Using the principles outlined below and an updated dietary program, I have helped patients cope with the following health problems:
Autoimmune diseases (including autoimmune thyroid disease, rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, Crohn's disease, colitis, lupus) Lymphomas, leukemia, multiple myelomas Cardiovascular disease, coronary insufficiency Infertility, irregular menstruation, miscarriages Age pigment spots Skin rashes (including dermatitis, eczema, and psoriasis) Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), Barrett's Esophagus Diabetes, prediabetes, insulin resistance Delayed growth of infants and children Acid reflux, or heartburn Nutrient deficiencies due to malabsorption (eg, low iron levels) Unexplained bouts of dizziness or ringing in the ears Low levels of immunoglobulin G, immunoglobulin M, and immunoglobulin A Bone loss (including osteopenia and osteoporosis) Weight problems (overweight or underweight) Gastrointestinal problems (bloating, pain, gas, constipation, diarrhea) Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Irritability, mood swings Chronic pain syndrome Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Cramping, tingling, and numbness |
Cancer Parkinson's disease Hypertension Joint pain Arthritis Asthma Allergies Migraine Anemia Overwork Depression Memory problems Vitiligo Акне Fibromyalgia Headache Fog in the head Deteriorating dental health Dementia Low white blood cell count Low testosterone Male pattern baldness Peripheral neuropathy Fat in stools (due to poor digestion) Intestinal polyps Pressure sores Alopecia |
Every time you flinch, every time you start looking for any justification, just to eat something, every time you hear an inner voice whispering to you, “But this is healthy food,” stop right there and immediately return to the Rule No. 1 (below).
Rule No. 1.The fact that you stop eating has a much stronger effect on your health than whatwhat do you start eating
Rule No. 2. Take good care of the intestinal germs and feed them, and they will take care of you and feed you. After all, you are their home
Rule No. 3. Fruit is like candy
Rule No. 4. You are what you ate what you ate
Lectins - vegetable proteins. Lectins are found in almost all plants, as well as in some other products. They are present in the vast majority of products that make up the modern diet, including meat, poultry and fish. Lectins fulfill a very important function: equalize the chances in a war between plants and animals. Plants protected themselves and their offspring from hungry insects by producing toxins (lectins) in seeds and other parts of them. Seeds contain chemicals that weaken predators, paralyze them or cause disease so that they don’t even try to eat them for the second time. Among these substances are phytates (they are often called “antinutrients”), which interfere with the absorption of minerals obtained from food, trypsin inhibitors that prevent the digestive enzymes from doing their job and hamper the growth and development of the predator's body, and lectins that disrupt intercellular communication, for example, increasing the gaps between cells in the mucous membrane of the intestinal wall. Whole grains actually contain all three types of these defensive chemicals in their fiber-rich shell, husk and bran. Lectins are designed to either immediately kill the animal that ate them, or at least to make him unwell. One way or another, a weakened enemy is more vulnerable. Gluten is just one of many thousands of lectins.
Ancient people developed many ways to deal with lectins. Unfortunately, modern people are not so gifted. If we eat something that we don’t like or weaken, we find or invent something like antacids or painkillers like ibuprofen to continue to use substances that are designed to kill us, to hurt us or at least weaken. We not only eat foods that harm us, but we also feed them the animals we feed on ourselves, so they also suffer from their diet. If the cow were released into the pasture, she would never have eaten corn or soybeans - her natural diet includes grass and other similar food, but that is how cows are fed on industrial farms. Lectins contained in corn and soy are much more effective than grass, making cows thicker and fatter. Both soybeans and corn are rich in lectins foreign to cows, and they develop such severe heartburn and pain when swallowing that they even stop eating. Yes, cows from these lectins develop heartburn, just like you do. To make unfortunate animals eat more food, which makes them fatter, farmers give them calcium carbonate, the active ingredient in the appropriate preparations. They are added to livestock feed in order to fight heartburn and force cows to continue to eat unnatural corn and soybeans. The same thing happens with meat and eggs of chickens, which are grown on the feed with lectins. The same thing happens with seafood and fish grown as aquaculture: they also eat soy and corn.
