The studies are out there, it's the people who follow his program. We feel better and are loosing weight. It's the only thing that has worked for me. I hope people who need the diet read the positive comments.
Unproved and unfounded lectins are bad. Scientists have found we pass them straight through our digestive system without issue. It's all a load of crap
@@RayValdezPhotographygood look paying for such a study. I agree with lots of Gundry's work but his stance on red meat I have to disagree with. There are so many people thriving on a carnivore or animal based diet, so many reports of people reversing diabetes, CVD and so many other health issues. I think he's figured half the problem out with lectins or at least the concept of certain plant foods being bad for us. He could go further and look into oxalates and other anti-nutrients to really push the boat out but the other side of the problem is definitely the positive aspect of animal products, in particular organs and meats.
Anyone that eliminates all the foods that Dr Grundy says not to eat will definitely loose weight. I personally do not eat sugar or processed carbs and exercise to achieve weight loss / weight maintenance and optimal health. Maybe someone that is extremely overweight and extremely unhealthy may benefit from all of Dr Grundy’s advice but it is definitely not indicated for everyone.
Gundry never said to not eat fruits or beans. There are over 15 fruits on his list that you can eat. And he said that beans can be eaten if cooked with a pressure cooker. And with tomatoes, you remove the skin and the seeds.
@kev ow You're not too tired to plaster the comment sections with your opinion....derogatory in nature. Have you read the JTRIG tactics? It would help your cause if you really want people to believe you are "the peoples' champion" selflessly donating your time to "correcting" everyone else's belief.
@Jawad H I agree with you not to trust big industry...but who you think is paying her? Big tomato? I don't trust doctors that make most of their money selling their line of 5$ supplements for 55$.
I appreciate the effort you put into this and you have some nice visuals and a fun personality. Please read the following in an upbeat tone because I am in an upbeat mood. Your video is fair but I want to ask you to reconsider the final message of your video. I don't disagree with you on your assessment of the lack of "science" as evidence on lectins causing humans issues. However, I'll just remind you that the reason your channel is needed is because this lack of indisputable science is MASSIVELY common in health and diet. You even recommended an unscientifically proven approach to IBS, the "structured elimination diet", the approach is scientific in nature but that's where the science ends. It's pretty much just a guessing game. :) I spent 20 years chasing a structured elimination diet for Crohn's disease and the answer I STILL get from my Gastroenterologist when I ask why I can't eat certain healthy foods is essentially, "We don't really know, there are so many factors and variables like genetics, lifestyle, and diet. In fact we are just now learning how the gut and the brain truly interact and that some of your symptoms might be caused as a result of the food you eat affecting the chemicals in your brain which affect the messaging back to your gut. But we still have so much to learn" He actually supported me going on the Plant Paradox diet and his basic attitude was, "There's no hard science on lectins and autoimmune disease yet but elimination diets do help some people and it seems a lot of people claim this diet has has helped them. The food you'll be eating is all super healthy so sure, why not give it a try for 6 weeks and see if it helps you? Worst case you'll have eaten healthy for 6 weeks and probably lost some weight." This from a guy who spent years studying Crohn's at Cedars-Sinai Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center. So why make a video to steer people away from this diet if there is a chance that it might help some of them? I get that the purpose of your channel is to "to make sense of nutrition in the media" but you are leaving out the most critical part, the people who are making this diet so popular in the media by claiming it has helped them. Through my channel alone I have heard hundreds of personal stories where this diet has significantly improved lives. So I figure that has to count for something. So all I'm asking is maybe at least take the same attitude my gastroenterologist did about this diet. I'm not arguing that Dr Gundry is 100% right (even he knows he's not), I'm just making a case for those of us who this diet has significantly helped and I cringe when I see videos like yours actively steering people away from the diet that could otherwise benefit. It's certainly not for everyone but I think anyone with an autoimmune disease should at least try it for 6 short weeks. If you made it this far, thanks for reading my comment and thanks for all the work you put into your videos! I wish you the best of success with your channel and hope one day you have enough subscribers that you pretty much have to ignore the comments section because it's too big LOL! :)
Yes, I certainly agree with you that there is a need for more rigorous science in nutrition, especially in the area of autoimmune disease and diet from both the cause and management perspectives. If this diet works for managing your symptoms and your GI is on board then great, my issues are more pertaining to the diet being recommended as a cure-all for such a wide range of conditions outside of autoimmune diseases, such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. There is such consistent evidence that diets high in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes reduces risk of CVD and type 2 diabetes that I cringe when I see messaging that sways away from these knowns. It’s possible that avoidance of lectins or certain compounds in some lectin-containing foods are beneficial in the management of autoimmune diseases, but that is a much more narrow application than is presented by Dr. Gundry. What I think we can both call for is more research - start with case studies of these personal stories in the medical literature and move forward to clinical trials to pinpoint whether avoidance of lectins/some other components of lectin-containing foods is effective in autoimmune management so that practitioners can make evidence based recommendations. Thanks for your comment! I read them all.
You would think that with all the billion of dollars, all the technology and the great minds of scientists that we would know much more about nutrition. Experts sometimes don't agree on basic medical stuff. At one point, we can only pick a side and hope for the best since all the experts disagree.
Denis Morissette I felt the exact same way for a long time until I became friends with one of the scientists who studies this exact thing and has spent nearly 20 years researching pathophysiology and food. When he described to me the process of of scientific studies from concept through Grant acquisition through studies and results, not to mention the insane number of variables that exist between one person to the next (especially when it comes to disease and diet) I realized just how difficult it is for scientists to prove anything to the point of absolute fact. As a result, very few things have been proven as absolutes in health science. Without absolutes it means there are variables and variables lead to different results and different results leads to different interpretations of the science and so on. The good news is someone who is actively seeking and working to eat a healthy diet is going to consistently find information that supports a plant-based whole food diet is best. No matter which version of that diet they are eating they are going to be better off than eating a "standard American diet". 😁
AZ Life I think her response to you is on point. Eating plants is overall a good thing, and the more the better, and to tell so many to stay away from foods such as the most longevity promoting group (beans) is highly detrimental. I'd like to suggest watching Dr. Michael Greger's response to Dr. Gundry's book on his TH-cam channel and website, Nutritionfacts.org
To be clear, I do realize that nutrition professionals need to be cautious and critical of other professionals like Dr Gundry. I have no problem with that. They absolutely should be leery of someone like Dr. Gundry. I just don't want them to ignore the fact that even if Dr Gundry did this whole diet as a scam there are thousands and thousands of people whose chronic medical conditions have improved or gone away entirely as a result of following this diet.
I’m so glad so many people have responded the way they have. You may want to be careful with your wording in your videos, because you make many incorrect statements in this one. Dr. Gundry does not say to avoid beans or fruits all together, he is simply saying to avoid certain fruits at certain times of the year for specific reasons (high lectin content from not being ripe and being covered in ripening chemicals, a double whammy there, plus an abundance of fructose due to genetic modification to seeds. With regards to beans, he clearly states in every interview and in his book, that if you’re battling with a disease of some sort, it’s best to eliminate, heal the gut, then return them back to your diet IF you want them, just simply pressure cook them to remove the lectin content. The error here in this video is that you’re turning a complex, morphing diet into a black and white do and don’t diet, which is just simply isn’t.
Exactly, once you’ve reached phase 3 which is the eating for life phase, he tells us to start reintroducing lectin foods back into our meals one at a time & if we have no problems, then start eating them.you have done a bad deed by misrepresenting what Dr G. Believes. Shame on you. And what kind of doctor are you?
I know a female who was able to cancel surgery to remove a cyst & bone spur on a thumb knuckle, by eliminating "nightshades": tomatoes, potatoes, pepper(s), eggplant. I observed as a cuticle-distorting cyst shrank and vanished. The hideous ditch down the length of her thumbnail has completely leveled out. She has not yet had an X-ray to confirm if the bone spur has atrophied, but overall her finger knuckles seem to be slightly smaller.
I don´t see anyone proclaiming that was on Gundry´s diet and didn´t work well. All the negative comments coming from people that hasn´t followed the plan. Dr. Gundry promotes his products, but also recommend many sustitutes of them that you can buy online, Costco, healthy stores, etc., and you don´t need to buy any of them, Gundry´s or other ones, to follow the diet, that by the way is working incredible for me!!
I have followed Gundries advice for 6 weeks and i have never felt better for over thirty years,,,,,,,,i feel like i have been oiled and sleep much better......to be fully transparent i am also taking Turmeric with all my meals but avoiding lectins has been a game changer for me at 60 years old.
I’m 30 and was diagnosed with celiac two years ago and despite eating a strict non-gluten diet (not even eating out at restaurants), I’ve never been able to heal. In fact, more things in my body keep breaking as a result of chronic inflammation (I’ve developed blepharitis and other stuff). I also only eat organic and am very careful about processed foods and chemicals. I decided to finally go AIP and am beginning to cut out lectins. I notice as soon as I eat tomatoes, my hips ache and are killing me, my muscles hurt, and I go back to needing to sleep five hours in the middle of the day and barely able to function. I also bloat out of my clothes fitting me. I just watched Dr. Grundy more in-depth and learned that lectins can (through a process) lead to the breakdown of your villi. Well... that’s exactly what celiac does. So it’s no wonder that cutting out gluten hasn’t been enough for my villi to heal. I’m feeling better than I’ve felt in years. But as soon as I eat lectins, I go back to feeling like death. There’s a lot more to this than what is missing from medical journals. NOTHING has healed me and for a decade I’ve been messing with my thyroid medicine and feeling like my life has been stolen from me because I’m too run down and sick to have a life. With the AIP, my plan is not to cut out ALL lectins forever, but give my body a few months to heal before reintroducing food mildly and forever being cautious with lectins. This diet seems to be a lifesaver for those of us with auto-immune issues. I wouldn’t discount it so quickly.
I was diagnosed celiac at age 24. I never eat tomatoes! Same thing as you. But also, be careful about red and yellow potatoes! It took me years to realize they are toxic to me! I get the same symptoms I would for being glutened. Lightheaded and dizzy, extremely nauseous, and watery stools, as well as dehydration and fatigue and joint aches later. Everyone is different but as I fellow celiac I must tell you to pay attention to how you feel with potatoes. Also, I’ve told my mother to test for celiac and she won’t. But she has long suggested to me to cut out lectins. She doesn’t eat lectins or if she does it’s rare because she suffers many ailments. I’ve noticed my own sensitivities to lectins but not quite the extent until recently. It’s so hard to get balanced with auto immune disease 🙄 I hope youre feeling better ❤
I figured I try out his plan for a month, since it was basically healthy whole foods with restrictions. Within 2 weeks, my ankle started feeling better for the first time in over a year.
I have had ulcerative colitis for 10 years now. I started getting a flare up the end of January and my gastroenterologist prescribed me antibiotics which I took for two weeks with no improvement. A couple of weeks ago my friend recommended this book, as we share the same auto immune disease and suggested I give it a try (by the way, she lost 28 pounds and is feeling better than ever). I ordered the book and I already finished reading it. For the last 10-11 days I have started eating only the things Dr. Gundry is “suggesting” and I completely eliminated the Sugar, white bread, pastas and all the foods on the NO list. I am amazed at how much better I am feeling now and how my flare up is finally dissipating, plus I have lost some weight. I’m going to continue with this, what I call “lifestyle change” and be back on remission. Thank you Dr. Gundry
Its removing the sugar white bread and pastas...and eating healthy....not the lectins. I recommend juicing carrots also. Natural healthy and cleansing the bowels. The late Jay kordich healed himself of bladder cancer from juicing. He has tons of videos online. God bless
@@oddy_gg One thing to notice though: whole grains. Just this video mentions it multiple times how beneficial they are. While whole grains are less bad than refined grains, the stuff good in them you can get from elsewhere without the bad stuff - many are still relatively fast-absorbed carbohydrates and the gluten isn't helping either.
Removing carbs, sugar, and dairy will cause starvation of the parasites in our bodies that cause our diseases, this is why people are feeling better, they are parasite cleansing without even knowing!
This isn't blatantly explained anywhere. It sucks not being able to eat these foods so just doing this diet to heal the gut and to be able to reintroduce these foods is something I'm hoping to achieve. Thanks for this
No, he doesn't say go back and eat lectins. But he does say you can remove lectins by removing the skin and seeds on tomatoes, blanching almonds and pressure cooking potatoes and beans.
I presume when smoking was initially discovered to be unhealthy, there was also not concrete evidence to support it. But I do imagine there were groups of people who experienced large health benefits once they stopped. I feel like this is where we are with these very new and revolutionary lectin discoveries. I'm believe in keeping a neutral, yet more so positive perspective on scientific revelations.
Absense of evidence is not evidence of absense. You only have to look in the quality of the studies that produced much of the world's dietary recommendations and things such as the food pyramid to realise, that the "evidence" used to convince people away from their ancestral diets of highly nutritious animal products and to eat more easily processed and profitable food, is weak at best.
