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Lewis HowesThe TOP FOODS That Should Be BANNED - Don't Eat These Foods! | Dr. Steven Gundry
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Dr. Gundry Explains Why Lectins and Gut Bacteria Drive Disease
- Gundry claims most human cells and nearly all genes are non-human microbes, and that gut bacteria shape appetite, mood, immunity and aging, citing fecal transplant examples and animal studies.
- He explains that plants defend themselves with lectins, proteins he says damage the gut lining and trigger problems like eczema, brain fog, irritable bowel and autoimmune disease.
- He names foods to avoid or prepare carefully: beans, grains and the whole-grain hull, nightshades like tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and potatoes, peanuts, cashews and chia seeds, noting that peeling, deseeding or pressure cooking reduces the risk.
- He recounts leaving his post as chairman of heart surgery at Loma Linda after seeing patients improve through diet, including a patient named Big Ed and a woman with chronic pain who relapsed after eating tomatoes in guacamole.
- He recommends eating leaves, tubers and large amounts of olive oil, about a liter a week, and says modern year-round access to fruit and sugary foods keeps people storing fat for a winter that never comes.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasGut bacteria may control appetite and mood
Gundry cites a marathon runner who gained 32 pounds after a fecal transplant from an overweight cousin, and 1930s experiments on depressed patients, as evidence that microbes steer cravings and behavior.
Lectins are plants' chemical defenses
Gundry says plants evolved lectins to deter animals, and that these proteins can pry open the gut lining, which he links to eczema, acne, brain fog and irritable bowel.
Preparation can make some foods safer
He says peeling and deseeding tomatoes and peppers, or pressure cooking beans, nightshades and cashews, makes them fine to eat, and he points to Italian and Southwest Native American traditions.
Year-round fruit tricks an ancient biology
Gundry argues humans were designed to eat fruit seasonally to gain weight for winter, so eating blueberries in February keeps the body in fat-storing mode, and food makers use ripeness colors to trigger cravings.
Autoimmune disease may stem from gut imbalance
He describes the immune system as police reacting to bad gut bacteria, and says removing lectins, simple sugars and saturated fats starves harmful microbes and calms the overactive immune response.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesWe're just a condominium for the people who really run us
— Dr. Steven Gundry
So if you're eating blueberries at Costco in February that came from Chile, your operating system doesn't know it's February.
— Dr. Steven Gundry
We're eating things that we have no business eating 365 days a year. And most of us are just getting ready for the winter that never comes.
— Dr. Steven Gundry
getting to know a new plant, a new lectin, in 500 years is speed dating in evolution.
— Dr. Steven Gundry
I think I judge myself in the ability of being able to give something to somebody else and having them come back and say, "Thank you." That's all I could ever ask in my life.
— Dr. Steven Gundry
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