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The truth about hypoglycemia

I’ve received this question a number of times over the years:

“I have episodes of hypoglycemia that make me really tired, foggy, and shaky. My doctor says to drink a glass of orange juice or eat some candy immediately and it works. But what should I do on the Wheat Belly lifestyle?”

First of all, let’s put aside hypoglycemia–low blood sugars, generally 70 mg/dl (3.8 mmol/L) or less–that occurs in people with diabetes. In diabetics, it is a matter of making adjustments in insulin or other medications, or avoiding blood sugar drops during exercise, sleep, or prolonged periods of not eating. I’m not talking about this kind of hypoglycemia. I’m also not talking about very rare causes of hypoglycemia, such as insulinoma (a form of pancreatic cancer), binge drinking, antibodies against insulin or the insulin receptor in people with lupus, people who have undergone gastric bypass surgery, or have rare inherited carbohydrate metabolism defects such as glycogen storage diseases. Put all of that aside.

I’m talking about the common, everyday form of hypoglycemia that plagues non-diabetic people and is responsible for symptoms such as fatigue, mental “fogginess,” confusion, slurred speech, trembling, rapid heart beat, irritability, and sweating. This form of hypoglycemia–“reactive hypoglycemia”–typically occurs about 90 minutes to 3 hours after eating (varying depending on the composition of the meal and the vigor of your insulin response).

The conventional “solution,” as in the question above, is to consume some source of sugar, usually 15 to 25 grams worth. Once you understand why hypoglycemia develops, however, you will understand how knuckleheaded that solution is.

Outside of diabetes, some diabetes drugs, and the rare causes of hypoglycemia mentioned above, hypoglycemia virtually always follows hyperglycemia. In other words, low blood sugar is nearly always preceded by high blood sugar. Hypoglycemia is most likely to occur in people who have insulin resistance and pre-diabetes who produce three-, four-, or five-fold greater quantities of insulin than normal. So the blood sugar roller coaster ride starts with a meal containing carbohydrates, resulting in a high blood sugar that triggers release of excessive insulin. Blood sugar is cleared from the bloodstream by insulin (and converted to fat) but the effects of insulin persist, dropping blood sugar to low levels, generally below 70 mg/dl. At this point, consuming sugar does indeed raise blood sugar back up and provide immediate relief of the symptoms–but the process can start over again, not to mention can also add to the insulin resistance/pre-diabetic situation and cause weight gain.

So consuming sugar is no more a solution to hypoglycemia than taking a swig of bourbon is a treatment for alcohol withdrawal. There are indeed times when sugar is necessary to recover from a hypoglycemic episode, but this is virtually never necessary in non-diabetics. Sugar does not treat the cause; it only sustains the problem.

The solution: Don’t consume foods that raise blood sugar. This keeps the process from ever being triggered. No hyperglycemia; ergo no hypoglycemia. It’s that simple for the majority of people. If your blood sugar by a fingerstick check was 100 mg/dl, the 30-60 minute later blood sugar peak should be no higher than 100 mg/dl. If checked at 1,2, or 3 hours afterwards, you should still see values of around 100 mg/dl–no hypoglycemia. A person following the awful advice to solve their hypoglycemia symptoms with sugar would see something like this: blood sugar before meal 100 mg/dl; 30-60 minute after-meal peak 140 mg/dl; 2 hour blood sugar 70 mg/dl–shakiness, anxiety, fatigue, etc. Drink 6 ounces of orange juice: blood sugar 135 mg/dl and the cycle repeats, insulin resistance/pre-diabetes is worsened, and you gain some weight.

When you do consume carbohydrates that raise blood sugar, do so in small quantities, as advised in the Wheat Belly books and in this Wheat Belly Blog post, Can I Eat Quinoa? Carb Counting Basics. If you adhere to the Wheat Belly carbohydrate management approach, coupled with the insulin-normalizing strategies of vitamin D, magnesium, fish oil supplementation and cultivation of healthy bowel flora, hyperglycemia does not develop, therefore hypoglycemia no longer follows.

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Jennifer overcoming the mental health impairment of grains

You may remember Jennifer from her story describing her first 3 weeks on the Wheat Belly lifestyle: http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2015/06...

Jennifer now provides us with an update on her progress:

“The difference 9 months makes. The top two are from last year. The bottom two are 4 weeks ago and 2 weeks ago. I wanted to give you an update.

