Eat, Pray, Push
Here’s an excerpt from chapter 4 of Wheat Belly Total Health, Your Bowels Have Been Fouled: Intestinal Indignities From Grains:
“A condition as pedestrian as constipation serves to perfectly illustrate many of the ways in which grains mess with normal body functions, as well as just how wrong conventional ‘solutions’ can be. Constipation remedies are like the Keystone Kops of health, stumbling, fumbling, and bumping into each other, but never quite putting out the fire.
“Drop a rock from the top of a building and it predictably hits the ground—not sometimes, not half the time, but every time. That’s how the b...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 25, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates Gliadin gluten grain-free wheat belly Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs
Is sugar causing you to AGE faster?
Americans consume the equivalent of 300 loaves of bread each year (representing enormous exposure to the amylopectin A carbohydrate that behaves like sugar or worse). They also consume 200 pounds of sugar. It is not uncommon for sugar alone to comprise a quarter of all calories taken in over the course of the day—some of it out in the open, some of it hidden.
To understand the adverse effects of sugars—sucrose, high-fructose corn syrup, and other fructose-rich sweeteners, such as agave, honey, and maple syrup—we need to understand two phenomena:
1. Insulin resistance
2 Glycation.
Insulin Resistance
When blood...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 18, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Anti-aging BLOOD SUGAR Diabetes Dr. Davis Undoctored arthritis dementia grain-free grains health heart disease insulin joint pain weight gain Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Avocado Bacon Burger
Every once in a while, it’s nice to have a burger filled with plenty of high-fat fillings. I filled mine with sliced avocado, thinly-sliced onion, bacon, sliced goat cheese, and hamburger, topped with my favorite sriracha mayonnaise, but you can choose your own favorite fillings. (Sriracha mayonnaise = 1 part sriracha sauce to 4 parts mayonnaise.)
Unlike conventional burgers, burgers made without grains and with ingredients that are fat-rich make this sort of burger exceptionally filling. I dare you to completely finish just one.
Makes two hamburger buns for one burger
1/2 cup almond flour
1 tablespoon ground psylli...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 13, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes gluten-free grain-free wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Look what Kathy accomplished on the Wheat Belly lifestyle
Kathy provided an update on her Wheat Belly lifestyle that began with the Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox. You may remember Kathy, as she previously shared her story:
The photo at the top is Kathy’s most recent update, looking not only healthier and more slender, but younger.
“2.5 years following the Wheat Belly way of life! Thank you Dr Davis and April Duval for showing me the way! Lost 80 pounds, gained 25 years of health and youth back. Maintaining beautifully.
“The before pic was taken 9 years ago and I wasn’t even at my heaviest at that point. The before pic is the result of dec...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 12, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories gluten-free grain-free Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Gluteomorphin: The opiate in your food
Yes: there are opiates that derive from various food proteins that exert peculiar effects on the human brain. The worst? The opiates that come from the gliadin protein of wheat and related grains.
Opiate receptor researchers at the National Institutes of Health originally coined the term “gluteomorphin” nearly 40 years ago when it was determined that the gliadin protein of wheat undergoes partial digestion (since humans lack the digestive enzymes to fully digest proline-rich amino acid sequences in proteins from seeds of grasses) to yield peptides that are 4- to 5-amino acids long. Some of these peptides were ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 10, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Opioids addictive binge eating bulimia eating disorders Gliadin opiates wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Eight years of Wheat Belly successes
I was looking back over the last 8 years since the first Wheat Belly book was released. It’s been 8 years of astounding, truly breathtaking stories of success over weight issues, health, and physical transformations that skeptics even today claim are impossible. It’s been a virtual avalanche of wonderful stories. Although I’ve seen all of them, often more than once, I could not help but be overcome with satisfaction and pride for the many, many spectacular photos and stories people have shared.
So I thought it would be fun to re-post a small sample of some of these stories dating back from the start of th...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 6, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories grain-free Inflammation Source Type: blogs
Why is quinoa getting a free pass?
A day doesn’t pass that I don’t see some new “healthy” recipe for quinoa, or a dietitian or nutritionist gushing about the health benefits of this seed.
Many make the claim that quinoa is high in protein and is gluten-free. Clearly, the gluten-free movement is fueling some of this excitement over this seed. But how much truth are there in these claims? And just how healthy is quinoa as a replacement for grains?
Let’s tackle these claims one by one:
Quinoa is not a grain and is gluten-free
This is absolutely true. While all grains, or seeds of grasses, are members of the family Poaceae, quino...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 5, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle blood sugar carbohydrates carbs gluten-free quinoa Source Type: blogs
Tartine ’s Basic Country Bread
I think I finally got this sourdough thing down.
Check out this boule made using Tartine’s Country Bread recipe, the holy grail of sourdough. It’s the first sourdough recipe I ever tried, and now the best I’ve ever made.
For those of you as new to this whole sourdough thing as I was just 6 months ago, Tartine is the bakery run by Chad Robertson in San Francisco, turning out small batches (only 240 loaves a day) of what many say is the best bread you’ll ever taste. Following in the footsteps of bakers like Nancy Silverton at La Brea Bakery in Los Angeles, Chad helped to put artisan sourdough ...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - June 2, 2019 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Bread Sourdough sourdough bread Whole Wheat Source Type: blogs
Where, oh where, art thou, Arabinoxylan?
I hate to admit it, but there actually is something good in wheat and grains but it’s not B vitamins, cellulose fiber, or the approving looks of your doctor or dietitian. It’s arabinoxylan, as well as amylose, the prebiotic fibers of wheat/grains that nourish microorganisms in the gastrointestinal tract. It’s ironic that all the fuss about fiber intake that was the big push for bran cereals is not the form of fiber that yields genuine benefits, at least anything beyond bulking up bowel movements. It’s the neglected prebiotic fibers like arabinoxylan that were the source of any health benefits.
The a...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 29, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel flora fiber gluten grains microbiota resistant starch Source Type: blogs
Update: Wheat Belly safe flours and meals
So you kiss all things wheat and grains goodbye. And you’ve come to learn that gluten-free foods made with replacement flours like cornstarch, tapioca starch, potato flour, and rice starch are incredibly unhealthy, since they make visceral fat grow, send blood sugar through the roof, and contribute to diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, and dementia.
But perhaps you’d sure like a few muffins or cookies once in a while . . . without paying the health price that follows wheat and grain consumption such as high blood sugar, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, autoimmune conditions, acid reflux, and inc...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 22, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates gluten-free grain-free low-carb wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Does Sleeping Alleviate Mental Illness Symptoms?
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Source: World of Psychology - May 6, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: A Bipolar, a Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Depression Schizophrenia Sleep Source Type: blogs
Do gluten-free foods cause weight gain?
People often make the mistake of eliminating gluten but then turn to gluten-free processed foods that cause extravagant weight gain, as well as type 2 diabetes, hormonal disruptions, inflammation, and unhealthy changes in bowel flora.
In the Wheat lifestyle, we can be gluten-free but avoid all the hazards of processed gluten-free foods and thereby obtain magnificent control over weight and health.
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 3, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Gluten-free wheat belly Source Type: blogs
What ’ s wrong with gluten-free diets?
Does following a gluten-free diet lead to nutrient deficiencies or other health problems, as some critics claim?
You can indeed follow a healthy gluten-free diet, but avoid these common misconceptions and pitfalls to stay safe. When followed properly, you can achieve magnificent improvements in health and weight with this lifestyle. Even better, go the Wheat Belly route and be GRAIN-free, as well.
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - April 30, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Gluten-free Gliadin grain-free grains wheat belly Source Type: blogs