There are other substances that should scare away “plant predators”: tannins, which give a bitter taste, and alkaloids contained in the stems and leaves of nightshade plants (this family includes tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants, and peppers beloved by many cookers), have a strong inflammatory effect .
When the insect begins to eat leaves on one side of the plant, the content of lectins on the other side doubles almost instantly: the plant is desperately trying to "dissuade" the predator from eating it further. Lectins play a key role in the defensive strategies that plants use for self-defense, as well as in the harm done to us. Lectins are large proteins found in organisms of plants and animals. They are able to attach to sugar molecules, in particular, to complex sugars - polysaccharides and disrupt the transmission of messages between cells, causing chaos and inflammation. They also attach to sialic acid, a sugar molecule found in the intestines, brain, between nerve endings, in joints and all body fluids, including the lining of the walls of blood vessels, of all living things. Lectins are sometimes called “sticky proteins” due to the binding process. For example, when lectins attach to sialic acid, one nerve loses the ability to transfer information to another nerve. People (those who are more sensitive to lectins) because of this feature are more susceptible to viral and bacterial infections.
Scientists discovered lectins in the 1884 year, exploring various blood types. Until that moment, only one notorious lectin was known - gluten. There are many more. 94 percent of people are born with antibodies to the lectin contained in peanuts.
Not enough time has passed yet for our species to develop immunological tolerance to lectins, and the human microbiome to learn how to break down these proteins. The result is numerous health problems, and indigestion is just the tip of the iceberg. Attaching lectins to insulin receptors in the long term can cause various degenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.
It is very important to understand that despite the fact that lectins can be toxic or pro-inflammatory (that is, cause inflammation), as well as disrupt the internal messaging system in the body, all animals, including humans, have developed their own defense systems that make lectins are harmless or at least mitigate their effects. From the toxic effects of plants (in particular, lectins) we are protected by a special quadruple mechanism:
- The first protective line is the mucous membrane of the nose and saliva in the mouth; together they are called mucopolysaccharides - they are needed to capture lectins. Lectins like to stick to sugars. When the next time after you eat something sharp, your nose will flow, know: you just ate a dose of lectins.
- The second protective line is gastric juice, which in many cases digests some lectin proteins (but not all).
- The third line of defense is the bacteria in your mouth and intestines (part of your microbiome) that already can efficiently absorb lectins before they can interact with the walls of your intestines. The longer you eat certain plant lectins, the longer you develop intestinal bacteria that are specifically designed to neutralize them. That’s why, if you give up gluten, the bacteria that eat it are dying; and then when you start to eat gluten again or eat something that contains gluten, but you don’t know about it, you cannot properly digest it and feel uncomfortable.
- The fourth and final line of defense is the layer of mucus produced by certain cells in the intestine. Like the mucus in your nose, mouth, throat, and so on to the anus, this layer of intestinal mucus acts like a barrier. It holds the plant matter that you ate in the intestine, where it belongs: the sugar contained in the mucus traps and absorbs lectins. The more lectin “troops” attack the defensive structures, the more sugar molecules are consumed in the mucous membranes and the more likely that the lectins will get to where they most need living cells that line your intestines. That's where it all begins. Of course, you have one more powerful weapon that you can use in the battle with lectins - the brain. Having learned that some products are a problem for you, you should avoid them, eat them rarely, or mitigate their effects using cooking methods that have long been known to our ancestors. Refusal of such food turns into the last key necessary to restore health.
When you eat organically grown vegetables, fruits and products obtained from animals from pastures, plant nutrients, as well as substances that plants received from the soil (as well as substances from plants that animals ate) enter your body and are distributed throughout your cells. Knowing how to grow the food you eat is not just a matter of lifestyle, it is directly a matter of your health.