“I am still dealing with some underlying health issues, however doing much better. I no longer have to take a slew of prescriptions –no Symbicort, rarely have to take nasal allergy spray or Zyrtek, have completely titrated myself off of psych meds (MDs had me on 5 or 6 psych meds for a decade, rather than checking my thyroid and checking underlying health issues that I discovered on my own).

“I now only take one script and that is for hypothyroidism (I suspect Hashimoto’s, as it runs in the family)–levothyroxine. I am by no means completely healed BUT I have hope and know I am on the healing path. It is nice to no longer be shackled to my prescription medicine cabinet as it was HUGE. When I started solving gut issues and thyroid issues, my mood has become so much more stable. Along with the thyroid hormone, I supplement with magnesium/potassium, selenium, iodine and have been trying ashwangandha for a bit more energy and mood stability.”

Jennifer’s experience highlights an important issue: the improvements in mental health with wheat/grain elimination and with normalizing thyroid status. As many Wheat Belly followers have learned, wheat/grain elimination is a powerful means of reversing several common mental health conditions and unhealthy emotions, particularly depression, the mania of bipolar illness, impulsivity and abbreviated attention span of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autistic spectrum disorder, anxiety, anger, paranoia and auditory hallucinations of schizophrenia. This is not to say that everyone with depression or autism, say, will experience dramatic relief, but many do–and there is never anything to lose by following this lifestyle to observe whether such benefits develop.

Jennifer’s experience also highlights how the Wheat Belly lifestyle is not just about weight loss. It is about restoring the human dietary experience back to the way it was supposed to be before we got sidetracked by this huge mistake of incorporating the seeds of grasses into the human diet, made worse by the fiddlings of agribusiness and “official” advice to pack the diet full of them. This lifestyle, so much more powerful than any “diet,” even impacts mental health, something cutting calories or counting points could never do.

Incidentally, Jennifer should also explore the T3 thyroid hormone issue, as many people with persistent depressive symptoms, not to mention struggles with weight loss or other residual hypothyroid symptoms, respond to including the T3 hormone with their T4. This is easily accomplished by replacing the levothyroxine (T4) with a combination preparation such as Nature Throid or Armour Thyroid, or simply adding liothyronine (T3) to the T4.

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The Wheat Belly lifestyle reverses inflammation

Robyn shared her Wheat Belly experience (combined with dairy elimination) after just 4 weeks:

“Wanted to share my 1 month photo comparison. Elimination of wheat and dairy. Loads of improvements in all aspects: more energy, less pain, less inflammation, able to stand and walk for long periods–previously would have pain on standing up for a few minutes, less bloating, no more diaphragm cramps, more energy, increased metabolism, improved mental health–reduced anxiety/better outlook on life, sleeping better, no cravings, digestive system feels better–reflux gone, less nasal congestion, body is quieter and calmer–reduced twitching, cramps–feels like everything is flowing properly.”

More than weight loss, the Wheat Belly lifestyle is about reversing inflammation: joint inflammation, gastrointestinal inflammation, skin inflammation (see the change in Robyn’s eyes and cheeks?), sinus/airway inflammation. So, yes, you will lose excess weight, especially visceral abdominal fat, but it is the loss of inflammation that accounts for the wonderful effects of the Wheat Belly lifestyle.

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Amanda and 50 pounds of cheese

To illustrate just how much weight Amanda has lost living the Wheat Belly lifestyle, she posed for this photo carrying 50 pounds of cheese.

You may remember Amanda from earlier this year. She first began reporting her Wheat Belly experience back in March, 2015, when she shared her original “before” photo:

“I’ve lost 50 lbs since February. I’m grain-free and dairy-free and I’ve never felt better. I’ve lost 28 inches overall and 13 1/2 inches of that is off my waistline!”

This most recent series of photos are from February, 2015 (top), then July, 2015:

50 pounds is an awful lot of cheese to carry around. But that is, in effect, what Amanda was enduring. But it wasn’t just the weight burden on her joints and bones; it was also the inflammation and hormonal distortions characteristic of abdominal visceral fat–an enormously disruptive organ. In particular, excessive visceral fat emits inflammatory proteins, worsens joint pain and swelling, increases triglycerides, blocks the effect of insulin, adds to the inflammation of autoimmune diseases, and increases risk for heart disease, breast cancer and other cancers, and dementia. Losing the visceral fat of a wheat belly is therefore a very powerful accomplishment for overall health, far more than a cosmetic issue, more than just being relieved of carting around the equivalent of 50 pounds of cheese.

