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5 Worst Breakfasts You Should NEVER Eat - Dr. G's Quick Health Tip | EP 373.B
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Dr. Steven Gundry
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.
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The three Worst Breakfasts for your Health now, despite what you've probably been told, is not the most important meal of the day that was advertising from the cereal companies. However, there is an old adage which I actually agree with, that you should eat like a king at breakfast, a prince or a princess at lunch, and a pauper for dinner. Let me give you an example of that. Just yesterday I was talking with one of my patients who did very poorly on time restricted eating programs. Now, in most time restricted eating programs, which I recommend personally, we delay break fast breakfast until later in the morning, preferably around noon. So that your first meal of the day is at noon and then you wanna go six to eight hours maximum, during which you eat the rest of your food and then the rest of the evening and all through the night and the morning you are fasting, promoting ketosis that works for a great number of people. It's been studied extensively in humans and animals and found to improve health in multiple areas. But there are some people who just don't do well missing breakfast and you might very well be one of them. Like my patient that I had yesterday. So we devised a system where he compressed his eating window, but he ate breakfast at 6 o' clock in the morning and he finished his last meal of the day at noon. So he was still eating a six hour window, but the rest of the day was when he was fasting and overnight. Now he thrives on that system and why not? As long as you're compressing your eating window, it really doesn't matter when you do that. And so for some of you who are breakfast people, that's a great option. It was just confirmed on his blood work yesterday to my delight, and actually to his delight, his blood work is the best it's ever been. And this was a gentleman who a year ago was insulin resistant, pre diabetic and had very impressively bad cholesterol levels and oh by the way, quite low testosterone, which is now perfect. So he's happy, I'm happy. Just another example is there's a lot of ways to balance how you eat your break fast. But for most of us, breaking our fast later in the day is the way we were designed from an evolutionary Standpoint, our ancestors did not crawl out of our caves and say, what's for breakfast? There wasn't any breakfast. There was no storage system, there was no refrigeration. We had to find breakfast, we had to catch it or we had to collect it. And in fact, most modern hunter gatherers usually don't eat till 10 or 11 o' clock in the morning when they find something. So technically, you can still enjoy break fasts just later in the day. Okay, so what are the three most common awful breakfast foods that you should avoid no matter what time of day it is? The first is avocado toast. Now, if you're like most people, you probably become convinced that avocado toast is a healthy option. Well, sorry to disappoint, but it's certainly not the case. Don't get me wrong, avocados are great. But when it comes to avocado toast are several reasons I stay far away. The most obvious is the bread. Unfortunately, bread is loaded with lectins. They're incredibly inflammatory and they do an amazing job of piercing holes in the lining of your gut. But what about whole grain whole wheat bread? This sadly is loaded with a very tiny lectin called wheat germ agglutinin. Sadly, it's absorbed through the wall of your gut without having leaky gut and it binds to sugar molecules in the wall of your blood vessel, in your joints, in your blood brain barrier, and it binds to insulin receptors on fat cells and opens the door for you to store that wonderful avocado toast in your fat cells. So please, that's a no, no. Finally, bread still has four teaspoons of sugar per slice. So if you're having two slices of avocado toast, you're having eight teaspoons of sugar without tasting that sugar. Now if you must have bread, try a lectin free bread. There are plenty of recipes on the Internet. Gundry MD bread mix is lectin free and bread, seriously, rice free rolls are options if you've got to do this. Now, people often order their avocado toast with an egg, a poached egg, or one or two poached eggs. Please, please, please remember that the only Safe eggs are omega 3 eggs or pastured eggs. Don't be f eggs or cage free eggs or free range eggs. That's not what you're looking for. So just don't be fooled. You don't need an egg on your avocado toast. So what's the option? Well, quite frankly, in Europe it's readily available to have a Sliced Avocado with Olive Oil as a breakfast option Better yet, as I've written about in my books, cut an avocado in half, take out the pit, put an egg yolk in both of the holes, put it under the broiler for a few minutes with olive oil, and you will have the best toastless avocado toast you'll ever have in your life. And that's the way to make it a healthy option at the end of a long day.