I appreciate your video. I just started The Plant Paradox, and it seems a little overly aggressive when addressing vegetables you cannot eat; however, the 100% elimination of these foods is only for a period, and then you can start bringing them back one by one to see if you react. So, in reality, it seems like another elimination diet, which is what you recommended. He is just putting a "why" behind what's going on and why these foods may effect people negatively. I think it's important to point out that traditional cooking methods of soaking, fermenting and long-cooking help a lot of these high-lectin legumes and vegetables to be more easily digestible, and they are methods used in those parts of the world you highlighted. I also don't think his diet is so much a cure for obesity and diabetes as, say, a paleo or low-carb diet. His diet is incidentally low-carb/paleo so it has similar effects. What I'm using the diet for is for eczema, which my gp has been unable to treat and dermatologists just give you steroid creams but it doesn't address "why" I'm itching my own skin off. I've only been on the plan less than a week, and my itching has gone down about 95%. It feels like a miracle. My skin is finally starting to heal, so while I miss all the foods, I'm going to do see this all the way through.
@@waydewynn my daughter had bad eczema , we cut out dairy and it is almost gone. We allow her to have some dairy every day, but if she exceeds a serving, her skin starts to turn red . best of luck
My son had bad eczema as a baby. His pediatrician told me to try taking dairy out of his diet because it is usually caused by a food allergy and most often dairy. His eczema cleared up pretty quickly.
me too - I feel better since cutting out lectins - I was already vegan (15 yrs) mostly raw and cut most grains . legumes, fried foods, hydro oils, salt, all processed sugars and many carbs)(7 yrs) but still ate the lectin high fruits and veges and potatoes. Cut all these last 20 days and massive improvement in health, gut, even mood etc. I have also reduced weight by 3 lbs to correct level as of 40 years ago
@@Nigel1502 you likely got into ketosis..co grats!! If you are avoiding animals for belief is one thing, but if not, id highly encourage reintroduction of even fish to avoid the big protein issue of being vegan. Salt is not the issue, you need salt in ketosis. High insulin is what causes swelling and water retention. Sugar damages blood vessels leading to diabetes and heart disease. The majority of our body processes need salt. If you feel tired, headachy or achy, it may be salt deficiency. Sodium, potassium and magnesium are essential as our body doesnt make them and they are mostly depleted from genetic engineering and poor soil/poor crop rotations. Ketones have a huge advantage to low carb eating..so depending what you eat, how often in frequency, you may be in one bucket or the other. Please do yourself justice and read on the benefits of cognition amd gut healing with fat based nutrition..either coming from food or from body. Ps you lose a bunch of water weight when insulin goes down and you use up glycogen stores. Water and salts follow and why all three electrolytes are extra important when low carb.
Many of us here are the human evidence that the Plant Paradox diet really works, producing great overall health! (After others have not.) It would be a shame to ignore that in favor of feeling smug and dismissive.
Agree with you... am thinking that pharmaceutical companies would be behind efforts to discredit anyone saying that the real key to recovery is diet, and all the Zantac, and pills to treat diabetics & autoimmune diseases are only prolonging life instead of curing illnesses.
Eliminating lectins and other plant defense chemicals from my diet resolved the eczema that I had on my hands for years. My dermatologist was puzzled. She kept prescribing me Clobetasol. I was doing the diet to lose weight and get my blood pressure down. I assumed I would have eczema for the rest of my life and was wearing nitrile gloves constantly to protect my hands from cracking and bleeding. I did lose weight and oddly, my eczema went away. Also, my joint pain that I associated with my age subsided. Some of it is due to my weight loss, like in my knees. However, my joint pain in my knuckles subsided as well. Crazy! I can snap my fingers again for the first time in years. I'm not saying that Dr. Gundry is perfect but I have learned that there is something significant going on with plant defense chemicals. I am also seeing that Dr. Lara from this video follows nothing but two big pharmaceutical companies on her LinkedIn page. Not saying that she is corrupt or directly paid but she hold the high esteem per her LI profile.
I couldn’t get my knee cartilage to properly heal (by itself) until I started eating lectin-free. Also my stomach is just happy now with what I put in it. Olive oil? Yes please.
She is making a valid point, there is not much applicable science to back up Gundry's suspicions. Doesn't mean he isn't right, but doesn't mean he isn't wrong either. Will have to see if more studies bear out his claims in the future. It's possible that your problems were due to reaction from one of the foods ruled out by his recommended diet, and this happened to help your problem, but the lectins actually played no role.
@@hankkingsley9183 people making billions of dollars (big pharma, kellogs, johnson and johnson other companies, fast food companies) dont want us to know the truth about optimin health because they profit from our illnesses. Thats explains why there is no studies. They would rather sell us pharmaceuticals and supplements and processed foods. . But there is a lot of antidotal evidence. Many people have sick digestive tracts from our processed food diets. So people with compromised gi could avoid high lectin food for healing and then decide if they want to go back.
@@hankkingsley9183 that woman who made her video doesn't know what she's talking about, very inexperienced in science-based studies worldwide. This has been studied worldwide for decades by expert scientists, not knuckle heads like her. Thank you I respect your opinion, but do some research my friend. 👍
By chance I clicked on an ad on my computer by Dr. Gundry and it held my attention. I'm his age and not overweight, but a hyper person. As a biologist it was interesting to me what he had to say and why. I got on his nutritional diet and not without difficulty. It has been about a month and it seems this new diet is a positive for me. This comment is subjective by nature, but it seems, for example, driving is less stressful. Hopefully, I won't lose all my friends. My plan is to continue on this diet and consult my doctor about it.
Don't knock it till you try it. I had extremely bad eczema and tried many different diets from vegan to keto and nothing helped except for the lectin free diet so if you are having issues I would give it a try if you are having the same or similar issues. If you are feeling a hundred percent healthy keep on doing what your doing.
Thanks for the well detailed explanation and opposing analysis. But I don't agree with going to a gastroenterologist or a dietitian. These days they know less than my cat. No harm trying lectin free diet for people suffering from health issues. I am fairly healthy with minor issues. Will try lectin free to see if it makes a difference
So I guess the logic of your video is we should not rely on any researh on animal studies. That kind of blows a lot of holes in everthing else we are told about modern medicine.
I literally just saw Dr.Gundry's presentation for the first time (that is to say I have no loyalties here) and that's not what he said. I'm just doing a little digging around for more information before I go trying his product (which if his intentions were what he says they are, he would charge only what it costs to produce). What Gundry said is that Lectins themselves (because of their spiky bodies) cause tears in the gut -- effectively causing "leaky gut". He says because Lectins tear gut walls, causing fecal particles to enter the blood stream, they are responsible for many health issues.
Indeed what he said on the ad, I don’t really know what this lady is claiming he said because he definitely didn’t say lectins cause inflammation in the ad I saw, but maybe it does and she just wants people to be safe with the way things are even if the food we eat kills us
It seems there are a lot of people in the comments backing Dr Gundry's claims with their own experiences, which I expected to see. This videos seems to be using his name to get views, but not a good job of researching from what I have read into the subject, and I'm no doctor. Probably why the channel has almost no subscribers. My own experience with the plant paradox diet is very positive. No longer experience IBS symptoms, have more energy, can still eat a wide variety of foods (including meat) and no longer need to spend money on pricey Gastroenterology appointments. I have tried many "diets" and eating plans including FODMAP, but have had limited success (and relapses) due to the trial and error nature of these approaches. My GP doctor was all for me changing to this diet due it essentially being healthy foods, and has recommended I stay on it due to the success I have experienced. I hope in future this channel takes out the bias, and can provide balanced views that don't use click bait titles. The picture for this video asks "lectin free diets, healthy or not?", but you never actually answer this question. More science of your own perhaps, as that is what you are claiming to do... Good luck in future :)
While I understand your point of view, I have to disagree with you. I am a former bodybuilder turned power lifter many years ago. My diet has been the same since I first started lifting seriously at 16 (Now 52). It has been low fat, low - no sugar, limiting myself to only one soda a month and only 4 beers a year. I ate nuts, legumes, vegetables and fruits, fish and chicken, occasionally pork and beef (venison when I could get some). By the time I was 45 I had started putting on belly fat and a peptic ulcer I got when I was a young man (at 21 in the military from medication), flared back up and has been the same ever since. I also developed gout. That surprised me as Gout was referred to as a rich mans disease from eating fatty rich foods, smoking and consuming lots of alcohol. Everything I avoided. Come to find out nutritionist lied to me. Come to find out purines breaks down into uric acid proteins and those little needling crystals build up in the joints. I now battle gout in my thumbs and big toes the most. As I have been aware of my nutrition almost as long as you have been alive. I know how to conduct my own personal testing by eliminating certain foods, flushing my system and adding in certain things. I did a modified carnivore diet mostly beef, fish with limited chicken and port intake. Cut out all nightshades and legumes. Ate only green vegetables like broccoli, spinach, kale, brussel sprouts and dark green lettuce. Fruits were limited to berries and cherries. What I found in the first week was five pounds lost, no more joint pain in my toes and a bit more energy. By the end of the end of the month I had lost 15 pounds, NO Joint pain anywhere, and I felt like I was 30 again. I had a healthy glow on my face and the weights in the gym went up easy. I know this does not fit you "Scientific" analysis and "Proof", but in my experience, most of the science I see is skewed by the money funding it. I would suggest that we haven't seen real science for the sake of knowledge, since Nikola Tesla died.
I want to say that it’s fine to question Dr. Gundry’s ideas, but it seems that many people including myself have gotten positive results with what he’s suggesting. I align with encouraging people to be independent. In other words, “Don’t forget to breath.” Most people don’t put a lot of effort into being so meticulous with their food choices, so just even trying to do what Dr. Gundry suggests is a major attempt at conscientious eating, but following anything blindly is not usually a good practice. I think her video could have simply been her stating “I want more proof.” It comes across as picking apart something because she’s not convinced rather than trying to understand something that she’s not convinced of. She could have tried the diet herself and commented on her experiences. And taken tests to verify her levels of various indicators. I don’t think it’s helpful to just suggest something isn’t very valid that one hasn’t gotten to the bottom of themselves.
The Italians eat pasta, bread and a lot of nightshades. They're fine. The Japanese have rice in practically all of their meals. They're fine. The Irish love their potatoes and they're fine as well. The reason why America has a health epidemic is because we eat too much, especially fast food and sugar, plus we are chronically glued to a chair under chronic stress.
Every time I see someone criticize him, a large part of their time is spent on legumes, specifically on the notion that he doesn't approve of consumption due to lectins. If the short snippet used of his initial point was allowed to play, he claims that they are not only great for you, but an essential food when prepared as in other countries. ie left to soak, and cook for extended periods. Or to speed the process, pressure cooked. Seems an unfair description. As for instant dismissal of his claims of proven results, seems like a fools errand. It's quite easy to cite opposing studies (even though half of those studies actually agree with him) and edit soundbites out of context to defame, but I don't see anything constructive here. Just the opposite. Well cut together though😊
The problem is that he's contradicting himself, saying there's a way to properly cook high lectin foods while also saying to avoid them Which is it? Cook properly or avoid??
My results. - Lectin free helps. I have a red, painful rash on my face. When I follow Gundry's lectin free diet, my rash clears up. My skin returns to flesh tone. It's difficult to eat lectin free especially within a family who eats a normal diet, so I have the rash most of the time. When I do follow a lectin free diet loosely, the rash is improved but still present. I can actually feel my face begin to burn 15 minutes give or take after I've eaten a food with lectins. I don't know the science, but I do know I am affected by the lectin rich foods. It seems to be across the board including dairy and eggs. Side note, I started taking two tablespoons of olive oil high in polyphenols and my cholesterol has improved.
Where's her data? Lots of success stories from Dr. Gundry. She must not have any stomach issues.... I've destroyed my stomach and this diet really helps to repair it. I would imagine in the future after I'm healed I'll be able to handle more foods.
She doesn’t need data. The whole point of her video was to point out that HE does not provide data. The onus is on HIM because HE is the one making the assertions. Where is HIS data? “Lots of success ‘stories’ “ are just that...stories, until backed by scientific peer reviewed data.
I had acne from my teens into my thirties. I discovered Dr.Gundry's work through a colleague, dropped any food with lectins and my skin cleared immediately... if I do take a few bites of food with lectins, it's amazing how fast I get inflammation on my skin and bloating. This woman did zero research and is trying to make a name for herself by tearing down Dr.Gundry
I am on a Paradox diet for almost a year now. Every and each time I eat something from a no-no list I have problems. Acid reflux, atopic skin (particularly irritating : I have my whole hands in tiny wounds for a couple of days), sleepiness, brain fog, constipation. Maybe it is not a diet for everyone, but I will stick to it. For me it works.
this lady is has an adorable personality, but (unfortunately) is absolutely wrong. goodness help her own unwell clients and the people following her advice.
You say that research is needed but who is going to pay for it and besides it would take years. Dr Gundry does have years of experience and thousands of patients to confirm his findings. Your video does not provide anything except opinion. Based on my experience with grains and lectin containing foods I agree with Dr. Gundry. I would recommend trying his diet. It doesn't cost anything to stop eating certain foods.
