Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast where Dr. Steven Gundry shares his groundbreaking research from over 25 years of treating patients with diet and lifestyle changes alone. Dr. Gundry and other wellness experts offer inspiring stories, the latest scientific advancements and practical tips to empower you to take control of your health and live a long, happy life.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
As you know, there are some really great healthy foods at Costco, but there are healthy Costco foods that you need to avoid, and here’s what you want to buy instead. Today we’re walking the aisles of Costco to expose the health halo foods that sneak lectins, sugar, and industrial oils into your cart and what to grab instead so you can protect your gut, your waistline, and your energy. Now this is educational only. This is not medical advice, but here we go from the best of the not so healthy foods to the worst. First of all, bagged salads and kits. Now, here’s the trap. The greens may be fine, but the kit isn’t. The dressings are usually loaded with the wrong kind of seed oils and sugar. The toppings are usually croutons, which contain gluten tortilla strips, which contain corn, lectins, beans, which contain lectins and dried fruit, which no offense is full of sugar.
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So here’s some red flags to look for. If you see soy cotton seed oil, canola oil, sugar early on, the label croutons, tortilla strips, beans or soy, just put it back. Now remember, most bagged lettuces salads are not that great either. Most of these have been treated to avoid going bad quickly, and you don’t want things like fresh lettuce that don’t go bad. You actually want them to go bad. You should be eating them quickly. Now, there are some swaps. Get yourself organic arugula or spring mix. They’re readily available. And then mix up your own toppings with extra virgin olive oil and red wine vinegar or balsamic vinegar or apple cider vinegar. And then top your salad with avocados, olives, pistachios, walnut, goat, or sheep feta, or wild salmon. You’ll have your mix and eat it too. Now, number two, dried fruits. Here’s the trap.
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A handful is a sugar bomb. It’s concentrated fructose, often added with sugar or fructose. Now this drives fat production in the liver, number one, and it also feeds bad bacteria in your gut. Yeah, they taste fantastic. That’s the whole idea. Yeah, they’re incredibly convenient. Who wouldn’t want to munch on a dried papaya or dried mango? Please don’t. So what do you do? Well, Costco has a lot of great swamps. They carry whole fresh seasonal fruit. Now berries are the best organic, obviously, or fine freeze dried berries or frozen berries with no added sugar or oil for the occasional crunch. Now, Costco does sell pomegranate seeds in season, and in fact, now’s the season. So let them do the work for you. They also sell whole pomegranates. Now, getting the seeds out of pomegranates is fun and challenging, but I actually have a really easy device that pops all the seeds out of the pomegranates and it’s really fun to play with.
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Now, number three, hummus. I’m sorry. The trap is that chickpeas are lectin rich. They are a legume. Now, most store hummus isn’t pressure cooked. If you pressure cook chickpeas, they’re perfectly safe. And most hummus in the grocery store or Costco isn’t pressure cooked and it’s typically mixed with seed oils. There are some great swaps, avocado guacamole for a dipping option or make hummus at home with pressure cooked chickpeas. Number four, protein powders. Now here’s the trap. Many clean tubs hide way from a one dairy cows, soy, or pea isolates high in lectins, artificial sweeteners, gum and natural flavors. Now unfortunately, whey from a one cattle can aggravate sensitive guts. Unfortunately, there are papers that show that whey pro includes that funny sugar molecule new five gc, which aggravates arthritis, aggravates inflammation, and it’s in whey proteins. Now be careful with soy or pea proteins. These are lectin dense and the flavor systems and gums can absolutely disrupt your microbiome.
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Now, there are some red flags on the label. If you see whey protein or whey concentrate, if you see soy or pea protein, if you see esco pain, potassium, sucralose, maltodextrin, car, gums, or natural flavors, it’s probably not your Now are there Gundry friendly swaps? Now, honestly, I have no protein powder recommendation at Costco to buy. Sorry, why not pick up a jar of my Gundry MD Pro plant for great gut buddy support or just use a hemp based protein powder. Number five protein and granola bars. Now here’s the trap protein bars are basically candy bars with great sounding words that sound healthy. For instance, oats, I’m sorry, oats are a grain that are loaded with lectins and even the organic oats in this country have glyphosate and other weed killers and pesticides in them. Soy crisp, sadly, soy is a lectin date paste, that’s sugar folks.
