Steven Gundry Quotes

Inflammation as understood in man and the higher animals is a phenomenon that almost always results from the intervention of some pathogenic microbe.

I'm now convinced that all arthritis, most coronary artery disease, acne, eczema, and the autoimmune diseases are all caused or worsened by lectins.

Lectins are plant proteins that protect the plant and its seeds from being eaten by basically hacking into the animal's immune system, causing the animal to have inflammation.

Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.

I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.

Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease.

The story of gluten as it relates to the brain throws a wide net, so much more encompassing than the inflammation of a small section of the small intestine that characterizes celiac disease.

Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.

Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.

I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain.

Sometimes your immune system gets a little heated, and you're more susceptible to getting some illnesses that way.

Vanilla is anti-inflammatory and reduces free radicals.

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

Lectins bind to receptors on the surface of each cell lining the gut, breaking down the tight junctions that normally make an impenetrable barrier between the intestinal contents including bacteria and ourselves.

Arthritis, Crohn's disease, psoriasis, depression - all of those diseases are a result of our neglected biochemistry. We need to be stimulated to help fight disease. Cold is a great stimulator.

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

Rheumatoid arthritis generally happens when your immune system attacks your joints, but I've had it attack my iris.

Women will tell you, 80 percent of the time - if you listen - what is wrong with them. And what frustrates me, as a physician who takes care of a lot of women with autoimmune diseases, is that women have to request and find a physician... who will actually take their complaints seriously and investigate.

Before I changed my diet, every time I ate, my torso would feel burning hot, and the areas around my lymph nodes would really ache.

I have alopecia. That's an autoimmune condition. I don't like to say disease because I don't feel like I'm diseased. So it's a condition. And it's like your immune system is confused. So it attacks the hair follicles, and so your hair falls out.

You know, my joints don't feel sore as much, I digest food a lot better, my hands feel less swollen so I feel really good.

Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.

When women and men have approximately equal life expectancies, it seems to be because women die not only in childbirth (fewer than thought) but about equal from diseases; poor sanitation and water; inadequate healthcare; and diseases of malnutrition. In industrialized societies, early deaths are caused more by diseases triggered by stress, which breaks down the immune system. It is since stress has become the key factor that men have died so much sooner than women.

It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.

Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.