I lost the wheat, but didn’t lose the weight: Updated version
Yes, it happens: Rid your life of all things wheat and you get relief from acid reflux, joint pain, and high blood sugars . . . but not weight loss.
While most people enjoy rapid and dramatic weight loss with wheat elimination due to the loss of the appetite-stimulating effect of gliadin-derived opiates, the loss of repetitive glucose-insulin provocation of amylopectin A, the reduction of inflammation from the combined effects of gliadin/wheat germ agglutinin/amylopectin A, and reversal of the leptin-blocking effect of wheat germ agglutinin, this doesn’t happen to everybody. Or you lose, say, 20 pounds, only to have...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 7, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle carbohydrates gluten grains insulin low-carb Thyroid Weight Loss whey Source Type: blogs
Thyroid Tune-up: Update
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 gap: undiagnosed hypothyroidism, gross mismanagement sufficient to impair weight loss and increase cardiovascular risk, 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 your car and, lo and behold, 80% of the cars now run great. But 20% of cars still run poorly because their tra...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - April 28, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle gluten grains hypothyroidism iodine t3 t4 TSH Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Dr Weston Price: Snapshots of Westernization
Here’s an excerpt from Wheat Belly Total Health, some reflections on the fascinating observations made by Dr. Weston Price and the relationship of diet and dental health.
Dr. Price’s priceless observations are consistent with what anthropologists have been telling us for years: prior to adding grains to the human dietary experience, tooth decay was uncommon–despite the lack of any modern notions of dental hygiene. Armed with little more than a twig to pick the remains of wild boar from between the teeth, primitive people enjoyed a lifetime of intact, decay-free teeth without the assistance of their neigh...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - April 13, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle cavities dental decay dental health gluten grains Weston Price Source Type: blogs
The ABCs of your post-grain experience
Wheat/grain elimination is an exceptionally powerful tool for restoring health, reducing inflammation, returning metabolic distortions such as high blood sugar and blood pressure back to normal, and for losing weight. But many of the adverse health effects of years of grain consumption do not fully reverse with their elimination. Specific efforts may therefore need to be undertaken to accelerate your return to full health. Taking these extra steps stacks the odds heavily in your favor that you will enjoy full recovery from abnormal health conditions.
Among the strategies to consider are:
Cultivate and nourish healthy bowel...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 28, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel flora fish oil iodine probiotics resistant starch Thyroid vitamin D Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
How to Lower Your Risk for Breast Cancer
“TREE OF HOPE” Breast Cancer Survivor Tree
I found out I had breast cancer on June 11th 2014. I had a double mastectomy on July 3rd 2014. I am 4 months out from surgery and I am feeling great. However, as you might imagine, it was no walk in the park. Lots of emotional upheaval. Lots of physical difficulty. But with great support from friends, family and good health care workers I’m doing very well.
Over the last 4 months I have spent most of my free time learning about cancer and in particular breast cancer, what causes it and what cures it. Before my diagnosis, it never crossed my mind that I would get b...
Source: Life Learning Today - October 14, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AgentSully Tags: Healthy Living breast cancer lower breast caner risk prevent breast cancer prevent breast cancer naturally Source Type: blogs
How to survive wheat withdrawal
During my recent appearances in British Columbia, speaking to crowds in Kelowna, Penticton, Kamloops, and Vernon, I received many questions about how to better deal with the unpleasant symptoms of wheat withdrawal.
Because this question came up so many times, I am re-posting a discussion I posted in 2013 about this issue. It remains as true today as it was then: Wheat withdrawal, for the 40% of people who experience it, cannot be entirely avoided, but the full intensity can be softened. Let’s discuss a number of ways to go about doing that:
Wheat withdrawal can be unpleasant business. Read the many thousands of comm...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 23, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Gliadin Wheat withdrawal Source Type: blogs
Can you avoid grains and gluten on a vegan diet?