If dr. Gundry does not have thousands and thousands of patients that are medically documented to have been proven to be cured of their health issues because of cutting out lectins then there is no evidence to support that claim. Dr. Gundry is telling you to eat healthy food which means you are generally going to be healthy if you are not eating these Foods before. But that does not prove if lectins are causing you to die or not bothering you at all. There's not enough science to back the stock every diet that comes out people end up losing weight and thinking that that means everything else that the diet says is absolutely fact. If you use dr. Gundry's advice and it helps you then there is no harm though but that does not mean that everything he says is factual
You're right about the grains. Most people who suffer when eating lectins, and they are MANY will sprout or ferment grains first. Real bread is a fermented food isn't it? Dr. Gundry does not say you eliminate the food. He says you eliminate the lectins. You do this by fermentation and pressure cooking.
The only reason I’ve given this Video a thumbs up, is for the comments! I’ve just purchased Dr. Gundrys book, rather than listening too a M.D advice. I’m willing to make my own experience. I’m 47, look 10-15 yrs. younger and have my aches and pains, although not seriously sick. When younger I was into athletics and cycling, getting older I always felt my Stamina going up and down when biking the forest. I’m low on Carbs but always have a fallback now and again feeling weak and tired. Staying on track is hard because family and friends don’t always share the same track, especially with nutrition. On pagan holidays its the worst, so temptation is always around the corner, being polite gets me off track now and again. I am always considered being radical with my mindset, not proselytising anyone, just sharing my opinion gets many upset, many just then feel personally attacked due too some sub conscious program from childhood they haven’t gotten over. I’m giving the diet a try too see how it helps. The most hardest part is within my over 20yrs. of relationship. Yepp yepp strawmen tactics.
Good luck to you - I see some similarities in my own history. Stick to whatever works for you and avoid the haters the best you can. I've done remarkably well by building MY OWN diet based on all the reading and experimenting I've been doing for 30+ years.
I haven’t read this book. I know who the Dr is because I’ve been watch a lot of videos. When I had severe bowel issues a old surgeon told me to strip my diet down. Only eat 3 certain foods so my bowel would heal. Then I had to start putting things back to figure out what might be causing the problem. I think everyone has to try to do what might work for them. If stripping certain foods help certain ppl help heal their gut, ppl need to try it. Everyone is different. Ppl need to take their health into their own hands. I don’t know how trying this for a while to see if it helped you would hurt anyone. Some ppl are at their wits end. That’s my experience with the medical system & myself.
Had allergies all my life that have become slowly much more serious over the last few years....totally cleared up since following Dr Gunry's advice....plus lost loads of weight !!!! I hate videos like this....done by people that obviously have no clue what they're talking about. I am happy to see here that I am not alone in my opinion......'Sciencing my ...'
Thank you for your honesty Dr. Laura!!! I thought that Dr. Gundry was overreaching and exaggerating with regard to "LECTINS". I believe that everything depends on how foods like vegetables are cooked and eaten.
This is also what Dr. Guidry has stated when attempting to help himself and others who may have or did experience issues stemming from damage to the intestinal tract…. I don’t think he is overreaching when he and others are showing the results, not just waiting for studies, but walking in full faith in authority in how they treat their bodies. There was another lady that would pop up all the time on my screen like Dr. Gundry and what she stated was… much like Dr. Gundry, there are bad stuff in the foods that actually cause the body to malfunction. Her example included high fructose corn syrup, which according to her tricks the brain into eating more food….. !!! Could you imagine if your eating all this stuff and your a compulsive eater and everything trips you up emotionally, so you go straight to foods that not only make you feel less full, but they damage your gut lining in consistent large amounts (consistency and frequency)…. Seems like a never ending cycle that has to be broken by doing something different like a fast from those damaging agents and giving the body time to repair itself.
Speaking for myself, I absoutely agree with Doc and am so grateful for his study. I have celiac disease. And when I eat lectin foods, I have very similar symptoms. Especially red or yellow potatoes. I get the exact same symptoms as if I ate gluten. It’s like I give myself food poisoning when I eat potatoes. I do not eat raw tomatoes or any nightshades. Same thing. Soaking nuts, beans, and other lectin foods does help break down the lectins and makes them easier to digest, but I have to be careful about quantities and combinations of foods.
There's also oxalates to watch out for as well as other anti-nutrients (worth looking into). Gundry has been very good for realising some of the negative aspects of many plant foods but I have to say I don't agree with everything he says. For example; his stance on red meat is outdated and I believe it's the missing piece to the puzzle he's trying to solve when it comes to thriving and not just surving in terms of diet. Red meat, eggs, dairy and organ meats should feature in freqeuncy in most people's diets as far as I can tell. I'd say particularly so if you're genetics come from areas of the world where plant foods are not natuarlly as plentiful.
She needs to see Dr. Gundry’s vid on the new food pyramid! That old one is no longer relevant in today’s world of GMO foods and all sorts of crap in the soul our food is grown in. Ditto meat- those who eat meat are eating everything that the farmer has fed his animals and that is a fact!
Sorry to echo what many before have already said... but the content in this video is misrepresented! The Lectin elimination diet is only for 3 weeks to repair the gut... THEN to re-introduce foods cooked appropriately to reduce or destroy the lectins. And again it’s not a harmful diet like so many other popular nutritionally restrictive ones, so what’s the harm in giving it a try. Don’t know about others but I personally don’t always go by published medical research and journals, as so many are funded by large corporations such as the dairy, agriculture, pharmaceutical and big sellers like nasty/Coca-Cola. So we should be more supportive of doctors actually trying to research and find treatments for those suffering instead of discrediting them without evidence.
But this elemination of lectins was'nt enough for me . I needed to eliminate/reduce oxalates too. So right now I'm on an elimination diet and it takes time to detox especially the oxalates. It can take many years.
When there is a problem the first thing we should ask is what is wrong in ourselves, looking more inward rather than outward , If I'm allergic to shrimp, the problem is not because of the shrimp, it's mainly my own body, If somebody has a health problem when eating gluten or lectin in the foods that are supposed to be healthy, what need to be looking at is what is the cause and cure for the bad interaction, it could be from having other foods in the diet that are bad, it could be from lacking other foods in the diet that are good, personal genetic characteristics, microbiome situation, all other things we do and experience in daily life ,.. avoiding lectin may free us from health problems, but it may never make us a healthy person. Thanks you very much for your great information and presentation on lectin
Oh my God, this woman must have done zero research. I had acne from my teens into my thirties... when learned of Dr. Gundry's work and dropped foods with lectin (especially ANYTHING with wheat) my skin instantly cleared within 2 weeks!
The Plant Paradox diet, if I get it correctly, is too exclusive of lectins. I believe that Gundry is right to some extent, but takes it too far. We need some lectins, but only small amounts. To exercise the villi in the gut. If you eat too much lectin, it leads to inflammation, and leaky gut, etc. You need grains to digest, and for minerals, vitamins, and other benefits. By soaking/ sprouting grains, other than wheat- which is beyond help- and soaking legumes overnight before boiling for 30 minutes, you reduce lectins, and yet still have the grains and types of fiber you need. I've been reducing my lectins for around three weeks, now. And my gradual recovery from leaky gut has accelerated, yet I'm digesting ok. I wasn't able to digest on the no-grain Gaps diet. Check out Thomas DeLauer's video on The Truth about Lectins
You can make your claims without using the Dr's name . I haven't checked this all out but I think he may be onto something because when I eat tomatoes my arthritis kills me. If you don't have any chronic pains or unresolved weight issues you won't visibly or physically understand. What works for one person may not work for another. Certain blood types should eat certain foods don't doctors know this. Food sensitivities and allergies also play a big role in all of this . I think and in reading these comments tells me Dr. GUNDRY is onto something. The Dr. Is " twice" your age , a heart surgeon, and has just discovered all of this in his later life. He looks healthier and says he has more energy and feels better and also lost weight he couldn't lose. So I think you should get your head back into the books and we'll see you in another twenty years.
This lady just proves that "trusting the science" now very often is equivalent to harming your health. When science has been taken over by corporate interests we need to go back to anecdotal evidence. And if there is enough of that then anecdotal evidence does have some value - that is a line by Gabor Mate, and I believe he is very right. I did go back from a lectin free diet to a more "normal" diet again, and my health clearly declined. The problem is that the slope is gradual and one does not recognize the negative impact lectins have right away. It takes some time for the inflammation to occur. And then you are miserable and do not make the connection to the dietary changes you made months ago. My question is why are we now more sensitive to lectins than we were in the past? All the glyphosate and other environmental toxins which seem to be our constant companions nowadays?
I did my PhD at Tufts, at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. My doctoral research focused on investigating how diet impacts epigenomic patterns over the course of the aging process - a topic for future Nourishable videos!
@@Nourishable For someone with such an accomplished background, I'm amazed at how little research you did on Dr.Gundry's work before dragging it through the mud (not impressed, at all 😒). Ps. Dr.Gundry has NEVER encouraged a diet without fruits and he is fine with certain legumes, provided that they are prepared a certain way before being consumed.
Seems a lot of critics have not read the book, or have misunderstood. This protocol is for people who are sick! It may well be unnecessarily restrictive for those who aren't. Also, like all elimination diets, it doesn't necessarily stay that strict forever. The first objective is to heal that gut! FYI the blue zone and French paradoxes are addressed directly in the text...I won't try to paraphrase bc I don't have it in front of me and wouldn't want to get it wrong. I don't necessarily agree with everything (demonization of fruit), but I am so sick that I'm disabled, and the doctors who don't know squat about nutrition, or don't "believe" in leaky gut syndrome have wasted enough of my time and money with their treatments and medicines that just make everything worse. It comforts me to know that the protocol has been tested on hundreds of others, rigorously, with bloodwork and other types of testing, and found helpful in so many cases. Certainly worth a try.
You can have all the science in the world, but it don't mean shit til you try it yourself. The thing about Dr. Gundry is that he actually works with the patients and sees the results. I don't know how you can argue with that!
By the way it took over 40 years to prove that Cigarettes were bad for people. In fact doctors and science at that time promoted smoking cigarettes as healthy. Maybe acting as industry shills. Any questions about that?
Hi, when you state the The Plant Paradox book doesn't have the scientific studies to back Dr Grundies claims and theory of lectins" Listen to this Podcast. "Eat More Foods worry less Ept 146. An interview with Dr Tim Stevens from Kings College London 16.25 where he talks about why there is a lack on scientific studies carryout out commercial foods products and work he's doing to try a change the perspective of the importance of the foods we eat , the health of our micobiome and indirectly our own overal health. Regards Martin
Okay nourishable I have been a type 1 insulin-dependent diabetic for over 40 years and under a doctor's care and nutritionalist and so on and so forth my blood sugar's have always been out of control with pills and shots and changes of diet I am 2 weeks and to dr. Gundry's food do's and don'ts and have not yet started the plant Paradox program and at this time I am down from five to six shots a day to Just Two Shots a day and possibly about to go down to one and my blood sugar levels are better than they've ever been this is nothing short of remarkable this is unheard of and type 1 diabetes so please give me your rebuttal?
Well done - many of have known for 20 years that diabetes was reversible but drug companies did not want peeps to know - it is the biggest money spinner for them when you take into account all the later issues on diabetes, eyesight, lower limb damage/loss etc
I feel better since cutting out lectins - I was already vegan (15 yrs) mostly raw and cut most grains . legumes, fried foods, hydro oils, salt, all processed sugars and many carbs)(7 yrs) but still ate the lectin high fruits and veges and potatoes. Cut all these last 20 days and massive improvement in health, gut, even mood etc. I have also reduced weight by 3 lbs to correct level as of 40 years ago
Steven Kahanek, that is the longest sentance I have ever read. I ran out of breath 3 times just reading it. Do you know you can click on the 3 dots on the right of your comment, and then edit your sentance into seperate sentances? Do this to make it more clear and understandable? Just saying.
Dr Gundry I have suffered from an enlarged prostrate. I’ve basically adopted your diet and noticed an improvement. I relapsed with a pasta dish and noticed my prostrate condition deteriorate. Is there any evidence the prostrate is inflamed by food? Pete from Australia.
So, being an M.D. I'm guessing that you had approximately 4 or 6 seminars on nutrition in your 8 to 10 years of schooling. Doctors aren't trained in anything besides prescribing pills these days, being that the great percentage of medical schools are funded by the pharmaceutical industry. I eat a keto type diet and Dr. Gundry's philosophy coincides with mine, minus the lectins. How could it be bad?
You can say what you want lady but I don't need medicine for my bechterew anymore. And lost 10 kg while eating a lot. No more gravings and no more glucose sensitive. And all that whitin 3 weeks.Sorry, don't need your drugs anymore 😊
Thank you for your informative video. I have found avoiding lectins to be a completely and 100% positive dietary change in my life. I've always been thin and fit, but I've never always felt that great. By avoiding lectins, I've found myself feeling 500% better and joint and muscle aches/pains nearly vanished. Anecdotal, but 1 more data point. As I said before, thank for you for a great video. You do awesome work!
I always go with my intuition & my intuition is telling me to do Dr Gundry’s diet plan. I have a neurological autoimmune disease, I feel his diet will help me…
"That's what Science tastes like" - What an unnecessary and condescending closing to what could have been a video with a credible voice. Are you a medical doctor or a PHD doctor of nutrition or some other subject..? That isn't clear, so let's science that, first..
Dr G. save me. I,m 71 and my inflammation and weight is under control... "Wake Up" ... God Bless Dr. G. and stop looking at pharmaceuticals as the only answer.
