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00:00:01
Christian Yordanov
Welcome back to the podcast Christian Jourdanov here. Today we're gonna try to answer the question of how full of shit is Dr. Gundry? The question is that we're trying to answer is not, is he full of shit? But how full of shit is he? Because it's bad, it's bad. So if i want i I want you to imagine ah ah graph and on the X axis we can plot
00:00:37
Christian Yordanov
our increase in knowledge of stuff, nutrition, maybe physiology and how the human body works and what is required for health and to thrive and what did our ancestors do and how did they get here, right? How did they populate the world? How did they thrive up until, you know, a couple of hundred years ago?
00:01:07
Christian Yordanov
And on the Y axis, we can plot how full of shit Dr. Gundry is. And what is striking is that the two are almost perfectly correlated. So the more you learn about health and nutrition and stuff,
00:01:27
Christian Yordanov
the more full of shit Dr. Ghandri is. Isn't that amazing? Isn't that amazing? how I hope you can imagine the graph. There's a and in near infinite increase in the full of shittiness that the man can and body. Okay. And this sort of started a few days ago. Well, it started a long time ago. Tell you the story about it a little bit later, but, a few days ago, I was speaking to someone that booked a call with me and he was like, yeah, I was taking some supplements and it didn't help me. And I think supplements suck and I don't want to take supplements.
00:02:10
Christian Yordanov
I'm like, I mean, obviously I'm not going to be able to help you in that case. So, you know, good luck and all that good stuff. But just curious, what, whose program did you try? What did you try? And he's like, Oh, I didn't know. I was not sure, not not sure what he took. And then he started, eventually he coaxed it out of him that he was taking Dr. Gundry stuff. And in in case you don't know who Dr. Gundry is, he is, so he's a physician.
00:02:39
Christian Yordanov
So this is from Wikipedia. Stephen R. Gundry, born in 1950, is an American physician, low carbohydrate diet author, and former car cardiothoracic surgeon, author of The Plant Paradox. And then he also, after the that, started a whole series of The Paradox, The Longevity Paradox, his long quote, unquote, longevity book, which I'll discuss in a little while.
00:03:05
Christian Yordanov
but he's the dude that's kind of put lectins on the map type of thing. And listen, I'm not, I'm not a hater because the guy's successful or something like that. More power to you if you're successful and you're helping people. And I'm not saying he's not helping people, but like all sort of people that go right, if they're going to the mainstream, you know, there's some, some stuff,
00:03:35
Christian Yordanov
wrong with what they're what they're talking about. I'm not saying yeah he has an agenda or whatever, anything like that. It's very easy to dismantle a lot of his claims, if you know a little bit. And the more you learn, the more the more nonsense he seems to spout. So the dude I was talking to, he was talking about, he was trying Dr. Gundry's stuff and who who by the way, Dr. Gandhi, he definitely was in terms of his education and stuff. Apparently he graduated from Yale University yeah with a Bachelor of Arts and went to the Medical College of Georgia. But from what I understand, so he he went also to the Loma Linda University School of Medicine. Now, if you don't know,
00:04:27
Christian Yordanov
Loma Linda University is a private Seventh Day Adventist Health Sciences University in Loma Linda and Loma Linda is I believe one of the the blue zones as you know.
00:04:42
Christian Yordanov
from Dan Buettner's work around that. And so they have a lot of centenarians in terms of ah proportionally to their population. But what's also interesting is that they're very, we um for the most part, very sort of vegan.
00:05:00
Christian Yordanov
there or plant-based, right? So Dr. Gundry, like it or not, has been institutionalized into plants are better for you than animals in terms of food, in terms of nutrition.
00:05:15
Christian Yordanov
And animal fats will kill you, that kind kind of thing. Now, quick segue. What's interesting is that if you if you do what what we've done, at least in the US, s which is feed these animals, like especially chickens and pigs and stuff, they were fed corn and soy and whatever else for for so long that they had so much omega-6 fats in there they were so sick right uh those animals uh and unhealthy and they had so much omega-6 that if you do some correlational research with the consumption of that kind of meat and health you may very well find that it's detrimental to health but
00:06:02
Christian Yordanov
This yeah is a little bit backwards because if the animals were healthy, why why didn't we have all of these diseases back in the day? you know And don't tell me it's because people live longer today because like people were diseased as hell already in their 30s, 40s, and 50s.
00:06:21
Christian Yordanov
So anyway, so Dr. Gundry, he has been indoctrinated and brainwashed into the plant based stuff. So it's not even necessarily his fault that he he believes the stuff. He truly believes the stuff. I've listened to him on podcasts and the the
00:06:42
Christian Yordanov
The guy believes but believes some of the stuff, that ah ah or or just he just believes the stuff he's saying is correct, right? But anyway, so the this dude I was talking to, he told me about Gundry, so I went while we were talking, I just went on his website, Dr. Gundry's website, to look at the products he sells, because you better believe believe he sells a lot of products.
00:07:01
Christian Yordanov
And what I did was I went to supplements and I went to the i went to find the first thing that is just a g pretty generic thing, right? Just something that's pretty generic, none of this sort of pro plant, complete shake, energy, renew, trademark, bioskin youth complex. Before I even get into those, I just looked for something very simple and boring like vitamin D.
00:07:30
Christian Yordanov
so Let me just open it up here. So his vitamin D 5000 TM. I now you can um trademark the number 5000. Jesus. That is crazy. So anyway, the vitamin D 5000 TM is $24.95 for one bottle. Okay.
00:08:00
Christian Yordanov
So, let me just see how many servings. for Okay, for 90 servings. Okay, so three months of life, you take one per day. not Not very cheap. It's damn expensive, right? But I'm sure it's it must have really good ingredients, right? So let's look at the ingredients. And the first ingredient is organic olive oil because Dr. Gundry says that the purpose of food is to get olive oil into your mouth.
00:08:30
Christian Yordanov
That's, he thinks it's, olive oil is the holy grail because of the antioxidants in there that God knows what they do. you know they They were studying in a petri dish and maybe some rats and oh yeah, they replaced soybean oil with olive oil and lo and behold, oil those animals were healthier and lived longer or whatever. you know what what benefit Can you think of what benefit an oil that came out of a friggin' olive, which is almost inedible. Like, I don't know if you like olives. I mean, you have to soak them. You can eat it off the tree, you know? It's just pretty inedible. This is an ultra-processed food. It's not, like, terrible for you or anything, but, like, it's... it's
00:09:22
Christian Yordanov
It's been sort of touted, especially in the US, it's been touted as this in incredibly helpful thing. And here in Europe, nobody gives a shit, you know, because there's so many olives, especially so in the South here where we live in Portugal and Spain, there's so many olive trees everywhere you go. Nobody gives a shit, like olive oil is cheap and even organics, the organic stuff is cheap and available everywhere and nobody cares and it's the real stuff. But anyway, so his,
00:09:49
Christian Yordanov
vitamin D, which is $25 for God's sake for a three month supply. but of course you get a discount. if If you're a member, then you can get six bottles for $131. So that's, that's quick math, 131 70 divided by six. So it's barely any freaking discount doctor. It's like 2195 per bottle. Jesus Christ, bro. Like,
00:10:17
Christian Yordanov
Jesus Christ, please give us a proper discount, man. Just quickly while we're talking, I'm just going to tell you, if I go to iHerb dot.com and I type in vitamin D, I'm not saying the vitamin D, the first vitamin D I find here is going to be perfect, but here's one. Listen to this. Okay. So let me just see the ingredients to make sure it's not a horrible one. Okay.
00:10:45
Christian Yordanov
Here's one with, or listen, listen. Here is here is a vitamin D from iHerb.com that costs $4.99. Okay. So $20 less than Dr. Gundry's. It's got 30 soft gels more, right? So not instead of 90, 120, right? So an extra month supply.
00:11:13
Christian Yordanov
And look at the ingredients, organic olive oil. gelatin, bovine, glycerin, purified water. It's also got organic olive oil. So, you know, is Dr. Gundry full of it? I mean, like, fuck me. He's selling vitamin D for 5x the goddamn price. But if you buy six bottles, you will save $18. So make sure you sign up for for a free account. And, you know, that we're going to spam you every goddamn day with our new
00:11:48
Christian Yordanov
gut lectin free blocker, artificial sweetener free nonsense. But check this out. This is going to absolutely knock your socks off. So Dr. Gundry's ingredients, I didn't finish.
