Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Dr. Gundry podcast, the weekly podcast where Dr. G gives you the tools you need to boost your health and live your healthiest life.
Dr. Gundry (00:13):
Did you know that almost all people, even those in sunny climates, don’t get enough vitamin D? And it turns out vitamin D is essential for longevity. So I’m here to help you live your longest life by sharing my top tips for increasing your vitamin D intake and know it’s almost impossible to overdo it. Plus learn how to further extend your lifespan by minimizing stress through food. And I also reveal how to optimize your diet by kicking ketogenic myths to the curb. Stay tuned. This is going to be one you won’t want to miss.
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The best way to optimize your vitamin D. Well, interestingly enough, it’s been shown that cultures that get adequate sun exposure tend to live longer. In fact, four out of the five blue zones are actually in high sun exposure areas, including my former blue zone, Loma Linda, California. But Okinawa is actually in the subtropical region of Japan, but Okinawa in winters tend to be actually kind of dark and rainy and cloudy, so they are probably the exception to the blue zones, enjoying great sunlight. Well, it’s important to get vitamin D levels adequate. Now you can get adequate vitamin D levels with sun exposure. In fact, very famous professor from Boston University, Dr. [inaudible 00:03:36], who is a dermatologist, became notorious a number of years ago by recommending that people spend 15 to 20 minutes a day exposing themselves to sunlight. And I won’t go into all the mischief he got into by saying that, but he’s subsequently been proven correct that sunlight exposure is very important.
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Now, when you expose your skin to sunlight, you will make the active form of vitamin D, which is vitamin D3. And that’s important because the good news is swallow the same. Vitamin D3 is the supplement without having to expose yourself to the sun. Vitamin D is a critical vitamin. It’s actually a hormone more than a vitamin that is critical for our immune system functioning. It’s critical for our brain functioning. In fact, depression has been linked to low levels of vitamin D. It’s incredibly important during pregnancy. A study out of South Carolina reported that gestational age was influenced by a mother’s vitamin D status, and that infants that were born prematurely were in moms who were vitamin D deficient. So if you’re thinking about getting pregnant, if you’re pregnant, make sure you’re getting adequate amounts of vitamin D, and we’ll talk about that in a moment.
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Vitamin D deficiency also increases the risk for muscle weakness and frailty. Vitamin D is essential to actually keep our gut wall intact. There’s very fascinating studies that vitamin D promotes stem cell proliferation in the wall of our gut. And if you’ve been following the excitement about stem cell research, you know that having activated stem cells is probably a pretty good idea. We also know that people who have the highest levels of vitamin D tend to live the longest, not only live the longest, but live the healthiest as they age. So a lot of good reasons to keep our vitamin D levels high. Now, there’s a fallacy out there that because vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin, that you have to eat fat when you swallow vitamin D to absorb it. And in fact, Professor [inaudible 00:06:09] in Boston showed in human experiments that there’s no need to have fat in your diet to absorb vitamin D.
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In fact, you can actually find powdered vitamin D capsules with no fat, and they’re perfectly acceptable, although most vitamin D capsules are in a fat capsule. But the point is, you do not have to eat a fatty meal. You don’t have to have an avocado when you swallow your vitamin D capsule to make it absorbable. Yes, it is a fat soluble vitamin, but that doesn’t mean you will not absorb it without having fat in your diet. It’s one of the great vitamin D miss. All right, how do you know if you’re getting enough vitamin D? Well, sun exposure is one way of basically assuming you are getting a baseline level, but it takes a significant amount of sun exposure to get an adequate level. Most people can achieve a vitamin D level of 50 to 60 nanograms for dust litter with about an hour of sun exposure per day.
