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The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain: 1 (The Plant Paradox, 1) Hardcover – 1 Jun. 2017
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"I read this book... it worked. My autoimmune disease is gone and I'm 37 pounds lighter in my pleather." --Kelly Clarkson
Most of us have heard of gluten—a protein found in wheat that causes widespread inflammation in the body. Americans spend billions of dollars on gluten-free diets in an effort to protect their health. But what if we’ve been missing the root of the problem? In The Plant Paradox, renowned cardiologist Dr. Steven Gundry reveals that gluten is just one variety of a common, and highly toxic, plant-based protein called lectin. Lectins are found not only in grains like wheat but also in the “gluten-free” foods most of us commonly regard as healthy, including many fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans, and conventional dairy products. These proteins, which are found in the seeds, grains, skins, rinds, and leaves of plants, are designed by nature to protect them from predators (including humans). Once ingested, they incite a kind of chemical warfare in our bodies, causing inflammatory reactions that can lead to weight gain and serious health conditions.
At his waitlist-only clinics in California, Dr. Gundry has successfully treated tens of thousands of patients suffering from autoimmune disorders, diabetes, leaky gut syndrome, heart disease, and neurodegenerative diseases with a protocol that detoxes the cells, repairs the gut, and nourishes the body. Now, in The Plant Paradox, he shares this clinically proven program with readers around the world.
The simple (and daunting) fact is, lectins are everywhere. Thankfully, Dr. Gundry offers simple hacks we easily can employ to avoid them, including:
- Peel your veggies. Most of the lectins are contained in the skin and seeds of plants; simply peeling and de-seeding vegetables (like tomatoes and peppers) reduces their lectin content.
- Shop for fruit in season. Fruit contain fewer lectins when ripe, so eating apples, berries, and other lectin-containing fruits at the peak of ripeness helps minimize your lectin consumption.
- Swap your brown rice for white. Whole grains and seeds with hard outer coatings are designed by nature to cause digestive distress—and are full of lectins.
With a full list of lectin-containing foods and simple substitutes for each, a step-by-step detox and eating plan, and delicious lectin-free recipes, The Plant Paradox illuminates the hidden dangers lurking in your salad bowl—and shows you how to eat whole foods in a whole new way.
- Print length416 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarperWave
- Publication date1 Jun. 2017
- Dimensions16.51 x 23.5 x 2.54 cm
- ISBN-10006242713X
- ISBN-13978-0062427137
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“The Plant Paradox offers a true paradigm shift in the way we think about food. Whether you’re paleo, gluten-free, low-carb or plant-based, Dr. Gundry’s profound insights and practical advice will help reverse both autoimmune and neurodegenerative disease.” — Terry Wahls, MD, author of The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles
“Once in a generation a doctor and a book comes along that completely changes the way we think about food and our health. Dr. Gundry is that physician and The Plant Paradox is that book. Following his advice, like I do personally, is life changing.” — Tony Robbins, author of the New York Times bestseller Unshakable
“It is rare that a book on health and nutrition introduces truly novel concepts, and rarer still that it backs them up with solid scientific data and clinical proof of validity―but The Plant Paradox does just that. We all owe Dr. Gundry a debt of gratitude for his insight and dedication to a new level of superb health.” — Dale Bredesen, MD, Professor of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine; Founding President, Buck Institute; and author of The End of Alzheimer's
“A fresh, learned perspective on eating healthy, The Plant Paradox is profound, clear, and convincing. Much more than just another dietary fad, Dr. Gundry’s scientifically proven approach to restoring a healthy microbiome will reorient your approach to food.” — Kirkus Reviews
“If you have ‘tried everything’ or you or a family member are still troubled by stubborn pounds, autoimmune disease, or even heart disease, you owe to yourself to read this book. The Plant Paradox is going to dramatically improve lives, it’s that simple.” — Jonathan Carp, MD
“Fellow panelist Dr. Steven Gundry, author of The Plant Paradox–which argues that certain fruits, vegetables, nuts, and beans are harmful to the body–promised the crowd they would feel better if they wean themselves off their medicine cabinets. Swallowing just one Aleve, he declared, is like “swallowing a hand-grenade.”” — Rina Raphael, Fast Company
“He famously helped Gwyneth Paltrow rethink her eating habits, so it was no surprise to see heart surgeon Steven Gundry, MD, onstage at the Goop conferenceover the weekend. And along with admitting that he usually skips breakfast—which is crazy when you think there are coffee-avocado smoothies to be had—the renowned doctor also talked gut health. (We’re listening…)” — Nisha Gopalan, Well + Good
“Dr. Gundry is a true trailblazer, always at the forefront of scientific knowledge. The Plant Paradox shows the world what pioneer thinking is about and is a must-read book for anyone interested in being as healthy as nature has designed them to be.” — Alejandro Junger MD, New York Times bestselling author of Clean, Clean Gut and Clean Eats
“The Plant Paradox elegantly explains how plants defend themselves from being consumed by humans, and how eating the wrong ones at the wrong times immeasurably hurts our health. An eye-opening read.” — Mehmet Oz, MD, Professor of Surgery, New York Presbyterian/Columbia University
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Most of us have heard of gluten—a protein found in wheat that can cause widespread inflammation in the body. Americans spend billions of dollars on gluten-free diets in an effort to protect their health. But what if we’ve been missing the root of the problem?
