Time stamped show notes:
[1:07] His journey
[6:24] Three things about health and diet that is cutting edge
[7:18] 90% of all the cells that make us are non-human
[7:27] 99% of the genetic material that are in us are not human genes
[7:43] Human genes are not numerous. The key to most things is whether a gene is turned off or on (epigenomics)
[8:02] Bacteria control much of what happens to us. We're condominium/home to bacteria. We need to keep their ‘home' in great shape to benefit us
[11:11] Figure out what your ‘bugs' want to eat
[12:03] Good bugs vs bad bugs
[13:17] Feel good hormones are manufactured by bacteria
[13:32] Bad bugs send messages to the brain so we eat the foods they like → simple sugars and saturated fats
[15:44] all the bacteria are female. We were inoculated by our mothers when they gave birth to us with her set of bacteria
[18:45] Skin is a good measurement of what you're feeding your microbium
[19:09] Raw food is a good diet, but is hard to keep up. You can spot a raw foodist by they skin → they glow
[20:48] Blood type diet
[24:17] Plants don't want to be eaten so they've worked out defense systems agaist their predators
[26:12] All plants have lectins (bad) the longer we have been eating a plant, as a species, the more our bodies have become accustomed/tolerant to those lectins. E are used to eating leaves, and roots (taro, jicama, yuca, etc.)
[27:20] Grains and beans contain lectins that we're not used to. These lectins are pretty nice. Rice is the lectin of the castor bean, a few molecules in rice will kill human beings by coagulating their blood
[28:42] Cooking and rinsing beans helps, but it doesn't remove all the lectins
[35:43] Get a pressure cooker
[39:19] Problem with most gluten free foods is that they are sugar delivering devices
[40:24] Look for resistant starches as next go to food
[44:35] Fats he recommends
[46:35] Act like an Italian, Greek or Spanish → bring olive oil to table and pour on thing
[46:56] Eat butter from France, italy or Switzerland
[47:18] Avocados are great for you
[47:35] You need to have oils to absorb nutrients in vegetables you eat
Three key points:
- Bad bugs send messages to the brain so we eat the foods they like → simple sugars and saturated fats
- Get a pressure cooker
- Look for resistant starches as next go to food
Resources mentioned:
Plant Paradox – book
Eden Foods Beans
Last Question:
Make companies produce the things you want to eat. If you want to contact him and set up a company to make these foods, please do.
Website: www.drgundry.com → easisest way to contact him