00:12:04
Christian Yordanov
what his ingredients were. So the $5 vitamin D, that's a got a month extra, that has gelatin as the as the capsule. But Dr. Gundry has been so indoctrinated and he so believes that all of those stuff all those things are really bad. Or maybe he just knows that people will like, oh, when you tell them it's plant-based or whatever, they're going to buy it. They're going to pay extra because, oh my God, it's so much better. He's in California after all. you know Lots of people there would probably think that because they're themselves so sort of in marketed so hard or propagandized and I thought that it's their fault or anything. But Dr. Gundry's soft gel shell, instead of using gelatin, it uses a non-GMO modified corn starch, glycerin purified water, and sorbitol and
00:13:02
Christian Yordanov
carroin and Now, if you've never heard of carrageenan, it is basically
00:13:11
Christian Yordanov
It is basically well known now that it, uh, increases leaky gut increases intestinal permeability. So Dr. Gundry, the gut guy, the gut bodies, he's all about feeding or gut bodies. amazing fibers from plants. He doesn't talk like that. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. it's It's very early in the morning. I have not had a full breakfast, so I may be a little bit cranky.
00:13:40
Christian Yordanov
i'm not though i'm not I'm not bitter or anything at all. just I want to spread awareness of the nonsense. so kera gita just Just last week, I saw a study. I'm subscribed to this the service where they kind of give you you know latest research type stuff on nutrition and supplement supplements and stuff. and they just Another study found that carrageenan,
00:14:04
Christian Yordanov
which is used for jetting, thickening, stabilizing properties in in various various food products and stuff. It also, or or another study that that that found that it increases intestinal permeability. So what the hell does Dr. Gangi, what's he doing having this in his freaking supplement that costs five times more? Five times more, man.
00:14:28
Christian Yordanov
he's He's obviously not formulating these supplements. He might not even know that this thing that contains carrageenan because he's just paying somebody to formulate his supplements. He's also paying somebody to write his books. I'll tell you, because I did see this when I was writing my my book, How to Actually Live Longer last year.
00:14:52
Christian Yordanov
I looked online, let me just see, longevity paradox. So I looked online and I actually had a look at Dr. Gundry's longevity paradox.
00:15:04
Christian Yordanov
Just to see what drivel he's dribbling, who he's drooling on the pages. And then if you look, if you go to longevity paradox, how to die young at a ripe old age, will see that there's two authors on that book. And Jodie Lipper is the other author. And she is a New York Times bestselling ghostwriter, book doctor, and editorial consultant. So Dr. Gundry is barely even writing these books, you know?
00:15:35
Christian Yordanov
that that there's nothing wrong with having a you know someone help you write your book or even using a ghostwriter. but
00:15:46
Christian Yordanov
It's, it's also like, if you look at someone like Dave Asprey, I know that guy, I'm sure he, he writes his books for the most part. I'm sure he has a big team to help him, you know, really polished them up, but he seems like that kind of guy that he has to, it has to be him that writes it or Ben Greenfield. He, he is the one. yeah I'm sure he has people helping me, helping him with all the research and stuff, but he's definitely like doing that. And even, even what's his name, Mr. but Dr. Michael Greger.
00:16:16
Christian Yordanov
the the How Not to Die guy, the the vegan guy. I'm sure even he's probably like writing his books to a great extent. And I actually bought his How Not to Age book, which is again on longevity from a plant-based guy, which is an absolute farce.
00:16:34
Christian Yordanov
absolutely hilarious. But it it I bought it because it has just a ton of research in in general, like, I don't know, was it like 10,000 studies in that book or 2000? It's crazy amount of studies. So I bought it just as like a compilation of of studies in the back, mostly for that list. So I could kind of scan through those see if there's anything interesting, because it can't all be bad. Nobody's like,
00:17:00
Christian Yordanov
really like nobody like is completely right about everything or completely wrong about everything we I always learn even from the people I disagree with fervently I still put myself through the the torture of listening to them or reading their stuff here and there and even on YouTube like I listen to guys I completely disagree with about Quito talking about carnivore just to kind of see what perspectives we do share, what I can learn from them. And you know some of them are genuinely nice people. So I might disagree with them, but I still kind of like, like for example, Dr. Anthony Chafee, the other carnivore doctor, what's his name? The big dude that lifts a lot.
00:17:51
Christian Yordanov
I forget his name now, but, you know, he's also a very nice guy. So anyway, so Dr. Gundry's vitamin D thing is like an absolute joke. It's got a freaking ingredient that will make your gut leaky. And I'm sure it's not in a great amount, of course. But here's the thing. ah ah What's crazy is that carrageenan, I bought these like little yogurts, they're organic here.
00:18:17
Christian Yordanov
And there were like this chocolate flavored yogurt, so I'm guessing they use it as like an emulsifier or something. And the damn things had carrageenan in them. I couldn't believe I was livid. If I had more time, I would probably like email that company. I was like, what the hell are you doing? Like making organic products? People would trust you because all their other yogurts don't have it. Just that one with the chocolate flavor or whatever, just so we have some variety in the house.
00:18:42
Christian Yordanov
And I was like livid that I and I was mostly livid at myself that I didn't look at the ingredients because you can't even trust organic nowadays because even like some of these and this is like the stuff I'm like trying to get for my daughter because you know it's hard to just eat unflavored yogurt every day you know you have to like flavor it up somehow and have some little ones to take to school and stuff like that but even like the the the ones with like organic fruit in them they might have you know, some kind of not super nice stuff. But anyway, let's, so his vitamin D is 5X the price and it has carrageen in it. What, let's see what other products he has in terms of health focus. Let's see. digest Okay. Digestion, brain and vision, immune support, electing free food, men's health. Okay. Men's health. Let's see. Men's health. Mighty red.
00:19:38
Christian Yordanov
a basket of fresh produce in every gummy nitro pulse nitric oxide booster okay nitro pulse let's see what it's got uh He says, did Oh my God, this is gonna knock your socks off. So there was something else I just remembered, but let's see what he says about nitric oxide. So Gondry says, I believe nitric oxide is one of the most important substances for a healthy and energetic life, which is why enjoying a delicious glass of nitro pulse every day really feels like pressing rewind on the aging of your body and mind. Listen to this.
00:20:15
Christian Yordanov
Dr. Gandhi, his beautiful cute face with his green cute little glasses. Oh, he's such a lovable. He's such a lovable character. I can see why he's like, everyone is like, Oh, Dr. Gandhi, you're the best. Uh, he's cute, you know? anyway, so he says, I believe nitric oxide is one of the most important, one of the most important substances for a healthy and energetic life. And just yet, literally yesterday, I uploaded the video to my program portal for my clients called Do Not Try To Boost Nitric Oxide. So I have a section in there on what not to do. So I'll give you what to do and what not to do, super important. And I've actually on this podcast I've earlier, so maybe some months ago, I have an episode why you don't want to be boosting nitric oxide. In fact, if you type into the Google machine,
00:21:09
Christian Yordanov
the nitric oxide theory of aging okay the nitric oxide theory of aging revisited comes up as the first result so those two papers from the same guy SM McCann and he has the first so the first paper was called the Nitric Oxide Hypothesis of Aging that was published in 1998 and then this was the revisited one was in 2005 so oh my god if you just go read the abstract abstract here right just read the abstract here from both of these papers and then
00:21:57
Christian Yordanov
go go back to Dr. Gundry and see like he's saying the opposite that you need to be boosting the stuff. And I know it's kind of for the last 15, 16 years since I've kind of been in in the kind of the space in some way of of it's it's been since 2008. I remember nitric oxide boosters were already like in the supplement store. So I understand why people think it's important. It's it's bad.