In The Plant Paradox, renowned cardiologist and heart surgeon Dr. Steven Gundry reveals that gluten is just one variety of a common, and highly toxic, plant-based protein called lectin. Lectins are found not only in grains like wheat but also in the “gluten-free” foods most of us commonly regard as healthy, including many fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans, and conventional dairy products. These proteins, which are found in the seeds, grains, skins, rinds, and leaves of plants, are designed by nature to protect plants from predators (including humans). Once ingested, they incite a kind of chemical warfare in our bodies, causing inflammatory reactions that can lead to weight gain and serious health conditions.
At his waitlist-only clinics in California, Dr. Gundry has successfully treated tens of thousands of patients suffering from autoimmune disorders, diabetes, leaky gut syndrome, heart disease, and neurodegenerative diseases with a protocol that detoxes the cells, repairs the gut, and nourishes the body. Now, in The Plant Paradox, he shares this clinically proven program with readers around the world.
The simple (and daunting) fact is, lectins are everywhere. Thankfully, Dr. Gundry offers simple hacks we can easily employ to avoid them, including
- Peel your veggies. Lectins are concentrated in the leaves, peels, and seeds of plants; simply peeling and deseeding vegetables (like tomatoes and peppers) reduces their lectin content.
- Shop for fruit in season. Fruit contain fewer lectins when ripe, so eating apples, berries, and other lectin-containing fruits at the peak of ripeness helps minimize your lectin consumption.
- Swap your brown rice for white. Whole grains and seeds with hard outer coatings are designed by nature to cause digestive distress—and are full of lectins.
With a full list of lectin-containing foods and simple substitutes for each, a step-by-step detox and eating plan, and delicious lectin-free recipes, The Plant Paradox illuminates the hidden dangers lurking in your salad bowl—and shows you how to eat whole foods in a whole new way.
About the Author
Steven R. Gundry, MD, is the director of the International Heart and Lung Institute in Palm Springs, California, and the founder and director of the Center for Restorative Medicine in Palm Springs and Santa Barbara. After a distinguished surgical career as a professor and chairman of cardiothoracic surgery at Loma Linda University, Dr. Gundry changed his focus to curing modern diseases via dietary changes. He is the bestselling author of The Longevity Paradox, The Plant Paradox, The Plant Paradox Cookbook, The Plant Paradox Quick and Easy, and Dr. Gundry’s Diet Evolution, and has written more than three hundred articles published in peer-reviewed journals on using diet and supplements to eliminate heart disease, diabetes, autoimmune disease, and multiple other diseases. Dr. Gundry lives with his wife, Penny, and their dogs in Palm Springs and Montecito, California.
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- Publisher : HarperWave; 1st edition (1 Jun. 2017)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 416 pages
- ISBN-10 : 006242713X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0062427137
- Dimensions : 16.51 x 23.5 x 2.54 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 10,552 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 21 in Family & Lifestyle Immunology
- 24 in Medical Diseases & Disorders
- 47 in Preventive Medicine
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STEVEN GUNDRY MD, F.A.C.S., F.A.C.C., is a cum laude graduate of Yale University with special honors in Human Biological and Social Evolution. After graduating Alpha Omega Alpha from the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine, Dr. Steven Gundry completed residencies in General Surgery and Thoracic Surgery at the University of Michigan and served as a Clinical Associate at the National Institutes of Health for years. There, he invented devices that reverse the cell death seen in acute heart attacks; variations of these devices subsequently became the Gundry™ Retrograde Cardioplegia Cannula. It has become the world's most widely used device of its kind to protect the heart from damage during open-heart surgery. After completing a fellowship in congenital heart surgery at The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, in London, Dr. Gundry was recruited as Professor and Chairman of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Loma Linda University Medical Center. There, he and his partner, Leonard Bailey, pioneered infant and pediatric heart transplantation. Together, they have performed more such transplants than any other transplant surgeons in the world.
