Defiant Health Radio with Dr. William Davis

I recently had an experience in which I had to take an antibiotic. Those of you who have been following my Defiant Health podcast discussions, or have been reading my thousands of blog posts on DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com, or my books, especially my latest Super Gut book, know that I advocate for absolutely minimizing our reliance on antibiotics, as they are extremely destructive to the microbiome. Antibiotics disrupt microbial composition of the gastrointestinal tract, the airway, the sinuses, reproductive organs, urinary tract, and other body parts with serious potential long-term consequences.

Well, I had a failed root canal and crown put in more than 30 years ago. It recently failed and I had the tooth extracted, following by insertion of an implant. Because the periodontist had to drill into the jawbone and insert an anchor for the implant, he prescribed an antibiotic to prevent osteomyelitis, or infection of the jawbone that can be catastrophic. I therefore spent weeks dreading this process as, in past, I’ve had some nasty experiences with antibiotics: GI distress, abdominal discomfort, skin rashes. But I was especially dreading the awful insomnia that I feared I’d experience with loss of the L. reuteri that I had been supplementing for several years that converted me from a severe chronic insomniac to a deep sleeper.

To my great surprise, I experienced none of these effects and I wanted to share with you why and how I believe I, and my listeners who have engaged similar strategies, avoided these effects from antibiotics. It’s my n of one experience, along with some of my listeners, so it’s proof of nothing. But, because these concepts are evolving rapidly with very little formal evidence, it’s worth at least being aware and even trying some of these strategies.

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Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

It’s a concept that many people struggle to embrace or understand. But once you ‘get” it, a lot of issues in health will become clearer and you can save yourself a considerable amount of time, effort, and money. The idea is to get away from the idea of “treating” health conditions. This is the approach used in pharmaceuticals and employed by most doctors. If, for instance, blood glucose is high, drugs like insulin, metformin, or a GLP-1 agonist like Wegovy or Ozempic is introduced to force blood glucose down. If blood pressure is high, a drug such as a thiazide diuretic, beta blocker, or ACE inhibitor is prescribed to for blood pressure down. If there is an inflammatory or autoimmune condition, they pick a single inflammatory mediator and block it. But there are major drawbacks to approach health in this way that I will discuss in this episode of the Defiant Health podcast.

Instead, I would like you to consider a completely different approach. Rather than try to improve some health measure with a pharmaceutical or even a medical procedure, I would suggest that we instead address and correct the common factors that allow such health conditions to emerge in the first place. I’ll explain what that means. But it means that this approach can not just reduce blood glucose or blood pressure or reverse many inflammatory or autoimmune conditions, but also result in weight loss, loss of abdominal fat, reduce inflammation, improve insulin resistance, restore youthful characteristics, smooth your skin, restore healthy musculature and provide other effects that yield benefits that go beyond the original issue. It is not uncommon, for example, to take this approach for, say, weight loss but find yourself no longer a type 2 diabetic or pre-diabetic, or no longer hypertensive, while enjoying relief from multiple forms of skin rashes, irritable bowel syndrome, fatty liver, anxiety or depression and hundreds of other conditions.

So, in this episode of Defiant Health, let’s discuss this radically different approach to health.

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Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

A former actress and long-time personal fitness coach, JJ Flizanes has focused these last few years on helping people identify the reasons that they often fall short of their goals, goals such as weight loss, enjoying successful relationships, success at work, or just finding happiness. Through her several popular podcasts that include Fit 2 Love and Spirit Purpose and Energy and her books, JJ helps people identify the obstacles to success and how to manage or correct them to finally achieve the goals you desire. JJ is especially adept at identifying the internal dialogues that people conduct with themselves that often result in self-sabotage, dialogues that many are completely unaware of. In this episode of Defiant Health, JJ therefore describes her unique approach that she also shares in her book The Invisible Fitness Formula.

For more about JJ Flizanes:
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Doctor, I have a question

William L Hoover, II, M.D. and Gordon L MacPherson, Medical Media Producer, will dig...

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Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

In this episode of Defiant Health, Dr. Tom O’Bryan discusses his unique approach to managing environmental toxins that now flood our lives, toxins that increase our risk for numerous health struggles including cognitive impairment, autoimmune diseases, and cancers. Dr. O’Bryan brings his considerable experience in educating and investigating the effects of such factors as particulate matter in air, glyphosate, abnormal gut permeability, and diet. He has a special interest in reproductive and cognitive health and describes his and his family’s unique approach to minimizing exposures in their home and environment. Among Dr. O’Bryan’s unique abilities is to translate the science into practical, actionable steps that you and your family can adopt.

News for how to join Dr. O'Bryan's upcoming summit, The Inflammation Equation, can be found on his Facebook page.

For more of Dr. O'Bryan's educational materials, go to his website, TheDr.com.
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Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

You likely know people who engage in strenuous exercise—a marathon, triathlon, long-distance biking, even just day-to-day exercise—or perhaps you do so yourself. In anticipation of the need for a great deal of energy to engage in such an effort and to increase endurance and performance, many people follow a practice called carb loading. While there are number of protocols for doing so, for most people carb loading typically consists of a large serving of pasta consumed the day before, followed by liberal consumption of sugary soft drinks and sugary energy bars, all designed to maximize liver and muscle glycogen stores that can be burned for energy.

Is carb loading safe? Is it necessary? In this episode of Defiant Health, let’s discuss how and why carb loading is an unhealthy process with some effects that are irreversible. I’ll also discuss how you can maintain or increase performance without relying on this unhealthy practice.

I also want you to consider supporting the sponsors of this Defiant Health podcast, Paleovalley and BiotiQuest. Choosing high-quality products to support your health journey is important. This is why Paleovalley is a supporter of my Defiant Health podcast. Their grass-fed pasture-raised beef sticks, for instance, are fermented, unlike nearly all other beef sticks. If you haven’t tried their pasture-raised pork sticks, you are in for a real treat, as they are irresistibly delicious. And BiotiQuest, also a sponsor of this podcast, provide unique probiotic products that, in my experience and the experience of the followers of my program, are unlike all other probiotics, as they are crafted using the scientific insights of academic microbiologist, Dr. Raul Cano, an innnovator in the concept of collaborative effects among microbes.

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*Dr. Davis and his staff are financially compensated for promoting BiotiQuest and Paleovalley products.

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Personally, I take no prescription medications. I do not take a statin drug to reduce cholesterol, nor baby aspirin. I take nothing for high blood pressure, acid reflux, or irritable bowel syndrome. I take nothing for headaches, pain, or sleep—not a single prescription medication.

Yet my blood pressure is typically around 108/72. My triglycerides are 40 mg/dl, HDL cholesterol is 94 mg/dl, and I have zero small LDL particles. My fasting glucoses are in the 80s mg/dl, last HbA1c was 4.8%, my liver markers are all at the low normal range with no fatty liver suggested. In other words, I have perfect metabolic health without reliance on any medication.

The majority of the followers of my programs likewise enjoy perfect metabolic health without reliance on any prescription medications. Of course, there are people who adopt the strategies of my program after incurring some form of irreversible damage such as permanent loss of pancreatic beta cells that result in type 1 diabetes, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis that results in impaired ability to produce thyroid hormones, or loss of stomach parietal cells that results in absence of stomach acid, hypochlorhydria. So key is to adopt these strategies before such permanent damage is done. People who have incurred such damage will therefore need to take insulin, thyroid hormones, or engage in efforts to acidify the stomach. But barring the development of such irreversible changes, the majority of us on my programs have no need for pharmaceutical medications.

So, in this episode of Defiant Health let’s discuss how and why, by adopting just a handful of strategies, how you can enjoy perfect metabolic health with no reliance on prescription medications.

This episode isn't just a narrative; it's an invitation to a revolution in health care, where the focus shifts from treating symptoms to nurturing the root causes of our ailments, empowering you to become the curator of your own health destiny.

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Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

If you have been following my discussions in this Defiant Health podcast or in my blog, DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com, or my Super Gut book, you know that I have been arguing that there is an epidemic of SIBO going on in the U.S., an epidemic involving every 1 in 2 people. It is an epidemic responsible for an astounding amount of health struggles.

The more we all come to understand small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, or SIBO, the more you have to appreciate all the varied ways this situation can show itself. First of all, for those of you unfamiliar, what is SIBO? SIBO refers to the situation in which modern people, due to exposure to multiple courses of antibiotics and other disruptive factors, have lost hundreds of beneficial bacterial species in our colons. These beneficial species were responsible for suppressing the proliferation of unhealthy microbial species, mostly fecal microbial species such as E. coli, Salmonella, and Citrobacter. The loss of beneficial microbes allows unhealthy fecal species to proliferate, then ascend up from the colon where they originated and into the 24-feet of small intestine. The small intestine is poorly-equipped to deal with this invasion of fecal microbes. The small intestine is, by design, permeable, since that is where the bulk of nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, and amino acids are absorbed. But trillions of fecal microbes in the small intestine, microbes that live for only a few hours, live and die and release their toxic components that can gain access to the bloodstream. One of the primary toxic components is called endotoxin. When endotoxin enters the bloodstream, that’s called “endotoxemia” and endotoxemia is now recognized to be the primary way in which gastrointestinal microbes are able to exert effects tin every organ of the body. It means that SIBO and thereby endotoxemia can be experienced as a wide variety of health problems and diseases.

So, in this episode of Defiant Health, let’s discuss whether this is a situation that applies to you or to someone close to you and what steps you can take to undo these harmful effects.

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Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

There are a handful of strategies that you can engage that slow the phenomena of aging, i.e., slow or stop the development of skin thinning and development of wrinkles, deterioration of joint health, so-called hardening of the arteries or atherosclerosis, reduction in hormonal status, loss of muscle, loss of bone density, etc. One issue that is rarely discussed is the process of glycation, i.e., glucose modification of proteins. Glycation is something you have enormous control over and thereby slow numerous phenomena of aging. You can reduce the likelihood, for instance, of developing cataracts, reduce the likelihood of thinning skin and age spots, reduce risk for cardiovascular disease, reduce potential for joint deterioration. It’s also something you can measure and track.

So, in this episode of Defiant Health, let’s discuss how you can easily and effectively minimize the process of glycation and thereby take over this important aspect of aging.

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*Dr. Davis and his staff are financially compensated for promoting BiotiQuest and Paleovalley products.

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Promising radiant skin and a healthier life, I'm thrilled to welcome aesthetician Rachel Varga, founder of the School of Radiance, to share her holistic approach to skin health and wellness. Rachel is ready to debunk some skincare myths, pointing out that effective skincare isn't just about what you put on your skin. It's about understanding the role of diet, sleep, and exposure to environmental toxins. She believes that radiant, glowing skin is a byproduct of overall health and well-being.

Are men exempt from skincare? Absolutely not! We shift gears to discuss the common misconception that beauty and skincare are for women only. We share personal experiences that show how essential it is to involve your partner in the journey towards better skin health. We're opening up about the psychological aspect of self-care and its profound effect on relationships. Tune in as we dive into the world of nutricosmetics and skincare strategies, emphasizing that lasting beauty and health are achievable for both men and women.

Rachel doesn't just leave you with tips - she delivers practical strategies for promoting radiant health and well-being. She emphasizes the need to reduce oxidative stress and environmental toxins, encouraging listeners to purify their air and water. And guess what? The future of medical aesthetics is fascinating. Discover how surface and exterior practices combined with wellness practices such as gut analysis, sauna use, and cryotherapy can improve skin health. Remember, looking good is a byproduct of being well. So, don't miss out on this enlightening conversation. And do visit The School of Radiance for more resources and exclusive savings with the promo code "WilliamDavis".

More about Rachel Varga's School of Radiance programs here.


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Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

There are a variety of ways to lose weight: reduce calories, pharmaceuticals, bariatric procedures. But these are successful only in the beginning: You lose, say, 40 pounds over a year only to gain it all back. Of that 40 pounds, 10 pounds is muscle. And, when you gain it back, it is nearly all fat, very little muscle. You are now less healthy than you were at the start of your weight loss journey. And, if repeated, as with yo-yo dieting in which you lose, regain, then lose and regain again, your metabolic health gets worse and worse and, not only are you discouraged and demoralized, but you are also setting yourself up for some pretty serious health consequences including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and increased potential for cognitive decline and dementia.

So let’s be smarter. Let’s not repeat the mistakes of conventional thinking in weight loss and let’s instead discuss 7 counterintuitive strategies that help you lose weight, not lose muscle, and thereby not regain the weight or regain the fat and thereby not only enjoy your new shape and body composition, but avoid all the health complications of the conventional path.

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Get your 15% Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, low-carb snack bars and other high-quality organic foods here.*

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*Dr. Davis and his staff are financially compensated for promoting BiotiQuest and Paleovalley products.

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Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Ready to unlock the secret to your health buried deep within your gut? In today's illuminating episode, we reveal the unsuspected ways in which small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) and lipopolysaccharide endotoxins (LPS endotoxins) can drastically alter your health. We delve into the underworld of fecal microbes and their dangerous ability to cause inflammation and endotoxemia. Connect the dots between these hidden threats and a host of health conditions, from obesity to anxiety and even dementia. You'll be astounded to know how common SIBO is, with studies showing its presence in a whopping 50% of people with fatty liver and 40% suffering from irritable bowel syndrome.

