Look what Wheat Belly did for Sharon
Sharon shared her photos following the Wheat Belly lifestyle:
“All the pre-Wheat Belly versus post-Wheat Belly pics are so wonderful. I wanted to share mine as well.
This is my 1 1/2 year post Wheat Belly. I’m now completely grain-free along with sugar-free.
“Crohn’s disease and constant sluggish feeling made me make a complete lifestyle change. I’ve never felt better, nor have I ever had more energy. If you would have asked me to trail run 5 miles 2 years ago, I would have passed out or had a heart attack. Now at 43 years old, I run 5-7 miles everyday in the mountains. Thank you so much!!! ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 17, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories Crohn's disease fatigue gluten grains Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
You’ve probably got dysbiosis: An excerpt from Wheat Belly Total Health
Here’s an excerpt from chapter 9, Full Recovery From Post-Traumatic Grain Gut Syndrome, of Wheat Belly Total Health about the exceptionally common issue of dysbiosis:
“Up to 35 percent of people with no other gastrointestinal disease and no symptoms have bacterial overgrowth (dysbiosis) or other distortions of bowel flora composition. Even though many doctors regard irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) as a benign condition, 30 to 85 percent of people with IBS have varying degrees of dysbiosis at the time of their diagnosis–it is not benign. Overgrowth of unhealthy bacteria is common in people who have low stom...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 17, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel flora gluten grains health microbiota Source Type: blogs
For your health, generalists have great lasting value
First, we must address semantics. This post – Generalists vs. Specialists – stimulated these thoughts. Often in organized medicine we (especially internists and family physicians) emphasize that internists (whether inpatient or outpatient focused), family physicians, pediatricians, general surgeons, etc. are specialists, while we reserve the term sub-specialists for cardiologists, or vascular surgeons, or gastroenterologists. For the sake of consistency with common usage, I will refer to generalists and specialists rather than specialists and sub-specialists.
The essay’s point (as I interpret it) fo...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - July 6, 2015 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
June Man of the Month: Justin Vandergrift
Just in time for Father’s Day, meet Disruptive Women in Healthcare’s June Man of the Month, Justin Vandergrift. He gets our vote for “Dad Extraordinaire!”
When Justin and I met, he’d just spoken on a panel. In his remarks, he said his daughter didn’t need the best doctor. That stopped me. Cold. He said what? Did I hear that right? A Dad saying his daughter did not need the best doctor? What he said next answered my questions, but I wanted to learn more so we talked afterwards.
Justin, as you continued with your story about Kathryn, I found it compelling. The wisdom you shared was unlike anything I’d hea...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - June 18, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Man of the Month Source Type: blogs
Wheat and grains make you sick
Jennifer shared her “before” and “after” photos after just 3 weeks of following the Wheat Belly lifestyle:
“I am 30. I have been dealing with health issues my whole life. About a month ago, I had to go to the ER for severe abdominal pain and nausea. I still don’t know all that is going on, but I do know the Wheat Belly diet is helping me to get better (docs haven’t been helpful thus far).
“This is a pic of me before Wheat Belly on the left and 3 weeks after starting the diet. I have followed your Facebook and seen all the ‘before’ and ‘afters’ and wan...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 13, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories abdominal pain gluten grains nausea Source Type: blogs
Look Catrina in the eye and you can tell she’s grain-free!
Catrina shared her photos before and after her Wheat Belly experience:
“This is me after two months grain-free. I have lost 10 pounds and 10 inches so far.
“After one month, I tried corn nachos and regretted it due to stomach pain and anxiety.”
Look at the change in Catina’s eyes: they’re bigger. While this might simply be due to facial expression, this effect is so common with the loss of facial edema in people following the Wheat Belly wheat- and grain-free lifestyle that I believe it is a genuine effect in Catrina. It is, of course, simply part of the body-wide reversal of inflammation ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 3, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories gluten grain Inflammation Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Sarah: “Only” down 26 pounds
Sarah shared her Wheat Belly experience with us:
“I removed wheat 9/2014, all grains 11/2014. While I’m only down 26 lbs, I feel a lot better, migraines are next to nothing, and my clothes are getting looser and looser. I do notice some facial changes, too.
“I still have a ways to go weight-wise, but I’m happy so far.”
Doesn’t she look terrific? And freed of awful migraine headaches.
I am continually impressed and delighted at just how powerful the elimination of all wheat and grains can be. While the Wheat Belly strategy is indeed a form of reducing carbohydrates, it is so much MORE t...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 1, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories gluten grains headache migraine Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
In ‘Ensuring Timely Approval Of Generic Drugs,’ Safety Must Come First
If there was ever a time for an informed discussion about the purpose and use of Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS), it is now. Rather than impeding the arrival of more effective treatments to the market, Congress gave the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to require REMS as a way to approve needed medicines that are also known to carry severe risks.
