My favorite healthy eating and weight loss app for the Wheat Belly Lifestyle
It can sometimes be overwhelming to begin a new way of eating, or as we say, “woe.” The Wheat Belly lifestyle, my grain-free and low-carb, high-fat nutrition plan, can take time and practice. But I say “Time well spent!”
The Wheat Belly lifestyle has been shown to improve insulin sensitivity and reduce inflammation. It also retrains your mind and body to no longer depend on carbs and frees you from the proteins in grains that keep you feeling hungry and damage overall health.
Cut out the wheat, the gliadin and gluten–and all grains– and you reduce the risk of many chronic diseases as well as lose stubbo...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 15, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates app Detox Gliadin gluten-free grain-free grains suggestic Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
How Meditation Can Make You Happier
Despite many of us in the modern world enjoying a level of comfort and luxury that would be been unimaginable for most of human history, we still find it very hard to be happy. In fact, it seems that modern society is contributing to our fatigue and discontentment — with high-pressure working lives, decreased sense of community and a perceived lack of meaning all causing strain.
As much as we may struggle, however, the pursuit of happiness is still the primary goal for most people. While it would be trite to suggest that meditation can solve all our problems, there are reasons why it can help us achieve this goal.
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Source: World of Psychology - February 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Will Williams Tags: Anxiety and Panic Happiness Mindfulness Stress Meditation Present Moment stress reduction Source Type: blogs
In defense of French fries
This study didn’t provide details of how many fries study subjects ate at one sitting, but an “official” serving is just 10 to 15 individual fries (130–150 calories). Most fast food establishments serve three to four times that amount! Stick with one serving, or share a restaurant serving with a couple of meal mates.
Homemade “baked fries” using minimal olive or canola oil aren’t French fries, but they’re close… and much healthier.
The coverage of this new research (“A weapon of dietary destruction!”) made it sound as though having fries with your meal is a death sentence. But let’s not overstate t...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 7th 2019
This study suggests that advantages and disadvantages vary by environment and diet, however, which might explain why evolution has selected for multiple haplogroups rather than one dominant haplogroup.
This is all interesting, but none of it stops the research community from engineering a globally better-than-natural human mitochondrial genome, and then copying it into the cell nucleus as a backup to prevent the well-known contribution of mitochondrial DNA damage to aging. Further, nothing stops us from keeping the haplogroups we have and rendering the effects of variants small and irrelevant through the development...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 6, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Recent Papers on the Cellular Senescence Produced by Visceral Fat Tissue
Today, I thought I'd point out a couple of papers that touch on different aspects of the overlap between visceral fat tissue and senescent cells in aging. In the first paper, researchers show that the ability of visceral fat tissue to generate the markers of senescence is suppressed when the circulatory system of an old mouse is linked to a younger mouse. All of the ongoing, unresolved arguments over why this sort of modest rejuvenation occurs apply here; my money is still on it being dilution of harmful factors in an aged bloodstream. In the second paper, researchers link yet another aspect of dysfunction in the brain to ...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 4, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Putting a stop to leaky gut
Leaky gut gets blamed for everything from everyday stomach issues to pain to anxiety, yet it is one of the most mysterious ailments to diagnosis and treat.
Part of the reason for this medical mystery is because the gut is such a vast and complex system. “Science continues to find new ways that the gut can influence everything from heart health to keeping our brains young,” says Dr. Alessio Fasano, director of the Center for Celiac Research and Treatment with Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital. “There is much we know about leaky gut in terms of how it affects people’s health, but there is still so muc...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - November 18, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Solan Tags: Digestive Disorders Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 22nd 2018
In this report, we propose that the molecular mechanisms of beneficial actions of CR should be classified and discussed according to whether they operate under rich or insufficient energy resource conditions. Future studies of the molecular mechanisms of the beneficial actions of CR should also consider the extent to which the signals/factors involved contribute to the anti-oxidative, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor and other CR actions in each tissue or organ, and thereby lead to anti-aging and prolongevity.
RNA Interference of ATP Synthase Subunits Slows Aging in Nematodes
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Source: Fight Aging! - October 21, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Calorie Restriction Produces Beneficial Changes in Gut Flora Populations
Members of the research community have in recent years exhibited a growing interest in the analysis of gut microbes in the context of metabolism and the pace of aging. Some inroads are being made into better understanding helpful versus unhelpful microbial populations and behaviors, and how exactly their activities might influence health over the long term. It is unclear as to how large this influence is. Perhaps it is in the same ballpark as exercise, but perhaps not. The usual problems arise when comparing results between species, in that short-lived species have greater plasticity of life span, their length of life more...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 17, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Hot chocolate for skin, joint, and brain health
Here’s a variation on the High-Fat Hot Chocolate recipe I’ve posted previously, this version replacing coconut oil with medium-chain triglycerides (MCT) oil and adding collagen hydrolysates. (I used the Great Lakes brand sourced from pasture-raised, grass-fed livestock.)