Losing this weight from abdominal visceral fat–over a foot lost!–is therefore a huge accomplishment for Amanda’s overall health.

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Marilyn’s dramatic Wheat Belly facial change

Marilyn shared her “before” and “interim” photos after 6 months of living the Wheat Belly lifestyle.

“After 6 months of Wheat Belly. Down 60 lbs. Gotta keep going!”

What a dramatic example of the facial changes people experience with the Wheat Belly lifestyle! Look at Marilyn’s eyes, cheeks, tissue around the jaw: an astounding change. Given how far she has come, I am looking forward to seeing her update when she achieves her weight and health goal.

More than weight loss, you can see that Marilyn is reversing the inflammation and edema that plague humans who foolishly try to eat the indigestible seeds of grasses.

You know what? We need a name for this facial change people experience when they banish all wheat and grains from their lives. Any suggestions?

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Kay relieved from the agony of weight loss

Kay shared her story of weight loss success and failure, the calorie- and point-counting, the emotional turmoil, yielding temporary success, if any success at all, even as a Weight Watchers instructor. But when she discovered that wheat and grains were the culprit for both health, as well as weight, disruptions, she was freed of all the nonsense that passes for weight loss programs.

“My name is Kay. I am 63 years old and I have had a weight issue all of my adult life. I started gaining weight after my first child and, I’ll be quite honest with you, I thought, why not get pregnant? I’m already overweight and don’t know how to get the weight off, so I’ll just go ahead and have a second child.

“In less than four years, my first husband left me and I started losing weight. I married again in 1976 and I was around 147 pounds–normal weight for someone who is 5’8.” With my third pregnancy in 1977, I gained 50 pounds and never really lost it when I got pregnant again with my fourth daughter in 1980. I got lost in the pregnancies and I don’t know what happened to me.

“In 1981 and 50 pounds overweight, I was desperate and joined Weight Watchers and, in six months, I lost the 50 pounds and went on to become a lecturer for Weight Watchers and did that for 10 years, but then resigned from Weight Watchers and put all of that weight back on and then some additional weight.

“The next seven years from 1991 to 1998 were just a fog. I ate whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted, 60 pounds overweight. I was approached in 1998 by an ex-Weight Watcher member and she asked if I would be interested in teaching a Christian-based weight-loss class called First Place; I struggled with the decision because I knew what I would have to do in order to lose weight and I just didn’t know if I wanted to do it anymore. But in December, 1998 two weeks before Christmas, six of my friends came over to my house and around my dining room table I started teaching how to lose weight again; using basically the same food pyramid that Weight Watchers did, but adding a Bible study along with it. The first time I lost 50 pounds, it took me six months to get it off, the second time I had 60 pounds to lose and it took me nine months to get it off and I did and kept teaching the whole time. This time I kept the weight off for seven years.

“In 2005, I stopped teaching and I started putting all that weight back on. This time my weight climbed to an all-time high of 223 pounds. I started journalling, weighing myself once a week, taking my measurements. I was losing on an average 1 to 1 1/2 pounds a week.

“In September, 2014 I saw Dr. William Davis on the Dr. Oz show and was enlightened and mad at the same time because of what wheat had done to my body. When I first heard Dr. Davis talk about eliminating wheat out of your diet, I said to myself “I can’t live without pizza.” I went cold turkey off of wheat late September, 2014. I had some withdrawals, but I also had a lot of benefits. I felt better, my stomach didn’t hurt, I wasn’t bloated or cramping anymore. Felt great and I hadn’t felt good in a long time. I thought I bet this would help other women just like me, so using Dr. William Davis’s book, I started teaching his material March, 2015. I reached my goal weight April 1, 2015. I’ve lost 68 1/2 pounds and 34 inches and this time it took me 14 months to lose that much weight. Thank you, Dr. William Davis, for your research and for caring about others. My goal is to help others the same way you’ve helped me and I continue to teach a weekly class.”