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But remember, that’s 365 days a year. And I can guarantee you most people aren’t getting that much sun exposure unless you are Joseph [inaudible 00:07:35]. On the other hand, many people unfortunately don’t have the right vitamin D receptors on their cells so that even some people who get a lot of sun exposure don’t have adequate levels of vitamin D. So first of all, get your vitamin D level measure. It’s a simple test, it’s cheap. Any doctor can order it for you. Now, the federal government’s levels are incredibly low. They say that 30 is normal and that only in the twenties are you deficient. In my practice, I want people to have vitamin D levels around a hundred to 150. If you have a Quest Lab or a Cleveland Clinic Heart Lab, they will tell you that a normal vitamin D level is up to 150. The University of California San Diego has done extensive research in vitamin D levels in humans, and they have not found vitamin toxicity up to people taking 40,000 international units of vitamin D3 a day, 40,000 a day.
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And that they’ve calculated that the average American should be taking 9,600 international units a day of vitamin D3 to have an adequate level. That’s a lot of vitamin D. Now, I think bare minimum, you should be taking 5,000 international units of vitamin D. All my patients during the COVID epidemic, I doubled their vitamin D3 levels. There are now 19, actually, there was a new one last week out of Israel that show the higher your vitamin D level, the safer you are from COVID. And if you catch COVID, it will be a mild illness. And that’s certainly my experience in my two clinics. Interestingly enough, there was a recent study published saying that vitamin D has no effect on preventing colds, flu, or COVID. Unfortunately, that study looked at the recommended dose of vitamin D, which is only 400 to 800 international units of vitamin D.
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And of course, at that level it’s not going to have any effect because that level, I’ve never seen anyone achieve a normal vitamin D level taking the recommended daily dose of vitamin D. So do yourself a favor. Boost your vitamin D. Now when you’re taking higher doses of vitamin D, I highly recommend that you take vitamin K2. Vitamin K2 escorts calcium out of your blood vessels and into your bones, where of course you’d want it. And it really assists vitamin D in bringing calcium where it belongs, which is in your bones and you don’t need much vitamin K2. A hundred micrograms of vitamin K2 is really all you need for adequate levels of vitamin K2. A lot of times you can find a combo pill with vitamin D3 and K2, and that’s an easy way to get it.
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How to get more vitamin D other than a supplement? It’s actually really hard to do. Mushrooms are an interesting source of vitamin D, but they’re not adequate enough to get enough vitamin D in your life. But don’t forget, mushrooms have many other beneficial effects than just vitamin D. Last but not least on vitamin D, I have yet to see vitamin D toxicity. Can it exist? I suppose it can. There are reports of people taking massive amounts of vitamin D, a million international units a day developing kidney failure or kidney stones. I’ve seen a couple of women and I do emphasize a couple of women who think, and I believe them that they get more palpitations when their vitamin D levels go up and when they back off on vitamin D, they palpitations get better.
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So hey, if that’s your experience, trust your experience, and even if your vitamin D level is normal or in the range that I want it and you are getting palpitations and you’re pretty sure it’s your vitamin D, please experiment. Drop it out for a few days, see if it goes away. But in general, I really have not seen vitamin toxicity and I’ve been measuring people’s vitamin D levels for 25 years now and you would think I would’ve seen it if it could happen. And as many of you know, I’ll use a lot of vitamin D in my autoimmune patients. Get some vitamin D in your life. Listen to the University of California San Diego. Most of us ought to have pretty close to 10,000 international units a day for good health.
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It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of supporting your gut health as the key to vitality and longevity. And it’s also no secret. I’m a huge fan of a special strain of good gut buddies. I’m talking about Pendulum’s Akkermansia probiotics to be specific. The reason I can’t stop talking about these innovative probiotics is because they are the only way to introduce Akkermansia muciniphila, a powerful lectin blocking mucus producing good bacteria into our bodies since you absolutely can’t get it from food. You see, scientists have been trying for decades to capture this good gut bacteria as a stable supplement, but no one could figure out how to populate the gut lining with Akkermansia in pill form until now. Pendulum is the first and only company to offer probiotics containing the Akkermansia muciniphila bacterial strain in a standalone probiotic, GI repair, or in pendulum glucose control, has made a huge difference in my overall digestive health and even immune health as well as my patients I’ve prescribed it to.
