{"id":74026,"date":"2017-12-02T10:09:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T18:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=74026"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:00:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:00:57","slug":"74026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/74026","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Steven Gundry says plant-based diets are the problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you seen the clickbait<\/em><\/a> campaign that focuses on the research of Dr. Steven Gundry. It employs a slimy, photo-tile lure that asks you to turn up your speakers and then hawks a product or service disguised as a breakthrough discovery. These scams force the viewer to stay on the page. Typically, there is no indication of how long the video is, or any way to skip forward,<\/p>\n

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But often, it is hard to tell if a photo tile is news or clickbait. Big companies like Yahoo and Outbrain intermingle genuine news with marketing scams, teasers and outright fake news into an array of little photos at the end of every feature. This particular clickbait may be a story of a dogged counter-cultural researcher with a genuinely relevant finding. It could be newsworthy\u2026I\u2019m just not sure. Dr. Gundry clearly believes that our health is adversely affected by many of the plant based foods that we thought was healthy, because of a defense mechanism linked to lectin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n<\/a> Steven Gundry Food Pyramid

Passing judgement on Dr. Gundry\u2019s evolutionary claims and diet recommendations begs for independent clinical studies, or at least the analysis and commentary of scholars in nutrition, gastroenterology and evolution. But, like Robert Atkins and Dean Ornish, Dr. Gundry seems earnest in his research and motives. I don\u2019t think that he is selling anything other than his opinion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I found web sites and white papers that summarize his research and conclusions without a scammy video. If true, this would be an eye-opener\u2014completely unexpected! While his points fascinate, I don\u2019t have the tools to determine if this may be legit. This certainly merits vetting.<\/div>\n
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For example, Gundry claims that farmers have selectively reinforced a genetic mutation in cows, which appeared only two thousand years ago\u2014and that this has resulted in a lectin-like protein in milk called Casein A1. (Normal cows make Casein A2, a safe protein). Apparently, the only herds of \u201cnormal\u201d cows are on farms in southern Europe. Could this result in food poisoning for the rest of us? Dr. Gundry is pretty convincing that the answer could be \u201cYes\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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