Dr. Alejandro Junger
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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No way.
He wrote a book, you know, about the gut recently.
I think he's like a super genius kind of guy. He's a, you know, he's a... He's an interesting guy. I like him a lot. We went to India together.
We were very good friends.
He talks a lot about lectins. He wrote a book called The Plant Paradox. Yes. Dr. Gundry and I don't agree in a few things. Is that one of them? That's one of them.
Well, because as a molecule in itself, these are molecules that are thought to be a defense mechanism of the plants because plants cannot run and escape from the predators. So they manufacture these chemicals that deter, that make the animals that eat them feel bad. Either itchy or allergic or something, right? Or stomachache. And some of these chemicals are these lectins.
But I think that focusing on that is a mistake because there's also something called hormesis, which is the good stresses in life, right? So some of these lectins actually cause... Some stress in the body, but the adaptation mechanisms that the body trigger and turn on to deal with that are actually reinforcing you. Really? Yeah.
Yeah.
So now this is a great way to jump into really the meat of what I came to talk to you about.
Which is this. I told you 10% of problems, approximately, ballpark in my head, that people suffer from are acute. 90% are chronic problems. Now chronic problems, 99%, if not 100% of chronic problems are, directly related to gut, to the gut. And this is why the gut became such a fashionable thing. And everybody's talking about the gut now and the microbiome and the, right?
Well, thank God we're putting our attention there because this is true. And this is my understanding and my experience in my practice around the world. I see people all over the world. I don't have an office. I Most people I treat, I treat for free. These people, my ex-wife's cleaner in the UK, when I went there and I saw her, and I can send you some videos to edit on the podcast.
She had severe eczema. She's such a nice and hardworking girl. And I saw her hands, they were cracked and bleeding, right? And I couldn't help myself. So I went to talk to her. And I said, I think I can help you with this. And she said, okay. So I put her on a gut repair program. And you should see what happened. I mean, it changed her life. And this is a problem she had for years.
And then she went to all the doctors that she could in the UK. I mean, she doesn't have access to, you know, a lot. But, you know, there is a good health system there. Nobody could help her. They put her on a...
they call biologicals you know which are basically basically a immune depressors because what happens is many of these these problems are autoimmune and your immune system can goes haywire and gives you what we see as a disease right we understand it as easy but but the thing is that
Nature is incredibly intelligent and we are not born with any information or pre-information or programming to get sick. In fact, the body doesn't know how to get sick. What we see as diseases are adaptation and survival mechanisms that have been turned on for too long and then they become a problem. That's when we detect them as a disease. Right? But it's not really a disease.
And I'll explain to you with something from my own specialty, cardiology, right? Which happens to be the number one killer of people in the world. Heart attacks, cardiovascular disease, right? Coronary artery disease. So what's happening? So this animal, the human being, is now running like a fish out of water, stressed out of high blood pressure, diabetes, chronic inflammation.
So the artery starts getting fissures, starts getting... Little injuries, right? And the body intelligently deposits a little bit of cholesterol. Just like a scab forms when you cut yourself, the scab forms and under the scab, the skin heals. And then when the skin heals, the scab falls and it's healed, right? The same thing would happen in the artery.
The plaque of cholesterol would go there, it would heal, and then the cholesterol would be reabsorbed. if the injury was just a short-term injury. But the injury is there every day, so the cholesterol is deposited every day.
Now, eventually, the cholesterol deposits so much that it narrows the passage of blood through the artery, or it breaks, it bleeds, a clot is formed, and you have a heart attack. But it's not a disease. It's an adaptation, survival mechanism. The problem is that we keep on, the injury is permanent. In nature, injury is momentary. You know, let's say... Yeah, yeah, I get what you're saying.
How do you change it? The gazelle that's being run by a tiger, you know, it... The cortisol goes up, adrenaline goes up, blood pressure goes up, heart rate goes up. There's going to be microfissures. But then when they escape the tiger, they go back to being present and eating what nature designed them to eat.
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