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Happy Family

Our L reuteri yogurt triggers your hypothalamus to release oxytocin, the hormone of empathy and connectedness.

People who consume the yogurt are reporting getting along better with partners, spouses, and family members, feeling more empathetic and closer. I therefore encourage everyone to make the yogurt and share with the family and other people who wish to be closer to.

Transcript:

Doctor William Davis here, author of the Wheat Belly and Undoctored books. I want to you today about a way that you can make your family happier — people get along better, empathize with each other.

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It starts with our Lactobacillus reuteri yogurt. If you don’t know how to make that, or you haven’t been making it, see my Wheat Belly Blog or Undoctored Blog for a post that’s called Making L.reuteri Yogurt — r e u t e r i, named after the discoverer of this organism, Dr. Gerhard Reuter from Germany.

So we make this yogurt — and it’s not about yogurt per se — it’s about the bacteria, the specific species and strains we use to ferment yogurt. You follow the directions I present in those blog posts, because we do it in a very specific way, to increase bacterial counts, to very high levels.

You consume a half a cup of this yogurt a day — by the way, it’s rich and delicious. It’s tart. It’s sour. You may have to add a squirt of stevia, maybe some blueberries, or a teaspoon of inulin, to take away some of the sour edge. But it’s otherwise delicious to take. Consume a half cup a day, and among its many fabulous effects, including increase in dermal collagen, reduction in skin wrinkles, increase in muscle, and other effects, the yogurt causes the hypothalamus to release oxytocin.

Oxytocin is the hormone of empathy, and connectedness, and the desire for the company, the companionship of other people. I’m seeing this play out, in many families, where one or more people in the household are consuming this yogurt. They’re saying “I’m less angry. I’m less irritable. I feel closer to my partner, my spouse. My children are better behaved.”

So we’re getting a lot of very interesting feedback, that I think truly can make your family a happier bunch of people, who get along better, because you feel for the other person’s experience. So I encourage you to make this yogurt, and not just consume it yourself, but share it with your family. I think you’re going to see a transformation in the way they act towards one another, and how they empathize with each other.

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L. reuteri, collagen, and strength training to minimize loose, sagging skin after weight loss

Combine our unique strategies of

Consuming our L. reuteri yogurt that boosts oxytocin
Supplement collagen hydrolysates
Strength train

to minimize or prevent loose sagging skin after substantial weight loss, as typically happens on the Wheat Belly and Undoctored lifestyles.

L. reuteri boosts oxytocin that makes gaining muscle much faster and more effective. Oxytocin also provokes a marked increase in dermal collagen, amplified further by supplementing collagen hydrolysates. The combination of these three strategies stacks the odds in your favor of not having to deal with the loose skin folds after losing, say, 50, 100 or more pounds.

Transcript:

All right, Doctor William Davis here, author of the Wheat Belly and Undoctored books. So you’re doing my programs: Wheat Belly Total Health or the Undoctored Wild-Naked-Unwashed program, and you’re losing weight. You’re losing 18, 25, 35, 50, 80 pounds, but you’re worried that you’re going to have saggy skin.

Well, I can’t tell you that this approach is guaranteed to work. But I think it really stacks the odds in your favor, of not dealing with loose folds of skin, that sometimes have to be removed surgically — they can get infected, and actually die — not mention they’re unsightly. So what can you to do to stack the odds in favor of not having those loose sagging skin problems?

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First of all, do all the components of my programs. Don’t leave anything out. Each and every component plays a role in restoring health, including skin health (as we’re talking about here). So fish oil counts. Vitamin D counts, right? Wheat and grain elimination counts. Capping your net carbs counts. Each and every component counts. But there’s more you can do.

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Think about supplementing collagen hydrolysates. A tablespoon or two per day helps increase dermal collagen. It smooths wrinkles. It increases joint lubrication. It helps you regrow cartilage and joints, like knees and hips — though gradually and slowly over a long period of time. It helps restore skin suppleness.

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Even more powerful than collagen hydrolysates is our Lactobacillus reuteri yogurt.

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UNDOCTORED BLOG

The yogurt, half a cup of day, made by the recipe that I provide — in our making L.reuteri recipe on my Wheat Belly blog and Undoctored blog — consuming ½ cup of day, boosts the hypothalamic (the brain’s) release of the hormone oxytocin. Oxytocin is fabulously effective for increasing dermal collagen, strengthening skin and accelerating healing.