Plants specifically produce lectins that are virtually indistinguishable from other proteins in your body — a tactic called molecular mimicry. Lectins are almost indistinguishable from some other proteins in your body. By imitating such proteins, lectins trick the host’s immune system and cause it to attack their own proteins. Or lectins attach to cellular receptors, acting like hormones (or blocking hormones), thus disrupting communication within the body and organizing chaos. For example, the hormone insulin helps the cell absorb glucose and get fuel. If there is too much glucose, insulin attaches to the fat cells and orders them to store glucose as fat in case there is less food. After the hormone transmits information, the cell informs the hormone that the message has been received, and the hormone disconnects from the "port", freeing it for the next hormone. For the whole system to work, the “port” for insulin must be open and accessible. However, lectins can attach to important docking ports on cell walls and either give incorrect information or block the delivery of the correct one. Lectin AZP (agglutinin of the germ of wheat) is strikingly reminiscent of insulin. It can attach to insulin docking ports like real insulin, but unlike real hormone, it never goes away, and the results are deadly: muscle loss, a starving brain, nerve cells and a sharp increase in fat. A fatty animal is a sick animal, since fat is where inflammation is. Fat storage of energy for white blood cells involved in inflammation reactions.
There are certain ways to outwit lectins and prevent them from doing too much harm. During the three phases of the Plant Paradox program, you first remove the most problematic lectins from the body to cure your intestines. Most people can then be returned to the diet some foods containing lectins, but in moderate doses and properly cooked. In addition, not everyone is equally sensitive to individual lectins. The longer your ancestors ate certain leaves or other parts of plants containing lectins, the more opportunities your immune system and microbiome have to develop tolerance to it. At some point, they develop tolerance so much that they simply “shrug” when meeting this protein.
Cooking partly destroys many lectins. In addition, heat treatment helps to easily destroy the cell wall of plants. Prior to this, only intestinal bacteria were able to make both. Cooking on fire allowed our ancient ancestors to evolve so that the amount of energy (as well as the intestinal area) needed for digestion was significantly reduced - and calories became more accessible to the brain, which consumes a lot of energy. Heat treatment allowed us to consume underground starch reserves - tubers of plants (for example, potatoes): it destroyed previously completely indigestible plant substances.
After Homo sapiens learned to cook on fire, they lived pretty well for about ninety thousand years. The abundance of animal food and tuberous vegetables has made people tall and strong. Ten thousand years ago, the average person’s growth was higher than 180 cm. But after the end of the last ice age, problems began. The huge animals, who felt great in the cold climate, quickly died out, and humanity needed a new source of calories. And then, in a fertile triangle in the Middle East, we managed to domesticate cereals and legumes, and the period of agriculture began. Both grains and legumes could be stored and eaten later, unlike fruits that can only be eaten ripe. The cultivation of cereals and legumes has become the main double-edged sword of the plant paradox. For the first time in millions of years, completely new lectins have entered our intestines, and we were not prepared for this. But, as you will soon realize, the domestication of cereals and beans was both the best and worst of everything that happened to our species.
We know that the longer you are exposed to a chemical, the more resistant it becomes and do not show too strong a reaction. With desensitization, you are gradually given more and more large doses of the allergen until you begin to react more or less normally to it. But to develop resistance to certain lectins, it takes not thousands of weeks or months, as in the fight against allergies, but millennia.
Our immune system uses a fairly simple scanning system. These scanners are called TLRs, or toll-like receptors. They are found in all cell membranes of your body (and the body of any animal). Each protein, whether it be a virus, lectin or cell wall, has its own unique “strip code”. TLRs constantly scan and “read” molecular “fingerprints” or strip codes of proteins that enter your body.
After the TLR determines whether the particular strip code is hostile or friendly, they decide how to react - either let the protein pass without further questions, or turn on the sirens and sound the alarm to tell the immune system that there were uninvited guests. Another set of receptors that work like a USB computer port are receptors that literally scan the hormones, enzymes, and cytokines that connect to them to get instructions from them and find out what they want from the cell. This second set of receptors, called “G-protein coupled receptors” (for short, “serpentines”), serves as a docking port for all cells. Only if a hormone or enzyme approaches the receptor can they exchange information. After that, the immune system shares knowledge of foreign proteins with the rest of the body, so that in the future it will be easier to raise troops against this enemy.
