Why You Should THINK TWICE About Eating Oatmeal! | Dr. Steven Gundry 

The only thing that's depressing me is that one nutritionist on youtube says certain foods are bad for you and the other nutritionist says those foods are good for you. You all need to get together and figure a way to stop confusing normal people that want answers.

I am a 92 year old man who requires no daily medication. I always have oats and an egg for breakfast.

I have been eating oatmeal for almost 60 years and I am healthy.

My mother is 91 and eats oatmeal everyday so did her mother who lived to her 90’s as well.

The key to being healthy is to ignore what you read in the media and see on RU-vid and just eat what you like in moderation. Clearly, don't eat the same things day in day out. We require balance, but the body is generally tolerant to most things.

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I've been earing oatmeal as breakfast everyday for 15 years, I'm 58 now, have good body shape and never suffered from gut disease

Thanks for making me beyond depressed. According to you pretty much everything we eat is toxic and killing us. You say the things other Dr's say are good to eat are bad. So what I take away from all this is it's impossible to live and I give up. 😢

My Grandgrandma lived till age of 101, she ate oats and potatoes all her life. She also ate a lot of eggs, cottage cheese, sauerkraut and buttermilk. Those last three she was doing by herself at home. She thin all her life, till her last days she also had a shot of Advocate almost everyday🙂

Take everything this man says with a grain of salt. I eat a massive bowl of oats every day and I’m healthy as a horse. I’ve got a flat stomach, tons of energy, feel great and sleep great.

everything in moderation … this man literally says no to everything … at this point he’ll recommend air. He’s pretty much referring to chemical filled American foods. Here in Europe standards are different. I’ve always recognised the difference in taste in comparison to the USA.

You've recommended millet as a healthy alternative to oatmeal, but I just watched another video and the doctor said that millet is really bad for your thyroid. I'm really having a hard time finding foods that are healthy to eat. It seems there is something bad in everything. So, if breakfast cereal is bad, anything with sugar or made with flower is bad, in fact, all processed foods are bad, too much fruit is bad, bacon and eggs are bad, millet is bad, and now, oatmeal is bad, but maybe not as bad as the other things that I've mentioned. We have to eat something so considering the alternatives I guess oatmeal isn't so bad. What do you think? Also, I would love it if you would make a video showing what YOU ate for the entire day yesterday. This would give us an example of one entire day of completely healthy eating. 😀UPDATE 2/24 - Okay, I found a solution! It's oatmeal from - One Degree Organic Foods - It's organic oatmeal that is gluten free, sprouted rolled oats and it's certified glyphosate free and non GMO verified. I got it from Costco and it comes in 5 lb bags.

I eat organic rolled oats every day and I’m slim. My blood tests came back good too. Oats are good for you.

I am seriously thinking this doctor is crazy.

My dads eaten oatmeal for over 80 years and as an adult and his weight has never been more than 10 pounds out of his weight range. Until he turned 75 he was always 5'10" and 155lbs. He's shrunk now that he's 90, and is only 5'8" and 150lbs.

where are the studies for this so called health info? They're not listed. Afraid to list the studies "doctor"? And I have news for the good doctor. when I eat oatmeal my bs is perfect in the normal range.I think I'll continue to listen to my body and not some stranger on the internet

When did eating become so complicated?

Sorry but many of our parents and grandparents ate oatmeal every day and lived healthy lives into their 80s, 90s and beyond. Not sure why you keep villainizing it...

I am 70 years and eating oatmeal daily and can run 3 miles or walk 8 miles per day...Too alarmist Mr Gundry

The whole fitness industry relies heavily on oats. It's a vital food for the healthiest people ive ever seen. This is very confusing

To date I have questioned the advice of alleged professionals many times. Most of those have dropped dead. Oatmeal killed both of my grand parents, but they were a hundred years old before it finally did them in. All of my friends that loved lots of eggs and dead animals were gone in their 50s and 60s. I'm 75 and poisoning myself every day with oatmeal, blue berry's, ground Flax seed, Pumpkin seed, Chia seeds, Walnuts, Etc. But one thing I notice is I'm not jammed up all the time like my dead friends were.

