My Wheat Belly turning point
Many of you know that the Wheat Belly concepts got their start when I was trying to help patients in my cardiology practice obtain better control over risk for coronary disease. An exceptionally common combination of abnormalities in people with heart attacks, survivors of sudden cardiac death, those who have undergone stent implantation or bypass surgery, or have high coronary calcium scores (an early quantifier of coronary atherosclerotic plaque): large quantities of small LDL particles and high blood sugars (high fasting glucose and/or hemoglobin A1c, HbA1c, reflecting long-term blood sugar fluctuations).
Because wheat...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 11, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories cholesterol gluten grains lipids lipoproteins ulcerative colitis Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Look Catrina in the eye and you can tell she’s grain-free!
Catrina shared her photos before and after her Wheat Belly experience:
“This is me after two months grain-free. I have lost 10 pounds and 10 inches so far.
“After one month, I tried corn nachos and regretted it due to stomach pain and anxiety.”
Look at the change in Catina’s eyes: they’re bigger. While this might simply be due to facial expression, this effect is so common with the loss of facial edema in people following the Wheat Belly wheat- and grain-free lifestyle that I believe it is a genuine effect in Catrina. It is, of course, simply part of the body-wide reversal of inflammation ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 3, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories gluten grain Inflammation Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Sarah: “Only” down 26 pounds
Sarah shared her Wheat Belly experience with us:
“I removed wheat 9/2014, all grains 11/2014. While I’m only down 26 lbs, I feel a lot better, migraines are next to nothing, and my clothes are getting looser and looser. I do notice some facial changes, too.
“I still have a ways to go weight-wise, but I’m happy so far.”
Doesn’t she look terrific? And freed of awful migraine headaches.
I am continually impressed and delighted at just how powerful the elimination of all wheat and grains can be. While the Wheat Belly strategy is indeed a form of reducing carbohydrates, it is so much MORE t...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 1, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories gluten grains headache migraine Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Top stories in health and medicine, May 25, 2015
From MedPage Today:
Time to Retire Lithotripsy for Kidney Stones? More than 30 years ago, extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) had a highly anticipated, much-ballyhooed introduction as a nonsurgical therapy for kidney stones. Obviating the need to cut the skin or insert a device into the body, ESWL would use acoustic shock waves to pulverize stones into dust that would be washed out of the kidneys.
Senate Committee Mulls Medicare Hospital Observation Stays. Hospital observation stays for Medicare patients can be problematic, but finding solutions is also tricky.
Sildenafil May Help Heal Scleroderma Ulcers. Silden...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 25, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: MedPage Today Tags: News Nephrology Pulmonology 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
Which is More Uncomfortable: The Colonoscopy or Treatment for Colon Cancer?
Michelle was a healthy, active 47 year old. She tried to eat right and she exercised. It looked like the hard work was paying off: no health issues and lots of energy. Her work in the healthcare field motivated her to see her doctors regularly for checkups, to get mammograms and to have her blood work done annually. She knew she was getting close to the magical age of 50 and that soon she would need to get a colonoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer. Since she had no family history of the disease she wasn’t worried. She felt certain that, just as all her previous testing had come back normal, this one would too.
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Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - March 18, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs
Amy’s Wheat Belly life transformation
Amy shared her amazing Wheat Belly experience with me. I believe that, like me, you will be astounded as how much misery she endured before she found this simple, inexpensive, powerful solution to health.
Dear Dr. Davis, Thank you for saving my life. I mean this in a literal sense, truly – I thank you.My name is Amy. I am a culinary artist (chef) and own a restaurant, A. Renee, in Bloomington, IL.My story is very complex so I’ll share the most condensed version I can. I lead a hectic lifestyle, as do most. Owning a demanding business in a field with the highest failure rate while raising two children...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 18, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories gluten IBS inflamation ulcerative colitis Source Type: blogs
It’s time for medical practices to own their billing mistakes
This article was originally published in Pulse — voices from the heart of medicine, and is reprinted with permission.
Your patients are rating you online: How to respond. Manage your online reputation: A social media guide. Find out how. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 13, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Sandra L. Shea, PhD Tags: Physician Primary care Radiology Source Type: blogs
TWiV 323: A skid loader full of viromes
On episode #323 of the science show This Week in Virology, the family TWiVidae discuss changes in the human fecal virome associated with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
You can find TWiV #323 at www.twiv.tv. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - February 8, 2015 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology bacteria bacteriophage Crohn's disease enteric fecal virome inflammatory bowel disease microbiome ulcerative colitis viral virus Source Type: blogs
How do you say "biosimilar quality" in Hindi?
At the same time that regulators in France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg are suspending the marketing approval of 25 generic drugs due to concerns over the quality of data from clinical trials conducted by India's GVK Biosciences, another Indian firm, Zydus Cadila, has launched a biosimilar of Adalimumab (an anti-TNF-α monoclonal antibody, which is approved in many countries for the treatment of inflammatory diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, plaque psoriasis, polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.) Bad timing and, perhaps...
Source: drugwonks.com Blog - December 10, 2014 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: blogs
“I ate one cookie and gained 30 lbs”
I’ve discussed this before, but it comes up with such frequency that it’s worth discussing again.
Say you’ve been wheat- and grain-free for the past 3 months. Your son or daughter is celebrating a birthday with a big, beautiful birthday cake and a cheesy pizza. The aromas alone are intoxicating! What’s the harm in having a bite of birthday cake or just a single darned slice of pizza? You tell yourself that you’ll make up for it by being good all weekend, even exercising an extra half an hour.
You experienced Wheat Belly followers all understand that this triggers re-exposure phenomena typica...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 11, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle appetite Gliadin gluten opiates Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Lose the Grains, Save Some Green: An excerpt from Wheat Belly Total Health
Here’s an excerpt from the new Wheat Belly Total Health book to be released September 16, 2014.
What’s there left to say after the original Wheat Belly knocked the socks off the dietary community with its upsetting revelations? Plenty! Remove this dietary poison, made worse by the shenanigans of agribusiness, and full health does not return right away–more needs to be done. The conversations in Wheat Belly Total Health show you how to take the reins and regain health as fully as possible, even if your health struggles include conditions such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis, or failed...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 3, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly books gluten grains Grasses Total Health Source Type: blogs
Wheat elimination is just the start!
Wheat Belly Total Health
Eliminating products made with modern semidwarf wheat, a creation of genetics research, is an astoundingly powerful strategy to regain control over health and weight, more powerful than any other single strategy I have ever encountered. Peruse the Wheat Belly Success Stories or the thousands of experiences discussed in the Wheat Belly Facebook page, and you get a sense for the power in following this lifestyle.
But anyone who has consumed wheat for any length of time has accumulated health problems that do not fully reverse with wheat elimination. It is therefore necessary to take steps to fully re...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 1, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates diabetes Endocrine gluten free grains Grasses obesity Thyroid Source Type: blogs
