See Dr. Gundry's website.
"Plant Paradox" is a way to change what you eat to improve your overall health by specifically improving your gut health. The diet eliminates lectins and other things such as the dairy protein casein A-1 that can potentially wreck your gut. Instead you find yourself eating a lot(!) of avocados. There are direct parallels to the Keto or "Ketotarian" Diet, however the focus here is improving your health first. Weight loss is just a happy side effect. A few other side effects of this lifestyle are better skin, less inflammation, less digestive issues, better sleep, and so on. Oddly, the first thing we both experienced within a few days was a much keener sense of smell! (Sometimes we regret that side effect.)
The diet is mostly green leafy vegetables and healthy fats. Protein is great as long as it is high quality, but has a limit and is not "Adkins-style". You want to have proteins that do not come from legumes (sorry pea protein... things weren't really working out between us anyway). Pasture-raised chicken (NOT free range/organic/vegetarian fed), wild caught seafood, grass-fed beef, some specific "true" nuts, and A2-milk products are all on the "good" list.
As mentioned earlier, eating the Gundry way puts you pretty close to a keto diet. With a few simple tweaks (for us it was slightly increasing the amount of fat in our meals) you find yourself in Ketotarian land. More to come on that later.
A note on fruit: people seem to be really confused by Dr. Gundry when he says to eat in-season fruit. His point is to have it once a year when it is actually in season and not to have it all the time. It is not that the fruit is somehow "healthier" when it is in season and can be eaten any time as long as it was picked in-season. In fact, most in-season fruit is loaded with sugar (fructose), a known inflammatory agent, and its purpose in ancient times was to help us gain weight prior to the oncoming famine of Winter. So if you want to get fat and feel ache-y, by all means go ahead and eat ripe fruit year-round, but that isn't what the Plant Paradox is all about.
"Plant Paradox" is a way to change what you eat to improve your overall health by specifically improving your gut health. The diet eliminates lectins and other things such as the dairy protein casein A-1 that can potentially wreck your gut. Instead you find yourself eating a lot(!) of avocados. There are direct parallels to the Keto or "Ketotarian" Diet, however the focus here is improving your health first. Weight loss is just a happy side effect. A few other side effects of this lifestyle are better skin, less inflammation, less digestive issues, better sleep, and so on. Oddly, the first thing we both experienced within a few days was a much keener sense of smell! (Sometimes we regret that side effect.)
The diet is mostly green leafy vegetables and healthy fats. Protein is great as long as it is high quality, but has a limit and is not "Adkins-style". You want to have proteins that do not come from legumes (sorry pea protein... things weren't really working out between us anyway). Pasture-raised chicken (NOT free range/organic/vegetarian fed), wild caught seafood, grass-fed beef, some specific "true" nuts, and A2-milk products are all on the "good" list.
As mentioned earlier, eating the Gundry way puts you pretty close to a keto diet. With a few simple tweaks (for us it was slightly increasing the amount of fat in our meals) you find yourself in Ketotarian land. More to come on that later.
A note on fruit: people seem to be really confused by Dr. Gundry when he says to eat in-season fruit. His point is to have it once a year when it is actually in season and not to have it all the time. It is not that the fruit is somehow "healthier" when it is in season and can be eaten any time as long as it was picked in-season. In fact, most in-season fruit is loaded with sugar (fructose), a known inflammatory agent, and its purpose in ancient times was to help us gain weight prior to the oncoming famine of Winter. So if you want to get fat and feel ache-y, by all means go ahead and eat ripe fruit year-round, but that isn't what the Plant Paradox is all about.
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