Imagine a world where conditions like restless leg syndrome, fibromyalgia, and obesity could be managed by understanding and treating SIBO? We're here to guide you through that very journey. We examine the process of detecting and treating SIBO using the revolutionary AIRE device from Food Marble. You'll learn how a rise in values by four units or more means a positive SIBO test. Lastly, we explore the power of natural remedies, like fermenting specific microbes for four weeks and the benefits of daily consumption of fermented foods. Join us, as we navigate the complex world of the small intestine, uncovering the pivotal role it plays in our overall health.


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Get your 15% Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, low-carb snack bars and other high-quality organic foods here.*

For 12% off every order of grass-fed and pasture-raised meats from Wild Pastures, go here.

*Dr. Davis and his staff are financially compensated for promoting BiotiQuest and Paleovalley products.

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Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Cholesterol testing is among the most common blood tests run in conventional healthcare, yet it is a perennial source of confusion and, to be honest, abuse by doctors who don’t appreciate the full implications of the values. It may surprise you to know that doctors focus on the least helpful values such as total or LDL cholesterol while often ignoring the two genuinely helpful values, HDL cholesterol and triglycerides. HDL for instance is packed with useful insights into your health, as it is a reliable index of metabolic health. Low HDL, that I would define as less than 60 mg/dl, is a reflection of multiple health distortions such as insulin resistance, inflammation, excessive intra-abdominal fat, small LDL particles and VLDL that cause heart disease.

You might also be surprised to learn that consuming fats only spikes triglyceride levels for a few hours, whereas the process of your liver converting carbohydrates to triglycerides can cause a much larger increase after six to eight hours or more. Discover the factors that can amplify this process, including insulin resistance, inflammation, excessive intra-abdominal fat, and even dysbiosis and small intestine bacterial overgrowth.

The road to cardiovascular health doesn't have to be paved with cholesterol. We'll reveal how VLDL particles and triglyceride levels are intricately linked, why it's essential to keep your triglycerides below 60 milligrams per deciliter, and how higher triglycerides can result in lower HDL levels. Discover how simple dietary changes can lead to lower triglycerides and higher HDL levels, and why measuring LDL particles using NMR lipoprotein analysis offers a more accurate picture than the commonly used LDL cholesterol. Join us as we dispel the myths around cholesterol and empower you to take control of your cardiovascular health.


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Get your 15% Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, low-carb snack bars and other high-quality organic foods here.*

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*Dr. Davis and his staff a

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Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

What if a simple diet change could drastically improve your skin health? Get ready for an enlightening discussion on the gut-skin axis as we explore the amazing benefits of boosting gastrointestinal and thereby skin butyrate or butyric acid.

The secret to healthier skin might be a pH shift away. We delve into the importance of maintaining an acidic pH for skin health, and how an alkaline pH can lead to skin rashes and dryness. Learn practical strategies to increase intestinal and skin butyrate, such as incorporating fermented foods and prebiotic fibers into your diet. It's time to ditch the skincare products and start focusing on what truly matters - your diet. So, join us on this remarkable journey to achieving healthier, better-looking, and more youthful skin.



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Get your 15% Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, low-carb snack bars and other high-quality organic foods here.*

For 12% off every order of grass-fed and pasture-raised meats from Wild Pastures, go here.

*Dr. Davis and his staff are financially compensated for promoting BiotiQuest and Paleovalley products.

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Prepare yourself for a fascinating exploration into the depths of body fat and its varying health implications. We promise you'll walk away with a new comprehension of fat distribution and how it can impact your life. Not all fat is equal; differences abound between abdominal visceral, ectopic, and subcutaneous fat. We navigate these variations and their unique health implications, shedding light on why abdominal visceral fat can be particularly harmful.

What if you could reduce abdominal visceral fat and ectopic fat stores with simple dietary adjustments? And what if these changes could minimize your need for conventional health care? This episode is a treasure trove of vital information around this subject. We delve into the tragic health implications of weight and muscle loss due to calorie reduction and discuss the best ways to maintain a healthier balance. In a deep dive into ectopic fat, we examine how its accumulation in organs can cause severe health complications.

Brace yourself for a groundbreaking revelation: the key to controlling your health and appearance lies in the right combination of diet, nutrients, and supplements. We passionately share how a strategic blend of these can help you reduce abdominal visceral fat, subcutaneous fat, and increase lean muscle mass. Join us in our movement of self-empowerment and health to minimize your need for conventional health care. Get ready to revolutionize your understanding of body fat and its profound implications on your health.


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A 15% discount is available for Defiant Health podcast listeners by entering discount code UNDOC15 (case-sensitive) at checkout.*
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Get your 15% Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, low-carb snack bars and other high-quality organic foods here.*

For 12% off every order of grass-fed and pasture-raised meats from Wild Pastures, go here.

*Dr. Davis and his staff are financially compensated for promoting BiotiQuest and Paleovalley products.

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Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Ready to uncover the intriguing connection between Parkinson's disease and the gastrointestinal microbiome? Join us as we explore this fascinating subject with data analytics specialist turned microbiome researcher, Martha Carlin. Martha brings us up to speed on her research endeavors, one of which includes the Bio Collective, a project that collected fecal samples from 1,000 participants, and her venture, BiotiQuest, that developed unique probiotics with collaborative microbial species.

Some of you following my Defiant Health podcasts or my DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com website may already be familiar with Martha Carlin. For those of you not yet acquainted, Martha Carlin, formerly a data analytics specialist, turned all of her attentions to the microbiome when her husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. She quickly learned that current medical treatments for this condition do not slow the progression of the disease from increasing disability and dementia; they only reduce some of the phenomena such as tremor or impaired gait. She therefore founded several organizations to better study both Parkinson’s disease and the gastrointestinal microbiome.

As we venture deeper, we connect with Martha and Dr Raul Cano, founders of Biotiquest, to understand their innovative probiotic products designed to support various health aspects. Martha shares the results of their recent study, showing a significant shift in the microbiome and drop in serum lipopolysaccharide.

In the captivating latter part of our conversation, we investigate the promising potential of probiotics and fasting in Parkinson's disease treatment. Martha and Raul share their patent news and discuss their probiotics' successful use to reduce endotoxemia and target abdominal visceral fat. We also examine the story of a man's remission of Parkinson's disease after a long fast, sparking a discussion on the potential of a 30-day fast experiment. By tuning in, you'll gain a wealth of insights into the evolving field of microbiome research and the impressive impacts of probiotics on our health.

Full disclosure: BiotiQuest is a sponsor of this Defiant Health podcast. But the reason I asked Martha and BiotiQuest to be a sponsor is because their interests are aligned With my philosophy and scientific interests: we are both interested in giving people better tools for health, specifically better tools to manage the microbiome.

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Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Has your dinner ever declared war on your stomach? Imagine if you could decipher the secrets of your gut and take back control. Today, we're embarking on a fascinating journey through the complex world of food intolerances, exploring how changes in our diets and lifestyles may be contributing to this modern malady. From synthetic sweeteners to shifts in our gut microbiome, we'll investigate why this issue, once dismissed as psychological, is now taking center stage in medical conversations.

Intolerances to foods has become a widespread problem, with approximately 20% of the population experiencing unpleasant symptoms with consumption of common foods such as eggs, beef, vegetables, even after many decades of consuming them without problems. Food intolerances are a uniquely modern phenomenon—your great grandmother would have no idea what you are talking about if you reported such intolerances. In some cases, food intolerances have reached absurd levels. People who undergo IgG food testing to identify an immune response to foods, for instance, are often given lists of 20, 30, or 40 common foods they cannot consume because they trigger an IgG antibody-driven immune response, an impossibly restrictive lifestyle. Something has therefore changed—but what? Could it be some change in food? Could it be some change in us? Get ready, folks, it's time to take responsibility for our health. In this episode of Defiant Health, let’s try to make sense out of this troublesome modern phenomenon.


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*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
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Monitoring blood glucose, or blood sugar, can be a useful tool in achieving a number of important health effects. You can apply it to accelerate weight loss, for instance, or accelerate the reversal of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, triglyceride blood levels, fatty liver, slow many of the phenomena of aging, and other effects. And you can achieve this by following what I call the blood glucose “No change rule,” meaning allowing no change in blood sugar from just prior to a meal to 30-60 minutes after the start of the meal.

This is, of course, completely contrary to conventional thinking on how to use blood glucose measurement, nearly always used to assess your response to drugs that reduce blood sugar. In other words, people are told by doctors that the usefulness of blood glucose monitoring is to assess whether the drugs you’ve been given to reduce blood glucose are doing the job and controlling blood sugar. But that is NOT what we are talking about here. We are talking about how to put blood glucose monitoring to use to achieve significant health benefits.

Revolutionize your health journey as we cast light on the "blood glucose no change rule." Imagine maintaining a stable blood sugar level from just before your meal to thirty minutes after, and the enormous health benefits that could unlock. Experience accelerated weight loss, reversal of type 2 diabetes, and a decline in high blood pressure. We also unravel how a simple blood glucose monitor, a device often sidelined, can become your secret weapon towards achieving your health goals.

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Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Our great grandmothers were usually knowledgeable and adept at fermenting foods, i.e., allowing microbes to grow on food, thereby keeping foods, such as vegetables, fruits, and meats, from spoiling while increasing the nutritional value of the food and providing you with beneficial probiotic microbes. They may not have appreciated these benefits, but surely at least knew that it was a useful method of preserving food without refrigeration. Modern processed foods, widespread availability of home refrigeration, and convenience caused most of us to abandon this practice. But it represents yet another mistake we’ve made in healthy eating, coupled with blundering dietary guidelines, exploitative practices, and ignorance or indifference of food manufacturers.

Wife and mother, Donna Schwenk, struggled with health issues of her own and her family. Twenty two years ago, she stumbled on the idea of creating fermented vegetables. Adopting them into her lifestyle and that of her family, she witnessed transformations in health. Donna is a vocal advocate for the fermenting lifestyle and shares her wisdom in her culturedfoodlife.com website loaded with recipes and wisdom on how to put fermented foods to work to restore your emotional and physical health. In this episode of the Defiant Health podcast, Donna shares some of the most recent lessons she’s learned through her fermenting projects.

Learn about the surprising role of fermented vegetables in alleviating symptoms of SIBO and Candida overgrowth, as Donna details her daily fermentation routine. Be prepared to have your mind blown as Donna reveals her remarkable remedy for food poisoning, and even the surprising health benefits her dog has experienced! Beyond personal anecdotes, we delve into the controversial health topics, illuminating why some major health organizations haven't updated their advice despite new evidence, and the importance of strength training as we age.

Wrap up the episode by exploring the tantalizing world of homemade cheese. Hear her recount the incredible potential of probiotic yeast and the lasting health benefits her family has experienced from a diet rich in fermented vegetables. Whether you're a fermented foods enthusiast or just embarking on your journey, this episode promises to be packed with nuggets of wisdom and fascinating insights. Tune in to be inspired and empowered with the knowledge to transform your health through food.


For more from Donna Schwenk: CulturedFoodLife.com with lots of recipes, informative discussions, and products available for purchase.
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Ever wonder why some people seem to age more gracefully, retaining a youthful glow and vitality while others show the rapid signs of aging and deterioration?

It’s happening over and over again: Participants in my program look, act, and feel younger and younger, the longer they engage in all the strategies of my programs. Just the other day, for instance, I had a video conference with a woman who was in good health, but had added the Lactobacillus reuteri yogurt one year ago, the yogurt that we make that restores this important keystone species to your gut microbiome, triggering release of the hormone oxytocin from the brain. The last time I saw her one year ago at age 62, she looked pretty good: vigorous, happy, and appearing several years younger than her chronological age. One year later, she looks like someone in her 30s: smooth moist skin without wrinkles, speaking and moving with the vigor and rapidity of someone much younger. She also reported that she was happier, experiencing better feelings of well-being, and was stronger.

There are concrete reasons for why engaging in all the elements of my program reverse or minimize multiple facets of the aging process. It can get a little complicated, so bear with me. It involves a number of important health factors that you simply cannot get from your doctor who prefers to dispense pharmaceuticals and medical procedures and cannot be generally bothered with advising you on how to regain or preserve youthfulness.

So, in this episode of Defiant Health, let’s review the strategies that we follow that, in case after case, has restored and maintained youthful appearance and health.

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Ready for a heart-to-heart talk about the real culprits behind heart disease? Get ready to challenge everything you thought you knew about cholesterol and heart health. Our journey begins with debunking the age-old myth that cholesterol is the primary cause of heart disease—an erroneous belief rooted in misinterpreted studies from the mid-20th century. We're also laying out seven self-manageable measures of heart disease risk that you can address right at home.

