Is Your Poop Healthy? Warning Signs You Need to Know — Episode 399
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What Steven Gundry recommended
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If you consistently have floating stools, start taking digestive enzymes with meals — both bile acids and pancreatic enzymes — to address possible enzyme insufficiency.
“start taking digestive enzymes with your meals
DosageWith meals; includes bile acids and pancreatic enzymesCertaintyexplicitrecommendation -
Avoid conventionally raised beef, chicken, and pork because they contain antibiotics used to fatten the animals.
“antibiotics... in almost all of our conventionally raised animal products
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Avoid glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup), which was patented as an antibiotic and destroys gut bacteria.
“Glyphosate was patented as an antibiotic. It absolutely destroys gut bacteria
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Eat plenty of soluble fiber / prebiotics — long-chain polysaccharides that feed good gut bacteria and produce large, healthy bowel movements.
“giant poops because that soluble fiber is eaten by your gut buddies
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Avoid insoluble fiber (especially from grain hulls like wheat, barley, rye); it irritates the gut lining like 'razor blades' and is not digested by good bacteria.
“insoluble fiber as swallowing razor blades or nails
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Avoid wheat germ — it is all insoluble fiber and contains wheat germ agglutinin, one of the worst lectins.
“wheat germ is all insoluble fiber... one of the worst lectins
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Aim for many cups of vegetables daily (Dr. Wahls suggests ~9 cups); Gundry and his wife eat a large salad bowl of roughly 6–7 cups of various lettuces.
“eat about nine cups of vegetables every day
Dosage~6–9 cups per dayCaveatsMost people can't do this practically.Certaintypersonal onlyrecommendation -
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Eat Belgian endive for its inulin prebiotic content.
“In frisee, in Belgian endive
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Eat artichoke hearts/artichokes — rich in inulin prebiotic.
“really present in artichoke hearts and artichokes
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Eat Jerusalem artichokes (sunchokes) as a great inulin prebiotic source.
“It's great in Jerusalem artichokes
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Use psyllium powder as a cheap, effective prebiotic.
“psyllium powder, which is a great prebiotic
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Use ground flax seeds as a prebiotic.
“Ground flax seeds are a great prebiotic
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Use apple pectin — readily available, cheap, and a great prebiotic.
“apple pectin... another great prebiotic
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Use modified citrus pectin — a favorite prebiotic shown to break up bacterial biofilms in the intestines; expensive but effective.
“shown to break up... biofilms of bad bacteria
CaveatsExpensiveCertaintyexplicitstrong endorsement -
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If you have diarrhea, the first step is to remove lectins from your diet — they break tight junctions in the gut lining (same pathway as cholera toxin).
“if you have a problem with diarrhea, the first thing... get lectins out
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If you have diarrhea or gut issues, avoid raw cruciferous vegetables and raw spinach; cook them thoroughly, ideally in a pressure cooker.
“I don't let them have raw vegetables, raw cruciferous vegetables first
DosageCook thoroughly, ideally in pressure cookerCaveatsOnly when symptomatic; can be reintroduced laterCertaintyexplicitmild caution -
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Use a pressure cooker to thoroughly cook lectin-containing vegetables to reduce their irritant effect on the gut.
“cook them within an inch of their life, particularly in a pressure cooker
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References his book The Plant Paradox, noting the three-day cleanse is not appropriate for those with diarrhea/intestinal issues.
“if you've got intestinal issues and diarrhea, don't start with the three-day cleanse
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“I send my patients to the Smile Generation Network
CaveatsSponsored contentCertaintyexplicitstrong endorsement