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Foods that surprisingly help reduce stress. All right, stress is something we all deal with. And when it comes to stress management strategies, you probably heard it all, from meditation to exercise to yoga to journaling and doing more of what you love. But I’m not going to talk about any of that today. Today, I’m going to share a stress management strategy that very few people know about taking care of your gut microbiome. Now, your gut microbiome is really the largest important organ in your body that finally is getting the love and attention it requires. For years, we literally didn’t know that the gut microbiome existed, number one. Number two, we didn’t know that there was such a thing as the gut brain connection. And number three, we didn’t know that a lot of our food choices and the way our food is prepared and treated was actually negatively impacting our gut microbiome function.
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So I wanted to take you step by step where we can maximize what’s going on with our gut microbiome. All right, what is the gut brain connection? Well, we’ve expanded that. We’ve known for years that the gut makes neurochemicals, important neurotransmitters that affect mood. We’ve known that for years. But the revelation of the gut microbiome is the great amount of these neurotransmitters, feel good hormones like serotonin are actually manufactured by the gut microbiome and then absorbed through our gut wall and transmitted to our brain. We also know that there’s a whole host of other neurotransmitters that are called gasomessengers or gasotransmitters that are manufactured by the gut microbiome that impact our anxiety, our depression, and that most of the things that are anti-depressants that circulate in our bloodstream and antianxiety agents we now realize are coming from the gut microbiome itself as a messaging system.
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So imagine if your gut microbiome is all out of whack, that you got a lot of gang members in there and not a lot of gut buddies. It’s no wonder that we could have increased anxiety and depression just because the messages have become changed from, if you will, aggressive messages from calming messages. So getting that balance in check is incredibly important in our stressful lifestyle. Now, the other interesting thing, it goes both ways. Not only can leaky gut, porosity of the gut, cause actual bacteria to get into us, and quite frankly if we’re under attack by bacteria, your body takes that as one of the most stressful events that it can possibly deal with. Imagine that that is happening 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and you get an idea of how underlying stressful leaky gut is.
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The other thing that’s important to realize is incredibly life changing stressful events can have the effect of causing leaky gut in and of itself. I have a number of patients with leaky gut and autoimmune diseases who can literally trace the day that their problem started may have been a sudden loss of a loved one. It could have been a divorce, it could have been a job that was lost or any of those events. I’ve even seen it in supreme athletes who have had incredibly challenging athletic contests, which caused their leaky gut to start in the first place and then went on to have multiple episodes of depression and anxiety. And so don’t discount the anxiety and depression that you’re hearing from athletes, particularly at the highest levels of athletic competition, that this may in fact have been the stress causing the leaky gut that started this in the first place. The other thing that’s fascinating that I’ve alluded to before, but it’s well worth mentioning again. We’ve known for a number of years now that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is capable of killing gut bacteria.
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It was actually patented as an antibiotic. It interrupts a hilariously sounding pathway in plants and bacteria called the shikimate pathway. Now, not all bacteria use the shikimate pathway, but new research has uncovered that bacteria that make these important neuroactive compounds like the anti-stress hormones, serotonin, take Tryptophan and its precursors which are present in many of the foods we eat who hasn’t gone to sleep after a big turkey dinner. And it was because of the Tryptophan in the turkey making you sleepy because of serotonin and GABA production. But interestingly, new research shows that glyphosate attacks those bacteria and prevents them because of blocking the shikimate pathway from taking the precursors for serotonin and other neurotransmitters and making the final product. The sad thing is you could have a Tryptophan rich diet and you could have turkey every day, and yet you won’t get the benefit because the glyphosate has eliminated the middle man converting this into the active compound.
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And let’s remember, the glyphosate has only been around for about 40 years and glyphosate is now present in almost every food that we eat. And it’s another reason I urge you whenever possible to stay away from grain products which have been sprayed with glyphosate. And if you have to eat organic vegetables and organic fruits because of the presence of glyphosate. Same goes for our wines. Most wines in America contained glyphosate because the fields have been sprayed with it between the vines. Look for organic or biodynamic wines and you’ll be much safer. So there’s a whole host of reasons that we should pay our attention to our gut rather than to external factors that are making us miserable. Okay, so what does food have to do with all of this? Well, for starters, we’re eliminating lectin containing foods, which are a major cause of leaky gut in the first place is a great place to start.