Thank you for your balanced analysis of the diet. I found that a balanced Mediterranean diet keeps me lean and I report no cardiac or high blood pressure issues. I was about to go ahead with this program . I trust more in the Divine Intelligence in my body to bring me to greater health rather than attempting a new regimen.
To summarize: she has a PhD in biochemical and molecular nutrition. She is skilled at evaluating research claims and statistical evidence which the lectin free diet is lacking. She concedes that some people may be sensitive to lectins and need the guidance of a physician to eliminate those from their diet. Those people would likely benefit from eliminating the offending foods from their diet. Dr. Gundry has skipped the double blind study and gone straight to conclusions and recommendations which Dr. Hyde would recommend in the context of evidence based physician guided practice. For many people, they read the book and skipped all of that which benefitted them greatly. YMMV.
After reading this comment, I stopped watching this lady at 1:09 and saved 5 minutes of my life to give back thirty seconds to say thanks! Listen to YOUR body folks! Not Corporate-State propagandists!
The diet works well for me. My sense is that people who have a healthy gut can tolerate lectins just fine. The problem is that many people damage their intestines through a variety of ways including stress, diet, alcohol, antibiotics, etc. Once the intestines are compromised and you have leaky gut, then consuming lectins becomes like a fire hose of inflammation that just never lets up. I stumbled upon the diet after finding relief with the carnivore / keto diets, but not knowing why they were working. On one of my cheat days I had an almond based dip (bitchin sauce) and felt awful. Made the connection with lectins and never looked back. For people with a leaky gut, it's absolutely worth trying.
the skins of almonds have lectins, almonds themselves do not. next time try blanched almonds (skins removed) and it shouldn't cause the lectin reaction. unless you have a specific almond intolerance.
@@blue_sky_bright_sun7599 "bitchin sauce" (I use it myself) has an almond base. You buy it pre-made and there is no way to tell if it uses almonds with skins, but I suspect not. Could make some version yourself and test with/without skins on the almonds. Didn't know that about almonds, thanks.
Time for a lectin full lunch? How about time for the large scale diet studies that we are missing on 1. With cereal grains vs. No cereal grains at all 2. With dairy products vs. No dairy products at all 3. Standard American Diet vs. Lectin Free / Paleo diet. At this point the experiential evidence of people finding significant benefit and even reversing diseases by removing lectins from their diet is mounting and certainly should warrant enough interest to produce those studies.
Did you read the original Plant Paradox book or the cookbook? In the original book Dr. Gundry cites scientific studies, papers and articles that support his claims. And in the cookbook he shows how the people in the blue zones prepare their vegetables to eliminate the lectins.
I did read the original plant paradox book, and additionally read the studies that it cited. Frequently the book misinterpreted studies, or cited studies that didn't actually support the claims in the book.
I often wonder when it comes to these things about the placebo effect. I’m sure it’s been mentioned in the 380 comments. I am not taking anything away from the people who feel healthier from following the diet. I just wonder if you follow up with somebody over time how many people stick to it and will they continue to feel the lasting effects? Is it possible that placebo if believed strong enough for long enough could have a lasting affect? What would be more interesting is a study on placebo itself. Why is it a thing? Why is it that in a controlled study scientists have to beat out a sugar pill because somehow the sugar pill literally has an affect on the subject? I believe that aside from the China study it is very hard to control a study such as one related to diet. At least with the China study many of the places studied did not have access to Western foods and were within rural areas with people eating the same foods that had for generations. If you try to do the same study in America it is incredibly difficult if not impossible. For example, how do you control having someone not ingest, gluten, for example for a year? Inevitably people are human and will slip up either on accident or on purpose and that throws the whole study off. Also, how can you possibly do a study of significance which would need to look at these items over time and for that over very long periods of time? How do you control for other variables outside of the food? What if someone in one area has conditions in their water supply or a certain chemical on their food that they eat every day. I would say one thing is that an epidemiologist can look at trends in certain foods over time, for example trans fats, and draw causality. It is a fascinating subject and I think a very sensitive topic for a lot of people because there have been so many diets. The amazing thing is that everyone seems to do great on any given diet which is the new fad diet until suddenly they don’t.
well i've tried this diet thinking it might be bullshit yet here i am just 7 days later already feeling a million times better, don't know man gotta try it :)
Evidence is right here in your comments. I am not a big fan of Gundry, but when your patients speak for you, then that means you are doing something good. That evidence is more than enough for any doctor to carry on. I read plant paradox and did not trust it much until I read the comment section here. I think this is more than enough evidence for me to believe that lectin elimination diet works. Thanks for raising the issue though
It took me 10 seconds to go to PubMed and advance search "Lectin" + "Microbiome" + "Endothelial" + "Human" to find 100's of studies. Not only that, 100's of studies related to lectins in other circumstances. This is commonly referred to as multivariate analysis (MVA), but what do I know.
Just tried it. Pubmed advanced search: "Lectin"+"microbiome"+"endothelial"+"human" = 0 results. So I thought maybe try without the quotes. Now I get 5 results. I also tried it with "epithelium" (which is the lining of your gut) instead of "endothelial" (which is the lining of your blood vessels); now i get a whopping 10 results. So.....?
I recently started eating a lectin-free diet after reading the Plant Paradox. I also consume MCT oils, evoo, and lots of good polyphenols, as Dr. Gundry recommends. After feeling like absolute crap for over three decades, I now have tons of energy, I am finally sleeping well, I feel great all around, I have no more brain fog, and best of all, my abdomen is shrinking. So, regardless of what this video says, the lectin-free diet is improving not just my health, but the health of many people. Don't knock it until you try it.
Curious. Is it really because of the lectins though? It sounds like you changed a lot (eg. consuming MCT oils, vegetables/fruits with lots of polyphenols) - so it would be hard to tell what actually helped.
Not saying that Dr Gundry is correct about all of his claims but just taking a few tips from his book has helped me noticeably reduce my GERD symptoms and to be honest after using my pressure cooker I never want to cook beans any other way, they turn out much better and cook much faster than the stove anyway, never was in love with peanuts, soy or tomatoes, I just ate them because people said that they were healthy, now I really question that.
What you say makes sense. I think it depends whether the individual is allergic to lectins. It's like anything else. Some people can be vegans, some carnivore, some both. Some people are highly sensitive to peanut butter, while others allergic to dairy or gluten. We have to know what works for us.
i like dr gundrys theory... i`ve been avoiding lectin foods for several days and already notice a difference. i thought i was eating healthy for the past 10 years but i never became healthy. now i`m learning that most of what i was eating was high lectin foods. so i`m going to stick with the low lectin diet now that i`m learning more and more about how lectins affect my health
Hi Dr. Lara. No disrespect intended when i say you are still young and seem healthy like most younger people under 40ish. But when i look at Dr Gundry is see a man who is 70 years old this year (2020) and has good muscle tone and no health issues. Most people 70 years old don't look so good and have multiple health issues. So i think Dr. Gundry is on to something for us older folks. I have been doing some of his suggestions and have noticed my energy has picked up and my moods have gotten better. For you younger folks, it may not be so important for a proper diet such as Dr. Gundry suggests, but his science has been proven with his patients and myself now. If you look or even make it to 70 years and look as good and healthy as Dr. Gundry then you may be right, but i think you will find once you get older your diet is going to change drastically. Thanks for sharing your opinions.
I just watched a lecture by Paul Mason about lectins. It seems that lectins as well as gluten and pesticides induce leaky gut. From my own experience stopping all high carb foods including 'healthy whole grains' such as stone ground bread, rolked whole oats, wholewheat pasta etc has helped with weight control and gut issues - no more bloating, stomach cramps. Most of the studies on diet are poor quality observational studies not rct. Things like the 5 a day idea is not based on science - just guesswork. Gov food advice is highly influenced by big food companies and the hidden agenda of it's panel members. Prolonged Insulin levels seems to be the cause of many modern disease. Carbs whether wholegrain or not spike insulin. Eating every 2 hours because you need a carb fix is not good - keeps insulin high. Only protein & fat are essential in the diet.
The diet DOES allow legumes... They just have to be soaked drained and then pressure cooked with fresh liquid. I wish that when people make a video concerning another person/dr, that they would do their reserch or not lie be it one or the other 🙄
Are you a Cardiologist. Do you trasplat hearts and do bypass and see the cause of the obstruction. And laso I agree with the comentary of Denis Morissete.
Dra "Nourishable", please clarify your main point and intention of making this video.. i dont get it! I have read The Plant Paradox and have followed Dr Gundry's suggestions and have improved my overhealth tremendiously! There are more things to say, but I limit it here :)
I have had a neurodermatitis rash which gets bloody and I do not scratch!. I have found I have many food allergies including an allergy to nightshades (runs in the family) I had the rash all cleared up. Then, I added organic black beans into my diet. Wham! I have a sore gut, bloating, and bleeding rash again! I have already had my colon checked and nothing showed up. But, when I eat certain foods my gut gets inflammed and I break out in a bloody rash! The area of the bloody rash happens to be just below the area of the inflammed large intestine. Any thoughts?
Hi where ca i find list of foods that are lectin free . there is any body who can produce that list ? please stop talking about beans and tomatoes . please give that lectins free foods list . i will know what to with that .
I ate some boiled peanuts on Friday and been feeling REALLY yucky ever since. I'm thinking there really is something to all this...going to try soaking and sprouting and such. That's supposed to help. 🖤 **tested sensitive to gliadin (in wheat?) on lab test, but corn messes me up too. And the protein in milk. There's plenty of low/no lectin meats, fats, veggies and fruits left to choose to eat. Also I can modify the amount and/or remove lectins from high lectin foods, if I feel I really can't live without, them. So, I feel it's worth a try. I'm sick and tired of feeling tired and sick, so ...
You come across very obnoxious in this video, it's not good look.. I wondered how Dr Gundry could be right about lectins when the blue zones solely eat the foods he says not to eat, I pondered on it for a while and then it hit me. Yes they do eat those foods but so does everyone else, people in the other zones are also eating all the foods that we know is extremely bad for us, so your logic is flawed.
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The studies are out there, it's the people who follow his program. We feel better and are loosing weight. It's the only thing that has worked for me. I hope people who need the diet read the positive comments.
how do you know the diet is the only factor and cant be achieved other ways. That's why having controlled studies are important.
Unproved and unfounded lectins are bad. Scientists have found we pass them straight through our digestive system without issue. It's all a load of crap
Here here. Lost 40 pounds, blood work better than ever, no more meds, everything is on a schedule and working properly now. Go Gundry.
@@RayValdezPhotographygood look paying for such a study. I agree with lots of Gundry's work but his stance on red meat I have to disagree with. There are so many people thriving on a carnivore or animal based diet, so many reports of people reversing diabetes, CVD and so many other health issues. I think he's figured half the problem out with lectins or at least the concept of certain plant foods being bad for us. He could go further and look into oxalates and other anti-nutrients to really push the boat out but the other side of the problem is definitely the positive aspect of animal products, in particular organs and meats.
Anyone that eliminates all the foods that Dr Grundy says not to eat will definitely loose weight. I personally do not eat sugar or processed carbs and exercise to achieve weight loss / weight maintenance and optimal health. Maybe someone that is extremely overweight and extremely unhealthy may benefit from all of Dr Grundy’s advice but it is definitely not indicated for everyone.
Gundry never said to not eat fruits or beans. There are over 15 fruits on his list that you can eat. And he said that beans can be eaten if cooked with a pressure cooker. And with tomatoes, you remove the skin and the seeds.
does pressure cooking remove lectin? does anyone know please help i've been suffering from leaky gut
@kev ow You're not too tired to plaster the comment sections with your opinion....derogatory in nature. Have you read the JTRIG tactics? It would help your cause if you really want people to believe you are "the peoples' champion" selflessly donating your time to "correcting" everyone else's belief.
@@danz5760 Yes it destroys (denatures) lectin if you cook them. Pressure cooking is the best way however.
And even said to add fruits pulp which have polyphenols and disregard the juice which most likely will habe lectins.
@Jawad H I agree with you not to trust big industry...but who you think is paying her? Big tomato? I don't trust doctors that make most of their money selling their line of 5$ supplements for 55$.
I appreciate the effort you put into this and you have some nice visuals and a fun personality. Please read the following in an upbeat tone because I am in an upbeat mood. Your video is fair but I want to ask you to reconsider the final message of your video. I don't disagree with you on your assessment of the lack of "science" as evidence on lectins causing humans issues. However, I'll just remind you that the reason your channel is needed is because this lack of indisputable science is MASSIVELY common in health and diet. You even recommended an unscientifically proven approach to IBS, the "structured elimination diet", the approach is scientific in nature but that's where the science ends. It's pretty much just a guessing game. :)
I spent 20 years chasing a structured elimination diet for Crohn's disease and the answer I STILL get from my Gastroenterologist when I ask why I can't eat certain healthy foods is essentially, "We don't really know, there are so many factors and variables like genetics, lifestyle, and diet. In fact we are just now learning how the gut and the brain truly interact and that some of your symptoms might be caused as a result of the food you eat affecting the chemicals in your brain which affect the messaging back to your gut. But we still have so much to learn"
He actually supported me going on the Plant Paradox diet and his basic attitude was, "There's no hard science on lectins and autoimmune disease yet but elimination diets do help some people and it seems a lot of people claim this diet has has helped them. The food you'll be eating is all super healthy so sure, why not give it a try for 6 weeks and see if it helps you? Worst case you'll have eaten healthy for 6 weeks and probably lost some weight." This from a guy who spent years studying Crohn's at Cedars-Sinai Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center.