On my Facebook page, an ever-increasing number of people have asked me about whether or not a gluten-free and grain-free diet, the Grain Brain diet, is compatible with a vegetarian and/or vegan one. Many interpret my call to avoid grains, something that has become a staple in vegetarian and vegan diets, as an endorsement of the meats, proteins, and fats individuals on these types of diets avoid. However, though I may not be a vegetarian or vegan, there is certainly no reason one can’t be a vegetarian/vegan and on a Grain Brain-friendly diet.
In fact, it’s quite easy to be on a vegetarian or vegan diet that is gluten-f...
Source: Renegade Neurologist - A Blog by David Perlmutter, MD, FACN - October 24, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: gbadmin Tags: Nutrition coconut oil fat Gluten Grains Mushrooms Vegan Vegetarian vitamin B-12 Vitamin D Source Type: blogs
Surviving wheat withdrawal
Wheat withdrawal can be unpleasant business. Read the many thousands of comments on this blog describing the physical and emotional turmoil that develops in the first few days of wheat avoidance and you will come to appreciate just how awful it can be.
It is important that wheat withdrawal is recognized for what it is, as some people say, “I feel awful. It must mean that I need wheat.” Nope. It is a withdrawal syndrome, a good thing, a transitional phase as your body tries to return to its normal state.
Wheat withdrawal has been labeled by different names over the years–”Atkin’s flu,”...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 27, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat withdrawal Source Type: blogs
How many viruses on Earth?
How many different viruses are there on planet Earth? Twenty years ago Stephen Morse suggested that there were about one million viruses of vertebrates (he arrived at this calculation by assuming ~20 different viruses in each of the 50,000 vertebrates on the planet). The results of a new study suggest that at least 320,000 different viruses infect mammals.
To estimate unknown viral diversity in mammals, 1,897 samples (urine, throat swabs, feces, roost urine) were collected from the Indian flying fox, Pteropus giganteus, and analyzed for viral sequences by consensus polymerase chain reaction. This bat species was selected f...
Source: virology blog - September 7, 2013 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information bat discovery Indian flying fox PCR polymerase chain reaction Pteropus giganteus viral virus zoonosis Source Type: blogs
Kelp Noodles, Beer, Sin, and Goals
Yep, it's time for this months' goal support post!
For those who are not regulars here, the post is mainly a chance for people to check in and leave comments about what challenges they might be tackling, or how things are going generally, as well as to offer support to others who are doing the same. Comments and comment replies are thus highly encouraged.
And, as is traditional, I will also cram a bunch of seemingly unrelated things together and force them into a theme involving goals. In fact I probably should have used a catchier title, one like:
"Surprising Motivational Secret You Won't Believe!" ...
Source: Cranky Fitness - September 3, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Crabby McSlacker Source Type: blogs
Is Desert Essence shampoo actually organic?
Herbvynll has something to say…I recently bought this but yet to use it. It was around $7. I got it because I like light to no scents in my shampoo’s. I went on Amazon.com and read some reviews and there were an equal amount of 1/5 reviews and 5/5 reviews. It’s like going cross eyed trying to figure out if I should use it or not. I’ve been using Suave and V05 for years and grew up on Johnson’s and Loreal Kids. My hair and scalp are normal. Meaning not dry or oily. However, my hair is thick. I was wondering if Desert Essence line is actually organic and not false leading like Organix line. And ...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - June 11, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: thebeautybrains Tags: Questions Source Type: blogs
Dash 22
The consult came in around 3:30 on a Friday. The surgeon wasn't on call but his partner was tied up and he, the surgeon, felt obligated to see the new patient before it got too late. To do otherwise is known as a "dick move" in the world of small private surgical practice. The computer record outlined the picture of a man in his late seventies with an unremarkable medical history. He only took something for gout and various other over the counter vitamins. He took something called Life-X 3000. The consult request was "evaluate for gallbladder disease". The patient had been adm...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - February 10, 2013 Category: Surgeons Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD Source Type: blogs
