Neurotoxicity Effects of Star Fruit

I notice no animals eat them either. But they taste so good!!!

Damn and its legal in USA oh that's right the FDA is one big ass joke. Bought two was gonna try it. Glad I watched this.

I just threw away the star fruits I was going to juice to put in my workout smoothie.

We've been eating this our whole life, including my grandma.. it's her favorite.. she's 95 and healthy 😉

Bullshits

thank you so much

They normally do this when the fruit can cure something the meds they want us to buy can

One of my nephews is now on hemodialysis and wating for a kidney transplant because he simply ate a bunch of starfruits (known as carambolas in Brazil). After eating them he started having convulsions and almost went into a coma. The toxin in the fruit destroyed his kidneys, which now don't function anymore. He lives in an area in Brazil were this fruit is plentiful. The doctors who assisted him told us that for someone in his condition (he already had some kidney problems) only one starfruit could have caused some serious damage and he had three of them. It took the doctors a couple days to remove the toxin from his body and he nearly died. Poor young man!

is it true?
is it nutrition fact
or nutrition fiction?

What is CSF chemical compound ???

I just had 4 starfruits at one go and came across this video

I’ve been eating this fruit since my childhood until now, and I’m still alive. Everything depends of the metabolism of each person.

If they are so bad for you, why do the grocery stores still sell them!

Ok... so one vid says they're your heart's best friend and this one says they're your kidney's worst enemy... who to believe??? I have a bag of tree ripened stars just waiting to be juiced.

The fact that I literally just left the gym and came home and is downing this star fruit just scared the hell outta me😱

He’s so annoying .. sorry to say

Ahm,.. It's more in CKD, According to you Dr Greger, we should avoid everything and just rely on consuming only air and then look like you in the end !

Question: Is it true that most of the toxins are concentrated in the edges of the fruit and it lessens the more it ripens?
As a child, we were told that it had toxins. So we were taught how to eat it. (I ate quite a few of these growing up) We had to cut off the edges of the fruit. And we could eat about two in one sitting. As a juice, we added lime or sour orange juice to it.
My brain is working fine; My Kidneys are doing their job. My tree is loaded and I just fermented a batch and thinking of making Jam with a next batch. So I should get my kidneys checked?

I almost died from this.

Thank you, very informative. We own three star fruit carambola trees from which we harvest maybe 12 5 gallon buckets full of starfruit and give them all away except for the one my wife eats and a half dozen I may eat in a year. I'm not doubting the science only reporting on some field anecdotal evidence. Of the thousands we've given away over the years we've never heard of one incident. Why?

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Bull..siht..

There should be a disclaimer in the produce section or something. Sheesh.

Starfruit may have some bad things,but they have many more benefits. Nothing is good when consumed in large amounts. Keep that in your mind.

You will stop eating starfruit after this video, but you'll never stop eating cancer causing yummy burgers, will you?

So basically as long as your kidneys are healthy and you only eat say one a day you should be fine... remember kidneys are a filter. So makes sense if you have bad kidneys your not gonna filter out the toxics.

I just bought one I am not eating it. It’s going in the trash. I really wanted to try it, but it’s not worth the risk.

This is like the fugu of the fruit world 😬 I have two of these bad boys in my fridge and was about to eat one when I looked up if I should eat the skin and this popped up. I have kidney damage due to diabetes. Dodged a bullet there 😮

I was born with only one kidney. I'm glad I've never eaten a star fruit but this is the first time I've heard I shouldn't. 0_o; Geez!

You leaving out the most important part that's only it's you have kidney issues if you have no kidney issues then it won't cause an issue

ummmmm.....this sounds like Star fruit is......TOXIC.......so......I think the better advice is....don't eat it......plenty of other fruit to eat....eat a mango instead...

Bio-Energetic Resonance Food Testing solves that problem too.

I've been seeing them at the store and had never heard that it could be so easy to accidentally over dose on them. Thanks man

I'm pretty sure that's because the dumb asses eat them unripened and have never seen a starfruit tree in there life. Even if its yellow in a store it still isn't ripened unless it did so on a tree.

Same reaction to eating hot peppers, that hiccup reaction?

The thumbnail is too clickbaitey. Looked like the video would be common yt trash

Why is star fruit even available if it's that bad?

Just don't understand, if it's kind of toxic, why is it sold almost in every store?

It would be interesting to find out how most star fruits eaten are grown and sold for those studies? Ideally, all fruits should be picked vine ripped and ready to eat on the spot. Most start fruits bought in stores are picked green since they must stay good until they reach their destination away from the tropics. Maybe the toxins referred to by the studies would be rendered inoffensive if grown and picked properly like we do here in the tropics and consume as we harvest. Just keeping an open mind as we do not know how to grow good food anymore and find blame where it does not always belong.

The study didnt even mention of ripe or unripe fruit.. thats like saying ackee will kill u so dont eat it yet its a staple fruit in jamaica.. more untrustworthy fear mongering coming from dr greger.. If the fruit is ready for you to spread it seed its not going to hurt you.. this is why we shouldnt be eating things that dont want to be eaten and shouldnt ignore our tastebuds.. you can taste the toxins..everything has its own protective toxins that will kill u over time.. like how if you eat flax seeds and seaweed and spinach you loose all your hair and then you get skin cancer if you go outside.

wow. the couple of times ive eaten star fruit ive thrown it up, only time a fruit has ever made that happen to me...

Star fruit, expensive, exclusive and now toxic to kidney function. Now I know I wasn’t missing anything 😳

Looks like your video editing skills improved - very impressive. Looking forward to the new book. Good job timing it in December right when people are making new year's resolutions. I got an audio book version of the 1st book and started making changes.

Holly cow! It’s every where in Asia

These comments are super interesting

I had no idea 🤯.

first time I hear at this channel that a plant based whole food vegan diet could kill me :)

I'm a Brazilian, and unfortunately this danger hasn't been made public knowledge to us.
Yeah, this fruit is quite common around here, mostly in within the country and rural areas.
Another GREaT video, doctor!!! Thanks so much for sharing the knowledge!!!

I started buying wired fruits recently so I guess I'll skip that one.

Thankyou