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Top Ten Reasons to Never Consume Wheat

Despite widespread advice to consume more “healthy whole grains,” an astounding 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, increasing the toxicity of its various components.

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.

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Collagen: The Anti-Aging Protein?

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The Truth About Food Intolerances

 

Ever since the 1990s, 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.

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Worse than you thought

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Food Intolerances: A Warning of Bad Things Ahead

I’ve recently discussed how the majority of food intolerances, whether to FODMAPs, histamine, nightshades, fructose, etc., are really manifestations of dysbiosis and SIBO. Here is another way to view these phenomena: Food intolerances are your body’s signal to you that serious deterioration in your health is coming.

In other words, if all you do is choose to reduce or eliminate the offending food, you are still left with the massive disruption of your intestinal microbiome that caused the food intolerance in the first place, along with increased intestinal permeability and endotoxemia. So say you eliminate fermented foods because they contain histamine, or apples and pears because they contain FODMAPs, or tomatoes because they are nightshades, but still have, for instance, overproliferation of E. coli, Klebsiella, Staphylococcus, and Enterococcus species in your colon, ileum, jejunum, duodenum, and stomach—30-feet of trillions of unhealthy species of microbes that live and die in rapid succession (since they survive for only hours to days), eroding the protective mucus barrier, inflaming the intestinal wall, some bacteria penetrating into the intestinal wall to worsen inflammation, some bacterial debris entering the bloodstream (endotoxemia).

What is likely ahead in your health future when you leave SIBO (and related conditions such as H2S-producing SIBO) uncorrected?

The list of health conditions that emerges when you fail to take action to correct this situation reads like a laundry list of common modern health issues that includes:

Food intolerances and food allergiesDepression, anxietyUlcerative colitis, Crohn’s diseaseIrritable bowel syndromeFibromyalgiaMetabolic deterioration—increased insulin resistance, fatty liver, increased blood sugar and blood pressure, increased triglycerides; pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetesDiverticular disease and diverticulitisColon cancer, other gastrointestinal cancers such as biliary and pancreaticAutoimmune conditions such as Hashimoto’s thyroiditis or rheumatoid arthritisNeurodegenerative disorders such as multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s dementia

If you therefore have any form of food intolerance or any of the other telltale signs of SIBO, it is time to take action. You will find more discussions on what actions to take here in the Wheat Belly Blog, in my membership website Undoctored Inner Circle, as well as in my new book Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight to be released February 1, 2022 and available now for pre-order. In Super Gut, I show readers how to recognize SIBO in all its forms, whether it is advisable to confirm or whether just proceeding based on your best judgement will do, which herbal antibiotic products have been shown to be efficacious, how to strengthen the intestinal mucus barrier for added relief, even how, in our preliminary experience, we are now using a collection of specific microbial species in what I call “SIBO Yogurt” that, so far, has been eradicating SIBO in the majority. 

Bottom line: If you have a food intolerance, take it very seriously, even if you feel better by eliminating the offending food. You have been given a powerful warning of what lies ahead in your future, so take advantage of it.

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Plan NOW for your Wheat Belly Holiday Meals

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Defiant Health Podcast: Appetite Control Freak

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.

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The Flip Side of Disease

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Be Thankful for Your Restored Health; Join Us for the Next Wheat Belly 10 Day Grain Detox Group Challenge

Are you ready to be thankful for your restored health?   

The Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox supplies you with carefully designed meal plans and delicious recipes to fully eliminate wheat and related grains in the shortest time possible. Perfect for those who may have fallen off the wagon or for newcomers who need a jump-start for weight loss, this program guides you through the complete 10-Day Detox experience. In addition to this quick-start program, it will show you:

How to recognize and reduce wheat-withdrawal symptoms,How to avoid common landmines that can sabotage successHow to use nutritional supplements to further advance weight loss and health benefitsHow to effectively navigate the grocery store and choose safe productsHow weight loss and magnificent health are achievable without cutting calories, without hunger

To join the Detox Challenge:

Step 1: Get the book. And read it (at least the first 5 chapters).

Detox Challenge participants should be informed and active in order to get the most out of the challenge and private Facebook group. READING THE WHEAT BELLY DETOX BOOK IS REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE. PLEASE DO NOT PARTICIPATE IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE BOOK or else the conversations will not make sense and you will not enjoy full benefit. It is a very bad idea to try and piece the program together just from our conversations. (Note that the Wheat Belly Detox program is NOT laid out in the original Wheat Belly book.)

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Step 2: Join the Wheat Belly Blog community 

Access the thousands of discussions that provide additional recipes, discussions about issues relevant to the Wheat Belly lifestyle, and access the newest ideas in the Wheat Belly Blog.  By becoming a Wheat Belly Blog community member, you will have access to the huge number of resources available on the Wheat Belly Blog: nearly 2000 posts with recipes, tips, new concepts, avoiding pitfalls, etc. You are also supporting the cause and covering the costs of Wheat Belly staff and projects.

The cost is $15.99 for an annual subscription. Here is why we have converted to a subscription process.  Please provide the name you registered with when requesting to join the private Facebook page:

Step 3: Join the Private Facebook Group.

Step 4: Prepare for the Detox Challenge:

Head to the Private Facebook Group for tips, strategies, recipes, videos and discussions to help you prepare for your upcoming detox challenge.  Be sure to check out the guides section for chapter discussions and the files section of the page has some really helpful tools.

Our goal: to help you succeed in restoring your health and achieving your health goals.

Dr. Davis and site administrator, April Duval will be posting and answering your questions.  April is herself an example of a fabulous Wheat Belly Detox success, she knows the ins and outs of this lifestyle like the back of her hand.

Step 5: Join in on the Detox Challenge conversations on the Facebook page – a community of support!

Dr. Davis will personally kick off Day 1 of the Detox Challenge with a LIVE Facebook session.  It will be held on the Detox Facebook page Wednesday, November 10th, 12 pm EDT/11 am CDT/10 am MDT/9 am PDT. Find it here: Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox Facebook page

Why the Detox Challenge?

Through the New York Times bestseller, Wheat Belly, millions of people learned how to reverse years of chronic health problems by removing wheat from their daily diets. But, after reading the original Wheat Belly or the Wheat Belly Total Health book, or even using the recipes from the Wheat Belly Cookbook and Wheat Belly 30-Minute Cookbook, people still said: “I’ve read the books, but I’m still not sure how to get started on this lifestyle.”

The Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox  Challenge helps readers navigate the core Wheat Belly lifestyle strategies. This is the quickest, most assured way to get started on regaining magnificent health and slenderness by adopting the Wheat Belly lifestyle.

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The epidemic of food intolerances: Address your SIBO

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