Dr. Gundry on Lectins – What Lectins Can do to YOUR Health | Inflammation & Leaky Gut

Dr. Steven Gundry talks all about lectins and the effect that they can have on your health. In this special compilation episode of the Dr. Gundry Podcast, we highlight some of the best content that Dr. Gundry has created on Lectins.

00:00 – Dr. Gundry gives an overview of Lectins
01:41 – Dr. Steven Gundry’s Lectin-rich foods to avoid
03:45 – Dr. Gundry talks about his research on Lectins
07:45 – How Lectin’s effected one of Dr. Gundry’s patients
12:25 – Dr. Gundry Tests lectin theory on himself

Lectins are plant proteins. They’re found in all sorts of members of the vegetable kingdom, and they happen to be one of nature’s greatest defenses against any hungry animal (or human being).

Now, not all lectins are toxic. But many are, and when you’ve got a lectin intolerance, you don’t want to ingest any one of these plant proteins, because the consequences can be pretty severe.

You see, nature’s got it all figured out. Plants suppose if you eat something that makes you sick, you’ll steer clear of it the next time you’re hungry. So, by forcing you to ingest harmful lectins, Nature has protected itself. Let’s say you decide to do your gut a favor and cut out gluten. It may help, but adopting a gluten-free diet doesn’t always fix the problem.

That’s because many other kinds of non-gluten grains can contain other types of lectins.
And those lectins can cause painful or uncomfortable physical responses, including:
Digestive issues, Leaky Gut, Bloating, Nausea, Gas, and Diarrhea.

On this episode of the Dr. Gundry Podcast, Dr. Steven Gundry is going to take you on a journey of discovery. He will explain the origins of his lectin theory of disease, share useful tips and tricks for cutting lectins out of your diet, and discuss the case studies that helped solidify my research.

Maybe you’ve heard the buzz about a lectin-free diet — but what are lectins, exactly? Steven Gundry MD explains what lectins are, and why lectins destroy your health.

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What’s eltin exactly short answer it’s a dangerous plant protein designed to poison you yes you read that right poison now chances are lectin won’t kill you though eating a lectin heavy diet your whole life might but they’ll make you pretty sick you see plants don’t

Want to be eaten but it’s not like they can run and hide or even bite back so instead they make lectin to make Predators sick in hopes that the next time they’ll pass by that plant and eat something else it’s actually pretty smart right so that’s lectin for you in

A nutshell but how do they make you sick well it helps to think of lectin are like little Barnacles that look for specific sugar molecules in your blood the lining of our gut and on our nerves when they find a good spot to land they cling to these cells breaking down their

Ability to communicate with our immune system and then ripping them to Pieces which could lead to things like leaky gut a weaker immune system weight gain food poisoning and so much more after all there’s nothing worse than an intruder in your system and lectin are just that an unwanted Intruder making

You sick so clearly they should be avoided at all costs but what exactly does that mean well now there are certain lectin in most fruits and veggies but some are worse than others and there are five categories of food you want to avoid at all costs first beans and legumes including peanuts

Lentils and cashews they carry more lectin than any other food which is why eating undercooked beans makes so many people sick each year so skip them entirely or if you must eat foods like lentils which do have health boost boost compounds make sure to pressure cook them because pressure cooking kills the

Majority of lectin outright second squash most squash are new world foods which means our bodies did not evolve to eat them plus they’re heavy in lectin so skip pumpkin butternut squash even zucchini whenever possible and if you must eat squash although I don’t recommend it peel it and take out the

Seeds first because that’s where the lecons are third grains for the most part grains are a relatively new food to us our hunter gather ancestors didn’t search for grains without processing there was no way to eat them plus most grains even gluten-free grains are lectin bombs as well as those

Gluten-free grain substitutes fourth the nightshades tomatoes potatoes even eggplants these lectin bombs are another leading cause of food poisoning and they’re closely related to some of the most most poisonous plants on the planet and last but not least number five fruit especially out of seasoned fruit and

Remember if it’s got a seed it’s a fruit so skip that pineapple papay and strawberries in the winter but also peppers and cucumbers remember they’re fruits too so now you know what they are what they do and where to find lectin but why should you avoid them at all

Costs this one’s simp simple lectin are designed to cause disease and weight gain in humans and you deserve to live a long healthy life but one of the guys who really turned me around on the power of lectin and how we react to them was a

Guy who I talk about Tony uh in the plant Paradox and Tony is a friend of mine he still is uh he came to me uh early when I actually wrote Dr gundry’s diet Evolution he was one of the original adapters of that book and Tony had Vitiligo the loss of

Pigmentation that Michael Jackson had and he had it on his hands he had some on his face Tony greatl looking guy and he came after he started on the plant Paradox and he came up to my office he said hey you got to look at this and I

Knew him before he says my viigo is gone all pigments back in he says what what do you think’s going on and you know I’m going well you know I know this is an anti-inflammatory diet but boy that’s a real stretch and then you know I go back to

Medical school and I go wait wait wait a minute melanocytes are what make pigment and to get really nerdy here a melanocyte is a nerve cell that in the embryo migrates basically from your spinal cord and brain out to the skin and it’s a nerve cell and lectin were originally devised

By plants to paralyze insects which makes great sense if you have somebody who is eating you and eating you makes them paralyzed that’s a really good defense system and so I’m going huh lectin are mimicking nerves cells and your immune system is attacking nerve cells as if they were