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Chicory root fibers is actually a good thing, but it’s gonna be way down the list. Watch out for seed oils and other natural flavors. So the big red flags, oats, oats syrup, brown rice syrup that not only has lectins, but it’s sugar, soy protein, crisp protein blend. Look out for canola soy oil, vegetable oils. Look out for date paste listed first. Look out for long flavor systems. Now swaps. I personally like the unreal dark chocolate coconut bars. I think they are far better than a granola bar for a snack. Alright, this is gonna break your heart. Number six, rotisserie chicken at Costco. Now here’s the trap. It’s an attractive price. The cooking has been done for you, but most market birds come pre-season with starches, phosphates, flavor and answers, and sometimes sugars and gum. The skin soaks it all in. These chickens were all fed in inflammatory diet and most likely tons of antibiotics.
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Now what do you do for swaps? Just buy a plain hole chicken, ideally pasture raised elsewhere and roast it at home with extra virgin olive oil, lemon and herbs, it’s easy to roast a chicken at home, yogurts and dairy. Now here’s the trap. If you see the words Greek high protein or keto, it can still be a one’s cow’s milk with gums, kean, and sweeteners. Now, a one casein is a gut irritant for most of my patients. If you see a flavored cup of yogurt, that means it’s dessert, not yogurt. So the red flags that you should look for is milk from conventional cows, caran, pectin, gums, natural cane, sugar or fruit on the bottom. Now are there some swaps? Now go to a different store and buy plain goat or sheep yogurt, which is a 2K seed. There’s no gums, there’s no sugar. Just top it with cinnamon, chopped walnuts and a drizzle of allulose or monk fruit if you want.
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Costco does have a lot of great hard cheeses made from goat’s milk, sheet milk or buffalo milk. Please avoid any American cheese. Product number eight industrial animal fish proteins. Now here’s the trap. These proteins use feedlot beef, conventional pork and farm salmon to carry higher levels of omega six fats, residues, and often added phosphates in processed forms, for instance in sausages and deli meats. Now there are red flags to look for on the label. Color added vegetable oil added sodium phosphate, dextrose, that’s another word for sugar and solution injected. Now are there swamps? Yeah, there are 100% grass fed, grass finished beef. Be very, very careful with just the words grass fed. There is no federal standard to define grass fed. Legally, you could feed a cow grass for one day and then take it to a feedlot and feed it corn and soybeans the rest of its life and still label it grass fed.
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Got to see grass fed, grass finished. But as I said before, this still is loaded with a mischievous sugar molecule called New five gc. On the other hand, pasture raised chickens and eggs and wild caught seafood like sardines, mackerel, sockeye salmon, bison is new five ac. Now please choose plain unseasoned cuts and season them at home with extra virgin olive oil, herbs and mineral salt. Now how about some more traps that look healthy, oat and almond milks? Well, you can’t get milk out of an oat and you can’t get milk out of an almond. So what do you do? These are ground up with emulsifiers and seed oils and added sugar to give that milky taste. Now, I’m sad to tell you that oat milk raises the glycemic load and can be cross-contaminated. In fact, oats have a protein that cross react with gluten. So if you see gluten-free oats or gluten-free oat milk, do not believe it.
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I see the cross reaction to my patients all the time. So what can you do? Well, you can swap out unsweetened coconut milk. Well, how about plant-based meats? Sadly, this is an ultra processed food. They use soy and wheat isolates, which are lectin containing. They use seed oils, flavors, and sadly, they’re all contaminated with glyphosate. This is not a meat that you want to eat. Well, are there swaps for real food? Sure. Costco sells mushrooms. You can make a mushroom steak. They often sell whole portobello mushrooms. They’re easy to grill and they taste steak like. Now what about the healthy snack foods? Now, here are the ones that look the healthiest, but certainly aren’t the veggie chips and straws. The harvest snap pea, crisp, these are just another name for lectin load. Any product that says granola, I’ll say it again. Oats are made for fattening horses.