So why make a video to steer people away from this diet if there is a chance that it might help some of them? I get that the purpose of your channel is to "to make sense of nutrition in the media" but you are leaving out the most critical part, the people who are making this diet so popular in the media by claiming it has helped them. Through my channel alone I have heard hundreds of personal stories where this diet has significantly improved lives. So I figure that has to count for something.
So all I'm asking is maybe at least take the same attitude my gastroenterologist did about this diet. I'm not arguing that Dr Gundry is 100% right (even he knows he's not), I'm just making a case for those of us who this diet has significantly helped and I cringe when I see videos like yours actively steering people away from the diet that could otherwise benefit. It's certainly not for everyone but I think anyone with an autoimmune disease should at least try it for 6 short weeks.
If you made it this far, thanks for reading my comment and thanks for all the work you put into your videos! I wish you the best of success with your channel and hope one day you have enough subscribers that you pretty much have to ignore the comments section because it's too big LOL! :)
Yes, I certainly agree with you that there is a need for more rigorous science in nutrition, especially in the area of autoimmune disease and diet from both the cause and management perspectives. If this diet works for managing your symptoms and your GI is on board then great, my issues are more pertaining to the diet being recommended as a cure-all for such a wide range of conditions outside of autoimmune diseases, such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. There is such consistent evidence that diets high in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes reduces risk of CVD and type 2 diabetes that I cringe when I see messaging that sways away from these knowns. It’s possible that avoidance of lectins or certain compounds in some lectin-containing foods are beneficial in the management of autoimmune diseases, but that is a much more narrow application than is presented by Dr. Gundry. What I think we can both call for is more research - start with case studies of these personal stories in the medical literature and move forward to clinical trials to pinpoint whether avoidance of lectins/some other components of lectin-containing foods is effective in autoimmune management so that practitioners can make evidence based recommendations. Thanks for your comment! I read them all.
You would think that with all the billion of dollars, all the technology and the great minds of scientists that we would know much more about nutrition. Experts sometimes don't agree on basic medical stuff. At one point, we can only pick a side and hope for the best since all the experts disagree.
Denis Morissette I felt the exact same way for a long time until I became friends with one of the scientists who studies this exact thing and has spent nearly 20 years researching pathophysiology and food. When he described to me the process of of scientific studies from concept through Grant acquisition through studies and results, not to mention the insane number of variables that exist between one person to the next (especially when it comes to disease and diet) I realized just how difficult it is for scientists to prove anything to the point of absolute fact. As a result, very few things have been proven as absolutes in health science. Without absolutes it means there are variables and variables lead to different results and different results leads to different interpretations of the science and so on. The good news is someone who is actively seeking and working to eat a healthy diet is going to consistently find information that supports a plant-based whole food diet is best. No matter which version of that diet they are eating they are going to be better off than eating a "standard American diet". 😁
AZ Life I think her response to you is on point. Eating plants is overall a good thing, and the more the better, and to tell so many to stay away from foods such as the most longevity promoting group (beans) is highly detrimental. I'd like to suggest watching Dr. Michael Greger's response to Dr. Gundry's book on his TH-cam channel and website, Nutritionfacts.org
To be clear, I do realize that nutrition professionals need to be cautious and critical of other professionals like Dr Gundry. I have no problem with that. They absolutely should be leery of someone like Dr. Gundry. I just don't want them to ignore the fact that even if Dr Gundry did this whole diet as a scam there are thousands and thousands of people whose chronic medical conditions have improved or gone away entirely as a result of following this diet.
I’m so glad so many people have responded the way they have. You may want to be careful with your wording in your videos, because you make many incorrect statements in this one. Dr. Gundry does not say to avoid beans or fruits all together, he is simply saying to avoid certain fruits at certain times of the year for specific reasons (high lectin content from not being ripe and being covered in ripening chemicals, a double whammy there, plus an abundance of fructose due to genetic modification to seeds. With regards to beans, he clearly states in every interview and in his book, that if you’re battling with a disease of some sort, it’s best to eliminate, heal the gut, then return them back to your diet IF you want them, just simply pressure cook them to remove the lectin content. The error here in this video is that you’re turning a complex, morphing diet into a black and white do and don’t diet, which is just simply isn’t.
Exactly, once you’ve reached phase 3 which is the eating for life phase, he tells us to start reintroducing lectin foods back into our meals one at a time & if we have no problems, then start eating them.you have done a bad deed by misrepresenting what Dr G. Believes. Shame on you. And what kind of doctor are you?
So true
I know a female who was able to cancel surgery to remove a cyst & bone spur on a thumb knuckle, by eliminating "nightshades": tomatoes, potatoes, pepper(s), eggplant. I observed as a cuticle-distorting cyst shrank and vanished. The hideous ditch down the length of her thumbnail has completely leveled out. She has not yet had an X-ray to confirm if the bone spur has atrophied, but overall her finger knuckles seem to be slightly smaller.
Well said 👍🏻🙏🏻
I don´t see anyone proclaiming that was on Gundry´s diet and didn´t work well. All the negative comments coming from people that hasn´t followed the plan. Dr. Gundry promotes his products, but also recommend many sustitutes of them that you can buy online, Costco, healthy stores, etc., and you don´t need to buy any of them, Gundry´s or other ones, to follow the diet, that by the way is working incredible for me!!
I have followed Gundries advice for 6 weeks and i have never felt better for over thirty years,,,,,,,,i feel like i have been oiled and sleep much better......to be fully transparent i am also taking Turmeric with all my meals but avoiding lectins has been a game changer for me at 60 years old.
I’m 30 and was diagnosed with celiac two years ago and despite eating a strict non-gluten diet (not even eating out at restaurants), I’ve never been able to heal. In fact, more things in my body keep breaking as a result of chronic inflammation (I’ve developed blepharitis and other stuff). I also only eat organic and am very careful about processed foods and chemicals.
I decided to finally go AIP and am beginning to cut out lectins. I notice as soon as I eat tomatoes, my hips ache and are killing me, my muscles hurt, and I go back to needing to sleep five hours in the middle of the day and barely able to function. I also bloat out of my clothes fitting me.
I just watched Dr. Grundy more in-depth and learned that lectins can (through a process) lead to the breakdown of your villi. Well... that’s exactly what celiac does. So it’s no wonder that cutting out gluten hasn’t been enough for my villi to heal. I’m feeling better than I’ve felt in years. But as soon as I eat lectins, I go back to feeling like death.
There’s a lot more to this than what is missing from medical journals. NOTHING has healed me and for a decade I’ve been messing with my thyroid medicine and feeling like my life has been stolen from me because I’m too run down and sick to have a life.
With the AIP, my plan is not to cut out ALL lectins forever, but give my body a few months to heal before reintroducing food mildly and forever being cautious with lectins. This diet seems to be a lifesaver for those of us with auto-immune issues. I wouldn’t discount it so quickly.
I was diagnosed celiac at age 24. I never eat tomatoes! Same thing as you. But also, be careful about red and yellow potatoes! It took me years to realize they are toxic to me! I get the same symptoms I would for being glutened. Lightheaded and dizzy, extremely nauseous, and watery stools, as well as dehydration and fatigue and joint aches later. Everyone is different but as I fellow celiac I must tell you to pay attention to how you feel with potatoes.
Also, I’ve told my mother to test for celiac and she won’t. But she has long suggested to me to cut out lectins. She doesn’t eat lectins or if she does it’s rare because she suffers many ailments. I’ve noticed my own sensitivities to lectins but not quite the extent until recently. It’s so hard to get balanced with auto immune disease 🙄
I hope youre feeling better ❤
I figured I try out his plan for a month, since it was basically healthy whole foods with restrictions. Within 2 weeks, my ankle started feeling better for the first time in over a year.
I have had ulcerative colitis for 10 years now. I started getting a flare up the end of January and my gastroenterologist prescribed me antibiotics which I took for two weeks with no improvement. A couple of weeks ago my friend recommended this book, as we share the same auto immune disease and suggested I give it a try (by the way, she lost 28 pounds and is feeling better than ever). I ordered the book and I already finished reading it. For the last 10-11 days I have started eating only the things Dr. Gundry is “suggesting” and I completely eliminated the Sugar, white bread, pastas and all the foods on the NO list. I am amazed at how much better I am feeling now and how my flare up is finally dissipating, plus I have lost some weight. I’m going to continue with this, what I call “lifestyle change” and be back on remission. Thank you Dr. Gundry
Its removing the sugar white bread and pastas...and eating healthy....not the lectins.
I recommend juicing carrots also. Natural healthy and cleansing the bowels.
The late Jay kordich healed himself of bladder cancer from juicing. He has tons of videos online.
God bless
you feel better because you cut the processed carbs. no need to buy a book from a quack doc to figure this out, just visit your local dietician
@@oddy_gg One thing to notice though: whole grains. Just this video mentions it multiple times how beneficial they are. While whole grains are less bad than refined grains, the stuff good in them you can get from elsewhere without the bad stuff - many are still relatively fast-absorbed carbohydrates and the gluten isn't helping either.
Removing carbs, sugar, and dairy will cause starvation of the parasites in our bodies that cause our diseases, this is why people are feeling better, they are parasite cleansing without even knowing!
You’re missing his point. He’s not saying never eat lectins again. He says remove them to heal your gut the reintroduce them and test your tolerance.
thank you for saying this xo
This isn't blatantly explained anywhere. It sucks not being able to eat these foods so just doing this diet to heal the gut and to be able to reintroduce these foods is something I'm hoping to achieve. Thanks for this
No, he doesn't say go back and eat lectins. But he does say you can remove lectins by removing the skin and seeds on
tomatoes, blanching almonds and pressure cooking potatoes and beans.
Baloney. Dr. Gundry is a quack. I’ve seen his ads and he’s saying don’t eat lectins at all. I heard what he said.
No. He is scaring people from plants and vegetables. My stupid wife buys into all these diet fads when all she needs to do is go vegan.
I presume when smoking was initially discovered to be unhealthy, there was also not concrete evidence to support it. But I do imagine there were groups of people who experienced large health benefits once they stopped. I feel like this is where we are with these very new and revolutionary lectin discoveries. I'm believe in keeping a neutral, yet more so positive perspective on scientific revelations.
Absense of evidence is not evidence of absense.
You only have to look in the quality of the studies that produced much of the world's dietary recommendations and things such as the food pyramid to realise, that the "evidence" used to convince people away from their ancestral diets of highly nutritious animal products and to eat more easily processed and profitable food, is weak at best.
I appreciate your video. I just started The Plant Paradox, and it seems a little overly aggressive when addressing vegetables you cannot eat; however, the 100% elimination of these foods is only for a period, and then you can start bringing them back one by one to see if you react. So, in reality, it seems like another elimination diet, which is what you recommended. He is just putting a "why" behind what's going on and why these foods may effect people negatively. I think it's important to point out that traditional cooking methods of soaking, fermenting and long-cooking help a lot of these high-lectin legumes and vegetables to be more easily digestible, and they are methods used in those parts of the world you highlighted.
I also don't think his diet is so much a cure for obesity and diabetes as, say, a paleo or low-carb diet. His diet is incidentally low-carb/paleo so it has similar effects. What I'm using the diet for is for eczema, which my gp has been unable to treat and dermatologists just give you steroid creams but it doesn't address "why" I'm itching my own skin off. I've only been on the plan less than a week, and my itching has gone down about 95%. It feels like a miracle. My skin is finally starting to heal, so while I miss all the foods, I'm going to do see this all the way through.
Gosh, I love your comment. Thank you. :)
Joelle, my 2 year old has eczema. It's been 2 months now since your comment. Has the Lectin Free diet helped with your eczema?
@@waydewynn my daughter had bad eczema , we cut out dairy and it is almost gone. We allow her to have some dairy every day, but if she exceeds a serving, her skin starts to turn red . best of luck
Joelle Steffen Bonifacio - wow congrats!!!
My son had bad eczema as a baby. His pediatrician told me to try taking dairy out of his diet because it is usually caused by a food allergy and most often dairy. His eczema cleared up pretty quickly.
I wish I would have found Dr. Gundry a year ago. I was so sick. Couldn't eat for days at a time. Now I'm on my road to recovery and gut health.
me too - I feel better since cutting out lectins - I was already vegan (15 yrs) mostly raw and cut most grains . legumes, fried foods, hydro oils, salt, all processed sugars and many carbs)(7 yrs) but still ate the lectin high fruits and veges and potatoes. Cut all these last 20 days and massive improvement in health, gut, even mood etc. I have also reduced weight by 3 lbs to correct level as of 40 years ago
this lady is either a genius or a moron, imo.