Don´t agree, oat for breakfast gives me STRENGTH for almost the whole day. It is great food 👍 Maybe sensitive persons should be careful👆

Dr. Gundry, I'm 70, 5'9" and weigh 140lbs. I weigh just a little more than when I was in high school. I'm one of those enviable people who has never had to struggle with weight gain. Some erroneously call it "a fast metabolism", but I just call it "lucky." You don't have to be a medical expert to understand that everybody has a unique metabolism. If eliminating oats from your diet has helped you to achieve weight loss and feel better, that's great, but it doesn't necessarily guarantee that the same food that impacted you negatively will affect others in the same way. I'll take your warning with a grain of salt, which I'll most likely put on my next bowl of oatmeal.

Oatmeal made with hot water only and without added sugar is a great food for both gut and heart health. I've been eating it for a long time and my gut has never been healthier

Oats don't make you fat, overeating does.

BOTH of my maternal grandparents have eaten oatmeal all of their lives. They are both still alive, in their mid nineties, and STILL have the teeth they were born with. Also, neither of them have any health issues except for hypertension that did not begin until they hit 90 years old. I will continue to eat oatmeal as they have done, because their longevity has proven to me that oatmeal is just fine to consume.

Don't believe everything you are told on Social Media. Do your own research first. You will find very interesting articles !!!

Some other doctors have advised that oatmeal is good for health, but this doctor says oatmeal is harmful to the human body. So what about the general public? Really confused 🤔

Any nutritionists that says oat is bad has been paid handsomely to spoil the blooming market of producers of oat.

Third video in a row now that I've watched demonizing Oatmeal. Only came to read the comment section and just like the other 2 videos, TONS of testimonials on how many years and decades people have been eating oatmeal and how good their health got after starting to eat it daily. It just never ends does it 😖

Eventually, no matter what I eat, there's bound to be someone say that it's bad for me.

Oatmeal soaked overnight unrefridgerated in vanilla almond milk (not the one minute) is one of the best foods I can eat for my stomach. I have eaten this for many years and am not overweight and almost never have any cavities. I buy 25 pd bags of organic oatmeal.

I wonder if Dr Gundry has any papers or research published on nutrition that i can read. So far i can't find any.

i do once a week organic steel cut oats cooked with cocos milk. i don`t think this will harm my health.

A question for Dr. Gundry: What is good to eat? In your videos you tell us about Negative effects of eating food (animal or plants) are we allowed to drink Water or that has negative effects on us.

He is talking pure rubbish I eat it everyday since my childhood and I'm not fat it's actually stops you from overeating as it keeps you full for longer

For me oatmeal has been a miracle saver for my digestive. I have struggled all my life with IBS and it wasn't until I discovered what oatmeal could do that I got my digestive on the right track. I need to take a good probiotic, eat some sour-dough bread and take a small dose of Metamucil also everyday to totally fix it with a cherry on top. Oatmeal got me cruising and I'm very happy!

I dunno. I'll take this video with a grain of salt. The doctor failed to mention the positive attributes of oatmeal such as the effect on cholesterol, the soluble fiber, and it's ability to absorb up to 100 times it's weight in water. As a personal aside, my mother suffered terribly from morning sickness with her first 3 pregnancies. When I came along she had a doctor tell her to eat oatmeal, and it greatly helped that problem. She fed me much delicious oatmeal throughout her life.

I’m glad you can afford expensive alternatives pal but I can’t.

You can't eat anything anymore it's all bad.

Nothing is absolute we all have friends that have a terrible diet smoke and drink and somehow are healthier than us the body has its own agenda we are not all the same so please experiment do not take everything these pop up RU-vidrs say as absolute

I have tried both millet and sorghum and just ordered more here in the Philippines. I usually use it in a stew or salad. Most Filipinos are not familiar with it and hooked on rice.

This is why people say be careful what you read on the internet. Or be careful of what you watch in this case. You can find plenty of video's that will encourage you to eat oatmeal from people who are nutritionists and health professionals. You can find videos like this one who will say the opposite. Oats are amazing for the body and digestive system and oatmeal is the undisputed champion when it comes to finding the best source of fiber. I've never known an unhealthy person who regularly ate oatmeal or quite frankly, ever ate it at all. There are plenty of proven benefits to eating oatmeal and every person I've ever met who did regularly eat oatmeal was in great shape and perfectly healthy. Sometimes common sense just has to lead the way. Oatmeal is definitely good for you.

There's a MASSIVE difference between organic steel cut (coarse in UK) oats compared to the generic and rolled oats generally on sale. As long as you soak the steel cut oats for about half an hour. I'm in the UK and our food standards are still high - at the moment....

Good video. This is the first video of Dr. Gundry's that I've seen that he isn't trying to sell me a bottle of pills for $70 a month.