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Oats are glyphosate bombs. What about gummy fruits? Snacks? These are just sugar skinny popcorn. Popcorn is a lectin food. It’s mostly starch plus seed oils. Now veggie is a color, not a nutrient. So run away from these snacks. Now there is a swap. There are seaweed snacks that are olive oil based, or you can make kale chips baked at home with extra virgin olive oil kombucha. Now kombucha is a great probiotic, prebiotic, prebiotic food. But beware, most of the kombuchas at Costco are sweetened with large amounts of sugar to make them taste good. Every now and then I do see a low sugar kombucha at Costco and I buy it, but most of the time they don’t sell well. So most of the time Costco only stocks the really sugar one. Watch out for the sweetened tea drinks. Same problem here. Or look out for the no calorie tea drinks that have been sweetened with sucralose or other artificial sweeteners.
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Brown rice and whole grain. Everything is another buyer beware. Now whole grains carry lectins and spike glucose. So just because it sounds healthy, whole grain. Wow, that sounds great. This is a lectin balm and I see it all the time in my patients. Now are there swaps? Sure. Millet and sorghum have no lectins, cauliflower, rice or pressure cooked. Quinoa is an occasional good choice. Well, what about the nut section? Watch out for peanut butter, cashew butter, pumpkin seeds, peanuts or legumes with mold and lectin issues. Now, cashews are part of the poison ivy family and for many people very inflammatory. But there’s some great nuts that you can buy at Costco. The macadamia nuts, the walnuts, the pistachio nuts, or if you can find it, almond butter made from peeled almonds. What about the frozen smoothie mixes? I’m sorry, these are sugar bombs. Well, what about the jarred tomato sauces and salsa?
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Just remember that tomatoes are part of the nightshade family. The skins and seeds are the troublemakers. Combine that with sugar and seed oils and you’ve got trouble. Now what do you do? Well, you swap out pressure cooked tomato sauces or peeled seeded Italian varieties, or just make pesto with extra virgin olive oil. Speaking of pesto, Costco carries a fantastic pesto sauce, which is made from Italian basil, but buyer beware, about half of the year it’s made with extra virgin olive oil. The other half of the year it’s made with vegetable oils, obviously because of supply. So please read the back of the label if it’s made with extra virgin olive oil, buy it and freeze it in the refrigerator. But if it doesn’t say made with extra virgin olive oil, stay away from it. Alright, let’s go to the cleaning products in Costco. Now, in general, please stay clear of almost all cleaning supplies at Costco such as the detergents, the softeners, the cleansers.
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They’re full of endocrine disrupting chemicals, not to mention harmful fragrances. Now, once in a while you do see them carry a non-toxic brand like ECO. So in general, there are survival rules for shopping at Costco. If it has a health halo, flip it over. The ingredients matter much more than marketing. So there’s five nos, no added sugar, no grains, no seed oils, no a one dairy, no lectins unless pressure cooked, peeled or seeded. That’s the first stop at being a smart shopper at Costco. Second, a short list of ingredients always wins, and if you can’t read it or picture it growing, just leave it on the shelf. Now you don’t need a smaller cart. You need a smarter label. Build meals around real protein, polyphenol rich fats and low lectin plants. And your gut and your genes. Well, thank you. Everybody wants to know if you can actually find compliant items at big box stores, and the answer is yes.
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In fact, time goes by that people find me in Costco and grab me and say, is this okay? Is that okay? And oh my gosh, Dr. Gundry, your end Costco. Now what are you doing here? And the answer is you can actually find a lot of safe items, but also a lot of really good items for you in a big box store like Costco. So today I want to talk about the protein choices and the oil choices that you can find in Costco and what you should look for. So first of all, Costco has wild salmon. They’ll have it fresh in season and it will say wild Alaskan salmon. And one of the tip-offs is it’s usually a lot darker red color than farm raised salmon. And it will usually say wild, ignore the organic that is farmed by definition, they didn’t follow the fish around to see if they were eating organically and they were fed organic grains, corn and soybeans primarily.
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Number two. Most of the time Costco has frozen handy pieces of wild salmon. You have to kind of sort around and look because they’d be much happier selling you frozen Atlantic salmon. But stay away from that. Look for Alaskan salmon. Alaskan salmon by law has to be caught wild. That’s not true of Canadian salmon. Norwegian salmon. Scottish salmon look for Alaskan salmon and by the frozen pieces it’s really handy. Also, they have canned salmon and look again for canned wild salmon. So lots of options for salmon. What my wife and I do is we tend to wait for salmon season and then we buy several pieces of whole salmon and take it home, cut it up into pieces. We put it in Ziploc bags because as you’ve read in the new book, cut check Ziploc doesn’t have any phalates in the plastic. And then we have it, you know, the rest of the year.
