Dr. Gundry Says Lectins In Plant Foods Are Dangerous, Are They?

this a dr. Gunther who’s making a claim that is lectins in a vegan diet that are not good are you familiar with this claim and you want to comment on it

Gandhi’s gun G whatever his name is mr. likeness yeah so you have to understand that I think a lot of people become enthusiastic about what they’re currently experiencing their own life and start to expound on it outside of their knowledge zone and comfort zone and that’s what happened with this gentleman if you read on in his book he’ll also tell you that free-range chicken would be a great thing to eat not a cucumber not not for instance a red pepper

I’ve been giving red peppers to people organic red peppers for decades why cuz they’re loaded with vitamin C I’ve never seen anyone get sick on our diet but contrary the exact opposite but I have seen people get sick on free-range chickens and chickens so I think what what we have to do I don’t know what you have to do what I always choose to do is look at the wide story not just somebody’s enthusiastic opinion I’m sure a lot of people do this for the right reason and believe in what they’re writing but the fact is that there’s no science that would actually prove what he’s saying is true we can show you overwhelming science and data as a matter of fact you’d have to live another five lives just to see the science on plant-based nutrition and how it prevents aging and disease I mean it’s that simple we go to bed reading science as we will tonight get up reading science and we touch a fraction of a fraction of one percent probably of what’s coming up some people are sloppy in their science yeah and some people are just frankly dishonest yeah you’re right

and I don’t know call a spade a spade if you look at the book and you may he makes this claim and he has a reference and a sign of aggression that supports that claim and you say oh must be some scientific reference it’s claim doesn’t really sound like it’s really right but if it’s a sign of the reference you pull out the sign of reference you read the article it didn’t support the claim not to step in one place in the book it happens over and over again and almost every page of the book he’s he’s dishonest he’s making up stories and he’s concocting a program he’s deterrent determined how to get rich on by selling something that’s gonna solve the problem that he created to begin with and faked

well I’ve sold 68 million copies on the Internet is that true I have no idea this is one of the most he’s selling these supplements that will fix the problem with the left hands and the food that he invented is the problem that’s always suspect you know but but but if you read the book with scrutiny you will recognize that there that he’s distorted the data from the side of literature and forced to falsely support the claims he made in the book they’re just plain wrong

you can always do what I like to call the acid test and the acid test to me for this book or the claims in this book would be what do the healthiest longest live people on the planet do the only thing that they all do in terms of food choices is every single blue zone consumes legumes legumes are the most concentrated source of lectins if lectins were poison they probably wouldn’t be healthy people in the world

I never thought of that you know it’s just it’s at the common sense and and the other thing is almost all the studies showing negative health consequences of lectins are on animals eating raw legumes so raw legumes and and and also we need to understand there are there are lectins that are quite dangerous and there are lectins that are now being used to make cancer as a cancer therapy that are actually powerful yeah we covered from every disease in the world oh yeah they all cleared all their diseases up I mean claims adjustor I had that track record you know

well and if you look at if you look at these you know the studies on humans the only Studies on humans showing negative consequences of say red kidney beans or whatever it is is when people were served the kidney beans that weren’t cooked properly they were cooked for 15 minutes they were still hard and you get you get a horrible food poisoning like reaction when you eat large legumes that aren’t cooked properly small legumes like lentils and mung beans you can sprout and safely consume and the lectins in those products are less toxic than the lectins in the large legume so I mean humans don’t eat raw large legumes we cook them first if we’re eating them so it’s they’ve blown the whole lectin thing far out of proportion and they’re using research that is research that’s not pertinent to what they’re saying to back their claim

it’s a part of that story that’s interesting excuse part of the story that’s it I just want to throw this in then Joel take lectins are actually part of this incredible system that nature created to protect the seed that literally seeds were here on plants millions hundreds and hundreds of millions of years before we showed up and literally every seed has a natural pesticide on it this isn’t man-made pesticide natural pesticide so that that species of plants would never perish so the bugs would never eat the last one because it gets sick and the animals would never eat the last one because they’d get sick and it’s actually an integral part the lectin of this and that’s why we’re able to now use it as a neurotoxin reversal with cancers and other things

some people that don’t react negatively to certain foods including beans and lectins and there’s and whatever we’re saying are generalizing there are still individuals that require dietary modification to meet their individual needs that were they’re particularly sensitive to certain foods or food groups so it doesn’t mean we’re saying beans or the perfect food for everybody there’s always exceptions to every rule you better not say that Mexico