The 5 Foods You MUST AVOID & Healthy Alternatives! | Dr. Steven Gundry

Dr. Gundry shares the 5 foods you MUST avoid at all costs on a lectin-free diet. You may be missing out on some of these lectin bombs while on your health journey, but the good news is that there are alternatives to just about every lectin-rich food. In today’s episode, Dr. Gundry shares what these are so you can stay satisfied while living your healthiest life.
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[rayjack]

1. Avoid Peanut butter (bean not a nut), cashew butter, sunflower seed butter
Alternative – walnut, halzelnut, tahini, sesame seed, pistachio butter, peeled almond butter
Or add couple drops of coconut aminos to get peanutier taste
2. Avoid Regular or diet soda
Alternative healthy soda recipe – Pellegrino or any sparkling water + 2 tbsp aged balsamic vinegar + squeeze fresh lime (warning - some balsamic vinegar has sugar)
3. Avoid rice + pasta, loaded with lectin. Whole grains worse than regular grains. Grains and starch turn into sugar in your body.
Rice Alternative – millet, sorghum not the sweetener but the grain, cauliflower rice, konjac based rice.
Pasta Alternative – shirataki noodles, konjac noodles, Big Green millet noodles, Cassava pastas, sorghum spaghetti
4. Greek yogurt – allowed the water to drip out so protein content is higher but cow’s milk yogurt sold in USA is made from casein A1 producing cows. Casein A1 is a harmful protein that can damage your gut.
Alternative – goat, sheep yogurt, Buffalo milk yogurt or coconut yogurt. Make sure it’s unsweetened. Add your own vanilla extract
5. Beans. Lectins can be reduced by pressure cooker. Or use Eden or Jovial brand. They come in non-BPA containers. Jovial in glass containers. These brands pressure cook it ahead of time.
NON-Bean Alternative – PINE NUTS have healthy fats and help you lose weight. If you soak pine nuts in water or chicken stock, they get a texture similar to beans. Eg. Use Pine nuts in chili
(oh doc, pine nuts 500g bag at Costco $45 Jan 2023, more than doubled in price from Sept 2021 ($21)

[Shelbymaldita]

My grandma lived to be almost 91 years old no diabetes or hypertension active until she died of pneumonia. She ate rice, coffee and pan de sal almost every day.

[Earwaxfire]

Two things to consider: (1) Almonds are very high in oxalates, which are toxic. (2) Read the paper "Review of the potential health impact of β-casomorphins and related peptides" published by the European food safety authority. They suggest that A1 caseins are not considered unhealthy to humans.

[russrasmussen]

Eat organic peanut butter on celery almost everyday don't see a problem 62 and completely healthy

[captainamericaamerica]

MY GREAT GRANNY HAS PEANUT BUTTER FOR THE LAST 104 YEARS!! AND SHE'S ALWAYS BEEN SUPER HEALTHY.

[jameseddy]

Doc I didn't any further than peanut butter. I am sure you are right but I only eat a couple of tablespoons once or twice a week. I agree that breakfast cereal every day is death. But you have to put your recommendations in perspective.

[DollyDD]

I was blown away when I heard Don Colbert talk about his wife giving up tomatoes, and her arthritis in hands (i believe) disappeared.

[virginiasouthas]

I looked into Cassava flour pasta. But I read on the box that the pasta may contain lead. Apparently, the cassava flour is made from a root that absorbs lead from the ground. That's not to say all soil has lead in it but for me it wasn't worth the risk. Pasta made from Konjac flour is great. I believe the company is called Livina.

[jenniraisovna]

What are the books you suggest to read on this particular topic with evidence based research and analysis?

[tommyfeinstoff]

If beans are bad how does the diet of the blue zone centenarias work?

[acc.]

Ceylon cinnamon is a nice yogurt flavor

[parisaparis]

Beans not good, yogurt not good, meat not good, rice and grains not good, fish has mercury and sugar of course out of the question. Then what should we eat 😂😂😂

[SuperJellicoe]

I was in hospital for blood clots 12 years ago and the doctor caring for me had me on a 'healthy' diet for the 14 days under his care. Plain Cheerios was one of his choices. I actually began to like them and after reading the label of contents, I was surprised to find that the Cheerios only had 110 cal. per 3/4 of a cup of ceral. This began my search for other cerials with the same or near calorie count. From then on, I have also tried to teach my wife and others about watching the calorie count. Everything that I see in the grocery store, sells best with sugar on it! I get annoyed with the crap that is sold as healthy but only if it has sugar on it ot in it!

[jasminapiskulic]

Great input! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and please keep it coming! I'm kind of wondering, wouldn't it be possible to get rid of lectins in peanuts by pressure cooking them? Wouldn't it be a great if it worked?

[FahlstromJohn]

goat milk kefir at whole foods store - yummy with a couple of blackberries; I add ground flax seed

[sgib]

Zevia soda is made with stevia extract, and has no artificial colors or flavor. All the flavors are clear, including cola. It doesn't taste the same as regular sodas, but it works for me....and I can have one without craving more sweet things or food.

[Boyeaton]

Peanut butter was the thing that destroyed me. I ate 7 kilo (I ordered 12 kilo gave the other away). I ended up with leaky gut, candida and ultimately arthritis. The only joint I didn't have it was in my jaw. I was a complete mess for about 2 years but with the will to get better (naturally), I did. It was a long hard struggle. I lost so much muscle mass because of the foods I couldn't eat but now I eat whatever I want although I eat healthily anyway (LCHF)

[NealIRC]

Steven Gundry proposed a lectin-free diet in his book The Plant Paradox (2017). It excludes a large range of commonplace foods including whole grains, legumes, and most fruit, as well as the nightshade vegetables: tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, bell peppers, and chili peppers.[22][23] Gundry's claims about lectins are considered pseudoscience. His book cites studies that have nothing to do with lectins, and some that show—contrary to his own recommendations—that avoiding the whole grains wheat, barley, and rye will allow increase of harmful bacteria while diminishing helpful bacteria.[24][25][26]

[patrickreilly]

In the 1960-70s we would buy 25lbs bags of unpeeled pine nuts from the Native Paiutes in Bishop/Mammoth area. I think $3.00 a bag. As kids they were fun and a pain to shell. Hard to eat alot. Now at TJ's they're very expensive for just 8oz's.

[davidwayne]

I've quit peanut butter long ago and don't miss it. NEVER did diet sodas (I worked for Coke for years and knew better!!!) i love Rice wtih some things- but don't do much of it any more -- maybe once or twice a year.. pasta is a big no no.. Never do Greek yogurt or yogurt at all, Don't do a lot of beans-- the last year I've done CARNIVORE- and felt great at first- but now the pains and stuff I lost are BACK with a vengance- and I'm sick of MEAT... can't eat anything any more without breathing issues- pains, and more.. SO-- screw it- I'm 66 and won't be around that much longer anyway- so from now on- I eat what i want- IN MODERATION-- and if it kills me at least i'll go happy. Sick of DIETS, and all the KNOW IT NOTHINGS telling me what is or not good for me. BESIDES for every one that says it's BAD there are more that say it's NOT regardless of what it concerns.... I don't believe any of it any more-- and I was long told DON"T take advice from someone wanting to push a bunch of their special powders and pills on you..