Talk:Lectin

Healthiest people in the world?

The article makes this claim:

Nevertheless, the longest-lived, healthiest people in the world tend to subsist largely on plant-based diets, which often include lectins in abundance.[20]

Is this true? The link is to some journalistic piece, not a scientific study. It seems like a very broad, universal, almost revolutionary statement. Dynasteria (talk) 09:28, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

Undue weight to Steven Gundry and his lectin-free diet?

This article is on lectins not a lectin free diet. I am not convinced we need undue weight (8 lines) on Stephen Gundry's lectin-free diet which the medical community dismiss as quackery. I have since created a separate article on his diet. I believe one or two lines would be more suitable. Also this line " A typical lectin-free diet excludes a range of foods, including most grains, pulses, and legumes, as well as eggs, seafood, and many staple fruits and vegetables." is not sourced and it is wrong. The lectin-free diet does not exclude seafood and Gundry's lectin free diet includes lots of eggs. Psychologist Guy (talk) 22:57, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

Also this line "his book "cites" studies that either have nothing to do with lectins or even show that avoiding wheat, barley, and rye lead to less beneficial bacteria and more harmful bacteria, contrary to his recommendations" is sourced to T. Colin Campbell's plant based institute [1], I am not so sure this passes as a reliable source. I suggest we trim some of the content on Gundry. Psychologist Guy (talk) 22:54, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

By all means edit it if you think it's incorrect or excessive in length, but your edit completely removed any reference to it which is clearly not appropriate. Assuming that a separate article is justified (I'm not entirely convinced that it is) per WP:SUMMARY, this should be the parent article of lectin-free diet and should therefore be summarised here. The Campbell source is WP:SELFPUB but permissible as he is a verifiable expert on nutrition. As an aside, it's evident from pageviews that a large majority of our readers come here to learn about the role of lectins in their diet and while this doesn't remove the need for sourcing, we are failing our readers if they come here to seek information and can't find anything. SmartSE (talk) 10:03, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

Table of the major plant lectins?

Should this be in the etymology section? It seems ill-fitting, given what I take "etymology" to mean. Vanitasvanitatum69 (talk) 18:25, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

"This article is missing information about mapping to Pfam/InterPro of major types" banner

Can someone either do something about the "This article is missing information about mapping to Pfam/InterPro of major types" banner at the top of the article, or at least add some info to this section about it? For non-subject-matter-experts, that's a pretty offputting chunk of jargon to be the first thing you read in the article. It's apparently been there since 2019. --Dan Harkless (talk) 14:48, 20 February 2022 (UTC)