If you ask your doctor about how to reduce your risk for heart disease, i.e., coronary heart disease and heart attacks that remain the number one killer of Americans, he/she will tell you that reducing saturated fat, eating whole grains, perhaps taking a baby aspirin, and reducing cholesterol with a statin cholesterol drug are the keys. Is this true? Of course it’s not. 88 million Americans take statin cholesterol drugs, for instance, and there has been no measurable reduction in heart disease events. Many people have worked to reduce saturated fat intake and it’s part of the reason why we have record-setting levels of overweight and obesity. In other words, the conventional ideas of reducing risk for heart disease are nothing more than fairy tales based on misinterpretations, misrepresentations, and a desire to maintain the very profitable status quo of procedures for heart disease, the #1 moneymaker for hospitals. Of course, the real tragedy is that the focus on cholesterol, saturated fat, etc. takes everyone’s attention off the real causes of heart disease that are, in truth, identifiable, measurable, and readily correctable. Just don’t ask your doctor to tell you how. So, in this episode of Defiant Health, let’s consider this question and discuss seven measures of heart disease risk that you are able to address on your own.

The path to understanding heart disease veers towards an in-depth look at coronary atherosclerosis, often ignored in conventional advice. Brace yourself as we expose how plaque buildup in your arteries, not cholesterol, poses a more accurate risk assessment for heart disease.

We end our expedition by revealing the unsung hero in heart disease prevention – lipoprotein analysis. Together, we'll explore how lipid levels impact coronary calcium scores and discover how Vitamin D and fish oil may work to curb this increase. Managing insulin and glucose levels is vital, and we'll explain why. We're also exploring the overlooked roles inflammation and disrupted bowel flora play in heart health. Lastly, we'll offer insights into a diet program teeming with key nutrients that can help achieve optimal heart health. Know your heart better, and let knowledge empower your journey towards a healthier heart.

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Prepare to be astonished as we unravel the enigma of diet advice that has left us entangled in numerous contradictions and confusions. We're taking you on a journey, tracing back the pivotal events that have led us to our current state of dietary disarray. In the spotlight are none other than the controversial figures of Dr. Dean Ornish and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, whose well-intentioned but misguided advice has arguably had disastrous health implications. Brace yourselves as we delve into the real-life consequences of their low-fat, vegetarian, no-animal product diets.

But the rabbit hole goes deeper. The episode shifts focus to the questionable dietary guidelines released by the US Department of Health and Human Services in 1977. We challenge the widely accepted belief that fat, particularly saturated fat, is the villain behind cardiovascular diseases, which has led to erroneous dietary recommendations. Unmasking the food industry's role in the carbohydrate-centric diet we're accustomed to today, we aim to lay bare the bitter truth. As we wrap up, we explore the seeming paradox of hunter-gatherer populations, who, despite their unconventional diets, evade the modern diseases that plague us today. Join us in this enlightening and potentially life-altering discourse on diet and health.

No other species on the planet experiences this uncertainty. A wolf, deer, frog, giraffe or lion knows exactly what it wants to eat without regard to fats or calories. And obesity and our human “diseases of lifestyle” are virtually unknown among these creatures (except for the ones we domesticate and feed fake food).

There was a series of events that led us down this path. In this episode of Defiant Health, let’s recount a handful of those events, because it will help you make sense out of diet: what is true, what is false, what is misinterpretation, misrepresentation, or plain blundering or marketing.

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Anthropologists will tell you that, of all body parts preserved in the fossil record, going back thousand or even millions of years, teeth are the best preserved, even better than bone. And teeth are, of course, the entryway into the gastrointestinal tract, the first exposure to whatever food you are ingesting or chewing.

We often think of teeth as these inert things, but they are not. They are biologically responsive influenced by many factors, but especially the composition of diet. So, in this episode of Defiant Health, let’s consider what teeth can tell us about the human diet: how to eat, how not to eat, how teeth can instruct us on what and how the human body is adapted to the components of diet, and how a simple practice can make or break the difference in dental health.

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Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Collagen is a protein, the most abundant protein in the human body. It is the protein that provides tensile and flexible strength to tendons and ligaments, is a major component of the dermal layer of skin, the cartilage in joints, an important structural protein in all the body’s organs. But, if you are like most of us, you have been living a collagen-deficient lifestyle. While your body can manufacture collagen, you are also meant to obtain significant amounts of collagen in your diet. The astounding blunders of the last 50-year low-fat era has caused most people to avoid collagen-rich foods, namely organ meats. Many have gone to the opposite extreme, for instance consuming foods like boneless skinless chicken breast in which most of the collagen content has been discarded.

In this episode of the Defiant Health podcast, I am going to argue that dietary collagen intake plays a major role in maintaining the characteristics of youthfulness. Let’s discuss how and why collagen has virtually disappeared from modern habits and how you can bring it back with benefits for health and youthfulness. We demystify the process of glycation in which collagen becomes brittle, disorganized, and irreversibly damaged. Discover how to counteract this breakdown with increased collagen intake, and engage in the ongoing debate on the best form of collagen. We'll also guide you on how to ensure that collagen gets to the parts of the body that need it the most. Stay tuned as we discuss the importance of collagen in an anti-aging regimen and how it can help maintain youthfulness. Who knew that the fountain of youth could be as simple as upping your collagen intake? Let's uncover this protein powerhouse together.

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Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Long regarded as a passive phenomenon, you have likely heard that sleep is an active process complete with various phases, roles in maintaining metabolic and mental health, but often shortchanged in modern life yielding widespread sleep deprivation. But a phenomenon not widely appreciated or explored is the role of the gastrointestinal microbiome on sleep. So, in this episode of the Defiant Health podcast, let’s get thinking about the role of the gastrointestinal microbiome on sleep quality, sleep phases, sleep duration, and content, i.e., dreams, including how you can put the microbiome to work to improve on the architecture of your sleep patterns.

How to make L reuteri yogurt: A step-by-step guide

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Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Why has the 50-year-old recommendation to reduce dietary fat failed to make a dent in heart disease, death, or heart procedures? Could it be that the entire premise of this advice is based on flawed evidence and misleading conclusions about LDL cholesterol? In this eye-opening episode, we uncover the shocking truth about the ineffectiveness of cutting dietary fat and how it's time for a new approach to managing cardiovascular risk.

We dive into the science behind carbohydrates and sugars, and how they create small LDL particles - a direct cause of coronary disease. These particles are different from LDL cholesterol and can persist in our bloodstream for five to seven days, giving them ample time to create atherosclerotic plaque in our coronary arteries. We debunk myths about measuring small LDL particles and emphasize the need for individuals to take control of their own health by understanding how to manage it effectively.

Don't miss out on the strategies that could help reduce or even eliminate your cardiovascular risk, such as the Wheat Belly books, Super Gut books, or joining the DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com website. It's time to join the movement for self-empowered health and take control of your well-being today! So tune in, get informed, and make the change that could save your life.

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Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Dietary guidelines advise us that a diet low in fat and rich in “healthy whole grains” helps maintain healthy weight. Is this true? It absolutely is NOT true. This belief is based on flawed evidence, questionnaires, for instance, that asked people questions about their diet. What did you eat for breakfast on Monday? You scratch your head and search your memory. You say something like “I had a bowl of stone-ground oatmeal in skim milk with some sliced strawberries.” What did you have for lunch? You say “I think that was the day i ordered out for lunch and got a submarine sandwich with cold cuts and cheese.” What did you eat for dinner, and so on. They query you about the foods you consumed over several days. Several years pass and they re-contact you and ask whether anything has changed in your health diagnosed, perhaps, with hypertension, or coronary heart disease, or colon cancer. They then try to correlate the development of these conditions with your diet from 5 or 10 years earlier.

As you can imagine, this is a deeply flawed way to study the health effects of diet. In one real study, for instance, females who chose more whole grains gained 10 pounds over several years, while females who chose more white flour products gained 12 pounds. Interpretation: whole grains help control weight. I hope you see the fallacy in logic here. A better interpretation would be that white flour products are associated with weight gain, while whole grain products are associated with weight gain, also, but just a little less than white flour products. Yet evidence like this is held up as proof that whole grains help control weight. This is called observational evidence that is weak and commonly yields false associations. After all, your recall for the contents of your meals is sketchy and often incomplete, diet changes over the years, often substantially. Trying to associate the development of disease with the diet followed several years ago is, consequently, nearly useless.

So let’s not talk about how whole grains help manage weight, but how ALL foods containing wheat products make you fat.

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It’s happening with alarming frequency: Someone has routine blood work done and an increase in liver markers, AST, ALT, and sometimes GGT, are noted. The doctor sometimes then orders a liver ultrasound, CT, or MRI and infiltration of the liver with fat is identified, the situation called fatty liver. If caught in later stages, fibrous tissue can be seen replacing normal liver tissue, meaning that someone is progressing to cirrhosis, a very bad condition.

Add fatty liver to the widespread epidemics of overweight, obesity, and type 2 diabetes. People with these conditions are also the ones who typically also have fatty liver. In other words, fatty liver is, in the majority of cases just another facet of obesity and type 2 diabetes. The risk is that fat infiltration of the liver can progress to more serious liver diseases such as cirrhosis and liver cancer. Fatty liver is a situation that applies to about 30-50% of the U.S. population, even higher in some groups of people. 90% of people undergoing bariatric procedures to lose weight, for example, have fatty liver.

Most doctors will then tell you that there is nothing you can do about this situation. Perhaps lose a few pounds, that might help. But he/she tells you that they will monitor liver tests as you progress to cirrhosis and liver failure, then prepare you for a liver transplant. These is awful advice. Cirrhosis is a very serious and often fatal condition with extremely messy complications such as esophageal varices, i.e., varicose veins in the esophagus that rupture, causing profound hemorrhage. It causes jaundice and accumulation of ascites, or fluid in the abdomen, causing grotesque enlargment of the abdomen. And liver transplant is a terrible procedure that only adds a few years to your life if it is successful.

The truth, however, is that most people can reverse fatty liver on their own within a few weeks without drugs, without procedures, without surgery. So let’s talk about that.

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You’ve likely heard the headlines: the new class of GLP-1 agonist drugs with silly names such as Wegovy, Ozempic, Saxenda, Rybelsus, and Mounjaro are flying off the shelves so fast that pharmacies are running out. Originally intended to reduce blood glucose in people with type 2 diabetes, it was observed that people taking these drugs lost weight, sometimes a substantial quantity. Human clinical trials have since corroborated these weight loss effects.

If you have been following this and other conversations, you already know that pharmaceuticals almost never come without a price, i.e., side-effects, unintended effects, as well as costs.

So are taking these drugs for weight loss worth the cost? Are they safe? And do they yield weight loss that lasts? Let’s talk about these issues, but especially the long-term health price people will pay by relying on these drugs for weight loss.

How to make L reuteri yogurt: A step-by-step guide

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Ask most doctors, “Can arthritis be prevented or reversed?” Most will say no, or say that it’s genetic and therefore unstoppable. The better informed will say “Lose 10 pounds.” But that’s about as far as it goes and they tell you that, when the pain starts, take ibuprofen or naproxen, submit to steroid or hyaluronic acid injections, then undergo joint replacement surgery. Prevent the disease in the first place? No way.

But there are indeed strategies that are natural, available, and effective that can prevent or reverse arthritis, provided you have not progressed to the most advanced “bone on bone” stage in which all the cartilage has been eroded and gone.

When I say “arthritis,” I am referring to the most common and prevalent form, osteoarthritis. This discussion does not therefore include forms of arthritis such as rheumatoid arthritis or psoriatic arthritis. Those less common forms are indeed important, but require a separate and distinct conversation and are, by the way, also reversible. Let’s now however focus on this most common form, osteoarthritis.

For years, osteoarthritis, especially of the knees and hips, was viewed as nothing more than wear-and-tear, the end-result of years of use. But that is not true. There are numerous metabolic and physiologic phenomena that may be as important, likely MORE important than simple wear and tear. So let’s explore these questions to show you that, yes, osteoarthritis can be prevented and can be reversed.

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Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Do you have the sense that people are acting more selfishly, less considerately, less empathetically, less affectionately as time passes? How often can we blame incidents such as someone cutting you off in traffic, or the break up of a relationship, or the abandonment or neglect of children on narcissistic tendencies?

Narcissistic behavior has been around for as long as humans have walked this planet. But, remarkably, psychologists have been charting the prevalence of narcissistic behavior since the 1960s using instruments or questionnaires such as The Narcissistic Personality Inventory, or NPI, or the Pathological Narcissism Inventory, or PNI. They have documented an astounding rise in narcissistic behavioral traits over the past half-century. The chart chronicling NPI scores, for instance, shows a steady upward climb at a 45-degree angle over the last 40 years. People responding positively when asked whether they felt that “I am an important person” increased from 12% in 1960 to over 80% in our time.

Perhaps you have a co-worker, friend, or even family member who exhibits narcissistic behavior that has caused problems for you. Given its widespread occurrence, most of us have experienced one or perhaps many encounters with narcissists. In this episode of Defiant health, let’s discuss why narcissistic behavior might be on the rise and ask whether there is something you can do about it.


How to make L reuteri yogurt: A step-by-step guide

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A 15% discount is available for Defiant Health podcast listeners by entering discount code DEFIANT (case-insensitive) at checkout.

Take a look at their

• Culture Veggies Starter
• Yogurt Plus Starter
• Easy Kefir Starter
• LR Superfood
• L gasseri Superfood
• Prebio Plus prebiotic fiber mix
• And the new Kefir Soda Starter!