MCT oil reduces appetite, accelerates loss of visceral inflammatory fat, and improves energy and cognition (though we don’t know whether MCTs and ketones yield a nootropic or a neurotrophic effect). Recall that collagen hydrolysates gradually increase dermal collagen, thereby smoothing skin and reducing wrinkle depth, while also increasi...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 14, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates coconut oil cognition dementia gluten-free grain-free joint joint pain mct mcts medium chain triglycerides skin undoctored Weight Loss wrinkles Source Type: blogs
“ I don ’ t have a gallbladder – can I still follow the Wheat Belly high-fat lifestyle? ”
This question comes up with some regularity, so I thought I’d finally post a response here on the Wheat Belly Blog. It doesn’t help that general surgeons who perform cholecystectomies are among the most desperately ignorant on diet and health and commonly tell their patients that, after removing the gallbladder, they must adhere to a low-fat diet—yes, the diet that pushes you closer to type 2 diabetes, contributes to high triglyceride levels and fatty liver, heart disease, dementia and other health problems.
So can you include plenty of fats and oils in your diet after you’ve lost your gallbladder? ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 10, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates bowel flora dysbiosis grain-free prebiotic probiotic sibo small intestinal Source Type: blogs
Health benefits of walnuts
This study did not determine the ideal “dose” or duration of walnut consumption. In one of the best studies, a mix of about nine hazelnuts, 12 almonds, and six walnuts were consumed daily. That might be more than some people are willing to eat!
A study of this type cannot prove that walnuts were the reason a person’s cholesterol improved with a walnut-enriched diet. It’s possible that those who like walnuts also tend to exercise more, smoke less, or have more favorable genes than those who don’t eat walnuts.
No single food in your diet can make you healthy. It’s the big picture that matters most. A healthy diet...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Health Healthy Eating Heart Health Prevention Source Type: blogs
Weight gain in new fathers is a “real phenomenon” that’s been subjected to a “striking lack” of research
Potential factors contributing to paternal obesity risk, from Saxbe et al, 2018
By Christian Jarrett
The phenomenon of mothers gaining weight during and beyond pregnancy is well-researched and understood – much of it has to do with the hormonal changes that assist fetal growth and preparation for lactation. Less researched and recognised, other than through jokes about “dad bods”, is that many expectant fathers also gain weight, and that the pounds tend to stay on (one study found that fathers weigh, on average, 14 pounds more than childless men).
In Health Psychology Review, a team led by Darby Saxbe at the ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 25, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: biological Gender Health Source Type: blogs
The Best iPhone App for the Wheat Belly Lifestyle
The Wheat Belly lifestyle is powerful for not only losing weight but for healing many, many chronic health conditions. But it can sometimes be overwhelming to begin a new style of eating.
Luckily, there is now an app that can help you on your journey with my Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox called Suggestic.
If you have struggled to adopt a grain-free lifestyle or are brand new to the Wheat Belly lifestyle, Suggestic can be a massive help in guiding you through the ups and downs of this new and healthy lifestyle. Let me explain what Suggestic is and the advantages of using it.
Going Grain-Free
I’ve seen many begin this ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 24, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates app Detox gluten-free grain-free grains menu recipes shopping list suggestic wheat belly Source Type: blogs
6 Amazing Benefits of Intermittent Fasting
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I started doing intermittent fasting five years ago after doctors told me to quit the gym for a year. I had injured my abs and back, and doctors advised me not to exercise, not even do cardio, till I`m fully recovered.
Things went down from there since all I was doing, besides work, was eat anything I can get my hands on (I`m a foodie, or that`s how I used to think of myself.) I gained 50 pounds in no time, and I ha...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 10, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Marwan Jamal Tags: featured health and fitness self improvement best health advice fitness and health Intermittent Fasting Weight Loss Practices Source Type: blogs
"Skinny Fat" in Older Adults May Predict Dementia, Alzheimer ’s Risk
This study was supported by grants from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (R01 AG040211 and P30 AG008051), the Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund and the New York State Department of Health.About the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine:FAU ’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine is one of approximately 151 accredited medical schools in the U.S.About Florida Atlantic University:Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion, serves more t...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - July 8, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimers alzheimers research Cognition cognitive performance dementia fat science skinny fat various cognition tests Source Type: blogs