00:22:23
Christian Yordanov
you don't want to raise nitric oxide but what I found incredibly messed up is that under his supplements right you have the price there and by the way this jar costs 69 bucks or maybe 50 bucks if you're a member so become a member let's spam you every day with coupons and then you can get it cheaper just for you know enduring our endless spam about it but check this out so this thing listen nitro pulse and this is i looked at a couple of other supplements it's just as bad but anyway looking at the other ingredients okay so it has careflow mango fruit powder 100 milligrams i'm sure that's gonna do a ah ah great big old load of good for you 100 milligrams of mango fruit powder yeah that's what you are missing okay it's gonna the mango fruit powder
00:23:17
Christian Yordanov
is going to attach to the mango fruit powder receptor in your what you call it cells and it's gonna upregulate autophagy or something like that right anyway the 3d flow TM that everything is like givomagtm careflow registered trademark everything is like mega registered trademark everything okay so don't don't you dare don't you dare think this thing is a lot of nonsense so it has a little bit of magnesium vitamin b12 folate vitamin b6 and then the 3d flow tm is 1800 milligrams of
00:24:00
Christian Yordanov
L-citrulline glycerol. Glycerol, I don't think that's an active ingredient. Glycerol is a freaking... It's... it's It's what fatty acids attach to to make a triglyceride. it's You can attach two glycerols together to make glucose. like it You're full of glycerol in your body. you know It's not it's not an some kind of magical ingredient. Every time you break down a triglyceride, a glycerol backbone is
00:24:34
Christian Yordanov
there left to circulate and be used to make another like triglyceride in the liver or to make glucose with gluconeogenesis. You know what I mean? Like it it's fucking nonsense that they're even like adding this and then some other fruit extract. Okay. But here's the thing, other ingredients. Look at this list of shite, man. I'm sorry. I'm just like, I need to probably have like my my breakfast before recording these because I'm I'm getting a little bit worked up. So other ingredients, citric acid, malic acid, beetroot powder, because that's that's going to boost your NO, of course, nitrates and stuff. Fermented Reb M. I guess they couldn't give us the full name because it won't fit on the line or something. Natural flavors. Thanks for letting us know what they are. And silicon dioxide and He clearly, like I know, I understand the reason why these things have to be in there, but you're paying 50 bucks for this and they haven't figured out a way to like not give you silicon dioxide with it and stuff like that, you know? the craziest part is, listen to this, there's this just under the pricing, when you go under the fold on the page,
00:25:58
Christian Yordanov
There's a sort of section that says, real results. 93% felt more energy throughout the day. Asterisk, asterisk. 87% felt less brain fog. Asterisk, asterisk. Or is it asterisk? Whatever.
00:26:17
Christian Yordanov
87% felt more strength and stamina. Asterisk. Asterisk. So what are the two asterixuses? What do they mean? So just under it, it says two weeks study of 15 users ages 40, 60, 70 using the product once daily.
00:26:44
Christian Yordanov
Users were compensated to share their experiences, not a scientific study. Individual results can and will vary.
00:26:55
Christian Yordanov
okay so
00:26:59
Christian Yordanov
Basically, I saw other products that had this, right? So it's like, it was a great, you ever watch that channel, Bro Science Life, it's so funny. He he makes, but he basically like makes fun of like the whole fitness industry and it's, it's, it's damn hilarious. But anyway, in one of the videos, he had this, he played the character. He's, he's a very smart dude, but he plays like this kind of dumb New Jersey guy.
00:27:23
Christian Yordanov
the accent and everything. And in one of the videos he had, he says, and I have here a peer reviewed study that proves it. And then the the guy behind the camera, his partner, his writing partner, he's like, what does peer reviewed mean? He's like, well, it appears to be reviewed, you know, it appears to be reviewed, a peer reviewed. Duh.
00:27:46
Christian Yordanov
So anyway, so this is like the real results of the studies that Dr. Gundry has, or at least his website people, you know, it's like, this is a peer reviewed study, and who reviewed it, you know, the guy that You know reviews the copy before he puts it on the website or something like that So two weeks study of 15 users 15 people, you know great massive sample size two weeks study Talking about like really allows you a lot of time to account for you know
00:28:20
Christian Yordanov
placebo effect, all that good stuff, right? So 15 people, big sample size, two week study, really extensive study. The users were compensated for it and they were given the stuff for free. It's not a scientific, it's not a scientific study. Why would you even put this? I guess it works, man. Like they they don't do this stuff because it doesn't work. And of course the, why it works that they tell you why it works.
00:28:51
Christian Yordanov
And so look, oh, oh, oh, the careflow, the mango, the 100 milligrams of mango is sourced from deep in the jungles of India. Careflow is an extract of the Mangifera indica species of mango, a polyphenol powerhouse containing the perfect nutrient composition to help skyrocket your nitric oxide levels and support the energy production of every cell in your body.
00:29:19
Christian Yordanov
Okay, so just in yesterday's video that I was i uploaded, let me just give you the quick synopsis of
00:29:31
Christian Yordanov
why excessive nitric oxide is harmful. So oxidative stress and nitrosative damage, because nitric oxide is a reactive oxygen species. It's also a reactive nitrogen species. And it can form with, was the thing, with superoxide, right? When it forms,
00:29:53
Christian Yordanov
when when it reacts with superoxide, which is something that we produce as part of oxidative metabolism, okay? we We can produce something called peroxy nitrite, which is an extremely damaging ah ah free radical that can cause cellular damage to DNA proteins and lipids. okay Inflammation overproduction of INOS worsens chronic inflammation, tissue damage in diseases like sepsis arthritis and in inflammatory bowel disease.
00:30:22
Christian Yordanov
neurotoxicity excess nitric oxide contributes to neuronal damage and neurodegenerative diseases via excitotoxicity and oxidative stress endothelial dysfunction right that refers to the the lining of the blood cells right so guys are told you have to take nitric oxide to lower blood pressure to you know increase vasodilation but in fact excess nitric oxide can damage the blood vessels and that can actually contribute to atherosclerosis and vascular diseases so if your blood pressure is high
00:30:57
Christian Yordanov
it can initially lower it. right it will it it's it's its It is likely that it will lower your blood pressure, but over time, because of this excess, nitric oxide damages the blood vessels that can contribute to damage of the endothelial lining, the but the blood vessel lining that can cause atherosclerosis. you know So, cancer promotion, chronic nitric oxide production supports tumor growth, angiogenesis, which is the formation of new new blood vessels, and metastasis, which is the spread of cancers in certain cancers. so Airway inflammation, like excess nitric oxide versus airway inflammation in asthma and COPD. Mitochondrial dysfunction is actually known that nitric oxide can complex with complex four of the electron transport chain in the mitochondria.
00:31:47
Christian Yordanov
which can inhibit the basically the energy production chain. right DNA damage, so it excess nitric oxide and peroxynitride induced mutations in DNA damage. Impaired wound healing, gastrointestinal damage, autoimmune tissue destruction.
00:32:04
Christian Yordanov
okay so I did a whole episode on this a while back. So it's it's a whole thing that you have to kind of understand that this is another scam. And of course, Dr. Gundry, he the he's I'm sure he's evidence based, but the evidence he's looking at is not the evidence.
00:32:28
Christian Yordanov
that other people are looking at. so But to me, it's just hilarious that so many of these products have this stuff. And look just I'm not going to go too far deeper into the products because they're an absolute just nonsense. i He's so big into the polyphenols. And a while ago, I actually asked polyphenols. Let me just find it.
00:32:58
Christian Yordanov
So I actually asked Chad GPT to two tell me so which
00:33:09
Christian Yordanov
polyphenols can interact with and reduce absorption of of of various minerals and apparently this is a list from Chad GPT so it's kind of well documented stuff but so you have a bunch of different polyphenols and a lot of them actually bind and and reduce iron absorption which actually is okay we don't want to absorb too much iron and especially if we are eating a lot of meat, so it's probably okay. But they they can also complex and inhibit the absorption of a bunch of other minerals, including zinc, copper, calcium, right? So polyphenols, some of them are estrogenic,
00:33:47
Christian Yordanov
For example, resveratrol and a bunch of others that are estrogenic. I have a whole thing I'm going to record about fight to estrogens, which foods contain the most. But he's like all about these freaking phenols and whatever the hell. like For example, he has this thing called power phenols, a bottle of which costs $69.95 or $49.95, if you remember. And he hasn't like they have the goal.