Recently, interesting studies have shown that lectins enter the brain not only through the blood: they, no matter how incredible it sounds, get into the brain from the intestine through the vagus nerve. It turns out that for every fiber leading from the brain to the heart, lungs and abdominal organs, there are nine fibers leading from the intestine to the brain. There are actually more neurons in the intestines than in the spinal cord. (I and other doctors at the medical school were taught that the vagus nerve sends signals from the brain to the intestines, but in reality these signals go in the opposite direction.)
Maintaining the right microbial population is necessary to restore health and prevent disease. You must feed good microbes what they need to prosper, while at the same time refusing sugar and other foods that bad microbes eat. Good germs should still remain on their side of the border. If you have good microbes and you are taking NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) or some antacids, or eating lectins that your body cannot interact with, then the intestinal wall is broken, and a “nuclear catastrophe” begins, despite the fact that you have a whole bunch of good bacteria! The main problem is that due to changes in the food chain, the emergence of new drugs and environmental factors that have been imperceptibly but constantly changing over the past fifty years, most of your inherited microbes have been destroyed, and now other species dominate. Microbes can no longer work in symbiosis with you and do not provide valuable information or, worse, give false information. Together with whole grains lectins, in particular wheat germ agglutinin (AZP), enter your intestines. They provoke a leak lipopolysaccharides (LPS), the remains of bacteria from the intestines to the bloodstream, as well as hormonal mimicry. And the use of transglutaminases (baking powder) makes you sensitive to gluten, even if you don’t have celiac disease.
7 main enemies for health:
- Broad spectrum antibiotics - they allowed doctors to carry out carpet bombing of infections, without thinking about which bacterium was the culprit. It may take at least two years to restore the intestinal flora population. Every time a child takes antibiotics, they are more likely to develop Crohn's disease, diabetes, obesity, or asthma in adulthood. By changing your intestinal microflora, which communicates with the immune system, antibiotics force the body to go into martial law and increase fat stores so that your immune cells have enough energy to fight any uninvited guests. “Traces of antibiotics” in animal meat and milk only exacerbate the effect of taking broad-spectrum antibiotics.
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) - Damage the mucous membrane of the small and large intestines, allowing lectins, LPS, and other foreign substances to pass through the intestinal wall, increasing the inflammation that you feel as pain. The more pain you feel, the more NSAIDs you have to take.
- Antacids. Most of these drugs are proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) that reduce the amount of gastric juice. The acid in the stomach usually holds bacteria in the large intestine - a process called the acid gradient. The further the contents of the stomach pass through the intestines, the more alkaline fluids from bile and pancreas dilute the acid, but only when it reaches the colon, the acid is diluted quite strongly. Bacteria in the large intestine (namely, where they live the most) prefer an oxygen-free, not very acidic environment. If gastric juice does not kill “bad” bacteria, then these pathogenic (pathogenic) organisms can proliferate in the intestines, changing the normal composition of microflora. In the absence of gastric juice, harmful (and even beneficial) bacteria can easily move from the large intestine to the small intestine, where they have no place at all. There, they either violate the integrity of the intestinal wall, causing a disease, which is usually called the "leaking intestine," or they cause another disease - SIBR (excess bacterial growth syndrome) in the small intestine. This, in turn, stimulates the immune system, sending it into battle with lectins and LPS. And how does the immune system usually fight? That's right, with the help of inflammation! And this, in turn, leads to gaining excess weight: the body is stored in fat so that the white blood cells have enough energy to fight enemies. Taking PPIs not only disrupts the normal production of gastric juice, but can also deprive your mitochondria of the ability to produce energy in their cells using proton pumps. What is especially unpleasant, PPIs are able to pass the blood-brain barrier and poison mitochondria in the brain. Antacids also lead to incomplete breakdown of proteins. Since lectins are also proteins, antacids allow more lectins to enter the intestines. If the body cannot break down and assimilate the proteins, this leads to the "drying out" of the muscles - sarcopenia, from which many elderly people suffer.