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And those are the grains in the pseudo grains. Following lectin-free diet is the number one thing I use in my clinics to repair a leaky gut. Now, when foods support friendly bacteria, you are then going to have all these friendly neurotransmitter compounds made. So feed your gut bacteria what they want. Those are fermented foods. Those are the cruciferous vegetables. Those are inulin containing vegetables like asparagus, like garlic, like the radicchio, the Italian red lettuce that you now see in the stores, which is not a lettuce, frisee, chicory, okra. Try my okra recipe that’s baked in the oven. You’ll never go back. Intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting changes our gut bacteria for the better. So meal skipping is another really easy way to alter our gut bacteria. Okay, finally, what about supplements for stress? Well, certain supplements can be very useful when it comes to reducing stress, but it’s kind of like taking a Tylenol for a headache.
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Instead, we really need to spend our time fixing the root issue. And the root issue is in our gut. Still, if you do want to try a supplement, try Ashwaganda or Kava or 5-HTP, which is the precursor for making serotonin in our gut. And if you’d like to know more about this topic, watch episode 81 on the Dr. Gundry podcast where I chat about this issue with Dr. Amon, one of America’s leading psychiatrist and who’s really come around to be interested in the role of the microbiome on mental health. Last but not least, I want to mention that occasional stress is perfectly normal. However, if your stress levels seem to be taking a toll on your day to day life, I strongly encourage you to consult a mental health professional. There’s absolutely no shame in getting help.
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There’s a myth that saturated fat is good for you. Most of the folks in the paleo and keto communities think that the more saturated fat that you eat, the better. In fact, this was first posited as the cause of heart disease back in the 1950s by a very famous nutrition researcher from the University of Minnesota by the name of Ancel Keys. He published a very famous study called The Seven Countries Study that purported that animal fat, the more saturated fat the people ate, the higher their risk of heart disease. Now, he presented his findings to the World Health Organization and the World Health Organization believed what he said. And so the low fat movement came about. Now, I’ve looked at Ancel Keys, all of his studies. I looked at him over and over again. And interestingly enough, Ancel Keys is tied for the longest living nutritionist in on record. And Ancel Keys, I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing his housekeeper ate huge amounts of olive oil.
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Now, olive oil is not a saturated fat, but what happened with Ancel Keys was people took his data and they thought he was demonizing fat. He wasn’t at all. He was demonizing animal saturated fat. So what I’ve looked at Ancel Key’s data and my own data in that animal fats are associated with animal protein, and it was actually the animal protein that was the big mischief maker in the animal fat, the saturated fat hypothesis. Now, so having said that, the more olive oil that I can get into you, the better your longevity and the better your brain health. And I’ve got a lot of tricks in the longevity paradox to tell you how to use olive oil or the polyphenols in olive oil to maximize your brain health and your lifespan. The idea that you should be cramming down the bacon or the sausages or the really marbled meat in a paleo or a ketogenic diet is quite frankly detrimental long term.
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It turns out that animal protein, and it doesn’t matter if the animal’s a fish, it doesn’t matter if the animal’s an egg, it doesn’t matter if it’s cheese, animal proteins absolutely cause you to age quicker. And absolutely in the case of beef, lamb and pork increase your risk of developing cancers. One of the interesting things about the blue zones, and I’m actually the only nutritionist who has actually spent most of their career living in a blue zone, and that’s Loma Linda, California. And I can tell you that the unifying principles of the blue zones, in other words, what their diets all share, is not the common things that you’re told about. All the blue zones do not eat whole grains. All the blue zones do not eat beans. That’s a myth. In fact, that is not a unifying feature of the blue zones. And as I talk about in the Longevity paradox, the whole grains that some of the blue zones eat and the beans that some of the blue zones eat are actually a negative part of their diet that’s overcome by other very positive parts of their diet, including generous use of olive oil in three of the blue zones.