During his tenure at Loma Linda, Dr. Gundry pioneered the field of xenotransplantation, the study of how the genes of one species react to the transplanted heart of a foreign species. He was one of the original twenty investigators of the first FDA-approved implantable left ventricular assist device (a kind of artificial heart). Dr. Gundry is also the inventor of the Gundry Ministernomy, the widely used minimally invasive approach to aortic- or mitral-valve repair, the Gundry Lateral Tunnel, a "living" tissue that can rebuild parts of the heart in children with severe congenital heart malformations; and the Skoosh™ venous cannula, the most widely used cannula in minimally invasive heart operations.
One of the fathers of robotic surgery, and a consultant to Computer Motion (now Intuitive Surgical), Dr. Steven Gundry received early FDA approval to use robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery for coronary artery-bypass and mitral-valve operations. He holds patents on devices for connecting blood vessels and coronary artery bypasses without sutures, as well as for repairing the mitral valve without the need for sutures or a heart-lung machine. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Artificial Internal Organs (ASIAO) and was a founding board member and treasurer of the International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS). He recently completed two successive elected terms as President of the Board of Directors of the American Heart Association, Desert Division.
Dr. Gundry has been elected a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the American College of Cardiology, the American Surgical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the College of Chest Physicians. He is a member of numerous other surgical and medical societies. As a medical researcher, Dr. Gundry has published three hundred articles, chapters, and abstracts in peer-reviewed journals on surgical, immunology, genetics, nutrition, plant-based diets, and lipid investigations.
In 2002, Dr. Gundry met someone who would change the trajectory of his career… and life. He crossed paths with an "inoperable" patient named “Big Ed”. Using a combination of dietary changes and nutraceutical supplements — Big Ed lost weight and cleared most of his arterial blockages. An obese, chronic "diet" failure himself, Dr. Gundry adapted his Yale University thesis to design a diet for himself based on evolutionary genetic coding.
On this diet, he lost weight — to the tune of 70 pounds — and reversed his own ailments, such as migraines, pre-diabetic status, and arthritis. He stopped eating sugar, grains, peanuts and cashews, nightshades and other lectin-heavy foods. Having experienced weight loss and the results of eating a lectin-free and gluten-free diet himself, and inspired by growing research involving the NIH’s Human Microbiome Project, his commitment to better health and longevity through a better diet solidified. His work creating nutraceutical products and supplements advanced.
No longer satisfied with repairing the damage of chronic diseases, Dr. Gundry open his own practice— The International Heart and Lung Institute and Center of Restorative Medicine in Santa Barbara and Palm Springs, California. His mission is to prevent and reverse chronic diseases of "aging" while increasing longevity with diet and nutraceutical products.
In order to help even more people heal themselves, Dr. Gundry began writing books outlining his eating program and eventually, he would create his own supplement line, Gundry MD. He’s always researching new methods, discovering better health solutions, and evolving his wellness philosophies. These theories are outlined in his bestselling books: Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You and Your Waistline; The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain; The Plant Paradox Cookbook: 100 Delicious Recipes to Help You Lose Weight, Heal Your Gut, and Live Lectin-Free; The Plant Paradox Quick and Easy: The 30-Day Plan to Lose Weight, Feel Great, and Live Lectin-Free; The Longevity Paradox: How to Die Young at a Ripe Old Age; and The Plant Paradox Family Cookbook: 80 One-Pot Recipes to Nourish Your Family Using Your Instant Pot, Slow Cooker, or Sheet Pan.
He is now the leading expert on the lectin-free lifestyle as the key to reversing disease and healing a leaky gut. Dr. Steven Gundry freely shares his research on how to maintain a healthy microbiome and live a long, vital life via his best-selling books, YouTube channel, Gundry MD blogs, and weekly health podcast, The Dr. Gundry Podcast.
The Gundry MD site is a resource to learn about which foods to eat, like olive oil and pressure cooked lentils, and which to avoid, such as grains and goji berries. His work on balancing bacteria in your gut and aligning your lifestyle with the proper circadian rhythms has been groundbreaking. And he continues to research blue zones, best autoimmune practices, and lectin-free living. Gundry MD also provides information and tips about dealing with challenges like rheumatoid arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, and other health concerns that present in later years of life. He also explores the tenets of the Ketogenic diet (and other diets) and shares his expertise on all things “lectins”.
