Kay’s food addictions . . . gone
Kay shared her Wheat Belly experience over her first 4 weeks:
“After over 30 years of battling food addiction and morbid obesity, I had just about given up. You name it, I have tried it, even lap-band surgery which worked temporarily but, of course, did not solve the problem.
“Now, for the first time in my life, I am not struggling with food: I am not craving, obsessing, or even really thinking about food. I’ve been doing Wheat Belly about a month and am down about 20 pounds, but the most striking thing is that my desire to eat compulsively is GONE. I am utterly stunned by this.
“I can’t beg...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 28, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories addictions binge eating bulimia exorphins food addictions gluten grains opiates Source Type: blogs
Crohns disease cured . . . by a chance encounter at the airport
I posed this question recently: Given the extravagant health successes people are experiencing by living the Wheat Belly lifestyle, are we on the dawn of an age of self-direction in health? If doctors misdiagnose/misclassify our acid reflux, irritable bowel syndrome, intractable constipation, migraine headaches, chronic sinusitis, asthma, depression, binge eating disorder, type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis, autoimmune hepatitis, and hundreds of other conditions, which we then reverse on our own with the lifestyle changes we introduce . . . who needs the doctors?
Christine provided her perspective:
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 18, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories gluten grains microbiome nutrients self-directed health undoctored Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly: Self-Directed Health?
Director chair, film slate and load horn.
Here’s a proposal for you: If, by following the Wheat Belly lifestyle, a long list of conditions are reduced or reversed at no risk, almost no cost, reversing even chronic and potentially fatal conditions . . . does that mean that the notion of self-directed health might be on the horizon, i.e., putting control over health back in our own hands?
I think it does. No, we will never implant our own defibrillators or take out our own gallbladders. But so many chronic health conditions afflicting modern humans recede that I believe that it is entirely reasonable to start talking a...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 16, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle arthritis autoimmune diabetes eating disorder gluten grains Inflammation joint Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Dying, obsessing, scheming for food
Those of us living in this magnificent Wheat-Free Zone have been hearing incredible tales of freedom from eating disorders. Remember TJ’s story of her release from lifelong bulimia?
Michele tells this story of her release from the binge-eating bonds of wheat and its appetite-stimulating hold over her life.
I have to write. When I read the post from TJ, the woman who suffered from bulimia and various forms of eating disorders for years, I totally related. My first diet started when I was 12 years old. I was not overweight, but my mom and dad always warned me that, if I kept eating the way I was eating, I was go...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 5, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories appetite binge eating bulimia cravings gluten grains hunger opiates opioids Source Type: blogs
Brain Drain
I find it incredible that, buried in the common advice to consume more “healthy whole grains,” is advice to consume what is, in effect, a mind-active drug. Wheat and grain consumption have very real effects on the brain, thinking, and emotions, some of which are reversible, some of which are permanent. Many of the effects are due to the gliadin protein of wheat, rye, and barley. Dr. Alessio Fasano has mapped out the segments of the gliadin protein that, upon partial digestion (humans are incapable of complete digestion of this grass protein) yield the following peptides (protein fragments):
Red = direct cytotox...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 26, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat-Free Lifestyle adhd appetite bipolar Depression emotions gluten grains mind opiates schizophrenia Source Type: blogs
Saving Normal
By SAURABH JHA, MD
The iconoclastic psychiatrist Thomas Szasz said that mental illness was metaphorical, not real, because mental diseases lacked biological substrates. The absence of a substrate predisposes psychiatry to overdiagnosis and avoiding overdiagnosis is psychiatry’s biggest challenge. This challenge has been taken up by Allen Frances in Saving Normal. Like Szasz, Frances writes in cultured, erudite prose. Unlike Szasz, Frances believes that psychiatric illnesses are real. To save the mentally ill, to save psychiatry from itself, Frances says we must save normal.
Six years ago, Frances was enjoying retireme...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: THCB Saurabh Jha Source Type: blogs
Obesity Is Not Like Being "Addicted to Food"
Credit: Image courtesy of Aalto UniversityIs it possible to be “addicted” to food, much like an addiction to substances (e.g., alcohol, cocaine, opiates) or behaviors (gambling, shopping, Facebook)? An extensive and growing literature uses this terminology in the context of the “obesity epidemic”, and looks for the root genetic and neurobiological causes (Carlier et al., 2015; Volkow & Bailer, 2015).Fig. 1 (Meule, 2015). Number of scientific publications on food addiction (1990-2014). Web of Science search term “food addiction”. Figure 1 might lead you to believe that the term “food addiction” was inve...