*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Cutting Edge Cultures and their products.
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Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

The science supporting our ability to shape our bodies, to control how much muscle we have, where fat is deposited, which fat stores are mobilized when you lose weight, in other words what we call “body composition” has recently made some important leaps forward. This becomes especially important during any effort to lose weight. If you have been following my Defiant Health conversations, you know that reducing calories virtually guarantees disaster, as it causes loss of lean muscle mass, the primary determinant of metabolic rate. You lose, say, 30 pounds, by reducing calories, about 10 pounds of the lost weight is muscle. This causes your metabolic rate to drop typically 10-25%. It means that, even if you maintain a low calorie intake, you will regain the weight. And the weight you regain is mostly fat, meaning you are worse off than when you began the diet.

So, in this episode of Defiant Health, let’s take a more scientific approach to shifting body composition, including losing weight, to gain advantages for better appearance, as well as health, with none of the booby-traps set by conventional weight loss methods.

How to make L reuteri yogurt: A step-by-step guide

BioGaia Gastrus tablets

Biogaia Osfortis


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*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
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• Culture Veggies Starter
• Yogurt Plus Starter
• Easy Kefir Starter
• LR Superfood
• L gasseri Superfood
• Prebio Plus prebiotic fiber mix
• And the new Kefir Soda Starter!

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Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

For over 50 years, people in conventional healthcare have urged Americans to reduce their intake of saturated fat, eat more “healthy whole “grains,” and take statin cholesterol drugs to further reduce cholesterol. Has it worked? No, it absolutely has not worked. As I’ve discussed previously, both in my Defiant Health podcast as well as my DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com blog, and of course my books, conventional strategies have little, if any, impact on the incidence of heart disease. And, in some instances, conventional strategies increase risk, especially their dietary advice.

Witness, for example, that more than 80 million Americans now take a statin cholesterol drug, yet the incidence of heart disease has not gone down and hospitals do a very brisk business in heart procedures while the pharmaceutical industry continues to profit by dispensing drugs that hardly achieve anything.

The recent Fourier trial has brought the cholesterol paradigm to its knees by taking it to its extreme. In this very large clinical trial involving over 20,000 participants, every participant was on a statin drug but half were also given the injectable drug Repatha to further reduce LDL cholesterol. So half of participants were on both a statin drug and Repatha injections. Participants receiving statin + Repatha had LDL cholesterol drop from 92 mg/dl to 30 mg/dl, an extremely low value. If the “LDL cholesterol is bad” argument is valid, then reducing it to this extremely low value should yield a significant reduction in heart disease—and it did not. There was a barely measurable 1.5% reduction in cardiovascular events over 2 years and, while the numbers have been a topic of debate, there was a likely increase in overall death in people receiving Repatha—not to mention that the drug costs around $600 per month per person. And, of the 13,000 people on Repatha plus statin with LDL cholesterols of 30, 1300 of them died, had heart attack, stroke, or required a heart procedure over the 2 years—in short, reducing cholesterol, even to extremely low values, does not work.

As I have often said, the real tragedy of focusing on cholesterol is that it takes everyone’s attentions away from the REAL causes of heart disease. Among them: VLDL, or very low-density lipoproteins.

So, in this episode of Defiant Health, let’s talk about VLDL particles and why, if your interest is in minimizing or eradicating risk for heart disease that remains the number 1 killer of men and women in the U.S., you need to understand VLDL.

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Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

I’ve previously discussed this widespread epidemic we are experiencing called SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. For those of you unfamiliar with this condition, it is the situation that has developed in millions of people not from a virus or exposures to other people, but from numerous factors in modern life, but especially overexposure to antibiotics, food additives, herbicides, and prescription drugs. Exposure to these factors has resulted in the loss of literally hundreds of microbial species in our gastrointestinal microbiomes, i.e., the trillions of microbes dwelling in our GI tracts. These microbes helped suppress the proliferation of unhealthy, mostly fecal, microbial species. But, in an astounding number of people, these unhealthy fecal species have not only proliferated, but also ascended up the 24-feet of small intestine where they don’t belong. This can be experienced in a variety of ways that includes food intolerances, unexplained bloating and diarrhea, irritable bowel syndrome, or even skin rashes, depression, anxiety, weight gain, and numerous other health conditions.

So, in this episode of Defiant Health, let’s talk about the choices you have for pushing this common situation back to regain control over health and reduce or reverse numerous health conditions, even if your doctor knows nothing about this problem.

Herbal antibiotics:
Candibactin AR + Candibactin BR from Metagenics
FC Cidal + Dysbiosis from Biotics Research

SIBO Yogurt microbes:
Lactobacillus gasseri BNR17
Lactobacillus reuteri ATCC 6475
Bacillus coagulans GBI30,6086

Use the same method we follow for making L. reuteri yogurt but ferment at 106 degrees F.

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Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Many of you are already familiar with my Lactobacillus reuteri yogurt, the yogurt that causes a boost in the release of the hormone oxytocin. Well, I’ve improved on my L. reuteri yogurt for even greater age-reversing effects. So, in this episode of Defiant Health, I show you how to take your youth-restoring effects even further by addressing factors lacking or entirely absent from modern life.

If you are not familiar with these concepts, I urge you to go to my DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com blog or my recent Super Gut book that tells you everything you need to know on how and why restoring this microbe—lost by nearly all modern people—can be a critical factor in maintaining or even restoring youthfulness.

I call it “yogurt” but it’s not really yogurt but just looks and smells like yogurt. Yogurt you buy in the supermarket does NOT provide these effects. Think of our “yogurt” as a microbial amplification system, a way to boost counts of the microbe a thousand-fold and thereby obtain greater biological effects.

How to make L reuteri yogurt: A step-by-step guide

BioGaia Gastrus tablets


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Get your 15% Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars here.

They are currently also offering a 12% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Go here for more information.

*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
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For Cutting Edge Cultures starting cultures and probiotics, go here.

A 15% discount is available for Defiant Health podcast listeners by entering discount code DEFIANT (case-insensitive) at checkout.

Take a look at their

• Culture Veggies Starter
• Yogurt Plus Starter
• Easy Kefir Starter
• LR Superfood
• L gasseri Superfood
• Prebio Plus prebiotic fiber mix
• And the new Kefir Soda Starter!

*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Cutting Edge Cultures and their products.
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Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

In this episode of Defiant Health, let’s discuss Why cholesterol testing, despite being promoted by nearly all practicing physicians, achieves almost nothing in reducing risk for heart disease. Early research, much of it conducted at the National Institutes of Health, NIH, in the 1950s and 1960s intended the measurement of cholesterol in the bloodstream to be a crude and indirect marker for the real causes of heart disease, i.e., the lipoproteins, lipid- or fat-carrying proteins, in the bloodstream that do indeed cause coronary atherosclerosis and thereby dangerous events such as heart attacks. Cholesterol in its various fractions such as total cholesterol and LDL, “bad”,” cholesterol were therefore intended to be indirect markers. But they got construed as causes. The the pharmaceutical industry got into the game and saw an enormous profit opportunity that eventually led to statin cholesterol drugs, one of the biggest financial success stories in pharmaceutical history. Yet more than 80 million Americans now reduce their cholesterol by taking statin drugs and there has been almost no reductions in cardiovascular events like heart attacks and hospitals continue to add multi-million dollar heart centers, since heart disease continues to be the number one money maker for healthcare systems. A recent clinical trial that we shall discuss that reducing cholesterol to extremely low levels may even increase the risk of cardiovascular events and death.

So let’s talk a bit about the history of cholesterol, why it’s not what it’s cracked up to be, and why the real tragedy of cholesterol is that it took eveyone’s attentions away from the real causes of heart disease that, in truth, are easy to identify, easy to manage, and require zero prescription drugs.

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*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
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Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

In this episode of Defiant Health, let’s discuss this nutrient that has essentially disappeared from the diets of most modern people: hyaluronic acid.

Many ladies are already familiar with hyaluronic acid as a topical cosmetic, often sold as “serums,” that makes the skin temporarily smoother and moister, a purely topical effect. Maybe some of you have heard that hyaluronic acid can also be injected into skin as a filler to reduce wrinkles or improve contours, or injected into joints such as knees and hips to provide several months of relief from arthritis.

But there is so much more about hyaluronic acid to know, especially now that it has vacated the modern diet. Let’s talk about why it’s absent, where you were supposed to getting it, and what sorts of health benefits you can expect by bringing it back.

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Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

In this episode of Defiant Health, let’s talk about why cutting calories in your diet to lose weight is a really bad idea, a practice that yields substantial health problems and even reduces, even eliminates, your ability to lose weight in the future. All the forms that this can take—-reduced portion size, using smaller plates or bowls, pushing the plate away, even pharmaceuticals and bariatric procedures, i.e., all forms of reducing calorie intake, result in significant health problems. It can result in long-term increased risk for frailty, osteoporosis, falls and fractures, and impairs your ability to lose weight again in future, not to mention people who cut calories almost always regain the weight they initially lost.

So let’s discuss why cutting calories is not just an ineffective strategy for weight loss, but can actually be dangerous, and how you can lose weight, if that is among your goals, but not experience any of these adverse health problems.

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*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
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More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight:
https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/super-gut/

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

In this episode of Defiant Health, functional dentist Dr. Debbie Ozment shares her unique wisdom and experience in managing the oral microbiome with some surprising observations. Did you know that:

• Risk for colon cancer can begin with oral health and a specific microbial species?
• Bleeding gums are a red flag for health problems outside the mouth?
• Cognitive decline and dementia may also get their start in the oral microbiome?
• The key to oral health is to disrupt the biofilm of teeth?
• Most mouthwashes, because they indiscriminately eradicate microbes, good and bad, are known to raise blood pressure?

Dr. Ozment is an advocate of combining oral microbe assessment with gastrointestinal microbe assessment to establish important connections.


More about Dr. Ozment:
TED Talk: The Forgotten Orifice
Vitality Made Simple podcast on Apple Podcasts
Website: DrDebbieOzment.com

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More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight:
https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/super-gut/

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

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Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

In this episode of Defiant Health, I ask the question: Is your skin aging faster than it should? If you are engaging in conventional ideas about diet, it probably is. But there are indeed strategies you can adopt that slow or even reverse signs of skin aging.

Those of you who are concerned about skin health and appearance likely engage in applying products externally, products such as retinol or hyaluronic acid serums for smoother, moister skin. But wouldn’t it be better to view skin as the outward reflection of internal health? Because it is. If you are inflamed, it will show on the skin. If you have liver or kidney problems, it will show on the skin. Wouldn’t it therefore be better to address internal health first? Or do both: obtain healthier skin that reflects better internal health complemented by your topical efforts. Because, after all, applying products topically does not make you or your skin healthier; it just generates an outward change in appearance.

Many of you following my conversations are making yogurt (not really yogurt, of course, nothing like the products sold in stores) making yogurt with Lactobacillus reuteri, a microbe lost by nearly all modern people. Many of you have reported wonderful skin effects, as well as other health benefits such as increased strength, deeper sleep, increased libido, increased sense of well-being. Many report increased skin moisture sufficient to reduce or do away with moisturizing creams, and reduction of fine wrinkles.

So this got me thinking about the power of replacing other factors lacking or absent from modern life that might influence skin health and appearance. So, in this episode of Defiant Health, let’s talk about other factors lacking in modern life that you can replace for improved skin health. This was also my motivation for creating the Gut to Glow product that I personally formulated that I will tell you more about.

Dr. Davis is a co-founder and principal in Realize Therapeutics Corp. that sells the Gut to Glow product.

L reuteri yogurt recipe:
https://drdavisinfinitehealth.com/201...

The L reuteri yogurt recipe and many other recipes that you can use to replace lost microbes can be found in my new book, Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight available through Amazon and other book retailers:

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Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

You have likely observed that humans, especially overweight humans, come in a variety of shapes and sizes. We all know that excess body fat is not a good thing for health, nor for self esteem. But where fat is distributed on the body plays a big role in whether excess fat increases risk for conditions such as type 2 diabetes, coronary disease, stroke, cancer, cognitive decline, dementia, and premature death—or whether it is only a cosmetic issue and a challenge to weight-bearing joints but not for all the common chronic conditions mentioned.

Doctors often rely on a measure called the body-mass index, or BMI. BMI is obtained through a simple calculation (or referring to a table that lists BMIs) of height divided by weight. A BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 is considered normal, overweight is 25 to 29.9, over 30 is obese. But BMI suffers from a fundamental flaw: It assumes that body fat is distributed uniformly throughout the body which, of course, it is not. They also rely on total weight which also does not necessarily give you any real health insights. So let’s talk about how you can do better than the doctor to make determinations about whether the fat on your body is interfering with your health and longevity or whether it is not.

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*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
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More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight:
https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/super-gut/

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

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Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

In this episode of the Defiant Health podcast, let’s talk about this destructive thing in the human diet called wheat. Those of you familiar with my Wheat Belly books may know a lot of this already and this will just serve as a reminder to help you stay on course and preserve the health and slenderness you achieved. I’m always impressed that, because TV ads, misinformed dietitians, and other dietary conversations all urge you to consume grains, it’s easy to become complacent, often forgetting how your health improved by banishing all wheat and grains. If this is new to you, be prepared to be surprised, even angered, by coming to understand what a toxic, chronic poison modern wheat is, this thing created by crude genetic manipulations, and its destructive effects on your health.

