Steven Gundry, M.D.
The Primal Kitchen Podcast
Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti
4.4 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Elle Russ chats with Steven Gundry, M.D. about his new book The Longevity Paradox. During his 40-year medical career he performed over 10,000 heart surgeries and developed patented, life-saving medical technology. After discovering key secrets to health 15 years ago, his mission is to prevent surgery by helping patients heal themselves through proper nutrition. His best-selling book from 2008, Dr. Gundry’s Diet Evolution,focused on specific diet principles for weight-loss and disease reversal. His second book, The Plant Paradox, further illuminates truths about hidden dangers of supposed “healthy” foods.
Dr. Gundry founded Gundry MD in 2016—a wellness blog, YouTube channel and supplement company to achieve optimum vitality. He practices medicine at the International Heart & Lung Institute and Center for Restorative Medicine in Palm Springs and Santa Barbara, CA.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Mark Sisson. Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast, where we deliver a variety of fresh content to help you live awesome. |
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| 0:21.9 | Hey, everyone, welcome to the Primal Blueprint.com. Hey, everyone. |
| 0:22.9 | Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast. |
| 0:24.8 | Today we have a wonderful repeat offender on the show, Dr. Stephen Gundry. |
| 0:29.2 | He was originally on episode 191 of the Primal Blueprint Podcast. |
| 0:33.5 | We were talking about his last book, The Plant Paradox. |
| 0:36.3 | And today we're going to be talking about |
| 0:37.5 | the longevity paradox, how to die young at a ripe old age. Dr. Stephen Gundry has a 40-year medical career, |
| 0:46.3 | performed over 10,000 heart surgeries. And after discovering key secrets to health 15 years ago, |
| 0:52.5 | his mission is to prevent surgery by helping |
| 0:54.6 | patients heal themselves through proper nutrition. We will put everything in the show notes to |
| 0:59.5 | connect with him and his books. Welcome back to the show. Thanks for having me, Al. So I was reading |
| 1:05.2 | again, really great work. I love the plant paradox and I loved our conversation. Let's get right into it. |
| 1:11.2 | From the very beginning from the get-go in your book, you get right into the gut and mitochondria. |
| 1:19.3 | And I love the conversation between the two regarding longevity. So if we could just start off by |
| 1:25.6 | tell us what are and what do you mean by gut buddies |
| 1:29.2 | and then also define mitochondria and then maybe we can get into you revealing that conversation |
| 1:34.6 | between the two. Yeah. So the actually maybe mitochondria are actually engulfed bacteria. |
| 1:47.4 | And long, long ago, they made a deal, I guess, with the devil to get swallowed and become the energy-producing factories of cells. |
| 1:58.7 | And they actually have their own DNA. They divide separately from the DNA and the |
| 2:05.6 | nucleus of a cell, and that's actually one of the cool things about them. So you can make more |
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