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But the unifying feature of the blue zones, which was common to Loma Linda, it’s common to Sardinia, it’s common to Crete, it’s common to Acciaroli, it’s common to [inaudible 00:32:02] is very, very little animal protein. That’s actually the uniting factor. And as I talk about in the longevity paradox, one of my colleagues, Gary Frazier from Loma Linda, has shown that the vegan adventists are actually the longest lived of all of the long lived adventists. And again, the unifying feature of all the blue zones is not the grains and beans. It’s actually limited animal protein. Does that mean you have to give it up? No. In fact, I’m going to give you a bunch of tricks in the book on how to have your cake and eat it too, in this case, how to have your meat and eat it too.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Are you able to recommend the ketogenic diet plant based and avoiding because usually that’s good [inaudible 00:32:57]?
Dr. Gundry (32:57):
Yeah, I think that’s the major mistake that people associate with a ketogenic diet or a paleo diet. These are all variations of basically the Atkins diet. And people think that a high protein diet is avoiding carbohydrates and keeping the fat that’s associated with animal protein is a ketogenic diet. And I measure ketones in all of my patients. And the vast majority of patients that I see who say they’re on a ketogenic diet, in fact aren’t because they’re eating primarily a heavy protein diet. And this was actually one of the mistakes that Dr. Atkins made. And I know because my original book, Dr. Gundry’s Diet Evolution was done by Random House who had done all the Atkins diets and all the South Beach diet books. And Dr. Atkins didn’t know that we have no real storage system for protein, we need it for wear and repair, but that’s about it.
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So we don’t waste energy. So we convert protein into sugar, gluconeogenesis and he actually died of fat man. And so many people in the ketogenic community don’t know that protein will turn into sugar. So to get back to your question, I basically tell my patients that I want them to become a gorilla who lives in Italy. Now you have to think about that for a second. Gorillas only eat leaves and twigs. And why I want them to live in Italy, because I want them to consume a liter of olive oil per week. And that’s a huge amount of olive oil. It’s about 12 to 14 tablespoons a day. But there’s a very interesting Spanish study of 65 year old people who were followed for four years. And I’ll briefly summarize it. One group had to have a leader of olive oil per week for four years and have a Mediterranean diet.
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A second group ate a low fat Mediterranean diet. And then the original study was to look at memory, and I’ll forget about that, but the women in the olive oil group had a 67% less incidence of breast cancer over that time period than the women in the low fat Mediterranean diet. So if you eat a liter of olive oil per week and avoid animal proteins, you’re basically on about an 80% fat diet. And the carbohydrates that you’re eating are basically leaves as a mechanism to get olive oil into your mouth. So that’s what I do with my patients. Now, I’m not successful entirely. A lot of people will not give up animal protein, but the more I can diminish animal protein, the more successful I am with this program. And among other things, what I want to do is get the gut bacteria participating in educating the immune system most of the low carb diets, whether they’re a paleo diet, an Atkins diet, a keto diet work, because they’re eliminating most of the lectin containing foods which are primarily in the vegetables and the grains and the beans that we’re eliminating in those diets.
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So there wasn’t anything miraculous about the high protein or the high fat diet. It was actually what was miraculous was the lectin elimination that they didn’t talk about because they actually didn’t know that that’s why they worked. In fact, when my first book, Dr. Gundry’s Diet Evolution was bought by Random House 11 years ago now, they had done all the Atkins diets and all the South Beach diets, and I had figured out what was wrong with those diets. And one of the things that was common in both those diets is you eliminated grains and beans from phase one. After phase one, you reintroduced grains and beans and invariably people gained weight. So the answer was, well, go back to phase one where you eliminate grains and beans and it didn’t click in any of the editor’s minds that the reason you had to go back to phase one was not to be low carb again, but to get rid of the lectin containing foods that were the grains and beans. So that was one of the observations that I made that such a successful book.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
A lot of people that are doing the ketogenic diet actually think all fat’s the same. They don’t really decipher really good fats from bad fats a lot of time. And so really the reason why I wrote this book was to really dive deep and try to understand is there a difference between, let’s say, the fat in an avocado or the fat in wild seafood and let’s say the fats in bacon are butter. And it turns out there is a big difference. And so really that’s what the book is all about, trying to pick the healthiest foods that provide the fats to actually make you a better fat burning machine.