In the early days of my Wheat Belly message, some people dismissed it as nothing more than promoting a gluten-free diet, or another version of a low-carb diet. But I believe that, once you hear the full arguments based on scientific evidence, you will come to understand the magnitude of mistake made when humans first began to incorporate the seeds of grasses—that’s what wheat is—-into the human diet and the enormous impact it has on health, despite being advised by virtually all agencies in the business of offering dietary advice to include it in every meal, every day.

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They are currently offering a 12% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Go here for more information.

*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
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More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight:
https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/super-gut/

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and L

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Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

In this episode of the Defiant Health podcast, let me tell you about five things cardiologists will not tell you about heart health. Having practiced cardiology for 25 years, I learned what works and what does not work to prevent heart disease. Sadly, follow conventional health and diet advice from cardiologists and other doctors and you are following a recipe for developing heart disease, as well as type 2 diabetes, weight gain, fatty liver, and numerous other health conditions. Did you catch that? I’ll say it again: conventional diet and health advice CAUSES heart disease and other common health conditions.

Think of it: more than 80 million Americans now take statin drugs to reduce cholesterol. That must mean that heart disease, conditions like heart attack and sudden cardiac death, are declining—-but they’re not. Heart centers that deliver procedures like coronary angioplasty, stent implantation, and implantation of defibrillators are as busy as ever. After all, heart disease is the #1 money maker for hospitals. It means that heart disease is big business, a business driven by greed and the need to grow the business. It is most certainly not based on delivering health and prevention of heart disease. Given all that, what are you NOT being told by cardiologists and doctors? So let’s discuss that question in this episode of Defiant Health.

AIRE device for breath H2 testing

SIBO Yogurt from my DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com blog

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*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
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For more information or to order Oxyceutics Gut to Glow, go to the Gut to Glow website. Enter code "DEFIANT” for 15% off your order.

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Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

In this episode of Defiant Health, I’d like to talk about the unique oral skin health product I formulated called Gut to Glow.

Some of you may know that, in addition to writing books, speaking, and supporting my programs, I have also taken on the role of Chief Medical Officer for a company called Realize Therapeutics that I co-founded, created to commercialize some of the concepts that I have developed.

Those of you following my Lactobacillus reuteri yogurt discussions know that we are witnessing some interesting effects on skin, sleep, appetite, and libido. But some people have trouble making the yogurt, or find it inconvenient, or find it difficult to keep up making the yogurt while traveling, and asked for a easier, more convenient way to get L. reuteri. So I formulated a probiotic capsule with high counts of the microbe. But I went further and added additional ingredients to make it even better and more effective. So let’s talk about this formulation that we call Gut to Glow that, I believe, provides major advantages for skin, and remarkably, overall health.

Oxyceutics Gut to Glow--Enter code "DEFIANT” for 15% off your order

BioGaia Gastrus

Making L. reuteri yogurt from my DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com blog

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They are currently offering a 12% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Go herefor more information.

*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
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For more information or to order Oxyceutics Gut to Glow, go to the Gut to Glow website.

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For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

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Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

There are a number of factors that drive aging. Among the most important are inflammation, insulin resistance, glycation, endotoxemia, and hormonal senescence, in addition to genetically programmed factors. We cannot, of course, influence genetically determined factors. But we have enormous control over the other factors.

The sad truth is that a conventional diet and modern healthcare advice accelerate aging via these mechanisms. Just look around you the next time you’re in a supermarket or mall—-do you see slender, vibrant, vigorous people who look younger than their years? Or do you see overweight, tired, people who look beaten down by life, older than their chronological age? If you want to impact the rate at which you age you therefore have to reject much conventional wisdom and adopt strategies that are somewhat unconventional. So let’s discuss the factors that you have control over that influence the rate at which you age. I believe that some pretty spectacular results are achievable that will cause the people around you to ask “What are you doing to look so good?

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Get your Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars:
Use the coupon code "Defiant" for an additional 15% discount. Go to this pageon the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order.

They are currently offering a 12% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Go herefor more information.

*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
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For more information or to order Oxyceutics Gut to Glow, go to the Gut to Glow website.

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For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

In this episode of Defiant Health, I’ve brought empowerment strategist JJ Flizanes back for a second interview. Because JJ brings such high energy and unique wisdom to emotional issues—issues that I do not discuss much at all—that I thought it would be helpful to everyone to bring her back on. JJ has a varied background as an actress, personal trainer, and now as a coach on behavior, helping people find their weak spots, behaviors or beliefs that block their success in health, weight loss, relationships and other spheres of life.

Although I know that my programs, whether you call it Wheat Belly, Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox, Undoctored, or my most recent umbrella program, DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com and the Super Gut book, although I know that my programs work, they don’t always work for everybody. Some people start, but don’t follow through. Other engage in the programs intermittently and therefore don’t obtain full benefit. Other start strong, obtain huge benefits, then oddly give up. In other words, some people, despite the best of intentions, self-sabotage, even when the answers are easily within reach. And it’s often the case that this is part of a long-term pattern of self-sabotage, of knowing how to accomplish something but not giving it your all or just giving up.

I therefore wanted to bring JJ back to discuss emotional healing. She focuses specifically on how to identify what she calls “core wounds,” events or people in your past that continue to influence current behavior. JJ also has a panel of strategies she puts to work to change or eliminate these behaviors. What I especially like about JJ’s approach is that she doesn’t waste time, asking you to engage in years of therapy, but to devote just a few hours, a few sessions to gain insight into your behavior and discover new solutions.

For more on JJ Flizanes, go to her website and podcasts.
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Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

There is no shortage of silly advice on how to reduce sugar cravings, the seemingly irresistible desire for something sweet. “Eat just a little,” “Combine sweets with other foods,” “Get more protein” or other advice dominates this conversation. This advice is ineffective and makes no physiological sense.

Yet it is possible to completely ablate this impulse, turn it off entirely and put you back in the driver’s seat of appetite. But it requires some unconventional thinking that, I hope, you have come to expect from the discussions I provide. In this episode of Defiant Health, I shall therefore share 4 strategies that each dramatically reduce your desire for sugary foods and, when combined, can completely free you from such impulses.

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Get your Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars:
Use the coupon code "Defiant" for an additional 15% discount. Go to this page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order.

They are currently offering a 12% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Go here for more information.

*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
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For more information or to order Oxyceutics Gut to Glow, go to the Gut to Glow website.

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For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

I’ve previously discussed this important micronutrient, iodine, but I fear the message has not gotten through to many people. So let’s tackle it again, highlighting just what a huge public health problem iodine deficiency was for most of human history until recently. Now, due to misguided modern dietary advice, deficiency of this important micronutrient is making a comeback and, with it, thyroid problems and all the associated challenges that accompany a failing thyroid gland.

To view some images of goiters throughout human history, as depicted in numerous pieces of artwork, see my recent DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com blog post.

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They are currently offering a 12% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Go here for more information.

*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
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For more information or to order Oxyceutics Gut to Glow, go to the Gut to Glow website.

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For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

In this episode of Defiant Health, I interview Oklahoma dentist, health and wellness coach, and advocate of managing the oral microbiome, Dr. Debbie Ozment.

I met Dr. Ozment during one of my two-way weekly video meetups on my DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com where she provided a presentation on the oral microbiome. I was impressed with her tremendous command of this area that drives home the message that oral health and the oral microbiome are major determinants of overall health. She discusses, for instance, how the oral microbe Porphyromonas gingivalis plays a role in Alzheimer’s dementia, and Fusobacterium from the gums is proving to be a major cause for colon cancer---all factors you are able to address. I believe you will find Dr. Ozment’s interview informative and enlightening.

About Dr. Ozment
A graduate of Oklahoma University College of Dentistry, she served as adjunct faculty there for seven years. Dr. Ozment completed a Masters' degree in Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine from the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine and is a Diplomate with the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. Trained at Mayo Clinic, she is a Nationally Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach.

Dr. Ozment's website

Dr. Ozment's TED Talk

Vitality Made Simple Podcast on Apple Podcasts

GUM Picks
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*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
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For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: T

Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

In this episode of Defiant Health, I’d like to talk about how the intensity of love, affection, and other emotions and social interactions have lost intensity. The love of today, I’m going to argue, is less involved, less intense, less soul-wrenching, involving more superficial commitment than it used. If we could compare the love and affection of, say, 50, 100, 1000 years ago, I am going to illustrate how our current version of these emotions is an anemic, watered-down version. And, along with this change, I’m going to propose that many of the social phenomena that we are all familiar with—-divorce, social isolation, loss of community, increasing suicide—-are all related.

The good news: I believe that you can fix this broken part of the human experience, both for yourself and for the people around you.

L reuteri yogurt recipe:
https://drdavisinfinitehealth.com/201...

The L reuteri yogurt recipe and many other recipes that you can use to replace lost microbes can be found in my new book, Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight available through Amazon and other book retailers.
https://www.amazon.com/Super-Gut-Four...

BioGaia Gastrus tablets:
https://everidis.com/product/biogaia-...


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Use the coupon code "Defiant" for an additional 15% discount. Go to this page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order.

They are currently offering a 12% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Go here for mor

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

In this episode of Defiant Health, let’s discuss how the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans got a lot of things wrong. Of course, I have previously discussed on many occasions the hazards of a diet reduced in fat and rich in “healthy whole grains,” a style of eating that increases the likelihood of weight gain, fatty liver, type 2 diabetes, even increases cardiovascular risk, largely due to amylopectin A carbohydrate of wheat and grains, as well as gliadin protein-derived opioid peptides that are appetite stimulants. This was the focus of my Wheat Belly series of books.

But the dietary guidelines that encouraged Americans to reduce fat intake also led to some inadvertent blunders that pose real health consequences. Perhaps we would never have learned about these issues if we had not made the national mistake of reducing fat. So let’s talk about these inadvertent blunders and what you can do to compensate for them.

Supplements mentioned:

Collagen hydrolysates--bovine, porcine, chicken, marine
Hyaluronic acid
Phosphatidylserine
Omega-3 fatty acids, EPA + DHA
Facto-fermented foods

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They are currently offering a 12% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Go herefor more information.

*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
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More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight:
https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/super-gut/

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

In this episode of Defiant Health, let’s clear up some misconceptions about the common problem of constipation, an issue that plagues around 10-20% of people at any one time.

While the official definition of constipation is having 3 or fewer bowel movements per week, I would say that the official definition is way off. 3 or fewer bowel movements per week is an awful standard, one that is likely to impact health in other ways, as well as being uncomfortable. And the standard remedies for constipation have problems, real problems. So let’s cut through the nonsense and talk about how and why constipation develops and what you can do about it without resorting to absurd and harmful conventional solutions.

AIRE device--The AIRE 2 device is the one that measures methane; more info here.


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Use the coupon code "Defiant" for an additional 15% discount. Go to this page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order.


They are currently offering a 12% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Go herefor more information.


*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
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More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight, including extras for anyone pre-ordering before Feb 1, 2022 release:
https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/super-gut/

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

In this episode of Defiant Health, let’s talk about some new insights into a very serious issue that afflicts many females: repeated urinary tract infections, or UTIs. This can happen to a female at any age, but becomes an especially frequent problem as women get older. Of course, the conventional “solution” is to prescribe course after course of antibiotics that disrupt the entire body’s microbiome and not uncommonly leads to dysbiosis in the colon and other organs, SIBO, vaginal candida infections and other problems.

A number of new observations have emerged that are completely changing the understanding of this common problem. One new and exciting insight is that the urinary system has its own unique microbiome, i.e., a collection of microbes that normally colonize the bladder and other portions of the urinary system, despite having been regarded as sterile for many years. It is disruption of this urinary microbiome that is a major contributor to repeated UTIs. It’s also become clear that the vaginal microbiome is a major determinant of urinary health. Let’s talk about why this happens and what steps you can take to stack the odds in favor of putting a stop to this annoying and health-impairing issue.

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Use the coupon code "Defiant" for an additional 15% discount. Go to this page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order.


They are currently offering a 12% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Go here for more information.

*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.

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More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight, including extras for anyone pre-ordering before Feb 1, 2022 release:
https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/super-gut/

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatB

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

For years, unpleasant symptoms such as abdominal pain, headache, joint pain, and skin rashes experienced with consumption of wheat and grains were dismissed as just being in our imagination, the product of a neurotic mind. If celiac disease was not diagnosed, then these sorts of abnormal symptoms were dismissed as inconsequential.

Recent evidence tells us that this absolutely not true and that the awkwardly named non-celiac gluten sensitivity is a real disease with very real, sometimes severe, health implications. Some of these abnormal responses can be measured. And, of course, it is a condition that is addressed with elimination of all wheat and grains in the diet.