- Artificial sweeteners - foods like sucralose, saccharin, aspartame and other artificial sweeteners alter intestinal holobioma, killing good bacteria and causing an overgrowth of bad ones. In addition, the sweet taste, once available only in the summer, gives the body a signal that it is time to stock up on fat for the winter, no matter what time of year it really is. This is the problem with artificial and even natural (for example, stevia) calorie-free sweeteners. Your body cannot distinguish the sweetness of sugar or other sources of calories from these non-nutritive substitutes. This is because the molecular structure (pattern) of the non-nutritive sweetener is connected to the sugar docking port on the taste buds and sends the same pleasure signal to the brain as real sugar. Then, when the calories from real sugar (glucose) do not appear in the blood and are not detected by glucose receptors in the brain, the brain feels that it has been deceived and is offended. He “knows” that you eat sugar because you felt the taste of sugar, he is very angry that sugar did not actually enter the bloodstream, and makes you look for new sweets. Instead of helping you lose or maintain weight, sweeteners actually make you gain weight.
- Endocrine disruptors - This is a rather motley group of chemicals resembling small doses of estrogen in action. They are found in most types of plastic, flavored cosmetics, preservatives and sunblocks, as well as a variety of other products, even cash receipts; they also include dichlorodiphenyl dichlorodichloroethylene (DDE), a metabolite of dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane (known as DDT), the insecticide lindane and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). All of these substances regularly cause chaos in our hormonal system. Among them:
- Obesity, diabetes and other metabolic diseases.
- Reproductive problems (both female and male).
- Female hormone-dependent cancers.
- Prostate problems.
- Problems with the thyroid gland.
- Delayed development of the brain and neuroendocrine system.
- Genetically Modified Products and Roundup Herbicide - biocides, turn on or turn off genes in our cells, fundamentally changing the signal system of the body. The Roundup and Enlist herbicides contain 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (an ingredient of the infamous Agent Orange) and glyphosate. Traces of both of these substances are found in meat and milk of animals fed with grain and beans, as well as in cultivated plants and products made from them. Industrial farmers now often use Roundup as a dehumidifier even for unmodified plants. Dried, dead plants make it easier to collect grains and beans from them - just like that, saving time to meet a fixed schedule, wheat, corn, soybeans, beans, peas and canola are now harvested. Since “Roundup” collects practically all unmodified cereals and legumes, you directly use it with “healthy” food, because the outer part of the grain that was previously harvested during processing now remains - for the sake of “whole grain usefulness”. Like plants, intestinal bacteria use the shikimate pathway to produce three essential amino acids: tryptophan, tyrosine, and phenylalanine. Since there is no shikimat path in animals, we can get these essential amino acids only from intestinal bacteria. From tryptophan and phenylalanine, serotonin is produced, the “good mood” hormone, and tyrosine and phenylalanine are necessary for the production of thyroid hormones. But when we eat GMO products or even products from the usual ingredients collected using the Roundup, the shikimat pathway is blocked and our intestinal bacteria can no longer produce these essential amino acids, leading to depression and feelings of depression. It not only paralyzes the shikimat pathway of our intestinal bacteria and deprives us of a supply of these three amino acids, but also changes the composition of our normal intestinal microflora, killing good intestinal microbes, depriving the main defense system that made gluten harmless to the vast majority of people. Roundup binds to gluten, making it antigenic (that is, causing an immune response) even for people who are not sensitive to gluten per se. Due to the fact that Roundup paralyzes key liver enzymes, our body ceases to absorb vitamin D, which is necessary to process cholesterol. More and more scientists are publishing studies in which glyphosate is associated with cancer, kidney and liver failure, birth defects, infertility, an increased risk of allergies and digestive problems, as well as other chronic diseases.
- Constant exposure to blue light. In winter, instead of looking for food, we should burn the gained fat. The hormone leptin, which is responsible for the feeling of satiety, turns on this signal. The cyclic alternation of glucose and fat as the main sources of energy is called metabolic flexibility. And the instructions for this cyclic alternation are given by the blue spectral component of the light. In modern life, blue light dominates; we are almost constantly exposed to it. Televisions, mobile phones, tablets, other electronic devices and even some energy-saving light bulbs emit blue light. Blue light suppresses the production of melatonin, a hormone that helps you fall asleep, and lack of sleep is associated with obesity. Blue light stimulates the production of ghrelin and cortisol - hormones of hunger and wakefulness, respectively. And since our genetic program associates blue light with daylight, the constant exposure to light makes our body think that summer is endless with very long days. Because of this, we constantly gain weight, expecting short winter days to come soon, and they never come due to electric light.