Gundry MD is also a proud sponsor of charity: water. charity: water is dedicated to building new ways to get clean drinking water to communities in need. A portion of every Gundry MD product sold is donated to charity:water.
Dr. Gundry lives with his wife, Penny, and their dogs in Palm Springs and Montecito, California. His two grown daughters live nearby. For more information about Gundry MD, tune into his podcast and YouTube episodes. www.gundrymd.com / www.drgundry.com
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This book is packed with eye popping facts. He not only explains the causes of many diseases but, thankfully, offers the solution too.
and as you know somethings and sometimes you start to read
and get so far into the book...'s with a kindle yes it'll save where you've
read to.. the furthest point. and as often as not, the thing will lose charge
in the times i'm not using it so when you open it up after re-powering
it'll take you back to the book list
and as you scan through you'll see a title and think did i finish
that story.. let's have a look.
As is the case with this book got well into it
it was interesting yes even if it is from an American standpoint
it still applies here in the uk as we seem to have adopted most if not all US farming practices
the very worse of animal husbandry and with crop growing systems on an industrial scale
most of these have been imported from the land of the so called free.
so this book was an eye opener to the truth of the failure of the American diet(dream)
and the fat epidemic. but also it shines a light on other little known causes for chronic
ill health and still in practice here, most touted as healthy eating by the nhs with nothing changed
from the low fat is good for you and no fat is even better lie. and the lies about heat refined vegetable oil
being good for the body and sugar is not harmful or addictive fib. and how it is next to impossible
to escape from it as their all used in everything with deceptive names and clauses so it doesn't have to be declared on the ingredient list even when they say it is free from those nasty bad ingredients how the big stores allow it all to be in the product just to keep making large profits from the sugar addicted ignorance of their consumers
Any how back to the book, it will open your mind to all the things you need to be aware of if you want to have a healthy pain free life, it'll show you the truth. things that you really should know that are not taught anywhere, not in schools or ever on the tv. and defiantly never offered by your private/general practise doctor pill pusher with the, take a couple of these you'll feel better drug med philosophy
makes them seem Hench-gentleman/lady's and zombie droog's of the big pharma corporate monster.
though i didn't need the book as i'd seen a few of the authors vlogs on youtube that go into
greater depth and detail on all the subjects in this book
And much much more he introduces other and varied health and life ideas
by medical specialists world wide. a vast knowledge base to be explored at leisure
pick and chose what you think you might follow and get round to being as and when the penny drops
and understanding seeps in helps your aim in banging that nail home beat the flab and beat the aches and pains what to avoid or limit so much you didn't know, you didn't know.
I read most of the preview already for the hardback version.
I am 100% certain that our government guidelines have helped to make us all sick and what is worse I think they know this but will not make the necessary changes.
Following on from us copying the US who went along with the 'findings' of the Ancel Keys 7 Countries Report (despite the fact that he had begun the study with 22 countries that were not used to 'prove' his point that saturated fat led to heart disease), back in the '70's, none of the findings since then have been considered! So today most doctors and most of the general public are convinced that we should be eating a low fat diet with 'healthy whole grains' representing the largest part of our plates!
When in fact we should be eating a high fat and low carb diet if we want to be healthy.
I have watched quite a few of Steven Gundry's videos and am very glad that he has put this book out there.
The more that become educated the better.
Last year I allowed wheat to creep into my diet now and then along with sugar, having been on a strictly LCHF diet for the two years previously.
The result was that I gained weight, my hypertension returned with my BP being 214/144 on Feb 15th, and I felt tired all the time and very irritable and my IBS also returned.
Just since Feb 15th, being back on the LCHF way of eating, although not totally ketogenic, and with two 36 hr water only fasts a week, I have lost over two stone, my BP is now 126/94, I have way more energy, am sleeping better and enjoying life so much more with no more depression and with a general feeling of well being. AND my food tastes better! I'm loving my food so much and enjoying trying out new recipes all the time and also loving my fast days twice a week, as I have more time on my hands to get things done.
We are all different and have to find the best way to fit healthy eating into our lives and then we need to experiment on ourselves to get the tweaks just right for us. I am glad Gundry hasn't ruled out cheese and eggs as I don't want to give those up but after the 6 months mark in August I will undergo an elimination diet removing all dairy and eggs for 6 to 8 weeks and then re-introducing them one by one, just to be sure I'm okay with them.
