Foods You MUST AVOID to Live Longer | Dr. Steven Gundry EP 557

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:12Up until 10 ,000 years ago, we lived primarily on the leaves of trees, and we ate tubers that grew in the ground, like a sweet potato. You were actually designed to eat them. 12 ,000 years ago, 10 ,000 years ago, we switched over to things that we had never eaten before, and those were the grains of grasses and beans. Now, the reason we'd never eaten them before is, number one, we didn't need to. There's never been a documentation of an ape eating grass or grains. Beans are so lethal. Beans are a plant baby, and we're not supposed to eat those. So... No beans. No beans. Zero beans. Unless you use a pressure...

0:57Pinto black beans. Pinto black. None of it. We shouldn't be eating it. Shouldn't be eating it. You weren't designed to eat it. You have no defense system against it. No matter how it's cooked. If you pressure cook it, it's fine. Put it in a pressure cooker. The modern pressure cooker is as easy as a rice cooker. Got it. It's one touch. It's not your grandmother's pressure cooker that blew up in the kitchen. So then it's okay to eat. Yeah. So you can pressure cook beans. How much of it can we eat? It doesn't matter once it's pressure cooked. Obviously everything in moderation, but I mean. No, if you pressure cook them, they're fine.

1:27It's all good. Okay. And we talk about how to do this in the plant paradox. Got it. but my personal feeling is the only purpose of eating a bean is to get olive oil into my mouth, and we can talk about that as we go along. So grains, for instance, everybody heard about gluten. Yes. All right, so gluten is a lectin, and again, a lectin is a plant's defense system. It's a protein that actually is designed to act like incoming guided missile attacks on the inside wall of our gut. And these things actually pry open the lining of our gut and actually break through the border. Really? Yeah, they really do.

2:10That's what causes eczema and causes breakouts. Yeah, exactly. Acne, brain fog, irritable bowel. This is actually all part of that process. So that brings us to the second kind of group of things we should need. All of us are not from the United States, America. We're actually from Europe, Asia, or Africa, every one of us. So even our Native Americans are actually not Native Americans. They're from Asia. None of us were exposed to an American plant until 500 years ago when Columbus started trade. Right. So getting to know a new plant, a new lectin in 500 years is speed dating in evolution. I just don't think it'll be done.

3:00For instance, the Italians refused to eat tomatoes for 200 years after their native son, Columbus, brought them back because they knew how dangerous they were. They were part of the deadly nightshade family. When they started eating them, they always peeled and de-seeded their tomatoes. Because the peels and the seeds actually have the vast majority of the lectins. For instance, peppers. Peppers are the same way. They're part of the nightshade family. You'll never open a glass jar of Italian bell peppers and see peels and seeds. Because they're gone. And the most striking thing is the Southwest American Indians always peel and de-seed their peppers before they eat them.

3:45The hatch chili roast will be happening in another month. And what do they do? They roast their chilies, peel the scarred off part, de-seed them, and then they eat them or they make them into chili powder. And, you know, you can prove this in your grocery store. Buy a can of green chilies, chopped green chilies, open it up. you won't see any peels and seeds because they're gone. So tomatoes and peppers, eggplant, potatoes. If you peel them and seed these things. You're safer, correct. But you can pressure cook them and they're fine. And they're okay. Yeah. Now, there's two American beans that everyone should stay away from.

4:23Peanuts are not a nut. They're a bean. God, they're so good, though. 94 % of human beings carry a preformed antibody against the peanut lectins. We can take rhesus monkeys, our cousins, give them peanut oil and they will develop atherosclerosis, heart disease. Really? If we take the lectin out of the peanut oil and then give them the peanut oil, they will not develop heart disease. So get almond butter instead. Yes. It's much safer. No peanut butter. No, stay away from it. You should eliminate it 100 % from your system. Absolutely. We can take, and this has been done, men, feed them peanuts, take their bowel movements, feed them to rats, and you will grow cancerous cells in the rat colon because they've been exposed to the peanut lectin.

5:16This will help me live longer, have a happier, healthier body. And then I won't have to operate on you, you know, when you have coronary disease. And you'll go, what? I eat so healthy, I'm having my peanut butter.

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