The Wheat Belly Muffin Challenge
Give it a try: Check your fingerstick blood sugars prior to consuming, then 30-60 minutes after consuming, a conventional muffin, then again with a non-grain muffin made with almond flour, coconut flour, and non-caloric sweeteners such as stevia or monk fruit.
You will see the dramatic differences in blood sugar after each: sky-high with the conventional muffin, no change at all with the non-grain muffin. The difference is crucial: No blood sugar rise means no weight gain, no after-eating fatigue, no inflammation, no contribution to the phenomena of aging. The high blood sugar that results after a conventional muffin (as ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 18, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates gluten-free grain-free grains Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Bagel Brain: What Wheat and Grains Do to the Brain
You know that raisin bagel or bowl of bran cereal you have every morning, or the plate of pasta or spaghetti you have for dinner? Each and every serving erodes the health of your brain. Some of the effects are reversible, while others are cumulative and irreversible.
But understand the concepts behind living the Wheat Belly wheat/grain-free lifestyle and you are enormously empowered in regaining control over health, weight, and youthfulness.
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Hi everybody, Doctor William Davis here. Why do I call this Bagel Brain? Well, a number of reasons — consumption of modern wheat and closely-related grains have a whole...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 27, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates adhd appetite autism autoimmune cognitive dementia Depression Gliadin gluten-free grain-free grains wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Food TASTES better on the Wheat Belly lifestyle
“Almonds are sweet.”
“Foods taste better.”
“Candy now tastes sickeningly sweet.”
“My daughter now loves asparagus.”
I’ve heard these comments from Wheat Belly lifestyle followers numerous times over the years, observations that reflect the change in taste perception that develops with wheat and grain elimination from the diet.
It is a consistent effect observed by so many people: the perception of taste changes with elimination of wheat and grains. It represents restoration of taste perception back to the way it was supposed to have been all along, an effect that reflects healing of the gastrointes...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 25, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates gastrointestinal gluten gluten-free grain-free grains taste wheat belly Source Type: blogs
The power of small, simple steps
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of SPLENDA® Naturals. The opinions and text are all mine.
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Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - November 21, 2018 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Food Source Type: blogs
Chocolate For Adults Only
Chocolate for Adults Only!
I call this Chocolate For Adults Only because it is certain to leave young, sugar-craving palates unsatisfied. But rest assured, it is appropriate for the most serious chocolate craving!
This is a way to obtain the rich flavors and textures of cocoa, the health benefits (for example, blood pressure reduction and anti-oxidation) of cocoa flavonoids, while obtaining none of the sugars/carbohydrates . . . and certainly no wheat or grains!
It is easy to make, requiring just a few ingredients, a few steps, and a few minutes. Set aside and save some for an indulgence, e.g., dip into natural peanut or a...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 15, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates chocolate Cocoa grain-free low-carb monk fruit natural sweetener wheat belly Source Type: blogs
How to use the Wheat Belly books during the Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox Challenge
S0me people find the Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox challenging. Not only does it require you to purge your kitchen of (or at least avoid) many common staples, restock with healthier replacements, learn some new ways to prepare foods, but many also endure an unpleasant opioid withdrawal/detoxification process with fatigue, headache, muscle aches, nausea, and depression. We’ve therefore assembled what I think is an impressive collection of resources to help you get through your Detox successfully.
So we host a private Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox Facebook page with periodic 10-day challenges that provide advice, suc...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 31, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates 10 Day Grain Detox Challenge grain-free Inflammation Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
What happened to the grasshoppers?
When I was a kid, grasshoppers were everywhere. I walked through a field every day to get to school and grasshoppers were everywhere, jumping back and forth across my path, frequently banging off my legs. At night in summer, the backyard was filled with fireflies that we’d chase and capture in jars to watch up close. And there were butterflies of many colors and varieties everywhere, flitting from flower to flower.
Today, I don’t see any grasshoppers. In fact, I haven’t seen one in over 40 years. I saw one—just one—firefly this past summer in my backyard. And I can count the number of butterie...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 22, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Agribusiness bowel flora Inflammation microbiota prebiotic probiotic wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Sesame Seed Flour
Sesame seeds actually make a very nice grain-free flour.
Look for white or yellow seeds, not the dark or black, as less sesame flavor shows through (nor will the end-product be dark or black). Grind them in your food chopper, food processor, or coffee grinder until reduced to flour. (Stop when a flour-like consistency is achieved, as further grinding will yield seed butter.) If you don’t like the modest sesame seed flavor that comes through, you might find sesame seed flour more suited to a savory, rather than sweet, recipe.
Look for bulk sesame seeds that are inexpensive, certainly less expensive than almonds to gri...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 26, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates alternative flours gluten-free grain-free low-carb sesame wheat belly 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
What ’ s a healthy breakfast?
If you asked someone to list some typical regular weekday morning breakfast foods, they’d probably rattle off things like cereal, toast, bagels, muffins, pancakes, waffles, and maybe eggs and bacon.
But here’s the deal. Breakfast is how we break our overnight fast, and for many people, breaking fast doesn’t have to happen first thing in the morning. That’s right, folks: breakfast does NOT have to happen first thing in the morning. If you are not hungry when you wake up, that is normal, and you do not need to eat. That old myth about “revving up your metabolism” with food first thing was largely created by break...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 13, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Diabetes Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
Bowel disaster
Something like 60 to 100 million of us live with a severe form of dysbiosis called small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, or SIBO, in which bowel microorganisms have ascended up the ileum, jejunum, duodenum, and stomach, a massive onslaught of infection and inflammation that results in increased intestinal permeability and entry of bacterial lipopolysaccharide, LPS, and other factors into the bloodstream that massively increase body-wide inflammation, absolute bowel disaster.
But what sets this enormous disruption of human health in motion? Why would a perturbation of human health of such huge proportions get rooted in the...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 2, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates bowel flora grain-free Inflammation sibo small intestinal wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Why do IVF patients feel cheated ?
One of the things which irritates a lot of patients about IVF clinics is that they get inconsistent information from their clinic. Different doctors in the same clinic give them completely different advice. Because there's so much turnover among junior doctors in these clinics, no one says the same thing at different visits, as a result of which patients get completely confused , and don't know whom to believe or trust.This is one of the reasons why there are so many last-minute changes in their treatment protocol, without any adequate explanation. There ’s a complete lack of transparency and the treatment is delivered o...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - July 13, 2018 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
The fecalization of America
I’ve been lately discussing the issue of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, or SIBO, a situation in which bowel microorganisms (especially of the undesirable Enterobacteriaceae variety such as E. coli and Shigella) ascend up from the colon and colonize the ileum, jejunum, duodenum, and stomach. This has numerous health implications that are only beginning to be appreciated: irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), fibromyalgia, psoriasis and other skin rashes, restless leg syndrome, diverticular disease, heightened body-wide inflammation, increased risk for colon cancer—SIBO is either synonymous with these condition...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 9, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates bowel flora dysbiosis Inflammation microbiota prebiotic probiotic sibo small intestinal bacterial overgrowth undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
A wise birdie once said, focus on progress not perfection
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Splenda. The opinions and text are all mine.
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Source: Scott's Diabetes Blog - July 6, 2018 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Scott K. Johnson Tags: Blog Posts Resources Source Type: blogs
