Doris: Acid reflux, acne, tremor gone!
Doris shared the photos and some of the many health benefits she experienced while living the Wheat Belly lifestyle:
“I started my journey March 28th, 2014. I’m just shy of turning 48 years old. I began this lifestyle change to lose weight but have since changed my outlook.
“In 2012, my doctor wanted to put me on cholesterol medication. Thankfully, he gave me time to get it fixed with diet. He advised me to continue with my low fat eating! I had already been doing this for years, falling on and off the wagon and binging until I hurt and couldn’t sleep from going to bed with a tummy so full.
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 21, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories acid reflux acne binging cholesterol heartburn tremor Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Forks In the Road
By NORTIN HADLER, MD
On Saturday, Dr. Hadler delivered the commencement address at the University of Michigan Medical School. THCB is pleased to feature his remarks.
Thank you, Class of 2015, for the privilege of sharing this special occasion with you, your families and the community that has come together to celebrate with you. This is a rare day of pure self-indulgence. Our professional life allows little room for self-indulgence and seldom applauds when one of us makes the room. For those of you who are drawn to a career anchored at the bedside, the trade-off is the quiet, internalized quest to become the best phy...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 18, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: THCB Source Type: blogs
Georgann gets rid of acid blocking medication
Tens of millions of people take prescription and over-the-counter drugs to suppress stomach acid production. Such drugs are the third most commonly prescribed drugs in the nation.
It is very common for people who engage in the Wheat Belly lifestyle to obtain relief from acid reflux/heartburn/esophagitis within several days of kissing their last bagel or bowl of bran cereal goodbye. But what to do with the acid blocking drugs that you may have been taking?
Georgann shares her experience with the Wheat Belly lifestyle and getting off acid reflux drugs.
I am reading the new book, Wheat Belly Total Health, and I had to send yo...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 26, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories acid reflux gluten-free grains H2 blockers heartburn Source Type: blogs
Sydney no longer needs sweat pants
Discussions about such health issues that block weight loss can be found in the Wheat Belly Blog videos, as well as an extended discussion–with solutions–in Wheat Belly Total Health.
The post Sydney no longer needs sweat pants appeared first on Dr. William Davis. (Source: Wheat Belly Blog)
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 25, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories acid reflux fatigue gluten-free grains heartburn Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
The Need For Publicly Funded Trials To Get Unbiased Comparative Effectiveness Data
Comparative effectiveness research was one of the hotly debated components of the Affordable Care Act. The pharmaceutical industry is marketing driven, with pharmaceutical companies spending more on marketing than they do on research and development. The need for a marketing edge can also drive drug development.
As illustrated by the discussion below of Gazyva and Nexium, drugs can be developed at higher doses than the drugs they are intended to replace. When the newer, higher-dose drugs are tested against the older, lower-dose drugs, the trials are intended to show that the newer, higher dose drugs are superior to the old...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 20, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Robert Bohrer Tags: All Categories Business of Health Care Comparative Effectiveness Innovation Pharma Policy Research Source Type: blogs
You won’t recognize Jennifer
Jennifer provided an update after a year and a half on the Wheat Belly lifestyle:
“A year and a half wheat-free and I am now down 113 pounds!
“Going wheat-free has been a life changer. At my worst, I was experiencing heartburn, foot pain and swelling, back pain, coughing and headaches. I was afraid to go to the doctor for fear of what he would tell me. The wheezing has stopped, I sleep better at night and I am not having foot pain and swelling. The headaches and heartburn have disappeared completely. I went from not being able to tie my own shoes without getting out of breath to running and working out at Cross...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 8, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories gluten-free grains Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Is IVF the best path for infertile couples?
The two perspectivesPatients and doctors perceive illness and treatment from completely different perspectives. Let's look at infertility, for example. Most doctors look at the world through a biomedical perspective. They want to diagnose the problem, and then come up with solutions to help the couple to conceive. This is the traditional approach in medicine, where the first step is to make a diagnosis, and then devise a treatment plan. Text books will talk in terms of treatments based on correcting an underlying problem, and will usually offer a chain of treatments which progress from simple to complex,...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - January 27, 2015 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Source Type: blogs
Denny’s Wheat Belly “before” and “after”
Denny shared his 3-month experience living the Wheat Belly wheat- and grain-free lifestyle.
Denny:
“The picture on top is during my 50th class reunion held last June, 2014. I started following the Wheat Belly way October, 2014. The second picture was taken at my birthday celebration in January this year, approximately 3 months after starting the program.
