“ I ’ m losing my hair on the Wheat Belly lifestyle! ”
It’s a complaint I hear occasionally from people starting the Wheat Belly lifestyle: “I’m losing my hair. Big clumps of hair fall out when I brush!”
Why does this happen? And is it permanent? Will people become bald after a few months?
Take a look at the many before/afters people have posted on the Wheat Belly Facebook page and the photos I’ve posted over the years on the Wheat Belly Blog. Even within the first few days, we commonly witness a curious and dramatic reduction in facial swelling, reduction in around-the-eye puffiness, reversal of skin redness. Many people look quite different. In ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 11, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle facial change grain-free hair loss Inflammation skin Source Type: blogs
Physiological pericardial effusion of pregnancy : Incidence and mechanism
Pericardial effusion can be detected in many normal pregnancies. The Incidence is up to 40%.The normal fluid within the pericardial sacs is around 25ml.A thin sheet of echocardiogrspbuc fluid collection in diastole and up to 5mm is considered mild.
A trace or minimal effusion may be a better terminology that describes most physiological pericardial fluid compartment. They have no physiological significance.
Mechanism is due to overall increase in size of vascular compartment and especially the right heart volume overload.
Pericardial fluid drains through systemic pericardial veins and lymphatic channels alos drain into v...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - April 26, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
What ’ s the story with iodine?
Iodine is an essential nutrient, but one that many have forgotten about despite the fact that iodine deficiency was a major public health crisis all throughout human history until 1924.
Iodized salt was the solution to iodine deficiency. But, since the FDA advised everyone to cut back salt intake, iodine deficiency and even goiters (enlarged thyroid glands due to lack of iodine) are making a comeback along with weight gain, fatigue, thinning hair, high blood pressure and other health problems, yet the solution is so simple.
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - April 6, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Hypothyroidism Iodine Thyroid disease kelp Source Type: blogs
Do you always feel cold?
There are three common reasons for feeling inappropriately cold, even when the ambient temperature is warm:
Hypothyroidism–exceptionally common.
Anemia–especially iron and B12 deficiency caused by wheat/grain consumption
Lack of prebiotic fibers—that your microbiome needs to generate heat
Identify, then address these three causes to obtain relief from this unpleasant feeling.
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - April 4, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Anemia Hypothyroidism Prebiotics b12 bowel flora iodine iron undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
The Informed Thyroid: Address Your T3
It’s a peculiar, though not entirely unexpected phenomenon: You’d expect endocrinologists, specialists in glandular health, to be the champions of restoring optimal thyroid status. Instead, they are the most misinformed and neglectful.
Much of this is due to their ignorance of the emerging science that has emerged over the past two decades on the impact of INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS on thyroid status, something they would not be aware of unless they examine the TOXICOLOGICAL evidence demonstrating that the thyroid gland and thyroid hormones are disrupted by common chemical exposures.
Ignore your ignorant endocrinolo...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 23, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Hypothyroidism T3 thyroid hormone diy health free t3 undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
8 Reasons Why Your Depression May Not Be Getting Better
You’ve been to four psychiatrists and tried over a dozen medication combinations. You still wake up with that dreadful knot in your stomach and wonder if you will ever feel better.
Some people enjoy a straight path to remission. They get diagnosed. They get a prescription. They feel better. Others’ road to recovery isn’t so linear. It’s full of winding bends and dead-ends. Sometimes it’s entirely blocked. By what? Here are a few impediments to treatment to consider if your symptoms aren’t improving.
1. The Wrong Care
Take it from the Goldilocks of mental health. I worked with six physicians and tried 23 medicat...
Source: World of Psychology - March 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Bipolar Depression General Medications Self-Help Treatment depression episode Insomnia Mood Disorder National Network of Depression Centers Sleep support Trauma Treatment Resistant Depression Source Type: blogs
The Yo-Yo Dieter ’ s Dilemma
People lose oodles of weight on the Wheat Belly lifestyle. Weight loss results rapidly on this lifestyle because we 1) remove gliadin-derived opioid peptides that previously stimulated appetite, 2) remove amylopectin A that previously raised blood sugar and thereby insulin to high levels, 3) remove other factors that add to inflammation such as wheat germ agglutinin. We have thousands and thousand of people who have lost 30, 50, 100, 130 pounds on the basic program.
But not everyone does. Some people fail to lose weight because they have hypothyroidism, fail to restore iodine, take prescription drugs that block weight loss...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 6, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates undoctored Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Five big nutritional mistakes I ’ ve made over the years
No question: I have made some huge nutritional blunders over the past 25 years since I began to become seriously involved in nutritional issues. My mistakes, however, have provided powerful feedback on how to get diet right, how to get diet wrong. The impact of diet is profound.
Among the huge mistakes I’ve made:
1) Reducing total and saturated fat, eating vegetarian—It made me hungry, never satisfied, and, along with mistake #2, made me a type 2 diabetic with fasting blood sugars of 160+ mg/dl, triglycerides as high as 390 mg/dl, a HDL of 27 mg/dl, oodles of small LDL particles, and high blood pressure.
