showing time-restricted animals lived longer, recommends a 16 to 18 hour fast, and suggests five days a month of a roughly 900-calorie vegan diet to lower mTOR and promote autophagy.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesWe're merely a condominium for bugs.
— Dr. Steven Gundry
We should be eating for them, and they'll take care of us.
— Dr. Steven Gundry
And most of us are just getting ready for the winter that never comes
— Dr. Steven Gundry
So that's why continuous ketosis is so dumb and dangerous and why intermittent ketosis is so important on a 24-hour basis.
— Dr. Steven Gundry
And so you can literally have your cake and eat it too as long as you know the tricks of foods to uncouple your mitochondria.
— Dr. Steven Gundry
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Lewis Howes
hostPodcast host and author of "The Greatness Mindset."
Dr. Steven Gundry
guestCardiothoracic surgeon and longevity researcher, author of "The Plant Paradox" and host of the "Dr. Gundry Podcast."
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