Dan Buettner

In Okinawa, the longest-lived women in the world, about 70% of their calories came from one food and one food alone, purple sweet potatoes.

Nuts as a snack, and then the cornerstone of every longevity diet in the world is beans.

And if you're eating a cup of beans a day, it's worth about four extra years of life expectancy.

People in blue zones did eat meat, but only about five times per month.

So a little more than once a week.

Meat was a celebratory food.

And over the course of the year, they ate about 20 pounds of meat.

Most of it was pork.

from their own pigs was industrial raised meat.

We in America, however, eat about 240 pounds of meat a year, about 11 times more meat than they do in the blue zones.

Put 240 pounds in perspective, that's like a bathtub of dead animal, which I guarantee if you're eating that, you're doubling or tripling your chance of cardiovascular disease, type two diabetes, dementia, and about 40% of cancers.

So not saying that you can't eat meat.

I'm just saying that the more you move to a whole food plant-based diet, the longer you're going to live.

And my books, like the Blue Zones Kitchen One Pot Meal, show you how to make these foods maniacally delicious.

All right, okay.

So Dr. Gundry, I know him.

He's a nice guy.

We both lived in Santa Barbara for a long time.

But Dr. Gundry conveniently doesn't tell people that, yes, beans have lots of lectin, but as soon as you cook them for 10 minutes, 99% of all the lectins are neutralized.

And also conveniently, he has an anti-lectin supplement he sells you.