Note that counting calories or points, reducing portion size, or extreme exercise never yields freedom from abdominal pain and bloating, acid reflux, bowel urgency/irritable bowel syndrome, migraine headaches, depression and anxiety, skin rashes, autoimmune diseases, or the hundreds of other health conditions caused by consuming wheat and grains. Yes, Kay lost weight–but she also regained health. You can see it written on her appearance in the “after” photo: vibrant, glowing, slender, looking years younger than her “before,” tortured, wheat/grain-consuming former self.

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Natalie’s asthma, allergy, energy, and eyesight breakthrough

Natalie shared her experience with one year on the Wheat Belly lifestyle:

“I suffered through 5 years of allergy shots without knowing wheat was so bad for me. The time and money for that was huge, not to mention the pain. After stopping the shots, my allergies returned full force.

“Almost a year ago, I read your book and took the leap of eliminating wheat from my diet. Within the first few weeks, I was able to eliminate my asthma, allergy, and reflux medications that I had been on for years. The list of additional improvements to my well-being and health are extensive, but today I had another surprise. I went for my annual eye exam and my vision AND astigmatism in both eyes improved! This has never happened to me before. I mentioned my diet change to my doctor. He was very interested, asked multiple questions about my changes, then provided me with more education on diet related to eye health. Thank you for giving me the tools I needed to make these health improvements!

“The laundry list of other issues solved by eliminating wheat also includes no more chicken skin on my upper arms, fewer breakouts of acne on my face, more energy, much less sleep needed at night (reduced by 3-4 hours per night!), less irritability, etc. I also think my skin has a perfect level of oil now. Before, my skin was oily and I had more wrinkles. It’s like I’ve found a fountain of youth.

“Oh, and I don’t wake up groggy, stay focused in meetings (even after lunch), and my ankles aren’t hurting and swollen at the end of the day since eliminating wheat.

What a dramatic story: freedom from allergies, asthma, acid reflux, joint pain, leg swelling, fatigue, skin rashes, and mind/emotional effects. Natalie’s experience is another reminder of the folly of regarding celiac disease as the only manifestation of wheat and grain intolerance. Recall that wheat and closely related seeds of grasses contains many components harmful to unwitting humans beyond the gluten that activates the autoimmunity of celiac disease. Mind and emotional effects, for instance, including sleep effects, are due to gliadin-derived peptides that have nothing to do with celiac disease. Acne is triggered by foods containing the extravagant blood sugar- and insulin-raising amylopectin A, again nothing to do with celiac. Asthma is most commonly triggered by the long list of allergens in wheat and grains, such as alpha amylase and trypsin inhibitors, as well as gliadin variants, again nothing to do with celiac. We don’t know precisely which component is responsible for acid reflux, but it mostly is triggered by wheat germ agglutinin and/or gliadin or gliadin-derived peptides.

If we were to regard the only problem with wheat and grains as celiac disease, then millions of people like Natalie would have never experienced the health transformations that they have.

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Josee’s Dad succeeds at Wheat Belly with her coaching and cooking

Josee shared a wonderful story of how she helped her father succeed in following the Wheat Belly lifestyle, important to reduce/eliminate risk for coronary disease:

“I wanted to share my father Andre’s progress so far. He’s lost 36 lbs but he still wants to lose another 10 lbs. The ‘before’ picture was taken in July, 2014, but he started cutting carbs and grains in November, 2014. The ‘after’ picture was taken in July, 2015. He’ll be 76 years old in a couple of months and eating the Wheat Belly way has been rewarding in so many ways. He sleeps better, his mood is so much better (a plus for my mom), his joints are not as stiff and his digestion has improved significantly.

“He had a quintuple coronary bypass in 1999, but continued his carb-addicted bad habits throughout the years. He had his annual checkup with his cardiologist this week and she was very impressed with the changes and has reduced his medication.

“It was not easy convincing him to go against what he had been taught at the hospital and in every article in the ‘health’ section of the newspaper he read following his bypass, i.e. eat whole wheat/grains, low- or no-fat, sugar-free sweetened with aspartame, very low calories, etc. He couldn’t grasp the fact that his doctors could have been wrong, but I just kept bombarding him with your articles and transformations so that he could see for himself.

“Since my parents live nearby, I would cook for him every morning (thank God for the quick muffin recipe!) and made big batches of your English muffins and gingerbread cookies so that he wouldn’t feel like he was missing the ‘sweet’ taste he was accustomed to with processed foods. I made the pizza a few times and that made him very happy. After about a month or so, he just ‘got it’ and it suddenly sinked in and he did the rest on his own.

