Steven Gundry

Steven R. Gundry is an American doctor and author. He is a former cardiac surgeon and currently runs his own clinic, investigating the impact of diet on health. Gundry conducted cardiac surgery research in the 1990s[1] and was a pioneer in infant heart transplant surgery,[2] and is a New York Times best-selling author of The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain.[3]

Steven R. Gundry
Steven R. Gundry, November 2019
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUSA
EducationM.D.
Alma mater
Scientific career
Fieldscardiothoracic surgery, medicine, nutrition
Institutions
Websitegundrymd.com

He is best known for his disputed claims that lectins, a type of plant protein found in numerous foods, cause inflammation resulting in many modern diseases.[4] The Plant Paradox diet suggests avoiding all foods containing lectins.[5] Scientists and dieticians have classified Gundry's claims about lectins as pseudoscience.[6][5] He sells supplements that he claims protect against or reverse the supposedly damaging effects of lectins.[7]

Career

Cardiothoracic Surgery

Gundry graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in 1972 and went on to earn a medical degree at the Medical College of Georgia in 1977.[8][9]

People reported in 1990 that a boy under the care of Gundry was healed of his heart defect.[10] The boy's recovery made the need for a heart transplant unnecessary, and he was discharged within weeks of being admitted.[11] During his career as a cardiothoracic surgeon, Gundry published three hundred articles and registered several patents for medical devices.[12]

Gundry left his position as chairman of cardiothoracic surgery at the Seventh-day Adventist Loma Linda University School of Medicine.

Diet

In 2002 Gundry abandoned his career as a cardiothoracic surgeon to establish The Center for Restorative Medicine, claiming to have "discovered some unconventional truths about human nutrition."[12] He has since authored two books focused on food-based health interventions, recommending a plant-based diet.[13][14] Although not mentioned in his first book, Dr. Gundry’s Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You and Your Waistline, his second book, The Plant Paradox, he advocates avoiding lectins, a class of proteins found in numerous plants.[4] In 2018 he published an accompanying recipe book.[15] T. Colin Campbell, a biochemist and advocate for plant-based diets, states that The Plant Paradox contains numerous poorly supported scientific claims and denies that it makes a "convincing argument that lectins as a class are hazardous."[7] Robert H. Eckel, an endocrinologist and past president of the American Heart Association, argues that Gundry's diet advice contradicts "every dietary recommendation represented by the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, American Diabetes Association and so on" and that it is not possible to draw any conclusions from Gundry's own research due to the absence of control patients in his studies. Writing in New Scientist, food writer and chef Anthony Warner notes that Gundry's theories "are not supported by mainstream nutritional science" and that evidence of the benefits of high-lectin containing diets "is so overwhelming as to render Gundry’s arguments laughable".[16]

Gundry sells supplements that he claims protect against the damaging effect of lectins.[9][7][16][6] Although Today's Dietician acknowledges evidence that consuming lectins in some raw foods like kidney beans can be harmful, it concludes that "preliminary studies have revealed potential health benefits of lectin consumption and minute evidence of harm."[3]

Books
  • Gundry, Steve (2009). Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You and Your Waistline. New York: Harmony Books. ISBN 9780307352118.
  • Gundry, Steve; Bell Buehl, O. (2017). The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain. New York: Harper Collins. ISBN 9780062966629.
  • Gundry, Steve (2018). The Plant Paradox Cookbook: 100 Delicious Recipes to Help You Lose Weight, Heal Your Gut, and Live Lectin-Free. New York: Harper Wave. ISBN 9780062843371.
  • Gundry, Steve (2019). The Plant Paradox Quick and Easy: The 30-Day Plan to Lose Weight, Feel Great, and Live Lectin-Free. New York: Harper Wave. ISBN 9781982625986.
  • Gundry, Steve (2019). The Longevity Paradox: How to Die Young at a Ripe Old Age. New York: Harper Collins. ISBN 9780062843395.
  • Gundry, Steve (2019). The Plant Paradox Family Cookbook: 80 One-Pot Recipes to Nourish Your Family Using Your Instant Pot, Slow Cooker, or Sheet Pan. New York: Harper Collins. ISBN 9780062911841.

