Bacteria Quote by Steven Gundry

Lectins enter our our joints, our nerve junctions, the lining of our blood vessels and our brain where they incite inflammation and autoimmune diseases.

— Steven Gundry

The longer I have been at this the more I think that lectins are the cause of leaky gut and all diseases.

— Steven Gundry

Often, lectins can get in the way of important cells communicating with one another. And when that happens, the body's response is usually inflammation…

— Steven Gundry

“the most dangerous trick pulled by lectins, which I now see on a daily basis in my patients, is that they bear an uncanny…

— Steven R. Gundry

“The human body has a hard time digesting prolamins: our digestive enzymes are not very good at breaking apart the bond between two prolamins.…

— Sarah Ballantyne

I make it very clear that cooking and soaking helps to reduce the lectins in troublesome foods like beans and grains.

— Steven Gundry

“Well, those anti-nutrients can stick to the lining of the intestine and cause it to break down. Now food particles escape the intestine and…

— James Adler

“We now know that when bacteria break down fibre, they produce chemicals called short chain fatty acids (SCFAs); these trigger an influx of anti-inflammatory…

— Ed Yong

All these bacteria that coat our skin and live in our intestines, they fend off bad bacteria. They protect us. And you can't even…

— Bonnie Bassler

“The bacteria don't physically reshape the gut themselves. Instead, they work via their hosts. They are more management than labour. Lora Hooper demonstrated this…

— Ed Yong

When major lectin-containing foods were introduced to our diet about 10,000 years ago in the form of grains and beans, our health dramatically changed…

— Steven Gundry

“Outside of gliadin, few things share such a lock-picking, intestinal-disrupting talent. Other factors that trigger zonulin and disrupt intestinal permeability include the infectious agents…

— William Davis