Words matter. These are the best Steven Gundry Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
One fateful morning, I looked at myself in the mirror and realized that I shouldn’t be operating on patients and then teaching them to eat to avoid me in the future; I should teach them to eat so that I wouldn’t have to operate on them in the first place!
Lectins bind to receptors on the surface of each cell lining the gut, breaking down the tight junctions that normally make an impenetrable barrier between the intestinal contents including bacteria and ourselves.
I make it very clear that cooking and soaking helps to reduce the lectins in troublesome foods like beans and grains.
I first studied the effect of plants on humans for my Yale thesis… and it was a 185-page thesis, and luckily I got honors on it.
For a two-job working family, a pressure cooker gets a meal on the table in seven to 15 minutes, start to finish.
Quite frankly, I don’t know how I could live without my Blendtec.
When major lectin-containing foods were introduced to our diet about 10,000 years ago in the form of grains and beans, our health dramatically changed for the worse.
I haven’t met a person who takes a statin drug to lower cholesterol that I can’t get off a statin once I teach them how to eat.
Women will tell you, 80 percent of the time – if you listen – what is wrong with them. And what frustrates me, as a physician who takes care of a lot of women with autoimmune diseases, is that women have to request and find a physician… who will actually take their complaints seriously and investigate.
The more I removed vegetables that have lots of seeds, such as cucumbers and squash, the better my patients felt, the more weight they lost, and the more their cholesterol levels improved.
A pressure cooker will destroy all lectin except gluten.
The amazing thing is when people change nothing except removing major lectins, they start losing weight and they still are eating lots of calories, but we’re not storing it as fat anymore.
Although I am a voracious plant predator, one has to realize that there is not a human need for fruits and vegetables: just ask an Eskimo.
The most troublesome plant lectins are found in the hulls of grains, in beans and legumes, and the nightshade family – specifically the peels and seeds of tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, etc.
The longer I have been at this the more I think that lectins are the cause of leaky gut and all diseases.
I’ve never gone and spoken to an audience, you know, ‘come and be my patient.’ I’ve never taken an ad in a newspaper, ‘come and be my patient.’
You can monetize yourself if and only if you develop a reason to monetize your services and or talents. In other words, you must have a unique proven talent, track record that will make people want to pay for that service or product.
Fasting, or intermittent fasting, gives us an opportunity to really get all the best cells all the time and that’s what we all want.
I grew up in Omaha and Milwaukee, and was always a very inquisitive kid.
The rule of thumb is, if you feel chest pains, chew on an aspirin to thin the blood rapidly.
It’s a bit of a myth that too much cholesterol causes heart attacks.
My wife and I were actually driving in the south of France when we got the word that Kelly Clarkson had come out that ‘The Plant Paradox’ had changed her life. I’m a big fan of hers. I like her music and I would love to work with her.
While I’ve done over 10,000 heart operations and invented operations and devices that are used every day in heart surgery, the joy I receive from watching even one person take back their health just can’t be surpassed, and certainly can’t be measured monetarily.
When we lessen lectin consumption, the gut wall reseals and the stimulus to store fat is removed. Lectins no longer bind to insulin receptors, and we no longer store fat aggressively. Weight loss invariably follows.
Getting all of the nutrients you need simply cannot be done without supplements.