I'm now looking into getting more fermented foods in to heal the gut and will be experimenting with kefir, kombucha and kimchi along with my apple cider vinegar water that I take each day. It really is a try it and see sort of thing for us all to get it right for ourselves.
But my heart goes out to those who use will power to stick to a low fat diet with lots of grains, believing that it is healthy.
I would recommend this book to anyone who cares about their health and especially if they believe that low fat is good.
Read and then do your own research and then enjoy a truly healthy diet that doesn't involve an ounce of will power because with all that fat things taste so wonderful!
My saffron roast potatoes (which I don't eat too often) roasted in goose fat with a cheese sauce made from just cream and cheese and no flour to thicken it and a lovely gravy, which I hadn't put on when I took that photo, thickened by reducing it - is a healthy meal :-)
As is the Creole Salad with a whole avocado, a fair bit of bacon and a dressing made with plenty of healthy oils, I used olive oil and linseed oil for that one and apple cider vinegar, along with other healthy ingredients such as garlic.
Both meals were completely organic and taste great and with no guilt needed at all :-)
Have to say, I'm intrigued to find out why he suggests that we cut out tomatoes and peppers!
I love those so hope I don't need to cut them out but will add them to my elimination weeks if I feel he has some sound reasoning for it.
I wish everyone the joy of eating truly healthy food.
By Lois Pallister on 16 May 2017
I read most of the preview already for the hardback version.
I am 100% certain that our government guidelines have helped to make us all sick and what is worse I think they know this but will not make the necessary changes.
Following on from us copying the US who went along with the 'findings' of the Ancel Keys 7 Countries Report (despite the fact that he had begun the study with 22 countries that were not used to 'prove' his point that saturated fat led to heart disease), back in the '70's, none of the findings since then have been considered! So today most doctors and most of the general public are convinced that we should be eating a low fat diet with 'healthy whole grains' representing the largest part of our plates!
When in fact we should be eating a high fat and low carb diet if we want to be healthy.
I have watched quite a few of Steven Gundry's videos and am very glad that he has put this book out there.
The more that become educated the better.
Last year I allowed wheat to creep into my diet now and then along with sugar, having been on a strictly LCHF diet for the two years previously.
The result was that I gained weight, my hypertension returned with my BP being 214/144 on Feb 15th, and I felt tired all the time and very irritable and my IBS also returned.
Just since Feb 15th, being back on the LCHF way of eating, although not totally ketogenic, and with two 36 hr water only fasts a week, I have lost over two stone, my BP is now 126/94, I have way more energy, am sleeping better and enjoying life so much more with no more depression and with a general feeling of well being. AND my food tastes better! I'm loving my food so much and enjoying trying out new recipes all the time and also loving my fast days twice a week, as I have more time on my hands to get things done.
We are all different and have to find the best way to fit healthy eating into our lives and then we need to experiment on ourselves to get the tweaks just right for us. I am glad Gundry hasn't ruled out cheese and eggs as I don't want to give those up but after the 6 months mark in August I will undergo an elimination diet removing all dairy and eggs for 6 to 8 weeks and then re-introducing them one by one, just to be sure I'm okay with them.
I'm now looking into getting more fermented foods in to heal the gut and will be experimenting with kefir, kombucha and kimchi along with my apple cider vinegar water that I take each day. It really is a try it and see sort of thing for us all to get it right for ourselves.
But my heart goes out to those who use will power to stick to a low fat diet with lots of grains, believing that it is healthy.
I would recommend this book to anyone who cares about their health and especially if they believe that low fat is good.
Read and then do your own research and then enjoy a truly healthy diet that doesn't involve an ounce of will power because with all that fat things taste so wonderful!
My saffron roast potatoes (which I don't eat too often) roasted in goose fat with a cheese sauce made from just cream and cheese and no flour to thicken it and a lovely gravy, which I hadn't put on when I took that photo, thickened by reducing it - is a healthy meal :-)
As is the Creole Salad with a whole avocado, a fair bit of bacon and a dressing made with plenty of healthy oils, I used olive oil and linseed oil for that one and apple cider vinegar, along with other healthy ingredients such as garlic.
Both meals were completely organic and taste great and with no guilt needed at all :-)
Have to say, I'm intrigued to find out why he suggests that we cut out tomatoes and peppers!
I love those so hope I don't need to cut them out but will add them to my elimination weeks if I feel he has some sound reasoning for it.
I wish everyone the joy of eating truly healthy food.