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Use the coupon code "Defiant" for an additional 15% discount. Go to this page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order:
https://paleovalley.com/offers/grass-fed-beef-sticks-bk-lt-promo/defiant?uid=123&oid=2&affid=733

They are currently offering a 12% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork!
https://wildpastures.com/promos/save-20-for-life/bonus15?oid=2&affid=3&source_id=newsletter

*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
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More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight, including extras for anyone pre-ordering before Feb 1, 2022 release:
https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/super-gut/

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Many people have been advised by their doctors or have decided on their own that adverse reactions to dairy products are due to an inability to digest lactose, the primary sugar in dairy products.

While there are indeed people who have lost the ability to digest lactose, numerous people who have adverse reactions to dairy are not truly lactose intolerant, but have disruptions of the gastrointestinal microbiome that are responsible for these reactions. Understanding and addressing the difference can be life-changing. And you can make the distinction on your own, even if the doctor does not understand the difference.


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Paleovalley 15% discount

They are currently offering a 12% discount and free shipping for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork!

Wild Pastures pastured meats


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More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that includes the recipes for L. reuteri and other yogurts and full prescriptive lifestyle plan:
Super Gut

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory!

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

In previous episodes of Defiant Health, I've discussed many of the spectacular potential health effects of boosting oxytocin.

Let's now discuss the emotional, social, maternal, and sexual effects of oxytocin that essentially define the human experience. Because modern people have lost much of their capacity to boost oxytocin to high levels, we have lost many of these beneficial effects. Yes: you can regain this capacity and thereby regain the potential for more intense affection, love, trust, generosity, sexuality, and healthier maternal relationship with your baby.


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For 10% discount for Layer Origin human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) products:
Use discount code "DRDAVIS" (not case-sensitive) and order here:
https://layerorigin.com/?ref=drwilliamdavis
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More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight, including extras for anyone pre-ordering before Feb 1, 2022 release:
https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/super-gut/

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory!

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Make no mistake: the low-fat dietary message of the last 50+ years has been a huge disaster. Coupled with predatory practices of Big Food companies, the result is the world's worst epidemics of obesity and overweight, type 2 diabetes, fatty liver, and Alzheimer's dementia in the history of humans on this planet. Yet there has been no attempt by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, USDA, or any other agency to retract this awful and disastrous message.

Beyond the obvious consequences, there are many other less obvious consequences. Let's talk about those less well-recognized, yet still with profound effects for health, of the awful advice to cut dietary fat. Then let's talk about solutions to this mess.



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10% discount for Layer Origin human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) products:
Use discount code "DRDAVIS" (not case-sensitive) and order here:
https://layerorigin.com/?ref=drwilliamdavis



More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight, including extras for anyone pre-ordering before Feb 1, 2022 release:
https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/super-gut/

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

And, of course,

Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Compared to human populations following hunter-gatherer lifestyles, we have lost hundreds of microbial species in our gastrointestinal microbiomes. Many of these species performed useful functions in human health that we have therefore lost. Loss of these species has also allowed unhealthy, potentially pathogenic species, to proliferate and dominate, even ascending up the small intestine. This situation--small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, or SIBO--is now epidemic, affecting greater than 1 in 3 Americans. And it takes a serious toll on your health, mental and physical.

Your journey back to health starts by recognizing and acknowledging that there is indeed a problem. Then begin taking steps to correct this situation.

L reuteri
Sourced initially as BioGaia Gastrus tablets. You can find it on Amazon or from their North American distributor, Everidis.

L. gasseri
https://products.mercolamarket.com/biothin-probiotic/

AIRE device from FoodMarble:
https://foodmarble.com


Get your Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars:
Use the coupon code "Defiant" for an additional 15% discount. Go to this page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order:
https://paleovalley.com/offers/grass-fed-beef-sticks-bk-lt-promo/defiant?uid=123&oid=2&affid=733

10% discount for Layer Origin human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) products:
Use discount code "DRDAVIS" (not case-sensitive) and order here:
https://layerorigin.com/?ref=drwilliamdavis



More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight, including extras for anyone pre-ordering before Feb 1, 2022 release:
https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/super-gut/

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct

Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

While the world obsesses about this silly notion of cholesterol as a cause for heart disease, they ignore the many other--and more important--causes of heart disease, causes that you can manage effectively on your own.

It does NOT require prescription drugs or procedures to have a major impact on the factors that lead to heart attack, need for heart procedures, or sudden cardiac death. The number one killer of men and women worldwide can be managed YEARS before danger sets in but the answers will not be found in cholesterol, fat intake, or other conventional notions of heart health.


Get your Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars:
Use the coupon code "Defiant" for an additional 15% discount. Go to this page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order:
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10% discount for Layer Origin human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) products:
Use discount code "DRDAVIS" (not case-sensitive) and order here:
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More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight, including extras for anyone pre-ordering before Feb 1, 2022 release:
https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/super-gut/

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory!

Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Here are two nutrients and two microbes that play huge roles in material and infant health, yet almost no obstetrician or gynecologist is advising their patients about them--a major oversight!

Because doctors are not doing their job in advising people on how to stack the odds in favor of not having premature labor, correcting vaginal dysbiosis, and markedly improving the health of their child, you can take the reins of health on your own. I also include a discussion about human milk oligosaccharides and their importance to babies and perhaps even to adults.


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https://paleovalley.com/offers/grass-fed-beef-sticks-bk-lt-promo/defiant?uid=123&oid=2&affid=733

10% discount for Layer Origin human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) products:
Use discount code "DRDAVIS" (not case-sensitive) and order here:
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Sources of BioGaia L. reuteri tablets:
Gastrus tablets: everidis.com/shop-products/

Source for Bifidobacteria infantis as Evivo:
https://www.evivo.com

More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight, including extras for anyone pre-ordering before Feb 1, 2022 release:
https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/super-gut/


For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory!

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

If you've been following my programs, you are likely already supplementing around 3000-3600 mg per day of EPA+DHA for heart health benefits, as well as reduced potential for Alzheimer's dementia and to reduce triglycerides.

But did you know that there are important benefits of omega-3 fatty acids for pregnancy, lactation, early neurodevelopment, and for reducing endotoxemia? Omega-3 fatty acids are a good example of something that is essential, as they play crucial roles in many aspects of human health and development.


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My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions.

Find Super Gut in these bookstores:

Barnes & Noble

Amazon

Books a Million

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

My new book is Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory!

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Here are a number of strategies that you can adopt on your own to substantially improve your immune response and thereby maximize protection against viral and bacterial infections, while also improving other aspects of the immune response that could otherwise lead to autoimmune disease and even cancers.

I therefore provide actionable steps you can take to boost the immune response, methods that most doctors are unaware of but allow you to achieve a level of health that is superior to that obtained through a doctor's office.


Get your Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars:
Use the coupon code "Defiant" for an additional 15% discount. Go to this page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order:

https://paleovalley.com/offers/grass-fed-beef-sticks-bk-lt-promo/defiant?uid=123&oid=2&affid=733


One source of L. reuteri is the BioGaia Gastrus product available on Amazon or through the U.S. distributor, Everidis: everidis.com

Store locator for Yakult, the source for Lactobacillus casei Shirota:
https://www.yakultusa.com/store-locator/
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My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions.

Find Super Gut in these bookstores:

Barnes & Noble

Amazon

Books a Million

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

My new book is Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Tracking finger stick blood glucoses can be an extremely powerful tool for health--if used properly. Unfortunately, most conventional doctors have no idea how to do this and instead advise you that blood sugars of up to 200 mg/dl are acceptable. This is absolutely and completely wrong.

Tracking blood sugars prior to a meal, then 30-60 minutes after a meal, to identify peak blood glucose provides insights into diet and health that can even be used by someone with type 2 diabetes to become non-diabetic, to facilitate weight loss, and even to address risk for heart disease. We do so by following my "No Change Rule" for blood glucose.


Get your Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars:
Use the coupon code "Defiant" for an additional 15% discount. Go to this page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order:

https://paleovalley.com/offers/grass-fed-beef-sticks-bk-lt-promo/defiant?uid=123&oid=2&affid=733


My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions.

Find Super Gut in these bookstores:

Barnes & Noble

Amazon

Books a Million

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

My new book is Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory!

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Lactobacillus reuteri is one of the most important bacterial species in the human microbiome. Yet it has been lost by the majority of Americans due to this microbe's susceptibility to common antibiotics like amoxicillin and ampicillin. One of the terrific benefits of L. reuteri is its ability to provoke release of the hormone, oxytocin, from the brain.

Until recently, there was no user-friendly way to boost oxytocin. It cannot be ingested orally because the digestive process breaks it down. It can be injected but lasts only about 3 minutes. It can be administered via nasal inhaler but requires 3 squirts four times per day in each nostril, with each dose lasting only 60-90 minutes.

We now know that restoring this lost microbe, L reuteri, is key: restore it and you create a source of endogenous oxytocin.

Oxytocin is the hormone of love and empathy. It causes you to engage with other people, take an interest in them, understand their points of view better--can you appreciate how important this hormone can be for human social interaction?

Spread the word: you can restore L reuteri and thereby oxytocin and perhaps make the world a little better place.

One source of L. reuteri is the BioGaia Gastrus product available on Amazon or through the U.S. distributor, Everidis: everidis.com

I shall be reporting on the results of our animal study comparing different strains of L. reuteri, meaning that we will know which strain is most effective for this phenomenon.

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My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions.

Find Super Gut in these bookstores:

Barnes & Noble

Amazon

Books a Million

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

My new book is Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.c

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

The tools and insights into the human microbiome are exploding and everyday people--non-scientists, non-microbiologists--are able to generate new experiences and learn new lessons that provide important advantages in health. We, as microbiome citizen scientists, are learning new lessons virtually every day: how to increase energy, smooth skin wrinkles, reduce arthritis pain and perhaps even slow or reverse joint arthritis, improve mood, deepen sleep, all by managing our microbiomes. For example, we have discovered that microbes fermented to high counts generate deep sleep, a phenomenon not previously described in experimental clinical trials.

Join the movement and become a microbiome citizen scientist and empower yourself in health.

Mentioned in the podcast:

"SIBO Yogurt" contains Lactobacillus gasseri, Lactobacillus reuteri, and Bacillus coagulans. Full details (strains, how to source, fermentation methods) can be found in my Super Gut book as well as the DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com Inner Circle membership website.

BiotiQuest Sugar Shift

AIRE device for breath H2 and methane


My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions.

Find Super Gut in these bookstores:

Barnes & Noble

Amazon

Books a Million

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

My new book is Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 1

Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Although I and others have discussed thyroid health issues many times over the years, I still see people struggling to understand how to best manage this important area of health. And getting thyroid right to optimal levels is really fairly straightforward, except that many doctors remain uninformed or disinterested in helping you achieve ideal thyroid status.

Among the issues I address:

• How to recognize symptoms of thyroid dysfunction, especially hypothyroidism
• How to use oral temperature as a screening tool for thyroid disease
• What blood tests you need to insist on for a full thyroid assessment
• How to manage iodine
• Why so many people taking levothyroxine remain hypothyroid
• The role of the microbiome in thyroid health
• Why addressing the T3 thyroid hormone is our workaround for an inability to fully avoid industrial chemicals

My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions.

Find Super Gut in these bookstores:

Barnes & Noble

Amazon

Books a Million

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

My new book is Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com

YouTube Channel:

Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

The intestinal microbiome, i.e., the collection of microbes in your gastrointestinal tract, are proving to be major players in the length, quality, and content of your sleep. The intestinal microbiome can make the difference between deep, restful, dream-filled sleep, to superficial, disrupted, dreamless sleep, and all the emotional and health consequences that accompany these crucial differences.

You can take steps, including cultivation of specific microbial species, to regain wonderful, restful, dream-filled sleep by taking control over your microbiome, including cultivation of specific species that exert effects over sleep.

L reuteri
Sourced initially as BioGaia Gastrus tablets. You can find it on Amazon or from their North American distributor, Everidis.

L casei Shirota
Sourced from the commercial product Yakult, available from most big box stores (in the dairy refrigerator). www.yakultusa.com

Bifidobacterium longum 1714

Lactobacillus plantarum PS128

Lactobacillus fermentum ME-3


My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions.

Find Super Gut in these bookstores:

Barnes & Noble

Amazon

Books a Million

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

My new book is Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (memb

Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

How did a cardiologist aborting heart attacks, putting in stents, and performing other heart procedures end up talking about the destructive effects of wheat?

It was far from a straight line but a series of blunders and inadvertent discoveries that led me down this path. But it was a path that showed me how powerful going against conventional advice could be that led to spectacular weight loss in people, putting many people with type 2 diabetes into remission, reducing blood pressure, and reversing numerous other common chronic health conditions.

To read further about the rationale, science, and practice of wheat/grain-free living, see my Wheat Belly: Revised & Expanded Edition.

My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions.

Find Super Gut in these bookstores:

Barnes & Noble

Amazon

Books a Million

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

My new book is Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com

Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

It's a basic requirement of life and health: vitamin D.

Even after I and others have been broadcasting this message for over 10 years, many still ignore it, remain skeptical, or simply don't get it right. And, sadly, you cannot rely on your doctor to get it right, as they often say things like "You can get all the vitamin D you need from diet, or "Just get some sun," or "There's no need for vitamin D"--all of which is tragically wrong.