@@Nigel1502 you likely got into ketosis..co grats!! If you are avoiding animals for belief is one thing, but if not, id highly encourage reintroduction of even fish to avoid the big protein issue of being vegan. Salt is not the issue, you need salt in ketosis. High insulin is what causes swelling and water retention. Sugar damages blood vessels leading to diabetes and heart disease. The majority of our body processes need salt. If you feel tired, headachy or achy, it may be salt deficiency. Sodium, potassium and magnesium are essential as our body doesnt make them and they are mostly depleted from genetic engineering and poor soil/poor crop rotations. Ketones have a huge advantage to low carb eating..so depending what you eat, how often in frequency, you may be in one bucket or the other. Please do yourself justice and read on the benefits of cognition amd gut healing with fat based nutrition..either coming from food or from body. Ps you lose a bunch of water weight when insulin goes down and you use up glycogen stores. Water and salts follow and why all three electrolytes are extra important when low carb.
@@dana102083 vegans have higher protein in the blood than meat eaters.
All of you have heal is because you stopped the eating gluten, not for the lectin free..
Many of us here are the human evidence that the Plant Paradox diet really works, producing great overall health! (After others have not.) It would be a shame to ignore that in favor of feeling smug and dismissive.
Agree with you... am thinking that pharmaceutical companies would be behind efforts to discredit anyone saying that the real key to recovery is diet, and all the Zantac, and pills to treat diabetics & autoimmune diseases are only prolonging life instead of curing illnesses.
Eliminating lectins and other plant defense chemicals from my diet resolved the eczema that I had on my hands for years. My dermatologist was puzzled. She kept prescribing me Clobetasol. I was doing the diet to lose weight and get my blood pressure down. I assumed I would have eczema for the rest of my life and was wearing nitrile gloves constantly to protect my hands from cracking and bleeding.
I did lose weight and oddly, my eczema went away. Also, my joint pain that I associated with my age subsided. Some of it is due to my weight loss, like in my knees. However, my joint pain in my knuckles subsided as well. Crazy! I can snap my fingers again for the first time in years.
I'm not saying that Dr. Gundry is perfect but I have learned that there is something significant going on with plant defense chemicals. I am also seeing that Dr. Lara from this video follows nothing but two big pharmaceutical companies on her LinkedIn page. Not saying that she is corrupt or directly paid but she hold the high esteem per her LI profile.
Going on this diet has helped me. Lost weight, my hands and feet stopped aching, I think more clearly and my skin has never been clearer.
Gundry is the best, my gut health improved, i'm not depressed anymore, and my skin looks younger in just a few months.
Yeah this chick sucks
I couldn’t get my knee cartilage to properly heal (by itself) until I started eating lectin-free. Also my stomach is just happy now with what I put in it. Olive oil? Yes please.
She is making a valid point, there is not much applicable science to back up Gundry's suspicions. Doesn't mean he isn't right, but doesn't mean he isn't wrong either. Will have to see if more studies bear out his claims in the future.
It's possible that your problems were due to reaction from one of the foods ruled out by his recommended diet, and this happened to help your problem, but the lectins actually played no role.
@@hankkingsley9183 people making billions of dollars (big pharma, kellogs, johnson and johnson other companies, fast food companies) dont want us to know the truth about optimin health because they profit from our illnesses. Thats explains why there is no studies. They would rather sell us pharmaceuticals and supplements and processed foods. .
But there is a lot of antidotal evidence.
Many people have sick digestive tracts from our processed food diets. So people with compromised gi could avoid high lectin food for healing and then decide if they want to go back.
@@hankkingsley9183 that woman who made her video doesn't know what she's talking about, very inexperienced in science-based studies worldwide. This has been studied worldwide for decades by expert scientists, not knuckle heads like her. Thank you I respect your opinion, but do some research my friend. 👍
Dr.Gundry is the real deal you obviously do not have health issues.He has helped so many and i am one of them.Hat off to Dr. GUNDRY
By chance I clicked on an ad on my computer by Dr. Gundry and it held my attention. I'm his age and not overweight, but a hyper person. As a biologist it was interesting to me what he had to say and why. I got on his nutritional diet and not without difficulty. It has been about a month and it seems this new diet is a positive for me. This comment is subjective by nature, but it seems, for example, driving is less stressful. Hopefully, I won't lose all my friends. My plan is to continue on this diet and consult my doctor about it.
Dan F, awesome news! I highly doubt anyone adapting his diet would experience anything but a positive outcome.
Why would you lose your friends? If they have a qualm with pluses in your life, are they your friends?
@@idwtbam He meant he will just live them out :-)
Don't knock it till you try it. I had extremely bad eczema and tried many different diets from vegan to keto and nothing helped except for the lectin free diet so if you are having issues I would give it a try if you are having the same or similar issues. If you are feeling a hundred percent healthy keep on doing what your doing.
Did you actually read the book?
Apparently she did not ;)
Thanks for the well detailed explanation and opposing analysis. But I don't agree with going to a gastroenterologist or a dietitian. These days they know less than my cat.
No harm trying lectin free diet for people suffering from health issues. I am fairly healthy with minor issues. Will try lectin free to see if it makes a difference
So I guess the logic of your video is we should not rely on any researh on animal studies. That kind of blows a lot of holes in everthing else we are told about modern medicine.
I literally just saw Dr.Gundry's presentation for the first time (that is to say I have no loyalties here) and that's not what he said. I'm just doing a little digging around for more information before I go trying his product (which if his intentions were what he says they are, he would charge only what it costs to produce). What Gundry said is that Lectins themselves (because of their spiky bodies) cause tears in the gut -- effectively causing "leaky gut". He says because Lectins tear gut walls, causing fecal particles to enter the blood stream, they are responsible for many health issues.
Indeed what he said on the ad, I don’t really know what this lady is claiming he said because he definitely didn’t say lectins cause inflammation in the ad I saw, but maybe it does and she just wants people to be safe with the way things are even if the food we eat kills us
It seems there are a lot of people in the comments backing Dr Gundry's claims with their own experiences, which I expected to see. This videos seems to be using his name to get views, but not a good job of researching from what I have read into the subject, and I'm no doctor. Probably why the channel has almost no subscribers.
My own experience with the plant paradox diet is very positive. No longer experience IBS symptoms, have more energy, can still eat a wide variety of foods (including meat) and no longer need to spend money on pricey Gastroenterology appointments.
I have tried many "diets" and eating plans including FODMAP, but have had limited success (and relapses) due to the trial and error nature of these approaches. My GP doctor was all for me changing to this diet due it essentially being healthy foods, and has recommended I stay on it due to the success I have experienced.
I hope in future this channel takes out the bias, and can provide balanced views that don't use click bait titles. The picture for this video asks "lectin free diets, healthy or not?", but you never actually answer this question. More science of your own perhaps, as that is what you are claiming to do...
Good luck in future :)
Right on!
Well said...
(and Dr.Gundry ROCKS!!! 🎸)
I have seen amazing results in following Gundry's protocol, in only 7 days!! I am excited to see how I feel like in months and years to come!
Dr. Gundry and Dr. Berg have helped me improve my health tremendously. Their plan works for me.
While I understand your point of view, I have to disagree with you. I am a former bodybuilder turned power lifter many years ago. My diet has been the same since I first started lifting seriously at 16 (Now 52). It has been low fat, low - no sugar, limiting myself to only one soda a month and only 4 beers a year. I ate nuts, legumes, vegetables and fruits, fish and chicken, occasionally pork and beef (venison when I could get some).
By the time I was 45 I had started putting on belly fat and a peptic ulcer I got when I was a young man (at 21 in the military from medication), flared back up and has been the same ever since. I also developed gout. That surprised me as Gout was referred to as a rich mans disease from eating fatty rich foods, smoking and consuming lots of alcohol. Everything I avoided. Come to find out nutritionist lied to me. Come to find out purines breaks down into uric acid proteins and those little needling crystals build up in the joints. I now battle gout in my thumbs and big toes the most.
As I have been aware of my nutrition almost as long as you have been alive. I know how to conduct my own personal testing by eliminating certain foods, flushing my system and adding in certain things. I did a modified carnivore diet mostly beef, fish with limited chicken and port intake. Cut out all nightshades and legumes. Ate only green vegetables like broccoli, spinach, kale, brussel sprouts and dark green lettuce. Fruits were limited to berries and cherries.
What I found in the first week was five pounds lost, no more joint pain in my toes and a bit more energy. By the end of the end of the month I had lost 15 pounds, NO Joint pain anywhere, and I felt like I was 30 again. I had a healthy glow on my face and the weights in the gym went up easy.
I know this does not fit you "Scientific" analysis and "Proof", but in my experience, most of the science I see is skewed by the money funding it. I would suggest that we haven't seen real science for the sake of knowledge, since Nikola Tesla died.
tesla was a liar too, don't be so foolish, you know poppy's dad and all that sh%t.
I am getting anxious to this news. I don’t like meat at all!
Yep, same here. Keto, green veggies, IF and HIIT. Feeling 30 years younger and wearing my (very) old 30 inch waist jeans.
I want to say that it’s fine to question Dr. Gundry’s ideas, but it seems that many people including myself have gotten positive results with what he’s suggesting. I align with encouraging people to be independent. In other words, “Don’t forget to breath.” Most people don’t put a lot of effort into being so meticulous with their food choices, so just even trying to do what Dr. Gundry suggests is a major attempt at conscientious eating, but following anything blindly is not usually a good practice. I think her video could have simply been her stating “I want more proof.” It comes across as picking apart something because she’s not convinced rather than trying to understand something that she’s not convinced of. She could have tried the diet herself and commented on her experiences. And taken tests to verify her levels of various indicators.
I don’t think it’s helpful to just suggest something isn’t very valid that one hasn’t gotten to the bottom of themselves.
The Italians eat pasta, bread and a lot of nightshades. They're fine.
The Japanese have rice in practically all of their meals. They're fine.
The Irish love their potatoes and they're fine as well.
The reason why America has a health epidemic is because we eat too much, especially fast food and sugar, plus we are chronically glued to a chair under chronic stress.
@@jackcarraway4707 they are not fine, they are just a little healthier than Americans.
@@originalbiblestudywithJael lectins are fine. There's no prove to show anywise. Just extraordinary claims, that's it.
@@originalbiblestudywithJael Exactly my thought, they will feel the grain diet after damage is already done when they are old
Every time I see someone criticize him, a large part of their time is spent on legumes, specifically on the notion that he doesn't approve of consumption due to lectins. If the short snippet used of his initial point was allowed to play, he claims that they are not only great for you, but an essential food when prepared as in other countries. ie left to soak, and cook for extended periods. Or to speed the process, pressure cooked. Seems an unfair description. As for instant dismissal of his claims of proven results, seems like a fools errand. It's quite easy to cite opposing studies (even though half of those studies actually agree with him) and edit soundbites out of context to defame, but I don't see anything constructive here. Just the opposite. Well cut together though😊
So, who isn't cooking their beans properly?
The problem is that he's contradicting himself, saying there's a way to properly cook high lectin foods while also saying to avoid them
Which is it? Cook properly or avoid??
I mean he and others are having results so
@@obsideonyx7604 I was thinking the same thing and if you eat less meat...we need to eat legumes to make up for the protein.
My results. - Lectin free helps. I have a red, painful rash on my face. When I follow Gundry's lectin free diet, my rash clears up. My skin returns to flesh tone. It's difficult to eat lectin free especially within a family who eats a normal diet, so I have the rash most of the time. When I do follow a lectin free diet loosely, the rash is improved but still present. I can actually feel my face begin to burn 15 minutes give or take after I've eaten a food with lectins. I don't know the science, but I do know I am affected by the lectin rich foods. It seems to be across the board including dairy and eggs. Side note, I started taking two tablespoons of olive oil high in polyphenols and my cholesterol has improved.
I won't be surprised if she was hired by the grains and legumes industry.
Yap !
Yeah, I immediately thought this video was fishy when she said there were no proof of Drs findings. BS
Exactly
Where's her data? Lots of success stories from Dr. Gundry. She must not have any stomach issues.... I've destroyed my stomach and this diet really helps to repair it. I would imagine in the future after I'm healed I'll be able to handle more foods.
Exactly
She sucks.. Very annoying
She doesn’t need data. The whole point of her video was to point out that HE does not provide data. The onus is on HIM because HE is the one making the assertions. Where is HIS data? “Lots of success ‘stories’ “ are just that...stories, until backed by scientific peer reviewed data.
I had acne from my teens into my thirties. I discovered Dr.Gundry's work through a colleague, dropped any food with lectins and my skin cleared immediately... if I do take a few bites of food with lectins, it's amazing how fast I get inflammation on my skin and bloating. This woman did zero research and is trying to make a name for herself by tearing down Dr.Gundry
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Correlation does not equal causation. Debunked pseudoscience.
Dr. Sundry's diet saved my life!!
whats his diet
I am on a Paradox diet for almost a year now. Every and each time I eat something from a no-no list I have problems. Acid reflux, atopic skin (particularly irritating : I have my whole hands in tiny wounds for a couple of days), sleepiness, brain fog, constipation. Maybe it is not a diet for everyone, but I will stick to it. For me it works.
Cucumbers?
@@jjwms33 Nope. I avoid them.
this lady is has an adorable personality, but (unfortunately) is absolutely wrong. goodness help her own unwell clients and the people following her advice.
No she doesn’t. She doesn’t present it professionally at all.
She is clueless on how certain food damages certain parts of the intestines. Laughable analysis.
