APOE 4/4 Specific diet - Dr. Gundry or not?
Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2020 12:43 pm
Just like trying to read history about which side of the Middle East conflict is "more right", I cannot for the life of me find heads or tails about whether Gundry's APOE 4/4 approach is a truck load of horse manure to sell his line of skin care products and thousands of dollars a year in supplements, or is steeped in clinical truth. The diet is incredibly restrictive, and I've read hundreds of posts on here from the backlogs. I am not starting from square one.
I can find just as many skeptic debunkers on here and the general internet trashing his anti-lectin approach as I can those who swear by the methodology. What is really lacking is proof and quantifiable ways to measure the things that it claims to be addressing.
If I were to sum it up, this forum seemed to go through a love fest for him in the peak of his books, but has grown cold to that approach in recent years (2017-19).
So, being someone in my 40's, do not want to run this diet to its nth degree unless there is some kind of empirical way to measure inflammation, stress and overall cardiovascular health. I seem to see plenty of mentions of the typical blood test measurements for cholesterol, but many diets, vegan, Mediterranean, etc will all have positive impacts on that too, which is demonstrable.
So what is it, does this forum support his Diet approach for 4/4's with empirical evidence or is it more blind faith? What should I measure myself in my own bloodwork to see whether I'm reducing stress, inflammation risk?
Being in my 40's, cutting lectins out hardcore could have a major major impact on me one way or the other, and there seem to be quite a few people that puke on Gundry's own citations in his book. Not to mention the impact on the diets of those around me, who are not 4/4's.
Please help me make sense of this....
I can find just as many skeptic debunkers on here and the general internet trashing his anti-lectin approach as I can those who swear by the methodology. What is really lacking is proof and quantifiable ways to measure the things that it claims to be addressing.
If I were to sum it up, this forum seemed to go through a love fest for him in the peak of his books, but has grown cold to that approach in recent years (2017-19).
So, being someone in my 40's, do not want to run this diet to its nth degree unless there is some kind of empirical way to measure inflammation, stress and overall cardiovascular health. I seem to see plenty of mentions of the typical blood test measurements for cholesterol, but many diets, vegan, Mediterranean, etc will all have positive impacts on that too, which is demonstrable.
So what is it, does this forum support his Diet approach for 4/4's with empirical evidence or is it more blind faith? What should I measure myself in my own bloodwork to see whether I'm reducing stress, inflammation risk?
Being in my 40's, cutting lectins out hardcore could have a major major impact on me one way or the other, and there seem to be quite a few people that puke on Gundry's own citations in his book. Not to mention the impact on the diets of those around me, who are not 4/4's.
Please help me make sense of this....