Dr. Gundry (38:46):
So you mean there is a difference, I shouldn’t eat a stick of butter every day if I’m on a ketogenic diet. That’s not good for me?
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Correct. I mean, and I’m honestly an offender of that. A few years ago, I was probably putting too much heavy cream in my coffee and I started gaining weight. And so that’s when I realized I need to really research the different types of fats to see how they metabolize in your own body. So just take for example, omega-3 fats, they actually increase your fat burning genes in the liver. So if you and I are sitting here and we’re consuming three or four grams of omega-3s from let’s say fish oil or we’re getting it from wild seafood, we are literally, our beta oxidation, our fat burning in the liver is 20% higher, and if we’re exercising our beta oxidation in our liver or our fat burning goes up by 30% simply by consuming more omega-3. And so it’s almost like if you swap out and replace butter with omega-3s, it’s almost like swapping out a V4 engine for a V8 engine. You are literally more efficient and better at burning fat. And so that’s just one key that really super fuel dives into.
Jillian Jalali (40:01):
Hi, this is Jillian. Those of us here at Court Junkie have a new podcast called Civil where we dive into fascinating civil cases like in the case of a principal who took it upon himself to hypnotize students as a hobby, then many of those students ended up dead or when a man was publicly and wrongfully accused of being the I10 freeway shooter. We’ll also be covering popular civil cases you’ve likely heard of like OJ Simpson and Alex Jones versus the parents of Sandy Hook.
Speaker 6 (40:31):
This is Agent AC, I have OJ in the car.
Alex Jones (40:34):
Sandy Hook. It’s got inside job written all over.
Jillian Jalali (40:39):
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Dr. Gundry (41:03):
Now, for the question of the week, this comes from Brian John on Instagram. “I have experienced early hearing loss in my late forties. The doctors have no explanation why this is happening. I have no family members with early hearing loss. Will a lectin-free diet help slow or reverse hearing loss? Have you seen any of your patients improve their hearing on your program?” Brian, that is a great question. And yes, I have seen hearing improve. Interestingly, lectins target nerve synapses, this was actually their original means of defense against insects. They paralyzed insects. And hearing is actually one way that lectins can interfere with your success as an animal as you’re finding out. So yes, please go on lectin-free diet and at the same time increase your polyphenol consumption and you know how to do that. Great question. It’s time for the review of the week.
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This comes from M3233 on Apple podcasts. She says, “My whole lifelong, since about the age of 10, I suffered from acute, recurrent arthritis autoimmune in nature. I’ve also had issues with joints around the age of 30. I developed all beginning MS symptoms as well. Dr. Gundry’s books and podcasts save my eyesight and my life. I’d be blind, incapacitated, and in a wheelchair, if not for him. You don’t have to lose your eyesight. Dr. Gundry diet works well for autoimmune conditions. It’s not easy to implement properly. At least it wasn’t for me in the beginning. But now I can’t think of anything differently. I can’t think of what my life would’ve been like had Dr. Gundry not made the decision to give up his surgical practice and embark on a journey of helping patients like me. I can’t fully express my gratitude to him. Thank you, Dr. Gundry. You’ve saved yet another person from losing their health in life. You’ve also saved the life of a mother and improved the life of a little boy on a spectrum, my son.”
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Well, thank you very much, M3233. This is why I do this. Not a day goes by that I don’t see someone with one or more autoimmune diseases that has been told. There is absolutely nothing you can do about it. I just saw a nurse and her doctor husband yesterday and lo and bold, she’s making the steps and her autoimmune conditions are reversing. So that’s why I do this. That’s why I see patients six days a week. That’s why I do this podcast and write the book so that people like you who may never meet me still have the benefit of my now over 20 years of experience in treating autoimmune condition. So thanks for writing. That’s why I do it. And you know, boy, I’m excited for you and I’m excited for the listeners to hear all about this. Thanks for tuning in to the Dr. Gundry podcast. You can also head over to my YouTube channel to find thousands of hours of tips for healthy living and wellness. No matter what platform you use to listen, remember to rate and review the podcast. Your review might just get featured on the show.