“Now, everywhere he goes, he’s a walking advertisement for the Wheat Belly way and all we hear is ‘Dr. Davis says that……’ and when he started his golf season, the club manager asked him what items he needed to buy in order for the cook to be able to make him his meals whenever he eats there. Needless to say that my dad is a happy camper.”

Isn’t that great? Although her Dad found dietary enlightenment after having to undergo coronary bypass surgery, you can find it before such revenue prizes for hospitals become necessary. Why would the Wheat Belly lifestyle reduce, even eliminate, many sources of cardiovascular risk? Recall that the Wheat Belly lifestyle got its start in my cardiology practice when I sought ways to deal with cardiovascular risk but became increasingly disenchanted with the notion that heart health should come through drugs or procedures. Over many years of insight and research, combined with the work of others such as Dr. Ronald Krauss of the University of California-San Francisco and Dr. Jeff Volek of the University of Connecticut, it became clear that the menu of strategies that provides a virtual “shutting off” of coronary risk, often sufficient to not just stop, but reverse, the burden of coronary atherosclerotic plaque, was fairly simple:

Eat no wheat nor grains–as the amylopectin A carbohydrate is a flagrant trigger of the most common abnormality in people with coronary disease, small oxidation-prone LDL particles.
Manage carbohydrates–since sucrose and fructose can, like grains, trigger formation of extravagant quantities of small LDL particles via liver de novo lipogenesis (that also causes fatty liver), and also glycate the exceptionally glycation-prone small LDL particles–a double whammy.
Raise 25-hydroxy vitamin D blood levels to 60-70 ng/ml–achievable by most by supplementing 4000-8000 units per day of vitamin D in gelcap form, coupled with whatever sun exposure you can manage and if you maintain some capacity for vitamin D activation i the skin (lost progressively as we age).
Supplement omega-3 fatty acids–from fish oil, never from krill, flax, or chia. (Flaxseed and chia are wonderful for their own reasons, but not as sources of omega-3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA.). The ideal dose: 3600 mg EPA + DHA per day, divided in two.
Normalize thyroid status–meaning ensure adequate iodine intake and keeping TSH at or below 1.5 mIU/L with levels of free T4, free T3, and reverse T3 in optimal range, along with freedom from symptoms of hypothyroidism (since hypothyroidism can also be present with normal thyroid values–uncommon, but it does happen due to endocrine disruption at other steps in thyroid metabolism). Further discussion here. Hypothyroidism is a powerful but underappreciated trigger for atherosclerotic plaque growth (explaining why, in the old days, the principal cause of death in people with untreated hypothyroidism was cardiovascular disease).
Cultivate healthy bowel flora–This, the most recent addition to my menu of powerful cardiovascular risk-reducing strategies, catapulted metabolic measures, such as LDL values, HDL, triglycerides, blood pressure, serum sitosterol, and others, into spectacularly healthy ranges. I treat bowel flora as a “garden” that needs to be “seeded,” then nourished.

That’s it. (There are some additional but less common genetic variants that can be important, notably lipoprotein(a), apo E4 and sitosterol hyperabsortion, and variants in vitamin D metabolism, many of which are discussed in Wheat Belly Total Health and in my still-under-construction website, Cureality.com.) But notably missing from this simple menu? Statin drugs, fibrate drugs, anti-hypertensive drugs such as beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, and ARBs, and aspirin. In fact, the majority of people–even someone like Josee’s Dad with a history of coronary bypass surgery–achieve lipid/lipoprotein/metabolic/inflammatory values that make those achieved with drugs alone look terrible.

While I’d see heart attacks and the need for heart procedures several times per week in my own patients 20 years ago before these insights, for the last 10 years or so such cardiovascular events rarely occurred and, when they did, occurred nearly always in the non-compliant with the above simple menu.

 

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Look how great the Wheat Belly lifestyle look on Jenny and her husband

Jenny shared her and her husband’s experience following the Wheat Belly lifestyle:

“Vegas, 2014 vs. 2015, grain-free + exercise.