Combine the oxytocin boosting effect of our yogurt with collagen hydrolysates, and you have this magnificent synergistic effect to increase skin health and suppleness, and reduce the potential to have those loose sagging folds of skin.

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Lastly, the oxytocin boost you get from the yogurt also dramatically increases muscle mass and strength. Most people who have been overweight, especially if you yo-yo dieted over the years, have lost substantial muscle mass. Combine strength training with the L.reuteri yogurt and oxytocin, and you have a dramatic increase in muscle. That also helps you not have saggy skin folds.

So collagen hydrolysates, the oxytocin boosting effect of our L.reuteri yogurt, and strength training: do those three things, in addition to our basic components of the programs, and you have stacked the odds in favor of not having to deal with those loose folds of skin.

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Why are Americans so deficient in iodine?

Despite being an essential nutrient, so many people fail to obtain an adequate intake of iodine, even fewer obtain an ideal intake.

Yet getting iodine is so easy and inexpensive. But don’t rely on the doctor to tell you how or why, as he/she is too busy planning your next procedure or trying to hand you a drug prescription, since doctors really don’t know how to dispense genuine health.

Transcript:

Let’s talk about iodine. Now I’ve talked about iodine before. It’s in the Wheat Belly Total Health program. It’s in the Undoctored Wild-Naked-Unwashed program. But I feel like the iodine message hasn’t gotten fully through. In fact, some people doing my program say “I’m not losing weight”, or “I don’t feel good. I’m cold. I’m tired.” Well, part of the solution is to make sure you’re getting iodine.

So why have Americans become so deficient in iodine? First of all, virtually all the world’s iodine, is in the ocean. The further inland you live, the less potential you have to be exposed; to obtain iodine. If you live coastally; the food grown coastally, or livestock raised coastally, you’ll have some iodine — and of course if you eat seafood or seaweed, you’ll get more iodine. But the further inland you are, the more potential there is for iodine deficiency — so much so, that where I live in Wisconsin (or Michigan or Illinois or Indiana, Missouri, Ohio) used to be called the Goiter Belt.

That’s because we obtained so little iodine, that thyroid glands would enlarge. This was a huge public health problem, up until the first several decades of the 20th century. Goiters would kill people. Mothers who had goiters when they were pregnant would deliver a child with a mental impairment — a huge public health problem — until it was recognized, in the 1920s, that it was due to a lack of iodine, in inland populations primarily. The FDA passed a regulation, encouraging salt manufacturers to add iodine to their salt. Morton’s iodized salt slogan for many years was “Use more iodized salt. Keep your family goiter-free.” Americans listened to this advice, and goiters essentially disappeared into the middle of the 20th century.

Well, use of salt made some people, particularly grain-consuming people, hypertensive, and had other health implications of excessive salt exposure. The FDA said: quit using all that salt! Well guess what happens over many years? Goiters come back, thyroid dysfunction re-appears. So we now have a nation, because we’ve been told to cut back on iodized salt, and we’re not all consuming seaweed/seafood all the time, and certainly not consuming the thyroid glands of animals (that also has iodine), we’re seeing a resurgence of goiter and thyroid dysfunction.

Thyroid dysfunction shows up as mild hypothyroidism: low energy, fatigue, sleepiness, inability to lose weight, thinning hair, leg edema. It’s so easy to correct: take iodine.

You can get it from salt, but that’s not a really a reliable way to obtain your iodine. One of the problems with iodized salt — it’s not the salt; the salt is fine; I encourage you to use salt once you’re grain free — it’s once you open the canister, the iodine is volatile, and it’s gone within three to four weeks. So that canister of salt does indeed provide iodine, if you go through it very rapidly. And you don’t quite know how much you’re getting.

So I advocate taking iodine supplements, such as kelp tablets or potassium iodide drops. I prefer kelp, only because it provides a mixture of iodine forms: potassium iodate, sodium iodate, molecular iodine, iodinated proteins, etc, because nobody really knows what the ideal form of iodine is, and there may be different benefits to different forms. So I opt in favor of doing it the natural way, which is getting kelp tablets, because it mimics eating kelp (seaweed).

And we try to obtain more than the recommended daily allowance. The RDA is 150 micrograms (µg, mcg) per day, for an adult. Where’d that come from? It was based on observations for how much iodine was required to not have a goiter. But there’s more to health and thyroid performance than not having a goiter. I aim what I think is the ideal range of iodine, which is 350, 400 or 500 micrograms per day. I’ve never seen toxicity. I’ve only seen benefits at that dose.

