Overgrowth of any one or more of the hundreds of microbial species that live in our gut (due to common deadly disruptors) leads to dysbiosis and leaky-gut (Intestinal Hyperpermeability) allowing toxins in the gut to be reabsorbed into the body producing low-grade inflammation and abnormal metabolism throughout the body that cause disease.

A high carbohydrate low fat (HCLF) diet is now recognized to be a much greater risk to our health than a high fat low carbohydrate diet (HFLC). As the intake of sugar exceeds 50 pounds per year we see the emergence of Western disease – heart attacks, cancer, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer’s etc. often with a lag time of 18-20 years.

Robert Lustig MD, recommends limiting daily sugar intake from all sources, including natural ones like fruit to no more than 25gm/day (4gm= 1 teaspoon) this means:    

• No more than 6tsp/day for women  
• No more than 9tsp/day for men
• (A coke is 11tsp – even a glass of fresh orange juice is 7tsp)

Any excess above 6-9tsp of sugar causes fatty liver disease and injures your microbiome leading to insulin resistance which now affects half of the world’s population and at least 80% of the population of the USA, India and many other countries.       

The first mistake in our nutrition occurred over 10,000 years ago in our 2.5 million year history when we began growing grains (the seeds of grass). Together with the domestication of animals (dairy), agriculture marked a dramatic shift in the diet of humans who were predominantly hunter-gatherers before this period.     

Lectins are found in almost all plants and other foods in our diet including meat, poultry, and fish. When animals eat grains (or soy) these proteins end up in the animals’ meat or milk. The same happens in chicken and farm-raised seafood. The most common lectin people recognize is gluten. Almost 2,000 years ago a mutation occurred in Northern European cows that caused them to make the protein casein A1 in their milk instead of the normal casein A2 that the Southern European cows make. This mutation again hurts our microbiome.   

A more recent problem are the plants of the New World that Christopher Colombus exposed to Asians, Europeans and Africans for example lectins not only in grains and pseudo-grains like amaranth and quinoa but also legumes (including peanuts and cashews) squash family, the nightshades (tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, chili's etc.) and chia seeds.    

One of the most important things you can do to recover your health is to stop lectins from blowing holes in your gut wall.     

Pressure cooking legumes will largely decrease the lectin content. Lectins are probably the #1 cause of dysbiosis in the gut.     

It is important to remove the lectin-containing fats so prevalent in our diets namely soy, peanut, cottonseed, sunflower and canola which contain not only lectins but high amounts of polyunsaturated omega-6-FA that incite inflammation throughout the body. Only cook with butter, ghee or coconut oil as these will not oxidase cholesterol.

        

        

Prof Valter Lango and Steven Gundry MD in contrast to the usual dictate of humans needing 1gm/kg body weight of protein per day both agree that only .37 grams of protein per kg are needed each day. Most Americans consume far more protein particularly animal proteins than they need.

        

Moreover, certain amino-acids in animal protein – methionine, leucine and isoleucine seem to be the culprits in promoting heart disease, cancer and rapid aging – when you consume sugar along with certain proteins more prevalent in animals and plants they stimulate the ultimate anti-aging receptors (MTOR) and increased insulin growth factor (IgF1). Low IgF1 is associated with longevity.

        

This means a diet high in both sugars and protein encourages weight gain and makes a person more susceptible to disease and shortens your health and lifespan.    

Every time you take a course of Levaquin or Ciprofloxacin or another broad-spectrum antibiotic you kill most of the microbes in your gut. It can take up to 2 years for them to return. In fact, every time a child takes an antibiotic it will increase their chance to develop Chron’s, diabetes, obesity or asthma later in life. In fact, a single dose of antibiotics taken by women during pregnancy can make her child fat.      

 Motrin, Advil, Aleve etc. damage the mucosal barrier in the small intestine and colon allowing lectins, lipopolysaccharides (LPS) and other foreign substances to pass through the gut wall causing widespread inflammation. Recent research shows an increased risk of kidney failure. Like Gundry says swallowing a single Advil or Aleve is like swallowing a hand grenade.  

Zantac, Prilosec, Nexium etc should be avoided at all costs. These protein pump inhibitors (PPIs) reduce the amount of stomach acid. This results in the stomach acid not being able to kill the “bad bugs” that result in them overpopulating the gut altering our normal microbiome. Not only do they stop stomach acid production but they can kill off your mitochondria’s ability to produce energy in every cell in your body. Finally, people on PPIs are 3x more likely to get pneumonia and be protein malnourished. Zantac has recently been found to cause cancer. 

Products such as saccharin, aspartame, sucralose etc. can alter the microbiome. A single packet of Splenda in a Duke study killed off 50% of normal intestinal flora. Remember the body does not distinguish sweetness in coke vs a diet coke and will bump your insulin in the same way.      

These hormone disruptors are a diverse group found in plastics, cosmetics, preservatives, cash register receipts, sunscreens and insecticides. BHT is used to preserve food and BPA is used to make plastic water bottles stronger. These disruptors leach into our bodies. Sanitizers, soap, mouthwash, toothpaste and many other personal care products destroy our good microbes and can produce obesity by changing our gut flora.    

   

Herbicides, insecticides and pesticides are different forms of biocides. As Gundry writes “Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) were created by inserting foreign genes into plants, with the objective of making the plants produce resistance to Roundup (herbicide). In theory, Roundup would kill the weeds around the crop leaving the plant protected.” Roundup contains an ingredient in Agent Orange and glyphosate. Unfortunately, the glyphosate remains on the grains and beans that are fed to livestock and gets incorporated into their fat, meat and milk which we then eat or drink. Roundup then enters our gut where it does its real damage which interferes with protein synthesis and paralysis key liver enzymes. WHO in 2015 declared it was a “probable human carcinogen” – it is also linked to kidney and liver failure, birth defects, infertility, allergies and other chronic diseases.    

    

For millennia we have acquired food in response to changes in daylight specifically the blue wavelength spectrum. Long days and short nights stimulate our bodies to eat as much as possible to prepare for winter. In winter instead of seeking food, we burn our fat – this cycling is called metabolic flexibility.     

Modern life is dominated by the blue light that tricks our body into thinking we are always in summer which increases our appetite and weight. It also suppresses the production of melatonin which cause sleep deprivation. This also has consequences for our microbiome.

In summary to “die young at a very old age” I recommend the following nutritional plan: - 

1. An HFLC diet (70-75% fat) – only healthy fats.
2. Keep protein (mostly plants) at 15% and carbohydrates at 10%.
3. Avoid ALL LECTIN BASED FOODS if you have an Autoimmune Disease.
4. Avoid all 10 microbiome disruptors for optimum health.

Dr Graham Simpson, is one of the world’s leading experts on diabesity, reversing ‘insulin resistance’, and anti-aging. He has made it his life’s mission to reverse the global epidemic of lifestyle-caused chronic disease. A passionate doctor, futurist, educator, scientist and international best-selling author and founder of Eternity Medicine. Dr Simpson has written ‘The 4 Week Diabesity Cure’, ‘The Metabolic Miracle’, ‘WellMan’ (Live Longer by Controlling Inflammation) and ‘The Top 10 cardio-metabolic diseases that stop you living to 100 and how to combat them today. 

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