But getting it right yields SO many health benefits. So it is important for YOU to know when vitamin D is just right and enjoy all its spectacular health benefits.


My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions.

Find Super Gut in these bookstores:

Barnes & Noble

Amazon

Books a Million

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory!

Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, or SIBO, in which unhealthy bacterial species have proliferated and ascended up the 24-feet of small intestine, is now epidemic, an epidemic that underlies common health struggles that include weight gain, obesity, pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes, autoimmune diseases, irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, and numerous other health conditions.

Solutions for SIBO typically involve antibiotics, despite being a condition that was likely caused, or at least worsened, by antibiotics in the first place. But I believe that we may have a solution that involves cultivating specific microbial species as a yogurt, something I call "SIBO Yogurt" that provides microbes with specific characteristics that may reduce or eradicate SIBO.

AIRE device from FoodMarble:
https://foodmarble.com

For the full instructions on how to use the AIRE device for detection of SIBO, the herbal antibiotic regimen we use, and the recipe on SIBO Yogurt, see the Super Gut book:

My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions.

Find Super Gut in these bookstores:

Barnes & Noble

Amazon

Books a Million

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Conventional "solutions" for depression are largely inadequate: often ineffective, with side-effects that include weight gain, sexual dysfunction, and suicide.

Evidence is increasingly pointing towards the intestinal microbiome as a source for depressive symptoms. This tells us that prescription drugs such as the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, that only address a step in the pathway of serotonin metabolism, do not address the underlying cause of many, if not most, cases of depression: disruption of the intestinal microbiome. Species such as Turicibacter sanguinis are proving to be crucial players in mood, while bacterial and fungal overgrowth, SIBO and SIFO, can also be common contributors to depression. The bad news: these disruptions of the intestinal microbiome are common and widespread. The good news: there are steps you can take to remedy the situation and thereby potentially have marked effects on mood and depression.


AIRE device from FoodMarble:
https://foodmarble.com

BioGaia Gastrus tablets are the source for Lactobacillus reuteri: https://everidis.com/product/biogaia-gastrus/
(From the North American distributor)


My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions.

Find Super Gut in these bookstores:

Barnes & Noble

Amazon

Books a Million

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

My new book is Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Over the past 30 years, I have made a number of blunders in health. But I always made it a point to learn from my mistakes. Doing so taught me a number of important lessons in health and nutrition, lessons that revealed just how little conventional ideas on health yielded and how doing things very differently yields enormous health advantages. In this episode of Defiant Health, I therefore recount:

• How cutting dietary fat and eating plenty of "healthy whole grains" leads to metabolic disasters
• How the death of my mother from sudden cardiac death showed me how inadequate heart procedures are for dealing with coronary heart disease
• How rejecting cholesterol and resorting to more advanced lipoprotein testing illustrated how not cutting fat and banishing all grains and sugars yielded huge advantages and led to methods to reduce coronary calcium scores
• Despite the enormous advantages of the Wheat Belly grain-free lifestyle, there were people who had residual health issues such as stalled weight loss, food intolerances, or autoimmune conditions that finally responded to more vigorous efforts to rebuild a healthy microbiome
• How identifying, then replacing, microbes lost from the modern human microbiome yields extraordinary benefits such as deeper sleep, restoration of youthful muscle, smoother skin with fewer wrinkles, and preservation of bone density.

And why and how following these strategies, drawn from lessons learned by making huge blunders in health, yields a level of health that is superior to the "health" the doctor provides.

BioGaia Gastrus tablets are the source for Lactobacillus reuteri: https://everidis.com/product/biogaia-gastrus/
(From the North American distributor)


My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions.

Find Super Gut in these bookstores:

Barnes & Noble

Amazon

Books a Million

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

My new book is Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back t

Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Here I read an excerpt from my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Program to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight, specifically chapter 5, Mind Your Mucus.

Before we get to the business of restoring lost microbes and pushing back unwanted species from the upper GI tract, we can also take action to strengthen the mucus barrier. Some strategies I advocate can bring relief from issues like abdominal discomfort and bloating within minutes to hours of adopting. I discuss:

• What role mucus plays in gastrointestinal health
• Why the fragile single-layer mucus barrier of the small bowel is ill-suited to blocking microbes normally present in the colon and stool
• How and why foods like the eugenol of cloves and catechins of green tea can be used to thicken and fortify the mucus barrier

Find Super Gut in these bookstores:

Barnes & Noble

Amazon

Books a Million

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

My new book is Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory!

Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

If you suspect that you have small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, SIBO, have "telltale signs" of SIBO such as fat malabsorption or restless leg syndrome, or have tested positive for breath hydrogen gas, then what should your next steps be?

Let's consider your options so that you can choose the option that is best for you.

Xifaxin (rifaximin)
Candibactin AR/BR
FC Cidal with Dysbiocide

"SIBO Yogurt"
Lactobacillus gasseri
Lactobacillus reuteri
Bacillus coagulans



For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

My new book is Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory!

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Saccharomyces boulardii is a probiotic fungus, a relative of Saccharomyces cerevisiae used to ferment wine and beer, but better adapted to living in the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Although it does not take up long-term residence, its passage through the GI tract has been associated with substantial health benefits.

Making a sparkling cider with this microbial species is an easy way to increase the number of microbes you can obtain while enjoying this delicious effervescent drink. It also saves you money, as future batches can be made from previous batches.

Florastor is our preferred source of the Saccharomyces boulardii CNDM I-745 strain, available at most major pharmacies and department stores, as well as online sources.

If these sorts of unique methods to rebuild a damaged microbiome interest you, then take a look at my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight, available through all major book retailers.


For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

My new book released Feb 1st, 2022: Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory!

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Restoration of a microbe lost by the majority of people, Lactobacillus reuteri, causes the brain to release oxytocin, the hormone of love, affection, and empathy. It brings you closer to other people, helps you see another person's point of view--it makes you a better human being. It also brings on what can be regarded as age-reversing effects: smoother skin, restoration of lost muscle and strength, deeper sleep, reduced appetite, accelerated healing, and other benefits.

We increase bacterial counts 1000--fold by fermenting the microbe as yogurt with impressive results for many people.


L reuteri yogurt recipe:
https://drdavisinfinitehealth.com/201...

The L reuteri yogurt recipe and many other recipes that you can use to replace lost microbes can be found in my new book, Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight available through Amazon and other book retailers.
https://www.amazon.com/Super-Gut-Four...

BioGaia Gastrus tablets:
https://everidis.com/product/biogaia-...


For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Widely-prescribed statin cholesterol drugs have been associated with muscle weakness and pain, as well as markedly increased potential for type 2 diabetes, while providing minimal reductions in cardiovascular risk. But there is also potential for a rarely discussed collection of side-effects not reported in the billions of dollars of clinical trials sponsored by the drug industry: anger, hate, and aggressive behavior.


Paleovalley is Defiant Health's sponsor. To order their excellent grass-fed beef sticks and other products with a 15% discount, go to Paleovalley.com and enter the discount code "defiant."



For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory!

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Everyone knows that sugar rots teeth and raises blood sugar. But there are additional phenomena that result from consumption of sugar that even your doctor is likely unaware of.

Understand how and why sugar impacts health in so many unexpected ways and your efforts at regaining health, losing weight, and slowing the phenomena of aging will be more effective.


Sugar Science: https://sugarscience.ucsf.edu


For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight
This is not another “take a probiotic, get some fiber” book on the microbiome. Super Gut is a blueprint for health like no book before it. Super Gut will do for the power of the microbiome as the Wheat Belly book did in redefining the notion of a healthy diet.

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Wheat Belly Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Wheat Belly Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory!

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Because most of us as modern people have lost the intestinal microbe, Lactobacillus reuteri, that is responsible for increasing release of the hormone, oxytocin, from the brain, are the phenomena of love, affection, and concern for other people less intense than they used to be in prior times? Was love and affection stronger, for instance, in the 19th century, the Middle Ages, or the Greek Empire?

I share a unique personal experience that indelibly imprinted this question on my brain. In the meantime, you can enjoy the restoration of increased love, empathy, and social connection by restoring this microbe to your intestinal microbiome.

Sources of BioGaia L. reuteri tablets:
Gastrus tablets: everidis.com/shop-products/

How to make L. reuteri yogurt using extended fermentation:
www.wheatbellyblog.com/2019/07/how-to-make-l-reuteri-yogurt-step-by-step/

More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight, including extras for anyone pre-ordering before Feb 1, 2022 release:
https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/super-gut/


For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory!

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

My new book, Super Gut: A 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight, will be released Feb 1, 2022. It is a book packed with new ACTIONABLE strategies that show you how to take back control over health. Among the issues I discuss:

• How replacing microbes lost from the human microbiome can yield extravagant health benefits such as deeper sleep, smoother skin, increased muscle and strength, increased empathy and reduced social anxiety
• How to recognize, then manage, the very common problem of overgrowth of unhealthy microbes in the GI tract that can be experienced as autoimmune conditions, type 2 diabetes, obesity and difficulty losing weight, fatty liver, irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia and numerous other health conditions.

And, of course, Super Gut includes my now famous L. reuteri yogurt and other fermentation projects that provide some astonishing health benefits ordered up just like ordering a meal off a restaurant menu.

Pre-order Super Gut and you receive several additional incentives ahead of release:
www.wheatbellyblog.com/super-gut/


For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

And his new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Online media:

Wheat Belly Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Wheat Belly Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Undoctored Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory!

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

In this episode of Defiant Health, we consider something that we do not often consider: identifying the emotional stumbling blocks to success.

Whether you are faltering in gaining control over weight loss, chronic pain, or other health or life struggle, JJ Flizanes discusses how the cause for your failure can be emotional, some factor in your past life that is keeping you from enjoying the success you desire. After a long career helping people overcome physical disabilities, JJ now devotes her efforts to helping people overcome their emotional roadblocks.

JJ is a prolific podcaster and book author. Her podcasts include Fit 2 Love Podcast Show; Spirit, Purpose & Energy with JJ Flizanes; Women, Men, & Relationships with JJ Flizanes and others. She’s author of 3 books including Fit 2 Love: How to get physically, emotionally, and spiritually fit to attract the love of your life. Her latest book is The Invisible Fitness Formula: 5 Secrets to Release Weight and End Body Shame.



For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

And his new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Online media:

Wheat Belly Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Wheat Belly Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Undoctored Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory!

Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Neurologist Dr. David Perlmutter, known to most Defiant Health listeners as The NY Times bestseller author of Grain Brain, as well as Brain Maker and Brain Wash, makes some surprising and enlightening observations about a blood marker called uric acid.

Up until recently, uric acid was thought to be the factor that caused gout and kidney stones. But Dr. Perlmutter reports on emerging science that shows that tracking uric acid is almost as crucial to health as tracking blood sugar and that uric acid underlies many common chronic diseases. Understand what your uric acid level means, then take natural action to bring it under control to gain advantages in health and risk for many health conditions.

Dr. Perlmutter's newest book is Drop Acid: The Surprising New Science of Uric Acid--The Key to Losing Weight, Controlling Blood Sugar, and Achieving Extraordinary Health to be released Feb 15, 2022 and available through all major bookstores including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Indie Books.

More of Dr. Perlmutter on Facebook: www.facebook.com/DavidPerlmutterMd


Get your Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars:
Use the coupon code "Defiant" for an additional 15% discount. Go to this page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order:

https://paleovalley.com/offers/grass-fed-beef-sticks-bk-lt-promo/defiant?uid=123&oid=2&affid=733




For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Wheat Belly Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Wheat Belly Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Undoctored Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory!

Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Despite the widespread advice to consume more "healthy whole grains," a wide range of health problems, sometimes catastrophic, develop with their consumption. Humans made the mistake of incorporating the seeds of grasses ("grains") into their diet 10-12,000 years ago, not recognizing that they were trading health problems for near-term survival. Then modern agribusiness and genetics manipulations amplified the problems inherent to wheat and grains.

The result: deterioration in health, weight gain, type 2 diabetes on a scale never before seen. But recognize this fundamental dietary blunder and you are given the key to regaining magnificent health.


Get your Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars:
Use the coupon code "Defiant" for an additional 15% discount. Go to this page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order:

https://paleovalley.com/offers/grass-fed-beef-sticks-bk-lt-promo/defiant?uid=123&oid=2&affid=733


For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Wheat Belly Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Wheat Belly Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Undoctored Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Food intolerances are proving to be a rapidly growing problem: intolerances to nightshades, so-called FODMAPs, fructose, histamine-containing foods and others. But why? And does just eliminating the food solve the problem?

We need to view food intolerances as a warning sign of the process that causes food intolerances in the first place: disruptions of bowel flora and especially small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, SIBO. Unrecognized or ignored and SIBO can lead over time to weight gain, type 2 diabetes, autoimmune conditions, neurodegenerative diseases, even gastrointestinal cancers. Recognize, confirm, then manage SIBO so that you do not experience health problems later. And much or all of this can be managed on your own, although a little guidance can help.

BiotiQuest: www.BiotiQuest.com
Sugar Shift: https://biotiquest.com/pages/all-probiotics
Use discount code UNDOC15 for a 15% discount on BiotiQuest probiotics.

