 Dr. Gundry here for GundryMD. Today, I want to talk about fruit and how bad fruit is for you. And you're going, well, wait a minute. That's not a fruit. That's a zucchini. Actually, anything with a seed in it is a fruit. A zucchini is not a vegetable. It's a fruit. A tomato. A tomato is not a vegetable. It's a fruit. A pepper. Now that's surely a vegetable. In fact, it has seeds in it. It's a fruit. A banana. Now, everybody knows a banana is a fruit, fair enough, and a strawberry is a fruit. But I'm old enough to remember that these strawberries didn't exist in January. In fact, these strawberries didn't exist, period, because they were hybridized to be able to become huge and have a sweet flavor without any exposure even to sunlight and to grow in January here in California. This does not exist in the real world. So if you're eating this strawberry in January or, for instance, any of these fruits in January, your body does not think it's January. It thinks it's the middle of summer. And the middle of summer was when fruit would grow. All of these things would only grow in the summer. Even in the jungle, bananas only grow once a year. We eat fruit to gain weight for the winter. And we actually increase our cholesterol when we eat fruit. The last thing you probably don't know is that fruit sugar, fructose, is one of the best ways to destroy your kidneys that I have ever found. So if you think fruit is healthy, I want you to begin thinking about it as a special candy treat that you should only eat when it would have naturally been available. This is Dr. Stephen Gundry, and I'm always looking out for you. Give fruit the boot.