The main reason cereals and legumes have taken over the world is not because it is “healthy” food, not because they are easy to store, but simply because they provide the maximum amount of fat per calorie. Turbo modes for storing fat include not only cereals and legumes, but also dairy products. Mammals use milk for exactly one purpose: to stimulate rapid growth and weight gain in offspring. Any milk contains an insulin-like growth factor. Another component of milk, casein (in particular casein A-1), is converted to beta-casomorphine lectin, which stimulates fat storage, causing inflammation. When lectins, imitating insulin, attach to the cell walls instead, they either give the wrong information or block the delivery of the correct one, while the normal communication system stops working for an indefinite period. For example, by connecting to the docking ports of insulin receptors in different types of lectin cells, ARP in:
1. Fat cells: AZP attaches to them forever and causes the cells to constantly produce fat from any sugar that moves by, ad infinitum.
2. If the AZP attaches to the muscle cell, then it also remains in the insulin receptor forever, but the effect this time is exactly the opposite: the AZP does not allow real insulin to connect to the cell - as a result, the muscle cells do not receive glucose, it all goes to fat cells, which are the AZP actively pumps sugar. The real reason for muscle “drying out” in old age is insulin mimicry! The more lectins we eat, the more insulin receptors in the muscles are blocked by AZP and other lectins, and the more muscle mass we lose.
3. When AZP and other lectins attach to the insulin receptors of nerve cells, they also block the flow of sugar. When neurons lack sugar, a hungry brain requires more calories, and central and peripheral nervous system cells begin to die, leading to dementia, Parkinson's disease, and peripheral neuropathy. Recently, it has been discovered that lectins from the intestine enter the vagus nerve into the brain and can be deposited in the substantia nigra, the commutation center of the brain whose damage causes Parkinson's disease. Patients who underwent vagotomy in the sixties and seventies (vagus circumcision) to treat stomach ulcers are 40 less likely to suffer from Parkinson's disease compared with the control group of the same age.
4. Lectins are not able to get to the brain so easily, and, accordingly, they cause not so much damage. This also explains why vegetarians are more likely to get Parkinson's disease: they eat more plants (and therefore more lectins). Here is the key idea: insulin and leptin resistance does not develop because you are overweight: on the contrary, you are overweight because your body is in a martial law and is stocked with calories for military operations. This is the exact opposite of conventional beliefs about obesity.
Most diets lead to temporary weight loss, but they do not solve the main problem of its appearance - inflammation inside the body. That is why, returning to their old eating habits, most people gain weight again. All low-carbon diets are simultaneously high-protein and limit the use of the main sources of carbohydrates, cereals and legumes, and with this, accordingly, the lectin load decreases. The ketogenic diet, which is traditionally prescribed to people (including children) with diabetes to control the growth of blood sugar, is also a carbohydrate-restricted diet, but it is completely different. Instead of replacing carbohydrates with proteins, a true ketogenic diet also limits proteins, and most calories come from carefully selected fats. (Ketosis is a condition of the body in which it burns fat, and not glucose from carbohydrates, for energy.) If you restrict the use of certain animal proteins as in the Plant Paradox program, you will almost certainly lose weight. Limiting animal protein even more, using the modified ketogenic version of the Plant Paradox program, you will see significant success not only among patients with diabetes (or severe insulin resistance), but also in patients with cancer, dementia, Parkinson's disease, autoimmune diseases and many intestinal diseases.
Fructose: Surprisingly, the plant does not produce glucose in fruits, but another sugar - fructose. Glucose increases insulin levels in primates and humans, which, in turn, increases the level of leptin, a hormone that blocks hunger, but fructose does not. As a result, the predator never receives a signal that he is full and needs to stop eating. (Now, you probably won’t be surprised to learn that large primates gain weight only at that time of the year when the fruits are ripening?) It turns out that both the predator and the prey benefit. The animal receives more calories, and since it eats a lot of fruits and, accordingly, a lot of seeds, the plant gets a chance to spread its "children" more widely.