2) Eat...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 2, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates exercise grain-free grains undoctored vitamin D Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
What Do I Do When My Antidepressant Stops Working?
This study examined 103 patients with bipolar 1 disorder who, despite taking a mood stabilizer, experienced frequent relapses. During a 12-month period, the group receiving cognitive therapy had significantly fewer bipolar episodes and reported less mood symptoms on the monthly mood questionnaires. They also had less fluctuation in manic symptoms.
It’s normal to panic in the days and weeks your symptoms return; however, as you can see, there are many options to pursue. If the first approach doesn’t work, try another. Persevere until you achieve full remission and feel like yourself again. It will happen. Trust me on th...
Source: World of Psychology - March 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Antidepressant Bipolar Depression General Medications Manic Episode Mood Disorder Mood Stabilizer Relapse Source Type: blogs
Why do so many Americans now have thyroid disease?
An astounding number of people now have thyroid disease in some form sufficient to cause weight gain or block weight loss, cause feelings of being inappropriately cold, fatigue, and add to heart disease risk.
But why? Unfortunately, it is from the combined effect of several trends in the modern human diet and exposures to industrial chemicals.
Addressing your thyroid status is therefore a modern necessity.
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 26, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates cold edema failed weight loss fatigue hypothyroid iodine stalled weight gain Source Type: blogs
Why Your Doctor Won ’ t Prescribe the T3 Thyroid Hormone
There is a simple reason why doctors typically refuse to prescribe the T3 thyroid hormone and it has nothing to do with science, side-effects, or potential dangers.
As with so many things in healthcare, it boils down to Big Pharma and money. The solution is to find a better-informed doctor.
The post Why Your Doctor Won’t Prescribe the T3 Thyroid Hormone appeared first on Dr. William Davis. (Source: Wheat Belly Blog)
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 26, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates cold hands feet fatigue hypothyroidism levothyroxine Synthroid t3 t4 tired undoctored wheat belly Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs
Why are Americans so deficient in iodine?
Despite being an essential nutrient, so many people fail to obtain an adequate intake of iodine, even fewer obtain an ideal intake.
Yet getting iodine is so easy and inexpensive. But don’t rely on the doctor to tell you how or why, as he/she is too busy planning your next procedure or trying to hand you a drug prescription, since doctors really don’t know how to dispense genuine health.
Transcript:
Let’s talk about iodine. Now I’ve talked about iodine before. It’s in the Wheat Belly Total Health program. It’s in the Undoctored Wild-Naked-Unwashed program. But I feel like the iodine mes...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 12, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates fibrocystic breast iodine Thyroid undoctored wheat belly Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs
What will you do for this altered and bradycardic patient?
Written by Pendell MeyersA female in her 60s with COPD, DM, hypothyroidism, CAD, and severe bladder cancer presented from a nursing home with altered mental status, hypotension, hypoxia, and bradycardia.Here is her initial ECG (no prior for comparison):What do you think?Here is another ECG minutes later:There is a regular wide complex bradycardia.There are P-waves at a rate of approximately 100bpm with no clear relationship to the QRS complexes, diagnostic of complete heart block.The QRS morphology is wide (computer QRS duration 179 msec) but it does not fit any clear bundle branch block pattern (it is similar to LBBB but ...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - January 13, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
Thyroid Tune-Up
I am re-posting a classic Wheat Belly Blog post from a few years ago. Despite all our discussions about thyroid issues, there continues to be an enormous information gap: undiagnosed hypothyroidism, gross mismanagement sufficient to impair weight loss and increase cardiovascular risk, dismissing the importance of iodine, and ignorance among healthcare providers. This Thyroid Tune-up is therefore an updated version of the previous post.
Imagine that all the cars in your neighborhood run poorly because nobody bothers to tune-up their autos. I show you how to tune the cars and, lo and behold, 80% of the cars now run great. B...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 6, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates autoimmune gluten-free grain-free grains hypothyroid levothyroxine Synthroid Source Type: blogs
Tammy Talks About Her Wheat Belly Success
I previously shared Tammy’s Wheat Belly success story that illustrates just how far you can take back health and reverse numerous chronic health conditions. Besides losing over 70 pounds in weight, she also:
Reversed type 2 diabetes, reducing HbA1c from the diabetic range of 8.4% to 4.9%—an ideal level.
Reversed hypertension
Reversed gastroesophageal reflux
Reversed irritable bowel syndrome
Reversed rheumatoid arthritis
She has also been able to discontinue a list of toxic medications, including metformin, Prilosec, and Remicade. And, as you can readily see, turned the clock back 20 years in appearance...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 3, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates autoimmune blood sugar diabetes gastroesphageal gerd Gliadin gluten gluten-free grain-free grains high blood pressure hypertension Inflammation irritable bowel its Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