00:34:16
Christian Yordanov
to just write things like this on the bottom. Innovative anti-aging formula with brain fight TM and lutein to support brain and vision health. I mean, okay, lutein is great, blah, blah, but this,
00:34:35
Christian Yordanov
this product is supposed to help you anti-age. and it has like algae, fucosanthan, extract, thymoquine, black cumin, seed oil, seed oil, black cumin seed oil, 100 milligrams. Okay, so vitaminy so triangols some some lutea, some zeaxanthin, Hawaiian astaxanthin. So, you know, it's, again, it's not all bad, but
00:35:06
Christian Yordanov
it It also has other ingredients include palm, oleine, high promelose, medium chain triglycerides, and olive oil. So, I mean, it's not all bad, but when I click supplement facts here, it says palm, oleine, high promelose, medium chain triglycerides, and olive oil, but that's a pop-up that when I close, there's another other ingredient written here, and that has the same ingredients I just listed in a slightly different order.
00:35:35
Christian Yordanov
with safflower oil in there as well. Okay, so that's a seed oil. He's talking about seed oils are bad. Why the fuck do you have safflower oil? high omega-6, shitty oil, why do you have that in your supplement? $69.95 or $50 if you're a member for like this, you know, you can get astaxanthin and lutein and whatever, you could get probably like ah -day supply because this is just 30 days, you could get that for a fraction of the price of this and you can get
00:36:09
Christian Yordanov
you know, mixed to coffee rolls or some kind of vitamin E product, you can get it, ah you can get a 90 day supply for a similar price, you know, and you're you're getting a freaking what you call it 30 day supply for $69.95 or $50 if you remember.
00:36:29
Christian Yordanov
And this just keeps going on and on. He's got like these polyphenols. and And by the way, wi where where have we got proof that this stuff is actually anti-aging? The polyphenols extracted from plants and put into a capsule.
00:36:48
Christian Yordanov
where Where do we have, look he doesn't cite any evidence except like real results. 97% felt better, 87% had more morning wood or whatever, some nonsense like that. And oh, it's not a real study. We we paid them to to give us feedback and we gave them free stuff. And surprise, surprise, the the feedback was good.
00:37:10
Christian Yordanov
so Like just overall, my rating of Dr. Gundry's supplement line is on a scale of one to 10, I'm giving him three.
00:37:31
Christian Yordanov
three no two sorry three is too generous three because there's crap in the supplements and when you're paying so much money for for stuff you but you better make sure it's clean it's way way overpriced and it's just got a ton of like nonsense ingredients in there Right that are not really Going to to do much for example. Here's another one. Here's another supplement energy renew. Let's see 74 and 95 a jar or 50 bucks if you remember and what does that have it just has D ribose 5,000 milligrams
00:38:13
Christian Yordanov
Acetocarnatine 500 milligrams and a 300 milligrams of polyphenols, right? So kind of Chisandra and Mangosteen, but I mean, like there's like 20 ingredients or more and it's 300 milligrams. Even if these things were magical, how, how much of an effect are you getting from, from, you know, a side juice powder?
00:38:37
Christian Yordanov
goji fruit extract powder, pomegranate juice powder. How much pomegranate juice? Imagine you powder that down, you dehydrate that, and then you take you know whatever. like What's that going to do? And furthermore, how do we know we don't? How do we know that that's that's a better way than getting them from like whole fruit and whole foods. How do we know that they're maybe not too toxic in those concentrated amounts? you know And then other ingredients on this $75 freaking piece of crap is citric acid, natural flavor, calcium silicate, silica, stevia extract, maltodextrin. And by the way, by the way,
00:39:25
Christian Yordanov
D ribose 5000 milligrams, which is the bulk of what you're getting here in the supplement that costs a Let me just do a quick calculation 300 Wait, let me just find there was a D ribose. I was looking for a client the other day so You can get 300 milligrams of D ribose powder Okay for $28 okay and if you divide 300 divided by 5 you will get a 60-day supply of D-arribles for $28 so that's $14 a month of D-arribles which is what the bulk of the supplement gives you
00:40:15
Christian Yordanov
You would get that for $14. So a 30-day supply is $14 and Dr. Gundry's... Oh geez, I lost there there's so many things. down on the Okay. so So you're getting a 30-day supply for...
00:40:31
Christian Yordanov
75 bucks or 50 bucks if you remember and a little bit of carnitine which is dirt cheap and then of course this hashtag pattern pending and polyphenol blend You know, I think what i I think is probably like appealing to people that are just, oh, fruits are so expensive. I'm saving money on fruits and vegetables. I don't have to like buy. Okay. You know, I don't know. I don't even know what he's appealing to, but overall two out of 10 million for Dr. Gandhi. but even if, if so, let's say like, okay, but the supplements are like, you know, you're, you're, he's just trying to make a few bucks.
00:41:14
Christian Yordanov
it's all good you know he has maybe maybe has a lot of kids he wants to give them you know a nice inheritance oh that's all great and then you might say and but it's his information that's really good but is it though is it and i'll tell you back in 2018 uh we it's just a quick story so in 2016
00:41:41
Christian Yordanov
I decided to do a Thai boxing fight in that year in January. And I decided to go plant based or vegan. I can't say I went vegan because you were never vegan unless you're vegan for life. So I went plant based. And I said, ah I'm going to go and do this fight. So coming up to that period of me going plant based, I was already like preparing myself. in In other words, brainwashing myself with vegan sort of doctrine and you know, lo and behold, January, I did start that and, uh, I was like reading doctor was his Dr. Gregor's books and watching nutrition facts.org on YouTube and all that stuff, you know, like that's, I think that's what a lot of them do. And then anytime we'll talk to someone who's a vegetarian or vegan, all we would talk about is we would just to try to rationalize and sort of
00:42:37
Christian Yordanov
talk about how good our diet is and just kind of constantly trying to make sure we are still convinced this is the right decision for us. It was fucking pathetic, honestly. So after I did the fight, you know that that that year I also met my wife and I did the fight and I kind of got sick of it and I got super injured out of the whole process. I was also drinking a lot of soy soy protein shakes and it was just an absolute disaster. so But I lost like 22 pounds in three months.
00:43:12
Christian Yordanov
Plant-based and training typeboxing three four times a week and then even more after that I went from like 82. Let me just do the math for you. So I was about I guess 81 82 kg to LB so that's so it was about 178 and then I quickly dropped down to in three months or so to 159 right I started gaining the weight back but uh I remember I had to fight at that way I had to weigh in at 159
00:43:48
Christian Yordanov
83 that's that's the the weight I had to weigh in at or under and I had to cut that that week of the weigh-in I had to cut down from about 79 kg which which was 174 so it was about I guess six and a half I guess six and a half I had to like cut 14 pounds in one week so the the day before the weigh-in I was like running on the street I had a cling film all around my like my my calves my thighs my my my hand, my arms, my top my ah torso, and I was running with like a hat. that it was It was pretty cold, but I was running with like hats and hoodies just to kind of sweat it out. And then the morning of the weigh-in, I went to the gym, was nearby the Thai boxing gym where I had to weigh in. and
00:44:37
Christian Yordanov
I spent and an ungodly amount of time in the sauna to to finally lose that that weight, that the last kind of sort of but couple of pounds. I was so weak after all of that, it was absolutely pathetic.
00:44:55
Christian Yordanov
But ah what what's what was interesting is, yes, you you do lose weight quickly with like a plant-based diet. And you know if you spend a year, a year and a half indoctrinating yourself into all of that, you you believe you start to believe these things. So after the the fight, after I started eating animal products again,
00:45:19
Christian Yordanov
I started the final year in a a college degree that I've been sort of trying to finish since 2004 or whatever in 2017 and I also had like a full-time job as a the working in IT. I was traveling to work every day and I was walking a lot to work and cycling to to get the public transport. and Back then I was in the evenings, I was in college and I was also
00:45:49
Christian Yordanov
I had, know, but with my, basically my my diet went from plant-based, a lot of cooked meals at home to eating like store-bought sandwiches and just anything that I would, anything I felt like eating that wasn't like too horrible. But, you know, that included chips with seed oils and a lot of stuff. So I started gaining weight and myself and my wife who were still, you know, married at the time. We had just met like the previous year.