LMFAO 😂
You say that research is needed but who is going to pay for it and besides it would take years. Dr Gundry does have years of experience and thousands of patients to confirm his findings. Your video does not provide anything except opinion. Based on my experience with grains and lectin containing foods I agree with Dr. Gundry. I would recommend trying his diet. It doesn't cost anything to stop eating certain foods.
If dr. Gundry does not have thousands and thousands of patients that are medically documented to have been proven to be cured of their health issues because of cutting out lectins then there is no evidence to support that claim. Dr. Gundry is telling you to eat healthy food which means you are generally going to be healthy if you are not eating these Foods before. But that does not prove if lectins are causing you to die or not bothering you at all. There's not enough science to back the stock every diet that comes out people end up losing weight and thinking that that means everything else that the diet says is absolutely fact. If you use dr. Gundry's advice and it helps you then there is no harm though but that does not mean that everything he says is factual
You're right about the grains. Most people who suffer when eating lectins, and they are MANY will sprout or ferment grains first. Real bread is a fermented food isn't it? Dr. Gundry does not say you eliminate the food. He says you eliminate the lectins. You do this by fermentation and pressure cooking.
Straw man = creating a false narrative for the opposition, and then defeating the false narrative.
yeah. somebody wanted attention
She’s definitely an agent! No money in eating healthy! Haha don’t listen to her tomfoolery
Yes, there are studies and advanced cameras that show the difference in your gut when you add and take away certain foods
The only reason I’ve given this Video a thumbs up, is for the comments! I’ve just purchased Dr. Gundrys book, rather than listening too a M.D advice. I’m willing to make my own experience. I’m 47, look 10-15 yrs. younger and have my aches and pains, although not seriously sick. When younger I was into athletics and cycling, getting older I always felt my Stamina going up and down when biking the forest. I’m low on Carbs but always have a fallback now and again feeling weak and tired. Staying on track is hard because family and friends don’t always share the same track, especially with nutrition. On pagan holidays its the worst, so temptation is always around the corner, being polite gets me off track now and again. I am always considered being radical with my mindset, not proselytising anyone, just sharing my opinion gets many upset, many just then feel personally attacked due too some sub conscious program from childhood they haven’t gotten over. I’m giving the diet a try too see how it helps. The most hardest part is within my over 20yrs. of relationship. Yepp yepp strawmen tactics.
Good luck to you - I see some similarities in my own history. Stick to whatever works for you and avoid the haters the best you can. I've done remarkably well by building MY OWN diet based on all the reading and experimenting I've been doing for 30+ years.
I haven’t read this book. I know who the Dr is because I’ve been watch a lot of videos. When I had severe bowel issues a old surgeon told me to strip my diet down. Only eat 3 certain foods so my bowel would heal. Then I had to start putting things back to figure out what might be causing the problem. I think everyone has to try to do what might work for them. If stripping certain foods help certain ppl help heal their gut, ppl need to try it. Everyone is different. Ppl need to take their health into their own hands. I don’t know how trying this for a while to see if it helped you would hurt anyone. Some ppl are at their wits end. That’s my experience with the medical system & myself.
Had allergies all my life that have become slowly much more serious over the last few years....totally cleared up since following Dr Gunry's advice....plus lost loads of weight !!!!
I hate videos like this....done by people that obviously have no clue what they're talking about.
I am happy to see here that I am not alone in my opinion......'Sciencing my ...'
Video is a bit shilly
Congrats man! followed Gundry's diet (and was very skeptical) and my skin immediately cleared and my inflammation disappeared.
Thank you for your honesty Dr. Laura!!! I thought that Dr. Gundry was overreaching and exaggerating with regard to "LECTINS". I believe that everything depends on how foods like vegetables are cooked and eaten.
This is also what Dr. Guidry has stated when attempting to help himself and others who may have or did experience issues stemming from damage to the intestinal tract…. I don’t think he is overreaching when he and others are showing the results, not just waiting for studies, but walking in full faith in authority in how they treat their bodies.
There was another lady that would pop up all the time on my screen like Dr. Gundry and what she stated was… much like Dr. Gundry, there are bad stuff in the foods that actually cause the body to malfunction. Her example included high fructose corn syrup, which according to her tricks the brain into eating more food….. !!!
Could you imagine if your eating all this stuff and your a compulsive eater and everything trips you up emotionally, so you go straight to foods that not only make you feel less full, but they damage your gut lining in consistent large amounts (consistency and frequency)…. Seems like a never ending cycle that has to be broken by doing something different like a fast from those damaging agents and giving the body time to repair itself.
Speaking for myself, I absoutely agree with Doc and am so grateful for his study. I have celiac disease. And when I eat lectin foods, I have very similar symptoms. Especially red or yellow potatoes. I get the exact same symptoms as if I ate gluten. It’s like I give myself food poisoning when I eat potatoes. I do not eat raw tomatoes or any nightshades. Same thing. Soaking nuts, beans, and other lectin foods does help break down the lectins and makes them easier to digest, but I have to be careful about quantities and combinations of foods.
There's also oxalates to watch out for as well as other anti-nutrients (worth looking into). Gundry has been very good for realising some of the negative aspects of many plant foods but I have to say I don't agree with everything he says. For example; his stance on red meat is outdated and I believe it's the missing piece to the puzzle he's trying to solve when it comes to thriving and not just surving in terms of diet. Red meat, eggs, dairy and organ meats should feature in freqeuncy in most people's diets as far as I can tell. I'd say particularly so if you're genetics come from areas of the world where plant foods are not natuarlly as plentiful.
Dr. Gundry pressure cooks or rinses beans multiple times to reduce lectins. Did you read his latest material before you made your video?
She needs to see Dr. Gundry’s vid on the new food pyramid! That old one is no longer relevant in today’s world of GMO foods and all sorts of crap in the soul our food is grown in. Ditto meat- those who eat meat are eating everything that the farmer has fed his animals and that is a fact!
I'll listen to Dr Gundry!
Sorry to echo what many before have already said... but the content in this video is misrepresented! The Lectin elimination diet is only for 3 weeks to repair the gut... THEN to re-introduce foods cooked appropriately to reduce or destroy the lectins. And again it’s not a harmful diet like so many other popular nutritionally restrictive ones, so what’s the harm in giving it a try. Don’t know about others but I personally don’t always go by published medical research and journals, as so many are funded by large corporations such as the dairy, agriculture, pharmaceutical and big sellers like nasty/Coca-Cola. So we should be more supportive of doctors actually trying to research and find treatments for those suffering instead of discrediting them without evidence.
But this elemination of lectins was'nt enough for me . I needed to eliminate/reduce oxalates too. So right now I'm on an elimination diet and it takes time to detox especially the oxalates. It can take many years.
Don't get caught up in studies. Let people try the diet and see how they feel. If they feel better, then clearly it works.
I love DR Gundry!!!
When there is a problem the first thing we should ask is what is wrong in ourselves, looking more inward rather than outward
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If I'm allergic to shrimp, the problem is not because of the shrimp, it's mainly my own body,
If somebody has a health problem when eating gluten or lectin in the foods that are supposed to be healthy, what need to be looking at is what is the cause and cure for the bad interaction,
it could be from having other foods in the diet that are bad, it could be from lacking other foods in the diet that are good, personal genetic characteristics, microbiome situation, all other things we do and experience in daily life
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avoiding lectin may free us from health problems, but it may never make us a healthy person.
Thanks you very much for your great information and presentation on lectin
Oh my God, this woman must have done zero research. I had acne from my teens into my thirties... when learned of Dr. Gundry's work and dropped foods with lectin (especially ANYTHING with wheat) my skin instantly cleared within 2 weeks!
The Plant Paradox diet, if I get it correctly, is too exclusive of lectins. I believe that Gundry is right to some extent, but takes it too far. We need some lectins, but only small amounts. To exercise the villi in the gut. If you eat too much lectin, it leads to inflammation, and leaky gut, etc. You need grains to digest, and for minerals, vitamins, and other benefits. By soaking/ sprouting grains, other than wheat- which is beyond help- and soaking legumes overnight before boiling for 30 minutes, you reduce lectins, and yet still have the grains and types of fiber you need. I've been reducing my lectins for around three weeks, now. And my gradual recovery from leaky gut has accelerated, yet I'm digesting ok. I wasn't able to digest on the no-grain Gaps diet. Check out Thomas DeLauer's video on The Truth about Lectins
You can make your claims without using the Dr's name . I haven't checked this all out but I think he may be onto something because when I eat tomatoes my arthritis kills me. If you don't have any chronic pains or unresolved weight issues you won't visibly or physically understand. What works for one person may not work for another. Certain blood types should eat certain foods don't doctors know this. Food sensitivities and allergies also play a big role in all of this . I think and in reading these comments tells me Dr. GUNDRY is onto something. The Dr. Is " twice" your age , a heart surgeon, and has just discovered all of this in his later life. He looks healthier and says he has more energy and feels better and also lost weight he couldn't lose. So I think you should get your head back into the books and we'll see you in another twenty years.
I eat lectins all the time and feel great with no issues. But I can see it helping if you have some specific condition (Ulcerative Colitis, etc).
This lady just proves that "trusting the science" now very often is equivalent to harming your health. When science has been taken over by corporate interests we need to go back to anecdotal evidence. And if there is enough of that then anecdotal evidence does have some value - that is a line by Gabor Mate, and I believe he is very right.
I did go back from a lectin free diet to a more "normal" diet again, and my health clearly declined. The problem is that the slope is gradual and one does not recognize the negative impact lectins have right away. It takes some time for the inflammation to occur. And then you are miserable and do not make the connection to the dietary changes you made months ago. My question is why are we now more sensitive to lectins than we were in the past? All the glyphosate and other environmental toxins which seem to be our constant companions nowadays?
Dr, remember the very lecture you are giving (with great certainty) on healthy biomes was rejected by science and medicine until recently.
Lost 29 pounds on six week.
Increased my energy levels feel fuller whrn avoiding meat and increasing amount of vegetables
Where did you attain your PhD just curious what you had written your dissertation about
I did my PhD at Tufts, at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. My doctoral research focused on investigating how diet impacts epigenomic patterns over the course of the aging process - a topic for future Nourishable videos!
@@Nourishable and where did you attain your shameless penchant for publishing unscientific, slanderous/libelous videos?
@@Nourishable For someone with such an accomplished background, I'm amazed at how little research you did on Dr.Gundry's work before dragging it through the mud (not impressed, at all 😒).
Ps. Dr.Gundry has NEVER encouraged a diet without fruits and he is fine with certain legumes, provided that they are prepared a certain way before being consumed.
Seems a lot of critics have not read the book, or have misunderstood. This protocol is for people who are sick! It may well be unnecessarily restrictive for those who aren't. Also, like all elimination diets, it doesn't necessarily stay that strict forever. The first objective is to heal that gut! FYI the blue zone and French paradoxes are addressed directly in the text...I won't try to paraphrase bc I don't have it in front of me and wouldn't want to get it wrong.
I don't necessarily agree with everything (demonization of fruit), but I am so sick that I'm disabled, and the doctors who don't know squat about nutrition, or don't "believe" in leaky gut syndrome have wasted enough of my time and money with their treatments and medicines that just make everything worse. It comforts me to know that the protocol has been tested on hundreds of others, rigorously, with bloodwork and other types of testing, and found helpful in so many cases. Certainly worth a try.
You can have all the science in the world, but it don't mean shit til you try it yourself. The thing about Dr. Gundry is that he actually works with the patients and sees the results. I don't know how you can argue with that!
By the way it took over 40 years to prove that Cigarettes were bad for people. In fact doctors and science at that time promoted smoking cigarettes as healthy. Maybe acting as industry shills. Any questions about that?
Hi, when you state the The Plant Paradox book doesn't have the scientific studies to back Dr Grundies claims and theory of lectins" Listen to this Podcast. "Eat More Foods worry less Ept 146. An interview with Dr Tim Stevens from Kings College London 16.25 where he talks about why there is a lack on scientific studies carryout out commercial foods products and work he's doing to try a change the perspective of the importance of the foods we eat , the health of our micobiome and indirectly our own overal health. Regards Martin
Okay nourishable I have been a type 1 insulin-dependent diabetic for over 40 years and under a doctor's care and nutritionalist and so on and so forth my blood sugar's have always been out of control with pills and shots and changes of diet I am 2 weeks and to dr. Gundry's food do's and don'ts and have not yet started the plant Paradox program and at this time I am down from five to six shots a day to Just Two Shots a day and possibly about to go down to one and my blood sugar levels are better than they've ever been this is nothing short of remarkable this is unheard of and type 1 diabetes so please give me your rebuttal?
Well done - many of have known for 20 years that diabetes was reversible but drug companies did not want peeps to know - it is the biggest money spinner for them when you take into account all the later issues on diabetes, eyesight, lower limb damage/loss etc
I feel better since cutting out lectins - I was already vegan (15 yrs) mostly raw and cut most grains . legumes, fried foods, hydro oils, salt, all processed sugars and many carbs)(7 yrs) but still ate the lectin high fruits and veges and potatoes. Cut all these last 20 days and massive improvement in health, gut, even mood etc. I have also reduced weight by 3 lbs to correct level as of 40 years ago
Steven Kahanek, that is the longest sentance I have ever read. I ran out of breath 3 times just reading it. Do you know you can click on the 3 dots on the right of your comment, and then edit your sentance into seperate sentances? Do this to make it more clear and understandable? Just saying.
