The Doctor Behind Kelly Clarkson’s 37-Pound Weight Loss Explains the Diet He Invented – and Responds to Its Critics
Originally posted July 5, 2018, BravoTV.com
By Marianne Garvey
Kelly Clarkson used Steven R. Gundry’s Plant Paradox method.
Kelly Clarkson recently revealed that she lost 37 pounds – without exercise – thanks to The Plant Paradox, a book by cardiac surgeon Steven R. Gundry. She also claims the method helped her stabilize a thyroid issue she was dealing with.
“I literally read this book, and I did it for this autoimmune disease that I had and I had a thyroid issue, and now all my levels are back up. I’m not on medicine anymore because of this book,” she told Extra. “It’s basically about how we cook our food, non-GMO, no pesticides, eating really organic.”
The basics of the Plant Paradox diet
“First, it’s not a diet, it’s a lifestyle,” Dr. Gundry explains. “What it involves is trying to get plant proteins called lectins (carbohydrate-binding proteins) out of the diet, these are designed by plants as the defense system of the plant, and we have a pretty good defense system against them but because of changes in food and wide spread antibiotic use most of our microbiome has been destroyed. In the last five years we’ve become very vulnerable to attack by lectin – a cause of leaky gut, depression, arthritis, and other ailments.”
Dr. Gundry says people who follow the diet (and Kelly Clarkson herself) are either removing away major lectin containing foods from their diets, or pressure cooking the foods that contain lectin to remove the lectin. Foods that contain lectin are grains, beans, potatoes, eggplant, peppers, gogi berries, tomatoes, and most “nightshade” foods.
“We try to get as many out of our diet as we can,” he says, adding if you do eat these foods, “a pressure cooker will destroy all lectin except gluten.”
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