Features of diets: Low carb diets like the Atkins or South Beach diets often work well in the short term. When you return to eating a significant amount of carbohydrates containing lectins, the lost kilos usually also return. Even if you strictly adhere to the program, weight loss sooner or later stops or slows down significantly. All low-carb diets are simultaneously high-protein and limit the use of the main sources of carbohydrates, cereals and legumes, and with this, accordingly, the lectin load decreases. When the South Beach and Atkins diets in the unloading phase offer to return cereals and legumes to the diet, and people naturally begin to gain weight back, what should be the recommendation? Yes, you guessed right: to return to the first phase and abandon cereals and legumes!
The concept of paleo-diets goes even further along the path of high-protein diets; it is based on the incorrect assumption that ancient people regularly ate meat of buffalo and other large animals, and that is what made us healthy. In fact, such prey was most likely a rarity. Our ancestors mainly ate tuberous vegetables, berries, nuts and animal protein from fish, lizards, snails, insects and small rodents.
Wheat germ agglutinin - A small lectin that helps to gain weight. ARQ from wheat, combining with the endothelium of their coronary arteries, provokes an attack from the immune system. There is a very specific sugar molecule in the body that causes this problem. Lectin-binding sugar, Neu5Ac, is found on the walls of blood vessels and intestinal absorbent cells - enterocytes. In most mammals, the sugar molecule Neu5Gc is located on the walls of the intestines and blood vessels. But people have lost the ability to produce this molecule. Instead, we produce Neu5Ac lectin-binding sugar, like mollusks, chickens and elephants. Lectins, especially cereal lectins, attach to Neu5Ac but cannot attach to Neu5Gc. This explains why captive chimpanzees planted on a human grain diet do not suffer from atherosclerosis (clogged arteries) or autoimmune diseases. Chimpanzees do not have a sugar molecule that binds lectin, but elephants and humans have it, and because of this we get cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases when we eat lectins from cereals and seeds. A serious problem with any low-carb or “ancient” diet program is that consuming a significant amount of certain animal proteins, in particular red meat, leads to faster aging, as well as atherosclerosis and cancer.
Cows, pigs and sheep have Neu5Gc protein, which your immune system considers foreign when you eat their meat. Neu5Gc is very similar to Neu5Ac (their strip codes are almost the same). There is a lot of evidence that says that when our immune system encounters a foreign Neu5Gc sugar molecule from red meat, we develop antibodies to the walls of our own blood vessels that contain Neu5Ac. Because of this, the antibody attaches to the walls of our blood vessels, confusing our own Neu5Ac sugar with the consumed Neu5Gc sugar, and thus provokes a full-fledged attack from the immune system.
Moreover, there is evidence that cancer cells use Neu5Gc to stimulate vascular growth around the tumor; for this they produce the hormone VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor). VEGF production is triggered by an immune attack on Neu5Gc. Cancer cells even use Neu5Gc to hide from our immune cells, essentially hiding themselves under an invisible shield. Moreover, human tumors contain a large amount of Neu5Gc sugar, despite the fact that we do not have the genes that produce it. This means that the tumor cells got it from beef, pork or lamb, which you ate - nowhere else to go. Red meat should be avoided in order to avoid an autoimmune attack that causes heart disease and cancer - all because of a genetic mutation that gives people a sugar molecule to which lectin attaches. Any diet in which there are few animal proteins prolongs life. This means that some carbohydrates (those that do not contain lectins or contain those lectins that your microbes have known for thousands of years) are actually not at all as problematic as the Atkins diet and paleo diet claim: it’s enough to simply limit certain animal proteins at the same time.
Accelerating the aging process is not the only result of eating excess protein. If there are simple sugars, it increases the production of insulin, the hormone that stores fat, and if there is fat, it increases the level of leptin, a hormone that signals the brain that it is full. But you may not know that when you eat sugar along with proteins that are more common in animal rather than plant foods, they stimulate the main cellular aging receptor, which determines the availability of energy.
Basics of the Plant Paradox Program
Phase 1.