00:46:18
Christian Yordanov
Uh, we were eating pizza like two, three times a week. We're ordering pizza and takeouts. We're getting delivered like every, almost every night, almost every night. We'll buy like just crap from the stores.
00:46:33
Christian Yordanov
And we were just eating pretty damn bad because she was busy. She was also in like doing some ah higher education and working. And it was hard. We were just destroyed at the end of the day. So we were eating a lot of kind of crappy food because we were so tired, too tired to eat. And I was in a house chair with ah three other dudes. So it was an absolute shit show. Really hard to so like, the kitchen was always a mess. and Anyway, so I had gained some weight. And then in 2018, that's when I set out on the mega rabbit hole. That's when I was spending literally all day health-related. From morning to night, I was listening to podcasts. I was reading books, experimenting, researching things. and
00:47:21
Christian Yordanov
You know, early in that process, I came across Dr. Gundry on the bulletproof podcast or something like that. And I got his plant paradox book and I started, I i definitely, I can't remember at what point, but I definitely like, I removed the grains and you know, the lectins and stuff. And you do feel better. And I think this is where.
00:47:49
Christian Yordanov
A lot of people are, when they find Dr. Gundry, they're not happy. They've gained some weight. They're not happy with how they feel, their energy levels. Maybe they're libido. Maybe they're not sleeping well. Maybe just they don't like how they look in the mirror. ah ton the catta and There's a ton of different flavors of people not being satisfied with their health and whatever else. So they they find Dr. Gundry because you know he is everywhere now.
00:48:17
Christian Yordanov
And what do they do? Well, they they start to clean up their diet, and they get the grains and the garbage out to a great extent. They're studying more clean food, more maybe more organic food. And lo and behold, they feel better. And I felt better. and But we're doing a lot of other stuff, like supplements and biohacking and sleep and all the light hygiene. I was learning all of that stuff at a mega accelerated pace.
00:48:46
Christian Yordanov
And I was like, yeah, this guy's on to something. And but as I sort of started to hit and the reason, I think I sort of felt like, OK, this guy's really good, blah, blah, blah, is because yeah I just have come off of brainwashing myself for a year and a half how bad animal foods are for us. You know, cancer, colorectal cancer, red meat, all that shit. And then thinking plant plant foods are the best and.
00:49:16
Christian Yordanov
So it's easy to then transition to something like Gondry because a lot of people, you hear just a regular normie when when you tell them XYZ beef is good for you, it's one of the best foods for you, if not the best. They'll be like, yeah, but like cow farts and CO2 emissions and and doesn't it give you like ass cancer. And you know what I mean? like that this is if almost any person off the street you grab, this this is kind of what they're they're gonna start telling you. why Why is red meat bad? It's because of this.
00:49:49
Christian Yordanov
So it's very easy to then transition to, to what Gandhi recommends because he's not like, he's not about completely eliminating the the animal foods, but it's about being more plant-based. And once you start to unbrainwash yourself from all that, you you start to actually like, but no, but actually no, in fact, in fact, no, Dr. Gandhi, no.
00:50:18
Christian Yordanov
plant-based. When I was writing my book last year, I borrowed his book, The Longevity Paradox, and very quickly in there, I was like, oh my God, this is really bad. This is really bad because he started telling us in there that Plant protein is is better is better for you. And I've done episodes where we look at the biological value of plant proteins and the bioavailability of that protein. And it's a joke compared to animal products. And he also says that plant fats are much better for you than animal fats, which is like, how can plant fats be better for
00:51:08
Christian Yordanov
mammals here's the kind of the sort of ah the the leap of faith or the disconnect in the logic so When our fat is on us, it's okay in the form that it is as a mammal. But if we get it from another mammal, that's not okay. But if we get it from a plant that's designed the fats and the the ratios of fatty acids and stuff like that, it's designed for that plant optimal.
00:51:43
Christian Yordanov
metabolism, somehow that's better for us than something that is optimally in an optimal ratio for a mammal. So we we shouldn't get it from the mammal because it's the same or a similar thing ratio, but that's that's not good because it has to be different in order to be optimal. And then when you eat it, you're gonna like some magic magically somehow it's gonna be optimal for you even though it's different. You know what I mean? Like ah ah it's completely, complete nonsense. Just when you kind of, and and the sort of the the other,
00:52:21
Christian Yordanov
I don't want to use like too many bad words. I'm sorry if anyone is like, oh my God, this guy is like rude. it's like But it it's super frustrating because then you hear people tell you that and they believe the stuff that he says because he he is convincing in his arguments because he's so confident of it of of of what he believes. But it's like plant fats are better for us, he says, than animal fats.
00:52:48
Christian Yordanov
But plant fats are way super heavy on omega-6 fatty acids. So he's against seed oils, yet seeds and nuts and whatever else which contain the same fats as in seed oils, the seed oils are much more concentrated, somehow they're good because it's not an oil.
00:53:13
Christian Yordanov
you know I don't get it, and then but it's different for olive oil because it's mostly monounsaturated. so it feels like The olive oil argument, is it seems like, oh, but like, seed oils are bad because there's too many polyunsaturated fats. But animal fats are really bad because there's too many saturated fats. So let's just like knead in the middle and all, let's just pretend that monounsaturated fats are the best because we kind of meet the best of both worlds or it's like minimum mitigates the debt. Like it's completely sort of nonsensical.
00:53:51
Christian Yordanov
to to kind of say that that's monosaturated fats are optimal, hence so we should do the may all should you all should do the Mediterranean diet or some bullshit like that. So once you start to kind of understand that It's actually saturated fats that are the best really for us, because they're the for many reasons, but because they're the least susceptible to peroxidation and damage, which can cause a lot of damage in our body. So you become more resilient when you're built for more saturated fats and more monounsaturated fats. We start to understand these things over time, just the little more minute things around
00:54:32
Christian Yordanov
the properties of the the different types of fat, saturated fat, or the fact that, you know, linoleic acid, which is the most abundant omega-6 in the plant, in just in general, and in food, but in in plant food specifically, that is a precursor to arachidonic acid, which then is a precursor to a lot of inflammatory things in the body. And then they're telling us animal fats are bad because they're high in arachidonic acid.
00:54:58
Christian Yordanov
But again, if you're feeding those animals a lot of linoleic acid in the form of corn and soy, seed the oils, or or rather seeds, which have a lot of these oils, so yeah, if they have a lot of the precursor linoleic acid, those animals, especially when they're stressed and living in squalid sort of horrific conditions, yeah, they're gonna probably have more arachidonic acid, you know? so But if arachidonic acid is bad,
00:55:25
Christian Yordanov
isn't getting tons of the precursor from seeds and nuts and all the stuff that he's like oh it's good because it has fiber that feeds your gut bodies and it's like the long so the whole premise of the longevity paradox it's all of these books are like normal length books but let me just tell you how many pages the longevity paradox is so 384 pages right the longevity paradox so you're like oh my god this must be packed full of science so if i can just get the table of contents here hopefully i can get the kindle version to give me a preview uh so let's see okay here we go let's count table of contents so section one the aging myths
00:56:25
Christian Yordanov
Section 2, talking about my regeneration, get younger from the inside, I'll dance your way into old age, remember your old age, look younger as you age, and then the longevity paradox program, and he basically has the longevity paradox foods,
00:56:45
Christian Yordanov
That's chapters 8 to 12 longevity paradox meal plan the longevity paradox lifestyle plan supplement recommendations and paradox ah longevity paradox recipes So just a bunch of like fucking recipes man. It's a bunch of like recipes and meal plans and nonsense right you would think There's a bunch of science. It's just and all of his books are like that very actual very little real information
00:57:12
Christian Yordanov
that's kind of wrapped in ego gratifying stories about how great he is, and he transplanted a heart from a pig into a human or or something like that, and that was successful. And then he's done great things as a physician, but if you're indoctrinated by the medical system, and if you're further indoctrinated by a vegan, Seventh-day Adventist sort of institution, and you live in Loma Linda, where you know the the thecent the centenarians are plant-based blah blah blah you're gonna have a very warped sort of perceptions of what the world is and and so these books there there's a lot of fluff and he has the people that help him get the recipes and you know maybe this is helpful for some people that are clueless about cooking their own meals and stuff like that but in terms of like I'm pretty sure like a lot of people that ah listen to me we're at a slightly more advanced level than just figuring out what is a carbohydrate and
00:58:10
Christian Yordanov
How do we do we make rice? And we we know a lot of stuff. We can do a lot of stuff for ourselves. Even some of my clients that come to me, they're on literally 30 different supplements, sometimes even more. And they know more about health than actual freaking doctors.