There are people who take mega doses, and they get toxic over time. Don’t do that. That’s a very bad conversation, that some people are having. They think that high doses of iodine are somehow good for you. They’re not. They’re toxic over time.

Iodine is a necessary nutrient for your thyroid gland to function, because your thyroid gland produces the T3 and T4 thyroid hormones that regulate metabolism. The 3 and the 4 refer to the number of iodine atoms per thyroid hormone molecule. If you don’t have enough iodine, your thyroid gland fails to produce enough thyroid hormone. You get tired, fatigued, get cold, and over time you thyroid gland enlarges — becomes engoitered.

Now there’s other benefits to iodine. People often ask “I don’t have a thyroid gland. They took it out [usually unnecessarily, by the way]. Do I still need iodine?”

Yes. Iodine has other functions, including breast health for women. Fibrocystic beast disease is probably one manifestation of iodine deficiency. So getting iodine is not an option, any more than getting vitamin D is an option. If you don’t get vitamin D, you get scurvy — your teeth fall out, your joints fall apart, you develop open skin sores — it’s not optional. Likewise, iodine’s not an option.

But understand this issue; correct it; and you have another way to regain magnificent health, via the Wheat Belly Total Health and Undoctored pathways.

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Stack the odds in favor of reversing type 2 diabetes

A carb-restricted diet is only a START in stacking the odds in favor of fully reversing, or at least minimizing, type 2 diabetes.

You must address the several factors in health that allow insulin to do its job, i.e., restore INSULIN RESISTANCE. This is what we do in the Wheat Belly Total Heath and now Undoctored lifestyles.

Transcript:

Let’s talk about how you can stack the odds in favor of a full reversal of Type II diabetes. You know what, about 90% of people, who have Type II diabetes — even if they’ve had it for 5 years, 10 years, or longer, can become confidently non-diabetic, or at the very least, minimally diabetic. Sometimes a person remains on a drug like metformin — but off insulin — off those other nasty drugs (because those are the people who have done some damage to their pancreatic beta cells that produce insulin). But most of you who are Type II diabetic, can become non-diabetic.

Now it starts with diet. It starts with a severe restriction in carbohydrates. You can call it the Wheat Belly diet. You can call it a ketogenic diet. You can call it paleo, or low carb, etc. But the key here is this: cut back, or eliminate, most of the sources of carbs. In the Wheat Belly lifestyle we eliminate, completely, all sources of grains and sugars, and we cap our net carbs. But can you go even further? Yes.

That approach does work, but is not always sufficient to become fully non-diabetic. What can you do to stack the odds further of not having Type II diabetes?

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Well, address all the factors in your health that influence your body’s response to insulin; your insulin sensitivity. That’s what we do in the Wheat Belly Total Health and Undoctored programs.

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We restore vitamin D, which helps restore insulin sensitivity.

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We supplement magnesium, preferably with our magnesium water, the best way to take advantage of the all the benefits of magnesium, including restoration of insulin sensitivity.

Screen text: Omega-3 fatty acids EPA+DHA

We take fish oil. It doesn’t directly improve insulin sensitivity, but it reduces the flood of digestive byproducts after a meal, and thereby allows insulin to do its job.

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We cultivate healthy bowel flora, because getting rid of dysbiotic, or disrupted bowel flora, correcting small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, correcting intestinal fungal overgrowth — all our efforts to cultivate healthier bowel flora also help restore insulin sensitivity.

In other words, all the things we do in the Wheat Belly Total Health and Undoctored programs are intended to maximize your hopes of reducing insulin resistance as far as possible.

Start with diet: powerful.

Go farther, though. Address all the factors that influence your body’s response to insulin, and you will stack the odds in your favor of kissing your diabetes goodbye.

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There’s more to health than diet!

It’s great that more and more people are exploring the advantages of ketogenic, paleo, low-carb, Wheat Belly and other diets, since “official” source of dietary advice got it all so wrong. Choosing the right diet can be a great start to restoring slenderness and health.

But that’s ALL they are: a start. There are MANY other strategies you can adopt to take health, slenderness, and youthfulness further to reverse numerous health conditions, lose more weight, even turn the clock back a decade or two.

And the results you can obtain are dramatically SUPERIOR to the “health” that you obtain from the doctor or healthcare system.