Electons and this this was first described not by me but by the famous paleo doctor Lauren cordain from Colorado State who actually wrote the original Paleo Diet and Dr cordan said that lectin mimic other proteins in our body other cells in our body to get our immune system to have Friendly Fire

Attack normal cells by mistake and it’s called molecular mimicry he coined the phrase and so I said son of a gun I’ve been taking lectin away from Tony and he’s no longer attacking his nerve cells just like Dr cordain’s Theory predicted so then I lost track of Tony

And I actually saw him at a meeting a few years right before the plant Paradox came out and his viigo was back and I said what’s the deal you know how’d that happen he says Ah you know I’m cheating and you know it’s pretty hard to do what

You want me to do and yeah it’s okay uh I said well wait a minute you know you’re a smart guy let’s run the experiment again I said you know here’s the list you know it was called The Matrix back then for my longtime listeners take this and let’s see and

You know see you in a couple months come up to my office and sure enough he came back and the viigo is gone and I went holy cow you know that actually proves that in fact for him lectin were the cause of his problem uh then actually kind of right after Tony

Uh Jackie from Oregon came down she’s a nurse and Jackie had massive migraine headaches and she tried everything now Jackie was a home Gardener and Jackie loved to can a tomato and zucchini relish that she dearly loved and she was telling me about all this I said oh

Wellow you know this looks like the problem you know because zucchini and tomatoes have lots of lectin in them I said you know I want you to get rid of all the lectin in your life but don’t come near that relish and you know Watch What Happens so she called me a few

Weeks later he said migraines are gone you know that was it migraines are gone and so the next time I saw her about a year later she said you know things are great no migraine medications no migraines but I miss my relish I I really really like my relish and my

Garden you know is just finishing up and I got all the zucchini and tomatoes please what are we going to do I said okay this is great let’s have an experiment I want you to can your zucchini and tomato relish the usual way but I also want you to can some in a

Pressure cooker and let’s see what happens so sure enough her regular stuff when she ate the relish she called me said oh my gosh you know migraine that caused my migraine I said okay just you know calm down let’s give it a few days and then I want you

To try the pressure cook stuff sure enough no migraine when she pressure cooked her zucchini and tomatoes just like we would predict so Jackie through the years has become one of my best canaries and Jackie eventually had grandchildren and she wanted to give them steel cut oats and she wanted to

Try Cream of Wheat so she decided to use a pressure cooker and she pressure cooked her oats for like a half an hour and then 45 minutes and finally an hour and every time she ate it she would get a migraine and she said oh my gosh I

I can’t you know eat oats and I said I me that’s interesting I said I tell you what what do it with cream of wheat and so she did the same thing with cream of wheat and even after an hour of doing this it wouldn’t work and I said you

Know that’s interesting I don’t I don’t get it so I went down a rabbit hole and I found this obscure paper I I don’t even know if I have it anymore that says you cannot destroy the gluten lectin with high heat and high pressure pressure cooking it will not break and

So that’s why you see on my list you know do not pressure cook wheat Rye barley and oats it will not work and that’s actually all thanks to Jackie making me say why doesn’t that work and sure enough somebody had figured that out now subsequently I published papers

In abstract form in circulation of 102 patients with autoimmune disease including Mah me personally I have have had a marker for anti-nuclear antibody which some people associate with lupus or other autoimmune diseases and after I had that discovered I believed it because my father’s side of the family has massive

Sasis and I wasn’t surprised so I was perfect on my diet for two months and it went away it became negative and we published the results of 102 people who followed my program for 6 months at the end of 6 months 95 out of those 102 were negative

For their autoimmune marker or markers off of immunosuppressants the other 6% were actually on less immunosuppressant interestingly enough in that published data seven people once they were in remission went away from the diet and all of them subsequently became positive for their autoimmune marker and all seven of them

Became negative again when we reinstituted the diet now just last fall I decided it been a couple years I’m going to retest my theory I’m going to reintroduce over a weekend aggressively lectin I bread I ate pasta I came back I drew my blood and lo and behold I’m positive again for

Anti-nuclear antibody and I go well that’s pretty cool I’m going to be perfect for just one week all I’m going to do one week let’s see what happens one week later same lab same blood drawer one of my blood drawers negative for anti-nuclear antibod so what’s going on here so

Number one okay so I’m a canary number two I am very sensitive to these things as anyone with autoimmune disease is I can guarantee you if you have autoimmune disease you can’t cheat sorry about that but number two the reason things have changed so much the reason most of the

Commercials you see on TV every night for an immunosuppressant for an autoimmune dis disease like Crohn’s like rheumatoid arthritis like psoriasis you choose the disease these were very infrequent diseases 50 years ago yes they existed but they were so infrequent that the tests we used to

Look for them back in the good old days were called funny tests because they were so funny we rarely got them because we rarely saw these things and now most of the commercials you see at night are for these diseases and as I tell all of my patients these are immunosuppressants

These are transplant drugs that I use when I do a heart transplant and I tell my patients look you don’t have a heart transplant you don’t have a kidney transplant you don’t have a liver transplant there is absolutely no reason for you to be on a transplant medication

To treat your autoimmune disease you have to treat it by removing certain foods thanks so much for watching but don’t go anywhere this next one is sure to surprise you and people who ate one bowl of Curry per week had dramatic better memories than people who did not

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