00:58:26
Christian Yordanov
who know a lot about disease, but very little about actually like health and all the cool stuff around, you know, biohacking and stuff. I have clients that are super sophisticated, you know? So I mean, this stuff is like maybe for beginners to help get them on the way. The problem is it will make you think plant fats are great. And this is another preposterous thing. So remember your old age. As far as I remember chapter six,
00:58:54
Christian Yordanov
Remember, your old age is about how not to get Alzheimer's. Well, I'll tell you how not to get Alzheimer's. Here's a good first step. Don't eat plant fats that are going to make the tissues in your body, the cells in your body full of plant fats, which are often, for the most part, omega sixes that are very susceptible to damage and, you know, peroxidation that's going to cause the the neuro tissue in your brain to be more susceptible to damage as you age. Okay. And he has a chapter Luke younger as you age. Well, if you're telling me I have to eat more plant fat, so my skin has more
00:59:40
Christian Yordanov
of the freaking highly peroxidizable susceptible to peroxidation omega-6 fats. Then I'm out in the sun and they spontaneously peroxidize when exposed to UV light. I don't think that's another good strategy. And then if you're going to tell me to not eat any animal product or as little as possible,
01:00:00
Christian Yordanov
And there they're like the only source of collagen, the the animal products that is necessary for skin ah elasticity and bone strength and all that good stuff. You're telling me that, how how is your program fucking better? And then, oh my God, I just remembered that he also has in the one of the chapters, he tells, he shows you what supplements he takes. He takes like 100, 120 supplements a day, Dr. Gundry. And he's all about how good the plant diet is. And the worst part is, so he takes, if you go ah ah in, you can borrow the book on Amazon, Kindle and return it. If you go in and see the list of supplements he takes, let me see if I can get
01:00:46
Christian Yordanov
A list of Dr. Gundry supplements that he takes. I want to see if we can actually find this list. No, I don't think it will appear. So anyway, so a bunch of the stuff on there was stuff that you would get if you eat animal products.
01:01:10
Christian Yordanov
seriously amino acids and vitamins and stuff like that you know like vitamin K and whatever like that's in cheese and so he takes a bunch of supplements that
01:01:28
Christian Yordanov
put So the reason Dr. Gantry looks good in his, way is if he's so he's 75 this year. So the reason he looks good is because while he, if he's eating the diet he's eating, which is a very deficient diet, at least he is supplementing mega hard.
01:01:52
Christian Yordanov
to put in stuff that that and a diet-heavy on animal product would put into into in terms of like specific micronutrients, amino acids, stuff like that. So the problem with this is that A lot of the supplements that he takes, doesn't he doesn't actually sell those. like I've not seen taurine, for example, as one of the supplements. Maybe it's hidden somewhere, which is found in you know fish and and meat, for example. That's a good amino acid that... ah Yeah, he doesn't have... So a lot of the stuff that he takes, he doesn't sell. So here's what can happen, right? Let me just see if there's another one here.
01:02:38
Christian Yordanov
So let's say you become a disciple of his, Dr. Gandhi for president, and you start eating whatever to feed your gut bodies. That's his longevity strategy. That longevity paradox is you basically just gotta feed your gut bodies because some of his patients that lived into are very old, they have good gut and superci like super scientific, right? Super scientific. So you gotta to feed your gut bodies. So if you eat a lot of sort of
01:03:14
Christian Yordanov
fiber and if you can't you know he'll give you some of his prebiotics and then if you take some probiotics apparently that's gonna make sure you're you're gonna live to a normal age and that's the kind of the entire premise behind the freaking longevity paradox bunch of stories and yeah so anyway so if you become a disciple of his starting this this diet and
01:03:42
Christian Yordanov
maybe even start taking some of his supplements. You're very likely to get different results from him. your as ah ah As they say on the website, your results may vary, right? So because you're actually, he doesn't sell a lot of the stuff that he takes that is deficient in his diet. So you if you do it his way, you may very well screw yourself because you won't be getting all of the the good stuff in animal products, if you if you really cut down your animal products. And that that is kind of what really pisses me off when I see guys like that. At least admit that you're supplementing all of these things because
01:04:37
Christian Yordanov
you would normally get them in in animal products and you are not eating animal products because of your religious freaking beliefs. And at least admit it so other people don't don't hurt themselves. So if you look go on his website, the first product that you see, so the what seems to be the most important things maybe for people, is a biocomplete ah ah triple biotic gut health blend. Total restore the ultimate gut guardian and Gondry MD Prabial Thrive TM that's the probiotic blend so he's all about the gut yet he has freaking silica in every supplement and carrageenan in some of his stuff
01:05:21
Christian Yordanov
So let's see what's what's inside bio complete three. Yep this has silica and you know dextrin and some other stuff right. So Bacillus coagulans bifidobacterium bifidum postbiotic tributrin from core biome and acacia gum.
01:05:43
Christian Yordanov
Pretty sure Acacia gum and guar fiber, these things are not not good for you. just in general pre I hope prebiotic thing is also a little bit of a... Anyway, I don't use them. i know I know some practitioners use them and they get they they get good results, but there's there's many ways to the top of the mountain, as they say. So the other one also contains silicon dioxide. That's the total restore What does that contain? Okay, so seven milligrams of magnesium.
01:06:21
Christian Yordanov
wow two milligrams of zinc, gondry. We've gone over dose, it's too much. And acetoglucosamine, elglutamine, 230 milligrams, listen to this, 213 milligrams of glutamine. You may know that glutamine, people take like five, 10 grams, grams, not 200 milligrams. Then he has grapeseed, you know, because of the anthocyan.
01:06:50
Christian Yordanov
cyanidins or whatever, maitake mushroom, because polysaccharides, black pepper, because that's super good for your gut, sure. sure And just like, like berberine. Just there, just to be on the list, like three milligrams, there's three milligrams of berberine. Why is it even on the freaking list?
01:07:15
Christian Yordanov
three milligrams of berberine. you know like Berberine comes in 500 milligram capsules usually. What's three milligrams of berberine gonna do for your health? It's just ridiculous.
01:07:32
Christian Yordanov
And then there's, look, Vitaberry complex, like ah hashtag trademark, whatever. Organic strawberry, organic blueberry, organic raspberry, organic tart cherry fruit, organic elderberry, organic cranberry, Vitaberry. Sounds amazing. I would want to eat these fruits. I would eat them every day if I had them organic.
01:07:58
Christian Yordanov
How much of them is in the supplement? 22 milligrams.
01:08:04
Christian Yordanov
twenty two Why is this even a frigging ingredient? You know what I mean? And okay, magnesium beta hydroxybutyrate 86 milligrams.
01:08:18
Christian Yordanov
okay and then the last one the Prebio Thrive TM 79 by the way let's just look at the prices here so that this one i just covered was 69.95 the one before that was I think I closed, it was probably a similar price. And then this one, this next one, Prebio Thrive, a jar is $79, $79 for a dual action prebiotic fiber supplement designed to nourish your good gut microbes and simultaneously inhibit the bad ones by fostering a healthy gut microbiome, this convenient drinkable blah, blah, blah.
01:09:01
Christian Yordanov
So let's see what the ingredients are. I mean it's there's a lot of text and like nonsense and pictures and you know the the study that they did the the peer-reviewed study that appears to be reviewed. 12 weeks study of 11 users ages 23 to 51 took one scoop 10 grams in 8.
01:09:17
Christian Yordanov
fluid ounces of water every morning. Users were compensated to share their experiences, not a scientific study. Individual results can and will vary and the real results are listened to this. 100% said they feel their body weight is under control. They said 100% that there's an icon of genes. 100% of 11 users the that took a scoop 10 grams of water every morning for 12 weeks that were compensated. 100% they said that they feel their body weight is under control.
01:09:58
Christian Yordanov
100% said that they have improved digestion with less gas bloating and indigestion and 91% said they have more overall energy. So I just want to repeat that for us all to just savour. So picture of a little tiny icon of genes and 100% of respondents in the study, the appears to be reviewed study said they feel their body weight is under control. And they called that a study. It's like, so we did a study and so we asked the people, do you feel like the product is good for you and it's doing stuff? It's like, I feel so. I feel it. I can, I'm I can, pretty sure I feel that things are going better for me now that I take this product. When do I get my compensation?
01:11:00
Christian Yordanov
I'm almost for the for the side scientific aspect. I really want to like subscribe, become a member, and see what kind of stuff they're going to send me but let's see so this what does this supplement contain so uh organic acacia gum organic agave in eulene organic flaxseed and galacto oligosaccharides and guar gum i mean i swear to god like like freaking acacia gum and guar gum these are freaking
01:11:35
Christian Yordanov
uh like additives that they put in foods like he's selling you crap that you don't want when you buy a yogurt or some other like dessert that's the crap that you don't want inside it you want as little of that kind of stuff in there he's selling that as a supplement then just curiosity so let let let me just remember the price again So this one was 79 I think 79 $79, but of course if you become a member if you subscribe to the spam newsletter for 999 So it'd be it'd be crazy not to but anyway Inulin, I'm just gonna search for any not that I would ever take England I used to of course, but you know we do we all do like silly things. So you see Inulin powder I want to see how much the powder costs
01:12:26
Christian Yordanov
Okay, all right, so certified organic Inulin prebiotic pure powder four hundred One pound four hundred and fifty four grams Seventeen dollars. Okay. Now, let me just see how much Dr. Gundry's product has so his product has If let's see So he had, oh, oh, it's a, it's a blend. So you don't actually, you're not told how much it has. It's 10 grams of it. And, uh, the Gave Inulin is second in the list. So, you know, it could be, it could be like four grams. It has to be like under.
01:13:27
Christian Yordanov
under five grams. So it could be between you know two and five grams. So so anyway, that's times 30 days, two to two to five grams in a serving over 30 days. That would be like 60 to 150 grams of Inulin. But you can get, if you want the prebiotic,
01:13:52
Christian Yordanov
in your lint you can just get a pound of that for $17 and that will last you something like let me see 454 divided by by 60 so that'll last you something like three to eight months if you take two to five grams a day. Okay. So that's your, that's your gut, whatever the flip of Pribio thrives total gut restore. We already covered. I mean, this is, so these are like the three supplements that are on his website are on the, on sort of the front page. So super important for you to get, these are the things that will move the needle for you. And then,
01:14:42
Christian Yordanov
after you waste a bunch of money 150 bucks if you remember per month
01:14:49
Christian Yordanov
After you waste a bunch of money, you know you gonna go to to me you you come to me and you tell me, oh, I took a bunch of supplements. I did a guy's program and I didn't like it. They did nothing for me. I just wasted my money. Therefore, I don't want to take supplements and I don't think supplements work. I think they're a scam, stuff like that. And this is why this is why i I get a little bit aggravated because You know, he's, he's giving a bad name to to supplements. And if you look at, just, if you look at his, he he sells, I want to see how much his olive oil costs. Polyphenol rich. So a bottle of his olive oil is $49.95 for one bottle of olive oil. Or if you remember $39.95.
01:15:42
Christian Yordanov
and look at this polyphenol rich olive oil with superchargers up to 30x more hydroxy tyrosol polyphenols than many conventional olive oils which can help support a slim healthy physique, heart health and blood flow, crystal clear concentration, comfortable joints and muscles, soft hydrated skin and immune health. So do you think
01:16:13
Christian Yordanov
If you get this olive oil, which how many, how many, how big is this? 8.5 fluid ounces. Right. So what's that in 8.5 times, I don't know, 20, 30, 28. It's like a quarter liter.
01:16:33
Christian Yordanov
of olive oil which by the way and a liter of olive oil here or or half a liter of olive oil organic you can get for like four bucks four bucks okay four bucks and the the better stuff is you know more like eight bucks for maybe three quarters of a liter but this this stuff this olive oil costs forty dollars if you remember for
01:17:03
Christian Yordanov
eight fluid ounces. And do you think anybody out there that gets this olive oil, boil that gets, this is a straight up scam, that gets scammed into buying this olive oil and starts putting this on their food or taking a sip out of a tablespoon all of it every day or whatever.
01:17:25
Christian Yordanov
Do you think that they're going to achieve their goals in having a slim, healthy physique, heart health and blood flow, crystal clear concentration, crystal clear from drinking olive oil and their joints will be more comfortable and their muscles will be more comfortable and their skin will be soft and hydrated and their immune health will be supported from drinking eight ounces of olive oil?
01:17:53
Christian Yordanov
who Who believes this stuff? I guess people believe this stuff. I guess people believe this stuff. What else? I mean, I just could keep going on. It's just. So we. cloud Oh, look at this. adva Oh, my.
01:18:09
Christian Yordanov
this By the way, in case you don't know by now, this episode is going to go on for about four hours until you know my computer crashes here, because I can keep going on and on. So advanced, advanced, not just regular, advanced plant omegas, okay? So regular price, $55, $40 if you remember. Okay, let's see what we got in here, Mr. Dr. Gundry.
01:18:38
Christian Yordanov
What's inside? Potent science-backed ingredients. Oh, is that that pure peer review study that you did? That appears to be reviewed, bro? So plant, gel, TM, vegetarian, soft gel, rosemary, extract oil. Oh, that's the other ingredients. Coconut, medium, change like this, right? Sunflower oil. Sunflower oil country.
01:19:04
Christian Yordanov
right kidding are me sunflower oil you're paying $40 and they can't even use something else other than sunflower oil so let's see what you what you get here so you get vitamin d3
01:19:24
Christian Yordanov
pure algae omega-3, one word, TM, triglyceride oil, providing vegetarian omega fatty acids, 200 milligrams of EPA and 200 THA, 50 milligrams of DPA, the cost of pentanoic acid, and pure plant omega-7 oil, providing vegetarian omega-7 fatty acids, palmitoleic acid.
01:19:50
Christian Yordanov
I'm pretty sure that humans can make palmitoleic acid. I could be very wrong. I think if we get oleic acid, we can turn it into palmitoleic acid.
01:20:04
Christian Yordanov
Doesn't matter. Oh, it's that's palmitic acid, which is a saturated fatty acid that we make. That's the first saturated fatty acid that we make. Pretty sure we can can do that. I'm not sure why omega seven is in here because you've you've not heard of omega seven. and You're like, Oh my God, I didn't even know I was supposed to get omega sevens. I didn't know omega sevens were a thing. This has omega sevens. So it must be good. Just ignore the sunflower oil.
01:20:34
Christian Yordanov
So I tell you you, you know, if you don't know me, if you're like new or something, you might say, oh, this guy is just like he's just a hater. Dr. Gundry is a good guy. Look at him. He has green. He has a green tie and green sunglasses and he's so cute and his hair is combed over so nicely. He's all gray and white. He looks a little bit like Santa Claus, but if Santa Claus lost some weight and shaped up a little bit,
01:21:04
Christian Yordanov
so like The guy is likable. ah I'm not not hating on... Because I i don't think he's running any of this. He's like he's basically a spokesperson for the brand.
01:21:18
Christian Yordanov
I don't think he's in control of all this stuff, do you think? He's not even writing his books, never mind formulating his supplements or writing stuff on the website and stuff like that, you know? So it's just what they are doing. I don't even want to sort of say it's him doing it, it's just what that company is doing is pretty kind of sickening.
01:21:40
Christian Yordanov
Because when people get a bad taste in their mouth, when they just, they they don't really, again, if you're eating garbage and you move to this, things will be better. But like, come on, man, like $70 for these supplements is just preposterous. And then they can't even like clean them up. So if if you're ever scrutinized, it's like, well, yeah, but those guys use sunflower oil and we don't, you know, we use we use coconut oil or something, you know?
01:22:05
Christian Yordanov
so he also has this it's just one final thing because i swear to god i could go on all day but i i need to actually like record other stuff rather than just ranty here so he has the probe oh my god it's been an hour and 20 minutes And you're still here. How would you got anything better to do with your life? I'm kidding. This is a very good, this is a very good use of your time. Proplant complete shake. Cause here's the thing. this ah This is something I'm going to have in my, uh, in my program, the the live longer formula. I will, uh, soonish I'm going to have some, some, uh, videos
01:22:45
Christian Yordanov
and explainers on how to look for supplements because my goal with the program is to teach you how to fish instead of having to like hand, spoon, feed you all of the stuff. So by the time we're done working together, you know, six months, 12 months, whatever we decide to do is I want you to be able to look at stuff like this and be like, oh, this is bullshit. I'm never going to spend $69 on Pro plant complete shake registered trademark. The delicious protein super shake. So this is a delicious lectin-free way to reach your daily protein target. One shake per day will keep you full between meals and help you reach your health close. Asterisk. Let's see.
01:23:30
Christian Yordanov
Oh my God, their study was not very good though, because the study, the 12 week study of 20 users aged 37 to 71 drinking one shake per day that were compensated to share their experiences, not a scientific study, individual results can and will vary.
01:23:48
Christian Yordanov
only Only 67% reported that they felt fewer cravings. It's like, listen, a man, if you're going to doctor friggin a peer reviewed study, like tell these guys like this, don't give me this bullshit answer. Like tell me you have less cravings. What am I paying you for? I'm not giving you free product for bro. Bro, bro. Dead. Only 78% felt overall slimmer.
01:24:14
Christian Yordanov
only 85% felt more energy throughout the day and only 85 experience less digestive discomfort whereas the other one you had like a hundred percent felt
01:24:25
Christian Yordanov
like they're in control of their weight, a hundred percent, you know, thought they were suddenly luckier and more attractive to the opposite sex. And 90% of them, you know, I don't know, had better dreams at night or some stuff like that. So, but what is this? What is this pro plant, pop, pop, pop trademark, lectin free, soy free, dairy free, artificial sweetener free, uh, natural flavor, sea salt, robot side, they,
01:24:55
Christian Yordanov
Xanthangum and it's a protein blend of a hemp seed protein, flaxseed, spirulina.
01:25:06
Christian Yordanov
Sounds lovely. So you have five grams of fiber, nine gra grams of carbs, 10 grams of protein per... So what ah ah let me just start. One scoop. So you get only 20 servings per container first. Okay. So $69 a month well will would not be enough. You need to get another half.
01:25:39
Christian Yordanov
a pack to to hold you over what else so okay so the serving size is 27 grams And you get three grams of fat, mostly unsaturated fat. Yay, not. You get nine grams of carbs, six of which is fiber, indigestible, gross. You get 10 grams of protein. So let's do them let's do the math. 10 and nine is 19 and three is,
01:26:16
Christian Yordanov
what I say 10 and 9 19 and three 22 so 22 grams of you know fat carbon protein and you that's another 20 another four grams of other stuff so cocoa powder or natural flavor salted so you're getting 10 grams of protein out of 27 grams of slop you're gonna put in yourself so Uh, that's not, that's all good. And keep in mind, keep in mind that plant proteins other than soy, which has a higher biological value for whatever reason, plant proteins are like 40 to 60.
01:27:02
Christian Yordanov
percent BV biological value, right? So you you you're getting 10 grams of protein, but you're not going to assimilate 10 grams of protein. And and importantly,
01:27:18
Christian Yordanov
the amino acid ratio in plant proteins is not optimal for basically for a mammal. So that's what you get for $49.95 if you're a member.
01:27:32
Christian Yordanov
And if you get three, you save 21 bucks. Great, great. Sign me up. Where do I sign up? Oh, right everywhere. there There's no, no place where they don't give you the option to sign up on the website. So it's well done. It's it's a well-run business. They're making money. Good. They have an affiliate program, ambassador, but ambassador. Let me see. I can apply to join the ambassador program.
01:27:59
Christian Yordanov
Uh, and then send them after I published this episode, I'll send them this look at this. What I, i'm I'm trying to promote you guys. I'm trying to like spread the word every, every, every sort of customer we get.
01:28:15
Christian Yordanov
Counts, so I'm doing my best here on a small scale. So maybe I can become an ambassador and you know, whatever the fuck anyway, so yes, like I said ah This is something that I want to teach people is how to like look at stuff like this and just dismantle it systematically Like this energy renew, for example, or or this plant freaking omegas or the complete pro plant shake and the polyphenol rich olive oil that costs $39.95 if you remember. And of course, not all of the products are going to be bad. Let's look at the CoQ10. Just one last thing.
01:28:58
Christian Yordanov
flipping. It's $49.95 if you remember. I mean like everything is $49.95 if you remember $69.95 or more. Let's just quickly look at what they have here. Olive oil, hyperemolose, pamolin, glycine, magnesium stearate. And so you get
01:29:25
Christian Yordanov
only 50 milligrams of CoQ10 ubiquitinone here and a couple of other, you know, bits and pieces. So for $50, you get 50 milligrams of CoQ10. And let me just tell you, Yubi, Kui, Nona. So just to tell you the prices of that and not not that um Not that I'm saying that the first one here that I find is going to be the optimal one, but because they the CoQ10s have a lot of like crap in them usually. But here's one that's doubled those.
01:30:15
Christian Yordanov
those reditive v relatively extra virgin olive oil, soft gel, gelatin capsule. So relatively okay, not not the worst here. Double the dose and check this out. Four, not one. Well, not two, not three, four times.
01:30:39
Christian Yordanov
more capsules per container so Gundry's one is 50 bucks like he's he's straight up preying on clueless clueless people that's that this is why this is why umm I'm doing this is because like the Brian Johnson one there they are influencing young people impressionable people that plant-based is good and then the guy's taking 200 supplements a day to, you know, ameliorate some of this stuff and whatever. But this is just spraying on the clueless people because his thing is 50 bucks for 50 milligrams of CoQ10.
01:31:19
Christian Yordanov
And this supplement here costs $18 for 120 soft gels of double the dose. So you can take this for four months, get double the dose for almost a third of the price. Almost a third of the price. And actually, iHerb, sometimes they do like a 20% discount, which is which is what I usually wait for good to to get stuff.
01:31:47
Christian Yordanov
so Yeah, there you go. Oh my God. Okay. One hour and 30 minutes. I, to be honest, to be honest, I could continue on and on and on and on. But this is just, I'm actually ah ah probably, I'm glad that I have this sort of recorded now because when, whenever someone comes to me now and says, what what do you think of Dr. Gundry? I'll just point them here. And like this is, and I didn't spend a lot of time dissecting the books, but like, like I said, his plant paradox is basically
01:32:21
Christian Yordanov
I have some old patients and their guts seem to be in order. So you got to feed your gut bodies, biting lots of fiber and just the mainstream bollocks except slightly veiled, you know, less meat, meat is bad, more plants, more plant fats, they're great. just Just as long as they're not from seed oils, they're they're they're totally fine, right? This kind of nonsense.
01:32:45
Christian Yordanov
so Yeah, but's hope that you that you learned something here today. I learned a lot of stuff is that, oh my God, just the the nitric oxide thing. So I believe nitric oxide is one of the most important substances for a healthy and energetic life. Wow. Which is why enjoying a delicious glass of nitrile pulse every day really feels like pressing rewind on the aging of your body and mind.
01:33:17
Christian Yordanov
And don't forget that appears to be a reviewed study here. Anyway, I better wrap this one up. I hope you hope if you didn't learn anything, at least hope you were entertained a little bit. So thanks for tuning in. I'll see you on the on the next episode.