Transcript:

Hi, I’m Doctor William Davis, author of the Wheat Belly and Undoctored books. You know, I get this question frequently: which diet is better: the Wheat Belly diet, ketogenic diet, low-carb, Atkins, paleo, etc?

Well, we could debate the relative merits of each, but I need to remind everybody that there is more to health than diet. Diet is important — no question about that — it’s a huge and powerful start to your restoration of health, control over weight, etc. But there’s so much more you can do, for full restoration of health, weight loss and youthfulness.

Such as, restoring iodine — supplementing iodine — because your thyroid gland needs iodine. You can’t get that from diet most of the time.

Vitamin D: it’s really tough to get very much vitamin D in diet at all. You have to eat liver, some in egg yolks, but the rest comes from sun exposure — if you’re younger, and get lots of surface area of your skin exposed to intense sun. But most of us have to supplement vitamin D.

How about all the issues surrounding bowel flora, which is about half the things we do now in the Wheat Belly and Undoctored programs. We’re dealing with restoring bowel flora. How to nourish them with prebiotic fibers. How to reverse the common condition called small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, and intestinal fungal overgrowth. How do we restore organisms like Lactobacillus reuteri that boosts hypothalamic oxytocin, and smooth your skin, accelerate skin healing, restore bone density, increase muscle mass, increase libido, and deepen sleep.

There are far beyond factors, benefits, you can obtain just from diet. Diets are fine. They’re great starting places. But don’t let you health efforts end with just diet alone.

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Let’s Make America Thin Again

No, no political commentary here, just insights into health regardless of whether you are conservative or liberal or somewhere in-between.

But we are indeed doing it on the Wheat Belly and Undoctored lifestyles: Making America Thin Again—MATA—and getting people to lose weight, often considerable amounts of 30, 50, 70, 130 pounds, by essentially REJECTING conventional dietary advice.

What conventional pieces of dietary advice are we rejecting in order to achieve this? Here are a few:

Limit fat and calories—No way. This is a path to misery. It works in the short-term, fails in the long-run and, of course, does not reverse situations such as iodine deficiency or disruptions in bowel flora that also influence weight.
Move more, eat less—Likewise, this doesn’t work. It can work in the short-term, especially if you started very sedentary and consumed lots of junk carbs and sugars. Just look at the people on the Biggest Loser TV show: huge weight loss over several weeks by slashing calories and engaging in extreme exercise . . . only to regain most of the weight while continuing to exercise and restrict calories. Why? Because metabolic rate drops by about 23% (about 500 kcal/day), meaning that your body has been fooled into thinking that you are starving and thereby tries to conserve energy by turning down your rate of energy burn. Oddly, while this phenomenon has been recorded at 30 weeks after the program, it persists even after 6 years. The majority of originally successful Biggest Loser participants were in the extremely obese category 6 years after being on the show. And exercise (after the initial change from sedentary to active) is a lousy way to control weight. Exercise is helpful for maintaining health—e.g., flexibility, prevention of cognitive decline, etc.—but it simply not effective to manage weight long-term.
Eat more healthy whole grains—If you’ve read the Wheat Belly or Undoctored books, you already recognize the folly in this awful advice. The gliadin protein of wheat and related proteins of other grains are not fully digestible, but are broken down into 4- or 5-amino acid long peptides, so-called exorphins that bind to the opioid receptors of the human brain and powerfully stimulate appetite. And the amylopectin A carbohydrate raises blood glucose and insulin higher than most other foods including table sugar, generating insulin resistance that leads to accumulation of visceral fat. High blood sugars are followed by low blood sugars accompanied by fatigue, mind fog, irritability . . . and insatiable hunger. Key: Don’t allow high blood sugars.
Choose non-tropical vegetable oils—You mean the oils that have been associated with increased potential for obesity and increased cancer potential such as corn and safflower oil? Although largely observational and epidemiological, the consistency of the evidence is worrisome, especially since such oils were only added to the human diet over the past few decades, unlike saturated, monounsaturated, and omega-3 fats that have been part of the human experience for, oh, 3.5 million years. This should come as no surprise, since the over-exposure to omega-6 linoleic acid from such things as corn and cottonseed oil are pro-inflammatory.
Choose low-fat dairy products—You mean the products higher in sugar/carbs and less satiating dairy fat? Nah. If we include dairy (no question: dairy products have their issues, though reduced via fermentation), we choose butter, full-fat cheeses, and yogurt made from whole milk, half-and-half, or full-fat cream. Yes, dairy has it’s issues, but the fat is the most benign component of all.
Choose skinless poultry and fish—What? We now understand that saturated fat has nothing to do with heart disease. If you choose skinless poultry and fish, you miss out on the satiating fats and collagen.

