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 cardiology research in the 1990s and was a pioneer in infant heart transplant surgery, and is a New York Times best-selling author of books such as The Plant Paradox: The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain.
He is best known for his claims that lectins, a type of plant protein found in numerous foods, cause inflammation resulting in many modern diseases. Scientists have classified the claims as pseudoscience. He sells supplements that he claims protect or reverse damaging effects.
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Career
Gundry graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in 1972 and went on to earn a medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia in 1977.
Gundry left his position as chairman of cardiothoracic surgery at the Seventh-day Adventist coeducational health sciences center, Loma Linda University School of Medicine.
The New York Times reported in 1990 that a boy under the care of Gundry was healed of his heart defect. The boy's recovery made the need for a heart transplant unnecessary and he was later checked out of Loma Linda University Medical Center within weeks of being admitted.
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Author
In 2002, Gundry decided to focus on food-based health interventions, recommending a plant-based diet and avoiding lectins.
Reception
T. Colin Campbell, a biochemist and advocate for plant-based diets, noted that Gundry's 2017 book The Plant Paradox contained numerous poorly supported scientific claims and that it did not make a "convincing argument that lectins as a class are hazardous." Robert H. Eckel, an endocrinologist and past president of the American Heart Association, stated that Gundry's diet advice was "against every dietary recommendation represented by the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, American Diabetes Association and so on" and that it was not possible to draw any conclusions from Gundry's own research on the effects of lectin-free diets due to the absence of any control patients. Writing in New Scientist, the food writer and chef Anthony Warner noted 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". Gundry sells supplements including some costing $80 per month that claim to protect people from the supposedly damaging effect of lectins. Today's Dietician noted that "Although the research on lectin ... is still emerging, preliminary studies have revealed potential health benefits of lectin consumption and minute evidence of harm."
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