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Next up, canned sardines. Costco often has really good canned sardines. Now canned sardines are full like salmon of Omega-3 fats, long chain Omega-3 fats, and they’re a great source of protein. But you’re really looking for the Omega-3 fats. And interestingly enough, you’re looking for them for the little bones in the fish, which are a great source of natural calcium, not the calcium bills you’re swallowing. Try to find them in water. They’re better for you in a lot of ways. But if all you can find is olive oil, make sure it says olive oil not packed in oil. Usually the ones that are packed in oil have soybean oil or cotton seed oil. And these are nasty short chain omega six fats that you really don’t want. So water, preferably second choice olive oil. And these brands appear and disappear in Costco. But in general, most of my patients are very pleased with the sardines that you can buy at Costco canned tuna.
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Now, canned tuna just for the record, usually comes from small tuna, not from shashimi grade tuna. They would not be that dumb. Small tuna are much lower, if you will, on the food chain. And they have not been acquiring heavy metals like mercury for a much longer period of time than shashimi grade tuna. So you’re really quite safe with canned tuna at Costco. In fact, some of the brands will say mercury free or low mercury, and you can trust that because again, most of these can T at Costco are small and grab yourself some cans of it. They often go on sale. You often have to buy, you know, six or 10, but that’s when you wanna buy ’em. Okay, over in the cheese area, Costco frequently has a number of goat cheeses. If cheeses are fermented, then you’re much safer in lowering the amount of a mischievous sugar molecule called New five gc.
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So you really wanna go past the fresh goat cheese logs, which are not fermented, and instead look for goat cheeses, feta cheeses that actually say the ingredient is goat, read the label. Unfortunately, in America, many feta cheeses, which should be goat or sheep, are actually made from cow’s milk. So just look for the words goat or sheep. Lastly, there are a number of sheep cheeses that are great for you. You can find Pecorino from Italy. You can find min chingo from Spain. And often there’s a sampler of sheep cheeses from Spain cut into small wedges. And it’s a great way to experience some of these fantastic fermented cheese from sheep and from goats. The prosciutto from Italy is a fermented food, and all the new five GC from Italian prosciutto is gone and it in almost every Costco, it’s already pre-sliced. It’s really easy to use and it’s a perfectly acceptable addition to your diet.
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The same way Italian Parmesan cheese, Parmesan re gano cheese is by far the cheapest you will find at Costco. And I actually buy our Italian Reggiano cheese Parmesan Reggiano at Costco. And it’s gotta say that it’s gotta say from Italy, beware of cheeses that have Italian sounding names but aren’t from Italy. Same way with the Italian meats of the Italian salamis. Make sure it came from Italy. Costco started carrying sliced Italian charcuterie with salamis and prosciutto in a very convenient package that are actually from Italy. And what’s exciting about that is these are traditionally fermented sausages. And the exciting news from GutCheck is that these sausages don’t contain new five gc and they are loaded with post biotic fermentation products like Polyenes, like sperming. So they’re actually pretty doggone good for you, and they’re at Costco now what about non-meat proteins? Well, there’s actually plenty there for vegetarians and vegans, hemp hearts, you can get big bags of hemp hearts at Costco.
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Hemp hearts have the benefit of being high in protein, but also high in insoluble fiber. So it’s a win-win. And you can use hemp hearts in so many ways. I find the easiest way is to just sprinkle them on salads, sprinkle them on vegetables. If you wanna throw it in a smoothie, that’s fine with me. But hemp hearts and they’re really reasonable pistachios. There are a number of pistachios that are available at Costco, whether you want them peeled, dry, roasted, salted in the shell, unsalted in the shell, they’re readily available. Here’s a word to the wise here, try to buy them in the shell. Cracking open that shell and picking it out slows you down. And it’s true with any nut. Nuts are really good for you. They contain a lot of, but you’ll eat a lot more if the work’s been done for you.
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So just a word to the wise with pistachios and also with macadamia nuts, macadamia nuts, it’s difficult to safely find raw macadamia nuts. And if you do find them, if they’re in half, they’ve probably gone rancid already. That’s why you see most macadamia nuts have been already roasted, and that’s to stop them from going rancid. It’s easy to find macadamia nuts at Costco. Word to the wise, it’s easy to gain weight, eating macadamia nuts. In fact, if I have a skinny patient and I believe it or not see skinny patients who want to gain weight, my go-to snack is macadamia nuts. And you can put on the weight with macadamia nuts walnuts. Costco has both organic and regular walnuts. Should you spend the extra money, well just remember that with most nuts, the nut is never exposed to herbicides or insecticides because it’s a contained in a nut.