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Dr. Steven Gundry
Oatmeal. Yes, even organic. Even Bob Redmill. A recent study of 35 oat products in the United States found glyphosate, including some with very dangerous levels, in every one of the OAT products, including many of our kids cereals, including our granola. They found an additional herbicide that's banned in the United States in almost all oat products because the EPA recently loosened up their enforcement on this ban. So if you like pesticides and herbicides for breakfast, have a great time. Now, what about Europe? Europe, luckily, is still fairly free of glyphosate. That may change because as most of you know, Bayer bought Monsanto, who makes Roundup. And Bayer is a very generous corporation getting their way with the European Union parliament. So fingers crossed. There's a lot of resistance in Europe to glyphosate. So fingers crossed. Now, why is glyphosate so bad? Well, glyphosate interrupts what's called the shikimate pathway and there won't be a test, I promise. We somehow didn't realize that bacteria also use the shikimate pathway as well as plants. Humans do not use the shikimate pathway. So Monsanto convinced the federal government that there was no danger to humans. Unfortunately, the danger is that glyphosate interrupts the shikimate pathway of bacteria in our gut. In fact, fun fact, glyphosate was patented as an antibiotic. So you do not want to kill off your gut microbiome. And sadly, we now know the ones that are most susceptible to to glyphosate are the bacteria that make all the feel good. Hormones like tryptophan, like serotonin. And that may be one of the reasons why the level of depression and anxiety in the United States keeps going up. Finally, there's one paper recently that shows glyphosate is a direct disruptor of gut integrity. In other words, it causes leaky gut. Finally, it's a real good way of paralyzing your mitochondria. Mitochondria, you might remember, are those little energy producing organelles which are actually ancient engulfed bacteria. So it's no wonder that mitochondria would be impacted by glyphosate. So what? Well, you gain weight, you feel low energy, you're more susceptible to disease and illness. And I could spend a long time talking about worse. Here's the bad news. Even the organic oats have lectins. And sadly, in my practice I see that the lectin and oats cross reacts with gluten in great number of my gluten sensitive patients. Now there's an alternative, and that is lacto fermented in quotation oats recipe on Instagram, which I posted about a week ago. You'll get all the benefits of quote, oatmeal without the oats. Check it out, I think you'll really like it. Finally, number three, fruit smoothies. I've said it before, I'll say it again. Give fruit the boot. Even the fiber benefits of fruit are gone when you blend it. And please see my interview with the glucose goddess. She agrees. And human studies show that when you Blend fruit. It spikes your blood sugar exactly as if you were having fruit juice. And most people now know how deadly fruit juice is. A fruit smoothie does the same thing because you've unlocked the sugar from the fiber and you absorb it as if the fiber wasn't there. So please don't, don't be fooled that a fruit smoothie is loaded with fiber. It's gonna do the exact same thing to you as fruit juice. Finally, remember that most fruits sold at big box stores and most grocery stores are sprayed with chemicals you probably don't want to consume. Even blueberries are now on the dirty dozen list for the most laden fruits with herbicides and pesticides. Buyer beware. There is no human need for fruit, especially in a fruit smoothie alternative. My green smoothie from the Plant Paradox is still a classic smoothie drink that does not contain the mischievous ingredients. Number four, bacon and other highly processed meats. What qualifies as a processed meat? First of all, stay away from endorsement industrial sausages and bacon. They're usually loaded with sugar, salt and preservatives, and they've not been cured in the traditional way. All of these products have a really nasty sugar molecule called Neu5GC, which is really good at causing damage to your brain, your gut, your blood vessels and your joints. It's so associated with heart disease, arthritis, and cancer that a 2010 study published in the journal Circulation show that eating one serving of processed meat a day increases your risk of heart disease by a whopping 42%. Now there is an alternative true fermented cured meats from Europe, like prosciutto and lactofermented sausages. The NEU 5 GC is gone. So if you've got to have your breakfast meat and want to avoid all the dangers, have some prosciutto from Italy or look at a sausage and look for lactic acid cultures. That means that these sausages were fermented. And you'll find that not any of the industrial processed stuff that you're buying in the grocery store will have that on the label. Finally, most yogurts. Let's not kid ourselves. Most of these are sugar bombs. Most of them are made from casein A1 cows in the United States. Just when you thought summer couldn't get any hotter, Pluto TV is turning up the heat with thousands of free movies presenting Summer of cinema. Stream your favorite blockbuster films like Gladiator.
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