Source: The Neurocritic - November 9, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs
No grainer brainer
Among the most fascinating–and crippling–of the consequences of wheat and grains on the foolhardy humans who consume them are the brain and mind effects. The myriad forms these take are truly–can’t help it!–mind-boggling.
Some recent comments shared by people on the Wheat Belly lifestyle:
Lori: “Less foggy. Sleep better. More energy.”
Jari: “Concentration and mood are great. I’m never upset and I’m supercalm. Energy levels up and creative as hell!”
Linda: “Almost can’t believe it, but my memory is better. Also, my concentration. At almost age 60,...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - August 16, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle binge eating bipolar bulimia Depression eating disrorder gluten grain hunger opiates opioids paranoia schizophrenia suicidal suicide Source Type: blogs
Wheat and hunger
Pauline read the recent Wheat Belly Blog post, the Top 5 Reasons You Still Have Cravings and shared her perspective:
“Everything you say is true, Dr. Davis. I’ve been following your advice for the last 18 months and it’s taken this long to get my gut right.
“I always know when I’ve inadvertently eaten something containing wheat, generally when I’m eating out with friends. It’s an almost instantaneous increase in hunger, making me go looking for something carb/sugary to eat a few hours later. It also causes gut and joint pain that comes within 24 hours.
“Other than that, I can go all day withou...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - August 15, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle cravings Gliadin gluten grains hunger Source Type: blogs
Vyvanse: Is History Repeating Itself?
(Source: The Carlat Psychiatry Blog)
Source: The Carlat Psychiatry Blog - August 5, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Tags: binge eating disorder stimulants The Carlat Psychiatry Report Vyvanse Source Type: blogs
The New York Times makes a big, bad mistake
The New York Times ran a silly piece entitled The Myth of Big, Bad Gluten by journalist Moises Velasquez-Manoff, yet another defense of the “eat more healthy whole grain” status quo. I enjoy reading most pieces from the New York Times, but they blundered in published this piece of simple-minded tripe.
I keep on hoping that some of the critics of Wheat Belly finally get their facts straight so that we can actually have a meaningful debate on the issues. Mr. Velasquez-Manoff–as so many other journalists and paid authors before him–fails to deliver, instead providing a misguided, anemic discussi...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 6, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle gluten grains grass New York Times Source Type: blogs
How Many People Are Making This “Health” Mistake?
“Diet.” Just reading that word probably gives you flashbacks to all the magazine and diet book promises that failed … and brings up a running list in your head of popular diet trends, and celebrity-sponsored programs we can’t seem to escape when we turn on the TV or log onto Facebook. Many people (maybe you?) think the only way to manage your weight is to go on one of these diets. Wrong.
I’ve been on tons of diets in my heydey. They all made me feel like crap. The only thing that worked was me changing my habits in a realistic way that I could live with forever. But don’t just take my word for it, check out the...
Source: Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog - May 5, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: rebeccascritchfield Tags: happiness health nutrition weight loss international no diet day Source Type: blogs
Top 10 reasons to kiss wheat and grains goodbye forever
There are plenty of reasons to never allow your lips to meet a wheat bagel, sandwich, or pretzels again. But here are the top 10 most compelling, powerful reasons to tell the USDA and other providers of dietary advice to bug off with their “healthy whole grains” advice.
Gliadin derived opiates (from partial digestion to 4- and 5-amino acid long fragments) increase appetite substantially–as do related proteins from rye, barley, and corn. This is a big part of the reason grains make you gain weight.
Gliadin derived opiates are mind active drugs that trigger behavioral outbursts in kids with ADHD and autism...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - April 4, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle appetite autoimmunity Gliadin grains Inflammation Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Binge eating disorder: Real or disease mongering?
A drug company recently received FDA approval to peddle its speed-like pill for “binge eating disorder” (the very same pill that is already widely overused for ADHD). And it is sparing no expense pushing the drug — a former world tennis champ is the shill and commercials are everywhere.
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 2, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Allen Frances, MD Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Promoting Amphetamines for Over-Eating - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
In this study, about 5% of patients given any dosage of Vyvanse had to discontinue its use because of adverse effects. 3/196 patients initially randomized to Vyvanse had serious adverse effects, and one patient died, apparently of an amphetamine overdose. Oddly, the article declared that the one death, due to methamphetamine overdose, was thought by a study investigator not to be related to treatment with another amphetamine, lisdexamfetamine. That makes little sense, given that in a randomized controlled trial, the presumption is that differences in groups given different treatments were caused by these ...
Source: Health Care Renewal - February 26, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: clinical trials conflicts of interest deception evidence-based medicine FDA marketing Shire stealth marketing Source Type: blogs