I am taking this with a pinch of salt 😂although i do NOT add salt to my husband's jungle oats. Our South African product is SAFE. He ended up in hospital with a sugar reading of 21 & diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Within 2 yrs i got him off ALL his meds & with diabetic dietician i changed his lifestyle...8 yrs later his average reading is 5.6👏👏👏👏👏. What depresses me is all the "myths" around all the stuff that goes around telling us this is good & that is bad.... My husband gave up the following Alcohol ALL starched food Meat Chicken And the list goes on....I'm sticking to good South African Jungle Oats ❤

Very helpful thank you 🙏🏻🌷✨🙏🏻

I used to eat oatmeal as my breakfast for 2 years. With just oatmeal, dry raisins, poured hot water on top....and I was healthy. What's the problem really?

I eat oatmeal every other day, scrambled eggs every other day, I eat organic food only. I bake my own bread using organic flour and do nor eat any processed food or what we call lunch meat.. I'm 84 years young, take no med of any kind...

I only use One Degree Organic Glyphosate free oatmeal. I put it in the pot with water immediately then when it boils, i let it boil for at least 15 minutes. I do this once a month. Can’t be bad that’s for sure! It’s the instant non organic sugar loaded oatmeal that’s not good for anyone, even horses!

Gary Null got me onto steel cut oats, slow cooked for a half hour. I use the non-gmo stuff.

Costco sells glyphosate organic rolled oats; 35g soaked 24hr in fridge for smoothy... yum yum. Don't let this guy spook you!

Importantly listen to your body whenever you take anything. When I take oat as breakfast, I notice my body becomes unwell, I am considering stop taking it before I see this now . Thank you Dr

Can you plz add the research links so we’ll be able to see the data

another "UHHH Do not eat that" come on in the old days oatmeal was a staple in the morning for the whole family and they were healthy as a horse....they used to eat meat, drink milk, cereals, bread and more and they were healthy...so what changed...processed food, sprayed with all kinds of stuff, pasteurized milk, cows with antibiotics, and the list goes on and on. So it is not the food is the quality of food that we eat.

Am I glad I stumbled on this podcast. I have been eating oats for breakfast since I can remember. I am 76 yo and I think it is too late to change my breakfast habit. Oats in whole milk, eggs and bacon is hard to to turn my back on for breakfast.

Fonio is very high in carbs; about 37-40 grams of carbs per serving based on two brands I checked. Serving size was approximately 1/4 cup of fonio.

What ever you say Dr. Gundry, the best I can with my health. 🤷🏻‍♀️🙏🏼

Lots of foods contain lectins what should we eat

It’s not that simple. Food companies want us to believe it’s STILL SIMPLE - but they have industrialized nutrients OUT of food - sprayed chemicals and genetically engineered our SIMPLEST of foods so that they are no longer considered ‘food’ by our own bodies. We are getting sicker and sicker with each generation. We have to pay attention. We have to reclaim what we consume. And hopefully won’t have to turn to BIG PHARMACEUTICALs to be our savior. ‘Don’t take it personally. It’s just business, right?’ …No, this is so wrong. And generations from now, our progeny will be shaking their heads at how ‘The Free Market’ was an acceptable reason for making us all sick.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP

Nothing wrong with organic oats made with water once in a while. I eat it once or twice a month.

@DrGundry ...is Quinoa better than Oatmeal? There's nothing left to eat. Thank you for your input 🙏

I blend it after soaking overnight with filtered water next morning with a fruit for breakfast. It's balance as milk too is added to it.

I definitely will think twice about eating oatmeal , I will eat two bowls of it each day

The Egyptian diets during that period included crushed safflower and linseeds (seed oils) which cause chronic inflammation, more so when combined with grain foods and honey (polyunsaturated fats and sugars are not found in nature) Around a century ago traditional rolled oats were processed with low heat (oats were higher in phytase to reduce phytic acid) Women use to then soak oats overnight which greatly reduce their inhibitors, then slowly cook them. Some women add (high phytase) buckwheat flour during the soaking period which is still a common practice in some eastern european countries

Dissing oats??? --- the healthiest breakfast! Low glycemic index, no fat, low or no free-radicals that fried foods would give, long-lasting energy, no sugar-crash, soluble fiber that scours LDL from arteries, source of B-vitamins essential for brain health and full function and metabolism, gentle fibre for the colons to prevent cancer,, pre-biotic substrate for beneficial gut biome. etc...