“My bloodwork improved so much, my MD was shocked. I had sky-high cholesterol and triglycerides, high blood pressure, fatty liver disease. Now blood work is normal and I am down 25 lbs! Not at my weight goal, but getting there. Nothing else ever worked this well. Not even the 3 or 4 meds I was on.

“My husband’s acne, rosacea, and skin conditions are gone. Thank you so much for writing Wheat Belly, Dr. Davis. You are truly a lifesaver.”

See the dramatic change in facial appearance on both Jenny and her husband? Less facial edema around the eyes and cheeks, so much so that they look like different people. Of course these are “selfies” with the quality issues that such casual photos carry, but I believe that you came make out a dramatic loss of cheek redness in Jenny’s husband, a loss of what I call the “signature rash” of wheat and grain consumption.

Jenny had been prescribed several drugs to achieve what she accomplished without drugs with superior results–and no side-effects, of course. Her MD was apparently shocked but should be enlightened . . . and embarrassed that such striking results are achievable without any drugs in the first place. He exposed Jenny to the substantial risk of prescription drugs, as well as considerable cost. As many of you well know, several hundred dollars every month, month after month, is not unusual. The drug industry is feverishly trying to develop drugs to treat fatty liver, but Jenny reversed it without drugs at virtually no cost. And Jenny’s husband clearly had a variety of skin inflammatory conditions going on which, in most people, are paralleled by similar inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract, likewise all receding with eliminating the cause.

Jenny and her husband achieved this with the addition of exercise to the Wheat Belly wheat/grain-free lifestyle, but exercise is not a necessary component to achieve such results. Exercise is indeed a positive factor in overall health, but it not a necessary factor for weight loss nor to achieve improvement in metabolic parameters. It simply adds to the benefits modestly.

One of the thoughts that strike me every time I see such “before” photos is that the bloated, swollen appearance everyone has before undertaking the Wheat Belly lifestyle looks so familiar: we see it in the face of shoppers at the grocery store, on the streets, in the classrooms–it is a distortion of appearance caused by this awful advice to eat more “healthy whole grains.” Yet look at how easily it is all reversed.

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Chrissy fell off the Wheat Belly wagon . . . then returned

Chrissy shared this update on her Wheat Belly lifestyle. You may remember her, as she shared her early Wheat Belly experience from 2014:

“I went grain-free in February of 2014 after seeing the picture of myself on the left. Although I was not extremely overweight, I was swollen, soft, and just downright unhappy. I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis in 2008, gestational diabetes in 2009 when pregnant with my son, and type 2 diabetes in 2011. I never knew how much ‘healthy grains’ were contributing to the demise of my health. I’ve been grain free for 11 months and have lost 20 pounds. I have since come off of all thyroid medication and my fasting blood sugars are a steady 70!”

Unfortunately, Chrissy drifted off the Wheat Belly lifestyle before recognizing how important it was to stay on course:

“At the beginning of this year I became complacent and started allowing certain things back into my diet that had affected my healthy lifestyle. Slowly but surely I became sick and I was told I needed to go back on thyroid medication. I refused and have been strict as ever and have had amazing results. By adopting a grain-free and wheat-free lifestyle, I have had amazing results in just six weeks along with exercise.

“The first picture is my 10 month result from last year by being wheat- and grain-free. The other pictures represents the 5 phases of my journey. The second picture was my results from the end of last year. The third picture shows the beginning of this year and slipping off the bandwagon. The fourth picture was my 3 week strict, wheat-free and fitness results. The fifth picture is my six week progress picture from today being wheat- and grain-free with a fitness routine.

“I now know, and have always known, how important it is to eliminate grains and wheat. All of the ailments I had before came back with a vengeance. Muscle and joint pain, fatigue, moodiness, anxiety, bloating, thyroid issues and higher fasting blood glucose. This is not just a choice for me anymore but a necessity! Thank you again for your work and dedication to making us aware that wheat and grains are the culprits for the demise of our health.”

We can show Chrissy’s tummy size, but we can’t show the diabetes reversing, or the gastrointestinal bloating and inflammation receding. Once reversed with wheat and grain elimination, it can all come back quite readily by going off the program. Stay on the program and the weight loss is maintained, health benefits grow. Drift off and weight goes up and health benefits all reverse. No one builds up an immunity to the destructive health effects of wheat and grains.

Learn from Chrissy’s instructive experience and, once wheat/grain-free, always stay wheat/grain-free.

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