References
  1. Grady, Denise (2000). "Making Some Trauma of Heart Surgery Disappear". The New York Times. Retrieved August 14, 2018. But beating-heart surgery is controversial, because of evidence that its benefits do not last as long as those from traditional bypass operations. Dr. Steven Gundry, head of cardiothoracic surgery at Loma Linda (Calif.) University Medical Center, led a study showing that patients who had beating-heart surgery in 1989 and 1990 were more likely than those who had traditional operations to develop blockages in the arteries that doctors had worked on. But Dr. Gundry said surgical techniques had changed since then, and he thought long-term results would improve, though more studies were needed to find out.
  2. "Infant Boy Survives Heart Peril". The New York Times. 1990. Retrieved August 14, 2018. Dr. Steven Gundry, a pioneer in infant heart transplant surgery, said it was unlikely that their child would ever need a transplant.
  3. "Ask the Expert: Clearing Up Lectin Misconceptions". Today's Dietitian Magazine. 2017. Retrieved August 14, 2018. The lectin-free diet has been popularized since cardiothoracic surgeon Steven Gundry, MD, FACS, FACC, released the New York Times bestseller The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain in April 2017. The book promotes a lectin-free diet to treat medical conditions such as autoimmune diseases, allergies, and cancer.
  4. Hamblin, James (April 24, 2017). "Lectins Could Become the Next Gluten". The Atlantic. Retrieved August 18, 2018. The book, The Plant Paradox, has an image of an artfully smashed tomato on the cover, and it tells readers that eating tomatoes is “inciting a kind of chemical warfare in our bodies, causing inflammatory reactions that can lead to weight gain and serious health conditions.”
  5. Shortsleeve, Cassie (June 13, 2019). "Will Cutting Out Lectins On The Plant Paradox Diet Make Losing Weight Easier?". Women's Health. Retrieved July 2, 2019.
  6. Rosenbloom, Cara (July 7, 2017). "Going 'lectin-free' is the latest pseudoscience diet fad". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 28, 2017.
  7. T. Colin Campbell and Thomas Campbell (August 23, 2017). "'The Plant Paradox' by Steven Gundry MD - A Commentary". T. Colin Campbell Centre for Nutrition Studies.
  8. "Steven Gundry". The Cardiothoracic Surgery Network. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
  9. Hamblin, James (April 24, 2017). "The Next Gluten-Level Obsession Could Be Lectins". The Atlantic. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
  10. Kilpatrick, Janet (December 24, 1990). "The Tiniest Wonder". People. Retrieved August 14, 2018. Although Weston no longer required a transplant, his heart needed surgical repair work. On Nov. 9, after inspecting the baby’s heart with a pressure meter attached to a catheter, Gundry performed the four-hour operation. His main repairs were rebuilding Weston’s mitral valve and patching the troublesome hole between the right and left ventricles. ... The doctors expected that Weston would need a few weeks to recuperate under an oxygen hood and more weeks at home on limited life support equipment. But Weston recovered so fast he was home in six days.
  11. "Infant Boy Survives Heart Peril". The New York Times. 1990. Retrieved August 14, 2018. After being transferred to Loma Linda, Weston remained for weeks on a waiting list for donor hearts. When doctors performed ultrasound tests on his heart about 10 days ago, they were amazed to find spontaneous and unprecedented development of the left side of the heart and the two valves.
  12. Howard, Jonathan (2019). "Semmelweis Reflex". Cognitive Errors and Diagnostic Mistakes. pp. 467–500. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-93224-8_27. ISBN 978-3-319-93223-1.
  13. Gundry, Steven R. (2008). Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn off the Genes that are Killing You—and Your Waistline—and Drop the Weight for Good (1st ed.). New York: Crown Publishers. ISBN 978-0307352118.
  14. Gundry, Steven (2017). The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain (1st ed.). Harper Wave. ISBN 978-0062427137.
  15. Bahar Gholipour (June 26, 2018). "No, You Probably Shouldn't Follow Kelly Clarkson's 'Lectin-Free' Diet". Live Science.
  16. Warner, Anthony (July 27, 2017). "Lectin-free is the new food fad that deserves to be skewered". New Scientist. Retrieved July 28, 2017.
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