You most definitely do not need to reduce calories, engage in extreme exercise, drink meal replacement shakes, or buy low-cal prepared meals or all the other useless, ineffective crutches out there. You just need to 1) revert back to the way humans are supposed to eat, then 2) correct common nutritional deficiencies that restore sensitivity to insulin and restore optimal thyroid status, and 3) address modern disruptions of bowel flora, just as we do in the Wheat Belly Total Health and Undoctored programs.

Ah, the 1950s, when people just ate mostly real food and didn’t have silly dietary guidelines to throw a wrench in the works:

 

Photo courtesy Too Bea blog.

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Susanne: Not gluten-free, not ketogenic . . . but hugely successful in health and weight loss

Susanne learned her weight and health lessons the hard way, making many common mistakes . . . until she finally found the Wheat Belly lifestyle for restoration of magnificent health and slenderness:

“I started Wheat Belly in September of 2017. I figured I’d give it a try to see if it would work for me. I had just looked into the Keto diet but hated the fact that you had to count micros and calories. It was the one thing that always discouraged me from starting a diet. Wheat Belly sounded like something I could stick with. After all, watching your carbs and eliminating grains and sugar seemed easy enough.

“Prior to starting Wheat Belly I was gluten free for 6 years. 6 years earlier a doctor noticed a nodule on my thyroid. He suggested I go gluten free so I did. I found removing Wheat kept my nodule from growing and kept my Hashimotos from getting worse. However, over the next several years food manufacturers started to get smart and began making new products with gluten free flours (corn, cassava, rice, potato, tapioca, etc) and that’s when my issues really began to get worse.

“Over those next 5 years I thought I was doing the right thing for my body. However, my weight kept climbing and I gradually started to look like a swollen tick. I was frustrated, confused and my health started to decline pretty quickly. I struggled for years with:

1. heart palpitations

2. heartburn

3. anxiety attacks that sent me to the hospital twice

4. depression that kept me isolated and alone

5. eczema

6. arthritis

7. No sex drive

8. Tons of painful facial acne

9. back/hip pain

10. Slept on average 2 hours a night

11. High Blood pressure reaching 150/115

12. No energy

13. Sinusitis

14. Cravings for snacks all day long

“I had no idea what was wrong with me but once I started reading Wheat Belly it all became crystal clear. I was slowly killing myself by eating a gluten free lifestyle. I should have been grain free all along. The new gluten free products were easy to use but so much more toxic to my system!

“Once I began to eliminate the grains and sugars I went through at least 2 months of withdrawal. It was a tough 2 months packed with headaches, increased heart palpitations and heartburn. I kept pushing through and was thankful to have this group to support me. By the end of my 2 month detox I started to notice my feet weren’t as swollen and my ankles looked thinner. I had only lost about 8 pounds but the loss of inches was encouraging. Around the 2 month mark I had also figured out all the silly mistakes I was making and found myself reading labels every time I bought something whether I bought the same item the week before. Shockingly I learned food companies change ingredients like we change our underwear. The next few months I started to lose a lot more weight. I noticed the weight loss for me started at my hands and feet and worked it’s way towards my body. Right now I’m still looking to lose another 10 pounds and it’s mostly in the stomach. I know I can do it as I know this WOE (Way of eating) is easy and a lifestyle I can live with.

“Now that I am down 50 pounds and went from a size 16 to a size 6/8, I feel great! Using the list above here are the biggest changes I have noticed:

1. No heart palpitations

2. No heartburn

3. No anxiety

4. No depression

5. No eczema

6. No arthritis

7. Sex drive returned (wow)

8. Facial acne only when I have been wheated or drink wines with added sulfites

9. No back/hip pain

10. Finally sleeping after years of struggle and upwards of 6 hours every night

11. Lowered Blood pressure

12. Enormous increase in energy level

13. Sinusitis improved

14. No cravings or desire to eat food. No longer a slave to food. It doesn’t interest me at all. I can go hours without eating.

“What I have learned:

1. If you really want to feel better and lose weight you have to make yourself a top priority. Cheating isn’t putting yourself first! Cheating hurts your body and pushes you back to inflammation and causes your body to struggle. It also allows your cravings and desires to continue.

2. A Gluten Free lifestyle can be toxic. If your currently gluten free and not fully grain free try to eat Whole Foods not products designed by the food industry.