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And once you break open that nut, the flesh will not have those herbicides and insecticides. However, in the interest of good agriculture, if you can afford the organic, please buy the organic. But don’t be afraid of non-organic nuts for the most part. And I did mention macadamia nuts. Be careful. Okay, now how about oils? Well, Costco is a pretty doggone good place to find really good cold pressed organic olive oil. But word to the wise, you don’t want to buy your organic cold pressed olive oil in those big plastic jugs. Two reasons. Number one, it’s in plastic, but number two, although it sounds like a good idea to buy your olive oil in bulk, the minute you open the top on olive oil, it starts going rancid and you won’t use it up fast enough before it goes rancid. So the alternative is almost every Costco has an organic, usually Italian olive oil that’s in a long tall cylindrical bottle.
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And it usually has a label of authenticity called toscana. I’ve actually been to the plant where it’s made in Tuscany, and it’s true it has to come from the Tuscan region. Now sometimes they don’t have that, but there’s a very similar one that comes from Spain and it’s in a very similar bottle, and it’s also quite safe in a very high, but just stay away from the big plastic bottles and you’ll do yourself a favor. Sesame oil. You can usually find uncosted sesame oil, but it’s not in all Costcos. Preferably. Once again, look for sesame oil in a glass bottle.
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Costco is a great source for dried herbs and spices, and the more you can get herbs and spices into your life, the better off you are. Because herbs are one of the best easy to use sources of polyphenols and polyphenols, as you know, feed your good gut buddies and also are really important for protecting your mitochondria who make energy for you. You can also find a great selection of olives at Costco. Costco, believe it or not, has organic rice cauliflower in the frozen food section. They’ve got sesame seeds, they’ve got sand pellegrino, but by the ones in the glass bottles, not the plastic bottles right next door. If you like the flavored sand pellegrino in the can, that’s perfectly safe as well. But please resist the urge to pick up sand Pellegrino in the plastic bottles. Avocados, there’s always avocados in Costco, preferably look for the organic variety, but Costco is a great place to pick up avocados.
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Costco is a great place to buy guacamole. Thankfully they have guacamole in individual serving containers that doesn’t have any tomatoes. And guess what? Tomatoes are not part of guacamole that’s somehow missed by most people, but they have tomato free guacamole and it’s great. They’re pesto over in the refrigerator section. Usually next to the cheeses is some of the best pesto you can buy. I’ll tell you why. Number one, it uses a type of basil from the legia region of Italy. By far, Laurian basil is the most flavorful, the best source of polyphenols of any basil in the world. And it’s in the Costco pesto. It also has pine nuts. It also has Parmesan cheese. And the wonderful thing about it is you can buy it fresh and then you can put it in your freezer and just thaw off what you’re going to need personally.
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It’s phenomenal on Gundry MD sorghum spaghetti, and that’s how we use it most of the time in the produce area. You can find organic shiitake mushrooms. You can find crimini mushrooms often, particularly this time of year, you can find some really exotic mushrooms like chanterelles. They’re vastly cheaper at Costco and well worth including in your really daily routine. More and more we’re seeing organic whole lettuce heads that have still got their roots attached. They’re fantastic as a salad. Kiwis are easy to obtain at Costco, and Costco often has the golden kiwis. And fun fact, the Golden Kiwi has been shown to be the source of one of the best prebiotic fibers to feed your good probiotics. There is, and there’s some really cool golden kiwi studies in humans showing it promotes gut microbiome diversity. So if you see ’em and they’re in season by them.
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Speaking of in season pomegranates are a great buy at Costco in season. Often you’ll see the pomegranate seeds in season. You can find in season organic raspberries and blackberries and even cherries. But word of warning, look for where these produce came from. There is nothing seasonal about a raspberry in February. You’ll see it at Costco, but you’ll see it came from Chile or Argentina or Uruguay. That’s not a seasonal produce. Oh, it looks good. And you go, oh, it’s organic. But please, we are not supposed to encounter fruit 365 days a year. And sadly I see it in my patient’s blood work when they’re eating these wonderful fruits non seasonally. But it’s a great place to pick them up on a seasonal basis. Costco has artichoke hearts and they also have whole artichokes. They have pine nuts, they have hemp hearts, they have pistachios in multiple varieties.
