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
Is the ketogenic diet dangerous?
Answer: No—unless you do it for more than a few months. After a few months, the upfront metabolic and weight benefits will begin to reverse and new health problems arise. We know this with confidence. I raise this question once again because more and more people are coming to me reporting problems. It may take months, even years, but the long-term consequences can be quite serious.
Achieving ketosis by engaging in a very low-carbohydrate, high-fat lifestyle is—without a doubt—an effective means of losing weight, breaking insulin and leptin resistance, reversing type 2 diabetes and fatty liver, redu...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 12, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: ketones bowel flora ketogenic ketotic undoctored wheat belly 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
Unwrinkled
Can you stop—-genuinely stop-—the progress, the ravages, of aging? Is it possible to arrest skin thinning and sagging, bone loss, muscle atrophy, impaired healing, hormonal depletion, i.e., all the trappings of aging and stay somewhere around 40 until you reach 100? Can you continue to ride a bicycle, dance the samba, remain slender, vigorous, energetic, smooth and unwrinkled well after peers have given into gravity and age?
Or, if you are already beyond age 40, can you turn the clock back 10 or 20 years and regain the vigor, strength, health, and smooth skin that you were misled into thinking you’d regain by eating ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 5, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates 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
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
Wheat Belly: Ten Rules for Healthy Eating
A hundred thousand years ago, you’d have no doubt what and how to eat. You would wake up every morning, grab your spear, club or axe and go kill something, wander and gather berries, nuts, or dig in the dirt for roots and tubers, or set traps for fish and reptiles. If you succeeded in the hunt, you would consume every organ that included thyroid, thymus, pancreas, stomach, liver, as well as meat. You’d drink water from streams and rivers, allow skin surface to be exposed to sunlight. You would NOT shower with soap or shampoo, apply hand sanitizer, drink chlorinated water, consume foods laced with herbicides and...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 20, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates autoimmune gluten-free grain-free grains Inflammation undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
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
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
There ’ s more to health than diet!
It’s great that more and more people are exploring the advantages of ketogenic, paleo, low-carb, Wheat Belly and other diets, since “official” source of dietary advice got it all so wrong. Choosing the right diet can be a great start to restoring slenderness and health.
But that’s ALL they are: a start. There are MANY other strategies you can adopt to take health, slenderness, and youthfulness further to reverse numerous health conditions, lose more weight, even turn the clock back a decade or two.
And the results you can obtain are dramatically SUPERIOR to the “health” that you obtain f...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 10, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates autoimmune fatigue gluten-free grain-free grains Inflammation undoctored Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Let ’ s Make America Thin Again
No, no political commentary here, just insights into health regardless of whether you are conservative or liberal or somewhere in-between.
But we are indeed doing it on the Wheat Belly and Undoctored lifestyles: Making America Thin Again—MATA—and getting people to lose weight, often considerable amounts of 30, 50, 70, 130 pounds, by essentially REJECTING conventional dietary advice.
What conventional pieces of dietary advice are we rejecting in order to achieve this? Here are a few:
Limit fat and calories—No way. This is a path to misery. It works in the short-term, fails in the long-run and, of course, ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 10, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates gluten-free grain-free grains undoctored Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Let ’ s Make American Thin Again
No, no political commentary here, just insights into health regardless of whether you are conservative or liberal or somewhere in-between.
But we are indeed doing it on the Wheat Belly and Undoctored lifestyles: Making America Thin Again—MATA—and getting people to lose weight, often considerable amounts of 30, 50, 70, 130 pounds, by essentially REJECTING conventional dietary advice.
What conventional pieces of dietary advice are we rejecting in order to achieve this? Here are a few:
Limit fat and calories—No way. This is a path to misery. It works in the short-term, fails in the long-run and, of course, ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 10, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates gluten-free grain-free grains undoctored Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 530
It ' s the first Monday of the month, and time for our case from Idzi Potters and theInstitute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp. The following objects were seen on a wet mount (with iodine) of a concentrated stool specimen (400x original magnification).Size is between 15 and 20 µm in length.Here is another view on a carbolfuchsine staining according to Heine (1000x). Identification? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - February 5, 2019 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