With a three-day cleansing, we will begin the process of restoring your intestines, strengthening the position of beneficial microbes and getting rid of most of the harmful ones. By the end of the third day, the population of your intestines will change, and, accordingly, the intestine itself will also change. But you must immediately move from the first phase to the second to prevent the villains from returning.
Phase 2.
From this moment on, the “Plant Paradox" program begins for real. I ask you: give me only two weeks, and in return I will return your life. In two weeks you will already see and feel the changes - yes, the program is so powerful. And after six weeks, new eating habits are already firmly rooted in you. During this period I will ask you to refuse (in whole or in part) certain foods and instead of them there are more than others:
- To get started, give up the largest sources of lectins (cereals and legumes, including corn and soy, which also contain estrogen-like substances), GMO foods, any foods processed by Roundup, and many saturated fats. This list includes whole grains that make the immune system hypersensitive.
- Avoid all sugars and artificial sweeteners.
- Minimize the consumption of most omega-6 fatty acids, which provoke a martial law in the body, in which it stores fat and constantly feels hunger.
- Refuse poultry meat (including the so-called free-range poultry) and cattle (including dairy products) grown on industrial farms, as well as any fish grown in aquaculture: they are fed with antibiotics, corn and beans which are full of omega-6 and Roundup acids.
- You can eat small portions of nuts, guacamole or halves of avocado as a snack. Over time, you will find that if you eat right, you simply won’t want to eat. But if you eat incorrectly, then you will simply feel even greater hunger.
- Avoid any products containing endocrine disruptors.
- Instead of all of the above, eat the following:
- Any leafy greens and some vegetables, as well as significant amounts of tuberous vegetables and other foods containing resistant starches. At first, you will have to give up fruit. Later you can eat them, but only in season and only as a treat.
- Eat more omega-3 fatty acids, in particular those found in fish oil, perilla oil, flaxseed oil and coconut, other healthy oils: avocado, walnut, macadamia, olive oil, as well as medium chain triglycerides (MCTs), which contribute to the early restoration of the intestinal barrier.
- Eat no more than 240 g of animal protein per day (remember, fish and seafood are also animals), preferably from wild fish and seafood; they are rich in omega-3 fatty acids and do not contain the artery-killing sugar Neu5Gc. You can also eat chicken eggs that are kept in real poultry yards or fed with omega-3 acids.
- You can only get 120 g of daily protein from grass-fed (or pasture-raised) meat. Such meat contains more omega-3 acids and less omega-6 acids than meat from animals fed with grains and soy, but still contains a lot of Neu5Gc.
- Eat and drink only milk from certain cow breeds, as well as sheep, goats and Asian buffaloes that provide casein A-2. But in general, limit your intake of dairy products (with the exception of ghee): they contain Neu5Gc.
3 phase (optional).
Limit any animal protein, including fish, 60 to 120 grams per day and fast on some days.
The ketogenic intensive care program is intended for patients with diabetes, cancer or kidney failure, as well as neurological diseases such as dementia, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. If you suffer from one of these diseases, carry out a three-day cleaning, and then proceed to the second phase.
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Typical misconceptions about healthy eating. KIAI TOK SHOW. Interview with Song Park
The doctors of our center for Fungotherapy, Bioregulation and Ayurveda use in their work a wide range of high quality fungo and phyto-preparations, dietary supplements, minerals and food products. This number also includes drugs and foods that fully comply with Dr. Gundry's recommendations and are designed to restore and maintain health according to the principles specified in the book "The Plant Paradox".
In our online store you can purchase: grape powder (source of resveratrol) and grape extract, turmeric extract, fish fat, potassium, magnesium, flax oil.
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The book "Plant Paradox" | The book "Plant Paradox" (Ukrainian) | The book "Intestine and Brain" | Book "Keto Diet" | |||
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Book "Food and Brain" | Coconut oil Ghi | Polished sorghum groats | Sorghum groats chopped | |||
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Doctors of the "Kyiv Center for Fungotherapy, Bioregulation and Ayurveda" will consult you on the issues of restoring your health, carry out diagnostics of the body, make an individual healing diet according to the recommendations of Dr. Gundry. Cost of consultation 300 UAH
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