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Whether you want ’em peel or in the shell, my advice is please buy them in the shell and you can get ’em salted or unsalted. But the key is if you buy them in the shell, it will slow down your eating considerably. It is far too easy and fun to eat. Handful after handful of peeled salted pistachios and not think about what you’re eating. On the other hand, it’s far more entertaining to pour yourself out a bowl of in the shell pistachios and pop ’em open slowly and enjoy. It really slows you down. And you’ll get the benefits of the pistachios. Costco has a great choice of walnuts, both organic and non-organic. Why buy walnuts in a big bag from Costco rather than somewhere else? Well, whenever you’re looking to buy nuts, particularly shelled nuts, you really want to go to a place that has a high turnover because these nuts will go rancid.
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And good news, Costco has a very high turnover if you’ve ever noticed. And that’s good for nuts ’cause you are going to get literally very fresh walnuts or pecans or pine nuts, and you’re not gonna have to worry about the rancidity of these nuts. And that’s another really good reason to buy ’em at Costco. Now you can also find almonds at Costco, but word to the wise, almonds have a pretty nasty lectin in the peel of almonds. So even if it says organic almonds, just put ’em back. Luckily, most Costco stores have marcona almonds. Marcona almonds, as you may know, are peeled. And in traditional cultures, particularly in Spain and Portugal, mothers teach their daughters how to soak and peel the skin off of the almond ’cause they’ve learned through generations that the peel is the problem. So that’s the safest of the almonds in Costco, the marcona almonds.
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But word to the wise, if you’ve read gut check and you have an autoimmune disease or think you have an autoimmune disease, almonds are way up there on the nut that so many of my patients with autoimmune disease unfortunately react to. And there’s so many other better nuts. Speaking of wic, macadamia nuts are a really great choice. At Costco. Macadamia nuts are expensive if you want to gain weight, macadamia nuts are the way to go. But macadamia nuts have a really fantastic oil profile within them. They’re mostly in monounsaturated fat, but they also have an omega seven fat that’s almost impossible to find in any other nut. So they should be included in your repertoire. Next vinegars. Costco has an amazing selection of vinegars, and if you’ve read gut check, you know that you want to get vinegars into your life. Whether it’s balsamic vinegar, whether it’s apple cider vinegar, whether it’s red wine vinegar, you name it, vinegars are great for you.
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Make yourself the famous Dr. Gundry fake Coke. Buy some sand Pellegrino at Costco. Buy some balsamic vinegar at Costco. Pour some balsamic vinegar in your sand Pellegrino and make yourself a fake Coke. Balsamic vinegar, any vinegar is a great source of acetic acid, which is a short chain fatty acid that is actually needed for your gut microbiome to make this all important short chain fatty acid called butyrate. And you gotta get vinegar to kind of supercharge the process. Next up, most Costcos have a pretty decent selection of greater than 72% chocolate, either in bars or in other forms. Now it comes and goes, you gotta look for it, but if it’s there, get it there. You can also find rise coconut bars, and these are perfectly safe, they’re incredibly low sugar and look for ’em. Sometimes they’re there, sometimes they’re not. Finally, primal kitchen Caesar dressing is a pretty doggone good choice.
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It’s made by my friend Mark Siim, primal Kitchen. In general, our safe products, their avocado mayonnaise is a safe product, but try their Caesar dressing. Now, there are a few snacks that could be used in moderation, and I specify moderation for a reason. So you’ll see really buys on STE chips you’ll see really buys on Tara root vegetable chips. And yes, they’re pretty safe except people overeat them. And I see this over and over again that I saw Dr. Gundry say that Tara root chips are safe. That means I can have the entire bag I bought at Costco this afternoon. No, you can’t. You gotta be really careful because these are concentrated sources of carbohydrates and yes, they don’t have any lectins, but they still have lots of easily digestible carbohydrates. So the word is moderation and use these chips not to munch on, but as a delivery device to get avocado into your mouth by the guacamole, an individual serving containers at Costco, and use that chip only as a delivery device. It’ll slow you down and you’ll get all the benefits of the guacamole as well.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
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