Dr. Alejandro Junger
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first heard Jan 2025
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And if you don't have a good... So if the nervous system is busy doing other things, like adaptation and survival mechanisms, because there's a mess, there's a broken gut, there's a lot of antigens, there's a lot of surfaces coming in, undigested food, good bacteria, bad bacteria, it doesn't matter what... because we have good bacteria in the gut, right?
But if those goes into the blood, it's not good. Even if it's good to have them in the gut, it's not good to have them in your blood. So when that happens, oh, there's a huge reaction and adaptation mechanism. The body's now in survival mechanism.
It's survival mode.
So there's certain fruits that are okay. There's certain fruits that are not. There's a whole, and in my book, it's explained really well. And each food that I take out from the 21-day program, there's a reason for, right? So there's some fruits that are not allowed during a gut repair program.
Like oranges, like citrus. Lemons are fine, but oranges are not fine.
Because a lot of people have some kind of negative reaction, adverse reaction. And it's not always the same. It's not an allergic reaction necessarily, but these are triggers. These are some of the nutrients that these plants have. that these vegetables have or these fruits have that may not allow the healing of the gut completely.
For example, bananas. I don't allow bananas in the program because they actually constipate you a little bit.
You know? And there's vegetables that are not allowed, like eggplants are not allowed. Why? The eggplants are not allowed because they have certain nutrients that are pro-inflammatory, right? Like solanine in eggplants and tomatoes have some lectins. So there are... So no tomatoes on this plant. So no tomatoes on this plant, no nightshades. No nightshades. Yeah.
And then obviously no gluten, obviously no processed foods. So everything has to be real food and not food-like products.
Completely fine if the chicken comes from running in the fields and eating worms and little bugs, as opposed to chickens that never see the light of the day and cannot even run because they're in this...
Yeah, free range.
Yeah.
The most similar to wild game possible. And wild game is even better. It means animals that are living the way that nature designed them to live. Same thing with cows.
If you're going to eat cows, then be them grass-fed, free-roaming, happy cows, and not cows from feedlots fed with grains and given antibiotics and... So, you know, if it's fish from the sea or the rivers, not from fish farms where they give them all kinds of chemicals as well. Right.
There is a 12-hour window. that you have to respect 12 hours between the last meal of one day and the first meal of the second day, of the next day.
As a minimum, at minimum 12 hours. Why? Because it takes about eight hours to finish digestion and absorption. And then when digestion, because what happens is this, digestion takes a lot of energy. That's when you have a big meal, you kind of fall asleep, you know, get tired, right? So it takes a lot of energy for the body to digest, right?
So when digestion is happening, other functions that require a lot of energy have to be slowed down because there's a lot of energy being directed to digestion because digestion is so important. In our history, we didn't have food available all the time. So when there was food, evolution took the- That makes total sense to me. Yeah.
Most people walking around in the modern world have some degree of gut injury. I'm convinced that there's really almost no one with a completely healthy gut.
Yeah. Yeah. Because it's inevitable. We live in this world. We do get stressed. We have a timetable. I saw you looking at your watch. We have things to do and we are exposed to chemicals.
No, no, I took your... I know, you can talk for another five hours, right? So, you know, you have to rest your digestive system. So you take away the foods that are difficult to digest, you take away the foods that cause triggers in the body, and you reduce... the work of digestion. That's why we have a liquid meal for breakfast and a liquid meal for dinner in the 21-day program.
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