@@mightyboss375 I was just putting out there for type 1 diabetics that the plant Paradox can really help you was not concerned with the punctuation
Dr Gundry I have suffered from an enlarged prostrate. I’ve basically adopted your diet and noticed an improvement. I relapsed with a pasta dish and noticed my prostrate condition deteriorate. Is there any evidence the prostrate is inflamed by food? Pete from Australia.
So, being an M.D. I'm guessing that you had approximately 4 or 6 seminars on nutrition in your 8 to 10 years of schooling. Doctors aren't trained in anything besides prescribing pills these days, being that the great percentage of medical schools are funded by the pharmaceutical industry.
I eat a keto type diet and Dr. Gundry's philosophy coincides with mine, minus the lectins. How could it be bad?
You can say what you want lady but I don't need medicine for my bechterew anymore. And lost 10 kg while eating a lot. No more gravings and no more glucose sensitive. And all that whitin 3 weeks.Sorry, don't need your drugs anymore 😊
Thank you for your informative video. I have found avoiding lectins to be a completely and 100% positive dietary change in my life. I've always been thin and fit, but I've never always felt that great. By avoiding lectins, I've found myself feeling 500% better and joint and muscle aches/pains nearly vanished. Anecdotal, but 1 more data point. As I said before, thank for you for a great video. You do awesome work!
it's not anecdotal, it's human experience
we really should get rid of that word, it's demeaning.
I always go with my intuition & my intuition is telling me to do Dr Gundry’s diet plan. I have a neurological autoimmune disease, I feel his diet will help me…
"That's what Science tastes like" - What an unnecessary and condescending closing to what could have been a video with a credible voice. Are you a medical doctor or a PHD doctor of nutrition or some other subject..? That isn't clear, so let's science that, first..
I like that response.
In yo face, non-science! This is the crap lay people follow though..ugh
Yes chalk another one up to the PhD versus MD crowd. One talks and the other walks the walk.
Dr G. save me. I,m 71 and my inflammation and weight is under control... "Wake Up" ... God Bless Dr. G. and stop looking at pharmaceuticals as the only answer.
Thank you for your balanced analysis of the diet. I found that a balanced Mediterranean diet keeps me lean and I report no cardiac or high blood pressure issues. I was about to go ahead with this program . I trust more in the Divine Intelligence in my body to bring me to greater health rather than attempting a new regimen.
To summarize: she has a PhD in biochemical and molecular nutrition. She is skilled at evaluating research claims and statistical evidence which the lectin free diet is lacking. She concedes that some people may be sensitive to lectins and need the guidance of a physician to eliminate those from their diet. Those people would likely benefit from eliminating the offending foods from their diet. Dr. Gundry has skipped the double blind study and gone straight to conclusions and recommendations which Dr. Hyde would recommend in the context of evidence based physician guided practice. For many people, they read the book and skipped all of that which benefitted them greatly. YMMV.
She’s hired by big pharmaceutical companies!
I would ask what kind of doctor is she a medication specialist or an actual doctor that finds cures???
Yep
I didn't even watch the video yet and I was sold with you comment. Hahaha..
My grandfather lived till87yo,ate everything,smoked,drank alcohol,at the end he broke his hip while intoxicated,never took one pill
After reading this comment, I stopped watching this lady at 1:09 and saved 5 minutes of my life to give back thirty seconds to say thanks!
Listen to YOUR body folks! Not Corporate-State propagandists!
The diet works well for me. My sense is that people who have a healthy gut can tolerate lectins just fine. The problem is that many people damage their intestines through a variety of ways including stress, diet, alcohol, antibiotics, etc. Once the intestines are compromised and you have leaky gut, then consuming lectins becomes like a fire hose of inflammation that just never lets up. I stumbled upon the diet after finding relief with the carnivore / keto diets, but not knowing why they were working. On one of my cheat days I had an almond based dip (bitchin sauce) and felt awful. Made the connection with lectins and never looked back. For people with a leaky gut, it's absolutely worth trying.
the skins of almonds have lectins, almonds themselves do not. next time try blanched almonds (skins removed) and it shouldn't cause the lectin reaction. unless you have a specific almond intolerance.
@@blue_sky_bright_sun7599 "bitchin sauce" (I use it myself) has an almond base. You buy it pre-made and there is no way to tell if it uses almonds with skins, but I suspect not. Could make some version yourself and test with/without skins on the almonds. Didn't know that about almonds, thanks.
Sorted me, now slim and bendy. Oddly enjoying my food more now
Time for a lectin full lunch? How about time for the large scale diet studies that we are missing on 1. With cereal grains vs. No cereal grains at all 2. With dairy products vs. No dairy products at all 3. Standard American Diet vs. Lectin Free / Paleo diet. At this point the experiential evidence of people finding significant benefit and even reversing diseases by removing lectins from their diet is mounting and certainly should warrant enough interest to produce those studies.
I've learned, based on my experience, to not trust 'MD' doctors.
What is MD?
MDs are tought to medicate people not to cure them.
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Thank you for that... Agreed
Great general rule... If you want to be a moron...
Big Pharma & Medical Schools are to blame.
Did you read the original Plant Paradox book or the cookbook? In the original book Dr. Gundry cites scientific studies, papers and articles that support his claims. And in the cookbook he shows how the people in the blue zones prepare their vegetables to eliminate the lectins.
I did read the original plant paradox book, and additionally read the studies that it cited. Frequently the book misinterpreted studies, or cited studies that didn't actually support the claims in the book.
I often wonder when it comes to these things about the placebo effect. I’m sure it’s been mentioned in the 380 comments. I am not taking anything away from the people who feel healthier from following the diet. I just wonder if you follow up with somebody over time how many people stick to it and will they continue to feel the lasting effects? Is it possible that placebo if believed strong enough for long enough could have a lasting affect? What would be more interesting is a study on placebo itself. Why is it a thing? Why is it that in a controlled study scientists have to beat out a sugar pill because somehow the sugar pill literally has an affect on the subject? I believe that aside from the China study it is very hard to control a study such as one related to diet. At least with the China study many of the places studied did not have access to Western foods and were within rural areas with people eating the same foods that had for generations. If you try to do the same study in America it is incredibly difficult if not impossible. For example, how do you control having someone not ingest, gluten, for example for a year? Inevitably people are human and will slip up either on accident or on purpose and that throws the whole study off. Also, how can you possibly do a study of significance which would need to look at these items over time and for that over very long periods of time? How do you control for other variables outside of the food? What if someone in one area has conditions in their water supply or a certain chemical on their food that they eat every day. I would say one thing is that an epidemiologist can look at trends in certain foods over time, for example trans fats, and draw causality. It is a fascinating subject and I think a very sensitive topic for a lot of people because there have been so many diets. The amazing thing is that everyone seems to do great on any given diet which is the new fad diet until suddenly they don’t.
well i've tried this diet thinking it might be bullshit yet here i am just 7 days later already feeling a million times better, don't know man
gotta try it :)
Evidence is right here in your comments. I am not a big fan of Gundry, but when your patients speak for you, then that means you are doing something good. That evidence is more than enough for any doctor to carry on. I read plant paradox and did not trust it much until I read the comment section here. I think this is more than enough evidence for me to believe that lectin elimination diet works. Thanks for raising the issue though
It took me 10 seconds to go to PubMed and advance search "Lectin" + "Microbiome" + "Endothelial" + "Human" to find 100's of studies. Not only that, 100's of studies related to lectins in other circumstances. This is commonly referred to as multivariate analysis (MVA), but what do I know.
Just tried it. Pubmed advanced search: "Lectin"+"microbiome"+"endothelial"+"human" = 0 results. So I thought maybe try without the quotes. Now I get 5 results.
I also tried it with "epithelium" (which is the lining of your gut) instead of "endothelial" (which is the lining of your blood vessels); now i get a whopping 10 results. So.....?
I recently started eating a lectin-free diet after reading the Plant Paradox. I also consume MCT oils, evoo, and lots of good polyphenols, as Dr. Gundry recommends. After feeling like absolute crap for over three decades, I now have tons of energy, I am finally sleeping well, I feel great all around, I have no more brain fog, and best of all, my abdomen is shrinking. So, regardless of what this video says, the lectin-free diet is improving not just my health, but the health of many people. Don't knock it until you try it.
Curious. Is it really because of the lectins though? It sounds like you changed a lot (eg. consuming MCT oils, vegetables/fruits with lots of polyphenols) - so it would be hard to tell what actually helped.
Not saying that Dr Gundry is correct about all of his claims but just taking a few tips from his book has helped me noticeably reduce my GERD symptoms and to be honest after using my pressure cooker I never want to cook beans any other way, they turn out much better and cook much faster than the stove anyway, never was in love with peanuts, soy or tomatoes, I just ate them because people said that they were healthy, now I really question that.
What you say makes sense. I think it depends whether the individual is allergic to lectins. It's like anything else. Some people can be vegans, some carnivore, some both. Some people are highly sensitive to peanut butter, while others allergic to dairy or gluten. We have to know what works for us.
i like dr gundrys theory... i`ve been avoiding lectin foods for several days and already notice a difference. i thought i was eating healthy for the past 10 years but i never became healthy. now i`m learning that most of what i was eating was high lectin foods. so i`m going to stick with the low lectin diet now that i`m learning more and more about how lectins affect my health
Hi Dr. Lara. No disrespect intended when i say you are still young and seem healthy like most younger people under 40ish. But when i look at Dr Gundry is see a man who is 70 years old this year (2020) and has good muscle tone and no health issues. Most people 70 years old don't look so good and have multiple health issues. So i think Dr. Gundry is on to something for us older folks. I have been doing some of his suggestions and have noticed my energy has picked up and my moods have gotten better.
For you younger folks, it may not be so important for a proper diet such as Dr. Gundry suggests, but his science has been proven with his patients and myself now. If you look or even make it to 70 years and look as good and healthy as Dr. Gundry then you may be right, but i think you will find once you get older your diet is going to change drastically. Thanks for sharing your opinions.
I just watched a lecture by Paul Mason about lectins. It seems that lectins as well as gluten and pesticides induce leaky gut.
From my own experience stopping all high carb foods including 'healthy whole grains' such as stone ground bread, rolked whole oats, wholewheat pasta etc has helped with weight control and gut issues - no more bloating, stomach cramps.
Most of the studies on diet are poor quality observational studies not rct.
Things like the 5 a day idea is not based on science - just guesswork. Gov food advice is highly influenced by big food companies and the hidden agenda of it's panel members.
Prolonged Insulin levels seems to be the cause of many modern disease. Carbs whether wholegrain or not spike insulin. Eating every 2 hours because you need a carb fix is not good - keeps insulin high.
Only protein & fat are essential in the diet.
The diet DOES allow legumes... They just have to be soaked drained and then pressure cooked with fresh liquid. I wish that when people make a video concerning another person/dr, that they would do their reserch or not lie be it one or the other 🙄
Are you a Cardiologist. Do you trasplat hearts and do bypass and see the cause of the obstruction. And laso I agree with the comentary of Denis Morissete.
Idiot.
Thanks.
Dra "Nourishable", please clarify your main point and intention of making this video.. i dont get it!
I have read The Plant Paradox and have followed Dr Gundry's suggestions and have improved my overhealth tremendiously! There are more things to say, but I limit it here :)
I would love to hear your science review of low FODMAP diet. Perhaps your next video?
Donna Drury great question - I've put it in my queue!
You should really consider acting as your new career.
As for Dr.Gundry goes, he really changed my life for the better.
Hmm nearly all foods have lectins.
I have had a neurodermatitis rash which gets bloody and I do not scratch!. I have found I have many food allergies including an allergy to nightshades (runs in the family) I had the rash all cleared up. Then, I added organic black beans into my diet. Wham! I have a sore gut, bloating, and bleeding rash again! I have already had my colon checked and nothing showed up. But, when I eat certain foods my gut gets inflammed and I break out in a bloody rash! The area of the bloody rash happens to be just below the area of the inflammed large intestine. Any thoughts?
You should read the plant paradox :)
Hi where ca i find list of foods that are lectin free . there is any body who can produce that list ? please stop talking about beans and tomatoes . please give that lectins free foods list . i will know what to with that .
Just Google it...
Check out Dr.Gundry's book :)
I ate some boiled peanuts on Friday and been feeling REALLY yucky ever since. I'm thinking there really is something to all this...going to try soaking and sprouting and such. That's supposed to help. 🖤
**tested sensitive to gliadin (in wheat?) on lab test, but corn messes me up too. And the protein in milk. There's plenty of low/no lectin meats, fats, veggies and fruits left to choose to eat. Also I can modify the amount and/or remove lectins from high lectin foods, if I feel I really can't live without, them. So, I feel it's worth a try. I'm sick and tired of feeling tired and sick, so ...
You come across very obnoxious in this video, it's not good look.. I wondered how Dr Gundry could be right about lectins when the blue zones solely eat the foods he says not to eat, I pondered on it for a while and then it hit me. Yes they do eat those foods but so does everyone else, people in the other zones are also eating all the foods that we know is extremely bad for us, so your logic is flawed.
Hello doctor Gunday could you please tell me what is wrong with wheatgrass powder thank you?