AIRE device: www.foodmarble.com


For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Wheat Belly Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Wheat Belly Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Undoctored Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory!

Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Many people struggle with controlling their appetite, inevitably giving into temptation and impulse and thereby struggling with weight and multiple measures of health: higher blood sugars, higher blood pressure, higher triglycerides, fatty liver and others.

You have the potential for spectacular control over appetite by adopting several natural, healthy, safe practices that allow you to make smart choices in diet, not be plagued by incessant hunger, be satisfied with less food than other people--no drugs, no procedures, just 3 natural and powerful strategies.


BiotiQuest: www.BiotiQuest.com
Sugar Shift: https://biotiquest.com/pages/all-probiotics
Use discount code UNDOC15 for a 15% discount on BiotiQuest probiotics.

Wheat Belly Blog for Lactobacillus reuteri yogurt: https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2019/07/how-to-make-l-reuteri-yogurt-step-by-step/

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Wheat Belly Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Wheat Belly Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Undoctored Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory!

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

It has only recently become clear that the hormone oxytocin profoundly influences many features of aging: skin, muscle, bone, etc. Most modern people, however, have lost the intestinal microbe, Lactobacillus reuteri or L. reuteri, responsible for provoking release of oxytocin from the brain (hypothalamus).

You can therefore restore this lost microbe that, in turn, causes oxytocin to be released and enjoy thicker smoother skin with fewer wrinkles, restoration of youthful muscle and strength, deeper sleep with vivid dreams, reduction in appetite, and--because oxytocin also influences human social behavior--empathy, a desire for social connection, and reduction in social anxiety. We accomplish this by using a unique fermentation method I devised that increases the number of bacteria to hundreds of billions that therefore provides even greater benefits.

How to make L. reuteri yogurt from my Wheat Belly Blog:
https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2019/07/how-to-make-l-reuteri-yogurt-step-by-step/

Get your Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars:
Use the coupon code "Defiant" for an additional 15% discount. Go to this page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order:

https://paleovalley.com/offers/grass-fed-beef-sticks-bk-lt-promo/defiant?uid=123&oid=2&affid=733


For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Wheat Belly Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Wheat Belly Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Undoctored Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory!

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

The modern diet is woefully deficient in the protein collagen and, as a result, we experience increased potential for skin wrinkles, slower healing, arthritis in joints, even diseases of the aorta.

You can correct this situation by including foods rich in collagen, knowing how to navigate collagen hydrolysates, and taking advantage of boosting oxytocin by restoring the intestinal microbe, Lactobacillus reuteri.


Get your Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars:
Use the coupon code "Defiant" for an additional 15% discount. Go to this page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order:

https://paleovalley.com/offers/grass-fed-beef-sticks-bk-lt-promo/defiant?uid=123&oid=2&affid=733


For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Wheat Belly Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Wheat Belly Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Undoctored Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory!

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

The American Heart Association and other agencies, dietitians, and doctors all urge us to cut our intake of fat and eat more "healthy whole grains," ignoring the fact that wheat and other grains provoke a panel of unhealthy metabolic changes that hugely increase risk for heart disease.

Understand these phenomena, ban all wheat and grains from your life, and enormous changes develop across multiple metabolic markers that add up to reduced risk for heart disease.

Even better, incorporate the short list of nutrients lacking in modern life that further correct insulin resistance and inflammation and take basic efforts to address intestinal microbiome composition and you have the formula for slenderness and freedom from numerous common chronic health conditions.


Get your Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars:
Use the coupon code "Defiant" for an additional 15% discount. Go to this page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order:

https://paleovalley.com/offers/grass-fed-beef-sticks-bk-lt-promo/defiant?uid=123&oid=2&affid=733

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Wheat Belly Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Wheat Belly Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Undoctored Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory!

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Most people already know that the hormone oxytocin is the hormone of love and of uterine contraction during childbirth. But that is only the tip of the iceberg of what this hormone can do. Higher levels of oxytocin have been found to increase dermal collagen and thereby reduce skin wrinkles, restore youthful muscle and strength, preserve bone density, deepen sleep, reduce appetite and have other youth-preserving, anti-aging effects.

So how do you recognize a lack of oxytocin and how can you increase your levels to obtain such benefits?


Source of Lactobacillus reuteri: BioGaia Gastrus tablets
Available through Amazon or through the U.S. Distributor, Everidis: www.everidis.com

How to boost counts of L. reuteri by making "yogurt":
https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2019/07/how-to-make-l-reuteri-yogurt-step-by-step/


For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Wheat Belly Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Wheat Belly Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Undoctored Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory!

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Low-carb diets work. They are more effective at weight loss and reducing health conditions such as high blood sugar, high blood pressure, even fatty liver. Whether you call it ketogenic, carnivorous, Atkins' or other version of a low-carb diet, the majority of people experience substantial near-term health benefits.

But there are some issues to be aware of to prevent the long-term health deteriorations that can develop from such lifestyles. This is why diet is powerful but not enough for genuine long-term health. You must therefore address common nutrient deficiencies that result from modern life, exposures to various toxins in your food and environment, and address your intestinal microbiome.

Paleovalley is Defiant Health's newest sponsor because they only use ultra-clean ingredients that are also delicious. And their grass-fed beef sticks are fermented and thereby a source of healthy probiotics!

More information here:
paleovalley.com
Shipping is free for orders of $75 or more. Get a 15% discount for Defiant Health listeners by entering the coupon code “defiant” (not case-sensitive).

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Wheat Belly Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Wheat Belly Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Undoctored Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

My guest in this episode of Defiant Health is co-founder of Paleovalley, Autumn Smith.

Autumn describes the emotional and physical struggles she had earlier in her life, finding the healthcare system useless for effective solutions. She and her husband learned about the power of diet and all her health problems are now just a memory. This inspired the couple to start Paleovalley.

I’ve had a chance to try a number of their products and they are absolutely terrific. It’s not easy finding products that don’t contain unhealthy ingredients that are consistent with the lifestyles we follow, that is the Wheat Belly and Undoctored lifestyles. That’s why I was so pleasantly surprised to see that the entire line of Paleovalley products—grass-fed fermented beef sticks, turkey sticks, low-carb Super Food snack bars, a bone broth collagen protein powder, Super Greens powder rich in phytonutrients and others—contain only healthy ingredients with no unhealthy additives. Incredible attention to detail has been devoted by Autumn and her co-founders. In this interview, Autumn tells us how and why she and her team went the extra mile to provide clean and healthy food products.

Use the coupon code "Defiant" for an additional 15% discount. Go to this page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order:

https://paleovalley.com/offers/grass-fed-beef-sticks-bk-lt-promo/defiant?uid=123&oid=2&affid=733


For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Wheat Belly Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Wheat Belly Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Undoctored Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Brenda Watson's name may already be familiar to you, having been featured on Dr. Oz, Good Morning America, and six PBS specials. She is also a prolific author of books such as The Road to Perfect Health and Fiber 35 Diet. But you may not know that she, along with her husband Stan, were the founders of Renew Life, for many years the largest probiotic company in the U.S. that they have since sold, then started a new probiotic company, Vital Planet.

With 25 years of experience in the world of the microbiome, my conversation with Brenda yielded many valuable insights into the power of managing the human microbiome. She is a vocal advocate for the restoration of microbial diversity, one of the most important and insightful aspects of bowel flora management.

You can find more from Brenda at:

VitalPlanet.com
BrendaWatson.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/BrendaWatsonCNC
Instagram: www.instagram.com/brendawatsonwellness/?hl=en

Among Brenda's books:
The Road to Perfect Health: Balance Your Gut, Heal Your Body

Skinny Gut Diet

Fiber 35 Diet

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Wheat Belly Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Wheat Belly Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Undoctored Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Of the many effects of wheat consumption on the human body, it's the brain effects that stand out, effects that include:

• Appetite stimulation
• Depression, suicidal thoughts
• High blood sugar and insulin resistance
• Seizures

Once you understand how and why the various components of common wheat products can be blamed for many modern health problems, you have the key to reclaiming many aspects of health and weight control.

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Wheat Belly Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Wheat Belly Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Undoctored Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

All throughout human history and up until approximately 100 years ago, iodine deficiency, goiters (enlarged thyroid glands), hypothyroidism, and death from thyroid failure was a common public health problem. Ask your great grandmother (if you could) about goiters and she would likely have been able to share many horror stories about people who were disfigured by goiters and who died of thyroid failure. This public health problem essentially disappeared when, in the U.S., the FDA asked salt manufacturers to add iodine to table salt.

But then, years later, various government agencies advised Americans to cut back on salt--and guess what is now making a comeback? Yes: iodine deficiency, hypothyroidism from iodine deficiency, and even goiters. Don't let this happen to you.

In this episode of Defiant Health Radio, I show you how to make certain that sufficient iodine is part of your life.


For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Wheat Belly Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Wheat Belly Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Undoctored Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

People of the 21st century have lost empathy, as well as experiencing more social isolation, divorce, and suicide than prior decades--but why?

Psychologists talk about lack of community, the dissolution of traditional families, over-reliance on technology, all of which are undoubtedly important contributors. But could there be a physical factor that could contribute to these social phenomena? And, if so, can it be remedied?

I talk about how modern humans have lost a crucial microbial species from our intestinal microbiomes that, when replaced, restores the hormone oxytocin, the hormone of love, empathy, social connection, and youthfulness.

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

CT heart scans to generate a coronary calcium score is, by a long stretch, the best and most precise way to gauge risk for heart disease, certainly far better than virtually useless cholesterol values. Even though this technology dates back over 25 years, it is still plagued by misinformation, often used to twist people's arms into taking drugs like statins, and even used to exploit people by putting them unnecessary procedures.

The reality is that a coronary calcium score can be the starting point for an enormous effective heart disease prevention program that does not involve conventional wastes-of-time such as reducing fat, tracking cholesterol, or taking statin drugs. Instead, let's focus on the natural methods that actually address the real causes of coronary disease, coronary calcium, and cardiovascular risk. By doing so, you can be far more knowledgeable than your doctor.

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Wheat Belly Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Wheat Belly Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Undoctored Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

For the majority of people with type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes, the condition is completely reversible within weeks to a few months--but you cannot achieve this with prescription drugs, the conventional "cut your fat and cholesterol and eat more whole grains" diet.

Instead, we 1) follow a diet that no longer raises blood sugar or insulin, then 2) address common nutrient deficiencies that allow insulin resistance (the process that drives type 2 diabetes), then 3) address the common situation of a disrupted intestinal microbiome. The end-result? Normal blood sugars, weight loss, normalization of blood pressure, reversal of fatty liver and other health benefits for the majority.

Not only have I done this with thousands of people, I was a type 2 diabetic myself 25+ years ago. I now have perfect fasting blood sugars in the 80s (mg/dl) and a HbA1c of around 4.8% with NO drugs.

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Wheat Belly Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Wheat Belly Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Undoctored Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

It is estimated that we, as modern people, have lost about half of the microbial species occupying our gastrointestinal (GI) tracts compared to indigenous populations who hunt and gather. Exposure to antibiotics, glyphosate residues in food, other herbicides/pesticides, synthetic sweeteners like aspartame, emulsifying agents in ice cream or salad dressings--we swim in a sea of microbiome disrupting factors.

Among the consequences? Loss of a number of species crucial to health. We are just beginning to identify these lost microbes, then take steps to replenish them, a strategy that is far more powerful than just taking some commercial probiotic.

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Wheat Belly Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Wheat Belly Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Undoctored Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Watch TV morning news in years past and you would see authors on health and nutrition topics interviewed regularly. TV news exposés would likewise air reports on problems in healthcare such as excessive charges, aggressive hospital marketing tactics, fraudulent practices by doctors and the like. But in the last decade, there are virtually no such interviews or reports on any of the major TV networks or major print media--none.

This all coincides with the proliferation of direct-to-consumer ads yielding billions of dollars of advertising revenue for media outlets. Could the two phenomena be related? And has Big Pharma, in effect, shut down all reporting on problems in healthcare?

I believe that media has abdicated their responsibility and has not been reporting on this disaster called modern American healthcare--all because of the heavy-handed financial interests of the pharmaceutical industry.

For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook

Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor

Online media:

Wheat Belly Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com

Wheat Belly Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/

Undoctored Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis):

InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

YouTube Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed

Here is the very first episode of Defiant Health Radio with host Dr. William Davis, cardiologist and author of the New York Times bestselling Wheat Belly series.

You may already know that modern healthcare does not yield health. Sure, plenty of prescription drugs and procedures are dispensed. But real health? Not even close.

In this episode of Defiant Health, I recount how and why I left my cardiology practice to educate people on how to gain actual health, health that is SUPERIOR to the kind of "health" achieved through the doctor's office or hospital. Most doctors actually know very little about real health and how to achieve it. It therefore falls on YOU to learn about and understand how to achieve real health. In short, we are defiant against conventional healthcare. Sure, healthcare is there if you break a leg or develop an infection, but for the many common chronic diseases in our world such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, many forms of heart disease, autoimmune diseases, fatty liver and many other conditions, you can be in charge and manage or prevent these conditions more effectively than the doctor--safely, inexpensively, with results that will leave your doctor speechless.

Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify

Books:

Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed