In the last year or so we’ve seen many vegans abandoning a vegan diet because of digestive
issues.
Many have understandably been asking therefore if a vegan diet is so healthy why do so many
run into gut issues?”.
Well when you look into many of these ex vegan stories most say they had bad digestion or
failing health prior to a plant based diet but that this diet made them worse.
More often than not many suffering from digestive problems may actually have something called
Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth.
For those suffering with SIBO foods that contain oxalates, salicylates and histamines are going
to be a huge problem for those people until the SIBO is dealt with.
Just look at this list of foods high in salicylates, histamines, and oxalates which make up a huge
part of a plant based diet.
Now you can see why a Carnivore diet will temporarily relieve symptoms because you’re
removing foods such as beans, spinach, nuts, berries etc but is doing nothing to address
the underlying problem and you are setting yourself up for serious health problem down
the road on a carnivore diet.
Dr Greger has found that 1 in a hundred people have celiac disease, 1 in a thousand have
a wheat allergy, roughly 1 in a hundred have a gluten sensitivity and 1 in 20 have a nightshade
sensitivity.
So you can see how for those people who are unaware of their sensitivities going on a
plant based diet filled with whole wheat pasta, oats, bread, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant etc
will make them feel worse.
So now let’s hear more from Dr Greger as he answers the question why does a plant based
diet not work for everyone.
This clip comes from a fantastic interview with Guilt Free Tv.
Make sure to head over to his channel to watch the interview in full the link is in the description
below.
[Dr Greger] Look anecdotes even through published case reports in medical literature its all
about the science you saying I feel great is someone else my uncle lived to be 110 smoking
cigarettes everyday therefore smoking is fine.
Well smoking is fine for them but if you look at the actual science smoking on average is
really bad cuts 8 years of your life and increases risk blah blah blah we know that right.
So you know it’s just like wearing a seat belt won’t guarantee you’re not going
to die in a car crash.
Right someone could say I knew someone who wore their seat belt and died in a car crash
but yeah that’s not an argument against wearing a seat belt because we know that it
reduces our risk and that’s why we do it and the same thing with a healthy diet!
No guarantee that you’re not going to get cancer or diabetes or whatever but it dramatically
reduces your risk.
Just like 1 in 10 get lung cancer have never smoked in their lives and so you look at the
science you look at the best available balance of evidence and you say this is the diet that
is most likely to improve my health and longevity period.
Now it’s great to have that inner, you know we hear about all the data it’s nice to
have that personal experience and that’s’ why I encourage people look give it a couple
of weeks like the 21 day kick start program from the physicians committee for responsible
medicine and again it’s just like well give it a couple of weeks.
Give it 3 weeks give it a try you never know how good you’ll feel until you try it and
even if you’re healthy, even if you’re not battling some disease so you’re getting
lab work before and after cause then we can really show you what the diet can do even
if you’re healthy, people all the time come back to me say “oh my gosh I had no idea,
I thought I was healthy but I just thought it was normal to have an upset stomach after
meals but all of a sudden their digestion is better, all of a sudden their sleep is
better and their energy is better and so then they have the internal motivation to stick
with it to get those long term benefits like reducing their risk of most of our top leading
killer diseases.
Now having said all that if you personally don’t experience that then you have to figure
out why and so we have to say ok you’re cutting out all that junk what are you replacing
it with?
So for example it’s rare but about 1 in 250 people or so maybe 1 in 500 have a soy
allergy for example right but they had never eaten a soybean in their life but now all
of a sudden they start eating plant based and suddenly they eat like soy based versions
of everything.
So all of a sudden you’re getting all this soy and little did they know their whole lives
they’ve really been allergic to soy and all of a sudden they feel horrible and they’re
like “wow when I stopped eating my burger I felt horrible so obviously the burger was
awesome”.
It’s like people going on this carnivore diet where you just eat meat.
I mean if you had celiac disease or you were allergic to citrus for example and you just
ate meat and all of sudden you feel so much better it’s not the meat it’s because
little did you know you’re just intolerant to x, y, z.
But we can certainly get at that so you can have the best of both worlds a healthy diet
that’s going to actually improve your health and longevity.