“As you can see clearly for yourself, my face is no longer as round as a basketball, I’ve lost 20 pounds, my complexion has improved, and my smile says the rest. I no longer suffer from heartburn or reflux, my blood glucose readings have lowered to nea...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 26, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates blood sugar diabetes gluten grain Inflammation success story Weight Loss wheat Source Type: blogs
6 things to do in the last weeks of pregnancy
by Tsh.. She is the founder of this blog and is currently traveling around the world with her husband and 3 kids. Her latest book is Notes From a Blue Bike, and believes a passport is one of the world’s greatest textbooks.
My due date is in just a few days. Yep, I’m in that very last stage of pregnancy, when there’s not much you can do other than watch your body swell to unbelievable proportions and reminisce of the days when you could get up without grunting.
I’ve been busy getting ready for number three to join our family, and a big part of that is editing and scheduling guest posts from editors and co...
Source: Cord Blood News - January 21, 2015 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: joyce at mazelabs.com Tags: babies Cord Blood medical research parents pregnancy Uncategorized affordable cord blood banking cerebral palsy due dates healthy pregnancy new baby parenting third trimester of pregnancy why save cord blood Source Type: blogs
Why your doctor won’t refill prescriptions over the phone
Giving prescription refills is not quite as fun as it used to be. Years ago, we doctors would whip out our prescription pads — often sooner than we should have — and we’d scribble some coded language that pharmacists were trained to decipher. I’m surprised there were not more errors owing to doctors’ horrendous penmanship. On occasion, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would require a pharmaceutical company to change the name of a drug so it wouldn’t be confused with another medicine with a similar name. The name of the heartburn drug Losec was too similar to congestive heart failure drug Lasix, so...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 13, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Michael Kirsch, MD Tags: Meds Medications Primary care Source Type: blogs
BioWatch News on Rejuvenation Biotechnology 2014
BioWatch News is a market analysis venture focused on biotechnology, especially medical research and development. This is a fairly common business model: find a niche and help to explain it to investors. People with a lot of money at stake in the market will pay a proportionally greater price for good articles and analysis. Biotechnology is a field that is changing so fast and for which the course of the near future is so very unpredictable that there is considerable demand for vision, knowledge, and explanation on the part of those who know more about what is going on than your average fund manager.
Interestingly, invest...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 6, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs
How listing side effects on TV ads can sell more drugs
I must not be the only person to wonder how pharmaceutical companies succeed with direct to consumer advertisements when, stuck in the middle of all their TV ads, are those long lists of side effects. You know what I mean. After watching a smiling and attractive person running through a field after receiving some wonder pill, the narrator tucks his voice down an octave and intones that the medication “could cause rashes, constipation, heartburn, bladder dysfunction and cardiogenic syncope.” How could anyone listening to this ad want to take this product?
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 25, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Peter Ubel, MD Tags: Meds Medications Source Type: blogs
Gastroparesis Awareness Month: A Day In The Life
This is my second post for Gastroparesis Awareness Month. Read my first post, Tube Love, here. My first post was a love poem to my feeding tube. :-) My second one is a little more serious and a lot longer. I apologize for the length. I have trouble reading lengthy posts myself. But sometimes I’m incapable of summarizing myself, so I have to write posts that are too long for even me to read. I hope you’ll at least be able to skim through the important parts. I’ve tried to break up the text with lots of photos, to see if that helps any.
A DAY IN THE LIFE
My day starts when my morning careg...
Source: Ballastexistenz - August 23, 2014 Category: Autism Authors: Mel Baggs Tags: Adrenal insufficiency Aspiration pneumonia Bronchiectasis Education Feeding tube Food Gastroparesis Life Skills Medical Medical stuff Personal history Treatment adult tubie adult tubies awareness awareness months bipap ce Source Type: blogs
Clever Hospitals Find Another Way to Snag New Patients
Last month, I wrote about a hospital system in Colorado that had discovered a way to cross market its more profitable emergency room services if a patient first came to its urgent care center. Pretty clever! Then recently I came across another health care marketing trick close to home and just as sly. As I sat on a New York subway one sizzler of a day, an ad for an ice cream cone grabbed my attention. Ice cream! Hot day! After a closer read, I realized the ad was not touting ice cream but the Center for Advanced Digestive Care, a part of New York Presbyterian, one of the city’s most prestigious hospitals and well kno...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 19, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Food Sensitivity and Intolerance Testing Changed Their Lives
Susan was tired; tired of feeling foggy, bloated and unable to lose weight. Her thyroid levels were out of whack and she felt awful. Having just recently passed her 50th birthday, she assumed that this was what it meant to be a woman of a “certain age”: A little heavier and slower than she would have liked, not quite as sharp, and generally, just feeling old.
It wasn’t until she watched other people coming into a lab that she co-owns and heard them talk about food intolerances did she consider that food might be causing her problems, not her age. Changes to their diets, made after food intolerance testing, se...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 18, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Consumer Health Care Food Source Type: blogs