The only oat i know that is not too good is quick oats,they are loaded with lectins.Steel cut oats and rolled oats are good as well as Fonio,millet and sorghum.

Dr. Gundry, thank you for the valuable information. What about the organic sprouted oats? Does it have the same issue?.

Yea, I stopped eating oatmeal, ny favorite, because of the lectins. I have been eating Millet made with mushroom broth. I will try it with Allulose

Instead of talking in RU-vid, please do something to stop bad products coming into the market.

Do you have to use sprouted walnuts?canyon use pecans?

I've heard that you can make resident starches be cooking potatoes then cooling then in the refrigerator. Does that work with steel cut oatmeal?

One doctor says it's good and the other says it's not! What is correct finally? I can't keep watching these videos.

Doctors like yourself, if you are serious, need to band together and confront the food, nutrition and medical communities about this and stop them from pushing oats and other grains as healthy foods. I mean come on now!

My great grandmother was 103 when she died. She ate oats every day.

Thanks DR❤

I eat porridge every day and at 70 years old I'm going to keep on eating the stuff. Very healthy very filling don't eat again untill about 8 oclock at night so around twelve hours. Great glucose levels great blood pressure.

Millet does have giladin however which also may upset your gut.

Glyphosate is used in many non-organic oatmeal brands. But many (not all) organic oatmeal products do not. It's a shame that isn't mentioned here. Also, Millet is suggested as an alternative, but Millet can cause thyroid and gastro problems, and should be avoided by people who have thyroid conditions. So, if you want to continue to eat oatmeal without the worry of glyphosate, choose an organic oatmeal brand that does not use it.

Dr. Gundry, I buy my "Sprouted" Organic-Oats from Costco. Since they are sprouted, they must have been fermented with water long enough before being dried, so I 'm assuming that sprouting process removed most (if not all) the hazardous lectins? Additionally, since they are organic, I assuming that no herbicide nor pesticide was used on these oats at all? By the way, I freeze my bag of oats to convert a greater percentage of the oats to a resistant starch, which not only lowers the glucose effect, but also creates more of a pre-biotic food for my friendly bacteria in my gut. Thanks for producing this video!

This guy doesn't know what he is talking about. It all depends on your body type, activities, and other calories consumsion

I am not even going to watch this video. Truth nowhere to be found lol. Everything in moderation is the way to go!

Just select an organic oatmeal brand and the issue with pesticide is sorted…

I simply don’t believe this , and will continue to enjoy with my oats.

Anyone reading this please ask yourself one question, why didn’t Dr. Gundry site the sources for the claims he making?

Listening to this makes me feel depressed because it seems that now most foods harm us. I wonder, how is that for many long years civilizations survived! As if most people can be chooser. Honestly, we need lots of common sense and trust in God's protection !

Oatmeal has proven to lower my cholesterol multiple times. What’s a good replacement?

I think you are bit dramatic. There is plenty of other stuff much worse you can eat. Maybe some are sensitive to lectins just like some to gluten but not all I’m sure.

3 times a week I have a 1/4 cup soaked oats overnight in vinegar then rinsed and add flaxseeds, berries, nuts,seeds a beaten egg and add cream a little banana and a couple of dates works wonders for me. If that sends me to my Grave then heaven help us😂

I love all the Grains and most fruits and vegetables God put on this earth.I eat complex carbs and not processed ones. Some farmers are working on better storage of grains.

hi Dr. Gundry you mention 3 alternatives when i listened could you please list them as I am not sure of spelling or could anyone else please list them

I have a question. I make oat bread from whole grain organic oats. I mill the oats first. Are the lectins dissolved when baking the bread on 350 degrees for 45 minutes? The bread makes me feel good and a have a great digestion since I eat it. What do you think? Do you know if organic oat also get sprayed by that chemical??

What about museli and granola?

I got a bit fat on oats around the mid-section, because I was eating 110g (400cal) everyday. I cut down to eating oats at weekends instead and lost a stone in three months (5'7, went from 9 stone to 8, didn't change any other aspect of my diet/lifestyle). So be careful if consuming oats for weight management

Don't oats have soluble fiber?

120 % Most gym and sportsman eat oats......??? Maybe we must just drink brandy and die

Buy organic sprouted steel cut oats. They don’t have glyphosate and are much lower in lectins. Then ferment the sprouted oats with kefir. This will further break down the lectins and lower the glycemic index.

I am going to eat oatmeal. I don’t respect anyone any more.

Isn't sorghum wheat? GMO wheat?