The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain

by Steven R. Gundry

and Prilosec, and the biocide Roundup all change your gut flora and the mucous layer of your gut.

In my practice, I often see skinny people who cannot absorb nutrients no matter how much they eat.

Infant mortality has also dropped significantly, thanks to improvements in prenatal care and childbirth practices.

Liping Zhao, a Chinese holobiome researcher, puts it, “Eat right. Stay fit. Live long. Die quick.”

thirty-fifth.

Americans spend on average of $8300 per person annually on health care, but only $2200 for food. The Japanese spend $3300 and $3200 on health care and food, respectively.

whole grains and transglutaminase.

broad-spectrum antibiotics are capable of killing multiple strains of bacteria simultaneously.

Until recently, it was perfectly legal to give organic free-range chickens arsenic, producing a “healthy” pink blush.

NSAIDs damage the mucosal barrier in the small intestine and colon, allowing lectins, LPSs, and other foreign substances to pass through the intestinal wall, initiating a war within your body.

plastics, scented cosmetics, preservatives, and sunscreens, and other products as diverse as cash register receipts, along with dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE), which is a metabolite of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (aka DDT), the insecticide lindane, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).

A brief history is in order here. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) were created by inserting foreign genes into plants, with the objective of making the plant either produce more of its own insecticides (lectins) or produce resistance to Roundup. In theory, Roundup would kill the weeds around the crop, leaving the GMO plant protected. Sounds logical.

Now, if you naïvely think that Roundup is washed off the harvested grains before they are processed, I’ve got some oceanfront property here in Palm Springs to sell you. That glyphosate remains on the grains and beans and is fed to our livestock in feed lots and incorporated into their fat, meat, and milk, which you then eat or drink. Almost all grains and beans fed to industrial farm animals are also GMO. These altered genes have been found not only in the meats of these animals, but also in the milk of nursing mothers and the umbilical cord blood of their infants! But, worse, since Roundup is used to harvest almost all non-GMO grains and beans as well, you consume it directly via these “healthy” foods, because the outer part of the grain, once routinely stripped away in processing, is now left on for “whole-grain goodness.”37 Roundup is then delivered into your gut where it does its real damage.

Lectins weren’t reaching the brain as readily, and therefore weren’t able to cause as much harm. It also explains why Parkinson’s is more prevalent among vegetarians, as they consume more plants (and therefore more lectins). Remember, the plant is just doing its job: ridding the world of unwanted pests, including you!

Atkins

South Beach—often

Paleo

KETOGENIC

Neu5Ac,

vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF),

Neu5Gc.

Kitavans,

resistant starches.

pizza and chicken.

Every time you waver, every time you rationalize something about what you plan to eat, every time you hear a little voice in your head saying, “But this is healthy food,” stop and return immediately to Rule Number 1 (below).

RULE NUMBER 1:

RULE NUMBER 2:

RULE NUMBER 3:

zucchini, a tomato, a bell pepper, an eggplant, and a pickle are all fruits!

still green: bananas, mangoes, and papayas.

resistant starches,

avocado

RULE NUMBER 4:

“signature” C-4 carbon

Tyson,

aflatoxins,

gluten-free pizza is a fabulous lectin bomb, usually with a crust made of oat, corn, or rice flour, plus tomato sauce and cheese made from cows with the casein A-1 mutation.

hypothalamus.

Plant Paradox Program differs significantly from Paleo

PHASE 1: This three-day cleanse

PHASE 2:

two weeks,

six weeks,

eliminate

Eliminate

Minimize

Eliminate

small serving

Avoid

consume