As a result, patients now have access to new treatments for asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, blood disorders, multiple myeloma, thyroid cancer, irregular heartbeat, hypertension, multiple sclerosis, seizures, schizophrenia, bipolar disord...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - May 14, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Stacey Worthy and Stephanie Curtis Tags: Drugs and Medical Technology Featured Population Health FAST Act FDA FDAAA Patient Safety REMS Source Type: blogs
Lose the wheat and grains, lose the inflammation
Rick shared the progression of facial and health changes he experienced by following the Wheat Belly lifestyle (above). Since he began 5 months ago, Rick has lost 28 pounds and 8 inches off his waist, he is freed from previously chronic knee and back pain, and experienced an improvement in mood. But take a look at Rick’s photos when we put his most recent photo at 248.6 pounds up against his 2009 photo at a weight of 250 pounds–virtually the same weight:
Even though each photo was taken at similar weight, look at the impressive contrast in Rick’s face: The photos look like two different people at virtual...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 6, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle autoimmune gluten grains Inflammation Source Type: blogs
Which is More Uncomfortable: The Colonoscopy or Treatment for Colon Cancer?
Michelle was a healthy, active 47 year old. She tried to eat right and she exercised. It looked like the hard work was paying off: no health issues and lots of energy. Her work in the healthcare field motivated her to see her doctors regularly for checkups, to get mammograms and to have her blood work done annually. She knew she was getting close to the magical age of 50 and that soon she would need to get a colonoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer. Since she had no family history of the disease she wasn’t worried. She felt certain that, just as all her previous testing had come back normal, this one would too.
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Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - March 18, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs
FDA Postpones Advisory Committee Review of Celltrion's Remicade Biosimilar
Celltrion will have to wait longer than expected for FDA's Advisory Committee to review its application for Remsima, a biosimilar for Johnson and Johnsons’ Remicade (infliximab). Yesterday, FDA announced that they would be postponing the meeting of the Arthritis Advisory Committee scheduled for March 17, 2015 where they were going to review the product.
View FDA's announcement here.
"The postponement is due to information requests pending with the sponsor of the application. A future meeting date will be announced in the Federal Register," states the Agency.
The A...
Source: Policy and Medicine - February 26, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
TWiV 323: A skid loader full of viromes
On episode #323 of the science show This Week in Virology, the family TWiVidae discuss changes in the human fecal virome associated with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
You can find TWiV #323 at www.twiv.tv. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - February 8, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology bacteria bacteriophage Crohn's disease enteric fecal virome inflammatory bowel disease microbiome ulcerative colitis viral virus Source Type: blogs
Biosimilars Update: FDA Staff Recommends Approval of First Biosimilar in U.S.; Agency Accepts Third Biosimilar Application For Review
FDA’s “Purple Book,” which lists all licensed biological products, currently has an empty column under the “biosimilar” heading, which would state imitation products deemed “highly similar” next to the listed reference. That may change soon. Tomorrow, the FDA will consider whether the Agency should approve Novartis AG's copy of Neupogen, Amgen Inc.'s successful injectable biologic used to prevent infection in patients on chemo therapy. FDA staff reviewers recommended approval for the copy on all five of its proposed indications yesterday.
View the FDA Briefing Document in advance of the Oncologic Drugs...
Source: Policy and Medicine - January 6, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
How do you say "biosimilar quality" in Hindi?
At the same time that regulators in France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg are suspending the marketing approval of 25 generic drugs due to concerns over the quality of data from clinical trials conducted by India's GVK Biosciences, another Indian firm, Zydus Cadila, has launched a biosimilar of Adalimumab (an anti-TNF-α monoclonal antibody, which is approved in many countries for the treatment of inflammatory diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, plaque psoriasis, polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.) Bad timing and, perhaps...
Source: drugwonks.com Blog - December 10, 2014 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: blogs
Regenerative Medicine and the Future of Healthy Longevity
One of the many possible future banners for applied longevity science is to call these treatments capable of extending healthy life span simply "regenerative medicine." In past years, regenerative medicine has referred to the output of the stem cell research community: ways to manipulate and transplant cells in order to create regrowth and healing to a degree that would not normally occur. But why not broaden the usage to include repair of damage within cells, and removal of metabolic waste in tissue structures between cells? It isn't such a leap. The stem cell research community is presently largely focused on building tr...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 18, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs
