The Plant Paradox Cookbook: 100 Delicious Recipes to Help You Lose Weight, Heal Your Gut, and Live Lectin-Free – A Guide to Avoiding the Hidden Toxins in Seemingly Healthy Foods

From renowned cardiac surgeon and acclaimed author Dr. Steven R. Gundry, the companion cookbook to New York Times bestselling The Plant Paradox, offering 100 easy-to-follow, lectin-free recipes and four-color photos.  

In the New York Times bestseller The Plant Paradox, Dr. Steven Gundry introduced readers to the hidden toxins lurking in seemingly healthy foods like tomatoes, zucchini, quinoa, and brown rice: a class of plant-based proteins called lectins. Many people are familiar with one of the most predominant lectins—a substance called gluten, which is found in wheat and other grains. But while cutting out the bread and going gluten-free is relatively straightforward, going lectin-free is no small task.

Now, in The Plant Paradox Cookbook, Dr. Gundry breaks down lectin-free eating step by step and shares one hundred of his favorite healthy recipes. Dr. Gundry will offer an overview of his Plant Paradox program and show readers how to overhaul their pantries and shopping lists to make delicious, simple, seasonal, lectin-free meals designed to improve gut health. He’ll also share his hacks for making high-lectin foods safe to eat, including methods like pressure-cooking grains and peeling and deseeding tomatoes.

With a quick-start program designed to boost weight loss and recipes for smoothies, breakfasts, main meals, snacks, and desserts, this essential healthy cookbook will show readers of The Plant Paradox—and more—how delicious it can be to follow an anti-inflammatory diet and eat lectin-free.

This essential healthy cookbook makes it easy with 100 delicious, simple, and seasonal recipes for every part of your day:

• Go Beyond Gluten-Free: Learn why seemingly healthy foods like tomatoes, zucchini, and quinoa could be the source of your health problems and how to identify the hidden plant-based proteins called lectins.
• Safe Preparation Hacks: Discover Dr. Gundry’s simple methods for making certain high-lectin foods safe to eat, including pressure-cooking grains and how to properly peel and deseed tomatoes.
• 100 Delicious Recipes: Enjoy a huge variety of simple, seasonal meals for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert, proving how tasty lectin-free eating can be.
• Pantry Overhaul Guide: Get a step-by-step plan with shopping lists to transform your kitchen and make cooking for an anti-inflammatory lifestyle easy and convenient.

Steven R. Gundry, MD, is the director of the International Heart and Lung Institute in Palm Springs, California, and the founder and director of the Center for Restorative Medicine in Palm Springs and Santa Barbara. After a distinguished surgical career as a professor and chairman of cardiothoracic surgery at Loma Linda University, Dr. Gundry changed his focus to curing modern diseases via dietary changes. His bestselling books include The Gut-Brain Paradox, Gut Check, Unlocking the Keto Code, The Energy Paradox, The Plant Paradox Family Cookbook, The Longevity Paradox, The Plant Paradox Quick and Easy, The Plant Paradox Cookbook, and The Plant Paradox, and has written more than three hundred articles published in peer-reviewed journals on using diet and supplements to eliminate heart disease, diabetes, autoimmune disease, and multiple other diseases. He is the host of the top ranked nutrition podcast Dr. Gundry Podcast and founder of Gundry MD, a wellness brand. Dr. Gundry lives with his wife, Penny, and their dogs in Palm Springs and Montecito, California.