3. This is a lifestyle. Don’t look back!

4. The scale doesn’t always move and sometimes it goes up. That’s normal and expected. Your body does not weigh the same every moment of the day. If you weigh every day expect those days when it goes up a pound or two. It’s not the end of the world. It will come off if you stay the course.

5. Supplements are very important on this journey. Stop procrastinating and take them.

6. Healthy fats are your friend. They keep you feeling full and allow your body to work probably. If you don’t eat enough healthy fat your weight loss will slow down.

7. If your feeling hungry and want a snack you probably aren’t eating enough fat!

8. Avoid toxic oils like vegetable, canola and corn!

“Good luck to all those starting the journey. Choose to make yourself a priority and choose to leave the excuses behind! It works if you want it to work!

“Thank you Dr. Davis! I feel like I’m in my 30’s again!”

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A trip down Wheat Belly memory lane

Here’s a brief trip down Wheat Belly memory lane.

The Wheat Belly book and message rocked the nutritional world—and it has never recovered. Dietitians sobbed into their bran cereal, the grain industry tried to smear the author, media tried to get their arms around this unconventional message.

But it worked. We now have millions of people who have lost weight, reversed hundreds of health conditions, and even turned the clock back on aging.

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I’m full . . . But I’m still hungry!

Why can you eat, say, a big bowl of pasta, fill yourself up until you experience a painfully full stomach fit to burst, yet you remain hungry?

What creates this unnatural situation and what can you do about it to reclaim control over appetite, weight, and health?

Transcript:

Hi everyone, Doctor William Davis, author of the Wheat Belly and Undoctored books. Have you ever heard this from somebody: “I’m full, but I’m still hungry”? Well, I’ve heard it many times, in people prior to engaging in the Wheat Belly lifestyle, of banishing all wheat and grains from the diet.

Why would that be? Why would it be that you had a big plate of pasta, and your stomach is so full it’s almost bursting, and it hurts, but you’re still hungry? Or why are you emptying the kids plates into the garbage, and then sneak a few bites more of the pasta? Why is that?It’s unnatural, right? If your stomach is full, all the hormones are telling you quit eating, shut it down, right?

Why are you hungry? It’s because of the protein gliadin in wheat, and related proteins in other grains like the secalin in rye, or zein in corn. Recall that these proteins are very poorly digested by humans. If you eat an egg, or a piece of hamburger, you break those proteins down into single amino acids. When you consume the seeds of grasses you don’t have the enzymes to break it down to single amino acids.

There are sequences in there you can’t break down with the digestive enzymes you have. So you break them down only into pieces, or peptides. Most of them are four or five amino acids long. These peptides, while they’re bigger than single amino acids, are small enough to cross into the brain, and bind to the opiate or opioid receptors.

Now, they don’t make you high. They stimulate appetite. They’re very potent appetite stimulants, such that people consuming grains typically take in 400 to 800 more calories — often as much as 1500 more calories per day — not because you’re weak, not because you lack resolve, but because you’re exposed to an appetite stimulant, in the form of gliadin-derived opioid peptides.

How else would you have hunger when your stomach is bursting full? The key here is, don’t eat wheat and related grains, and you’ve thereby banished the gliadin-derived opioid peptides. You are miraculously freed of that kind of unnatural hunger. It’s a very powerful phenomenon.

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How to divorce your dentist

Why did primitive people who had no toothbrushes, fluoridated toothpaste, dental floss, or dentists have almost no tooth decay?

Enter the seeds of grasses–grains–and tooth decay exploded. Just look at dental health through the Middle Ages, 17th, 18th, 19th centuries: dental health was a huge public health problems along with cholera and goiters.

Today, we compensate with modern dental hygiene but, if you continue to consume grains (and sugars), you are inviting more dental problems. Banish all grains and you have taken a huge step towards preserving dental health.

Transcript:

Hi everybody, Doctor William Davis, author Wheat Belly and the Undoctored books. I call this “how to divorce your dentist” because there’s so many lessons about diet, when you look at the history of tooth decay. You know, I wish every dentist was an expert in diet, because there’s so many lessons to take from dental health and tooth decay.

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Did you know that prior to the consumption of grains (that is the seeds of grasses) that began around 10-12,000 years ago — before the consumption of seeds of grasses, dental decay was very uncommon. A million years ago, 2 million, 3 million years ago, the skulls recovered from back then, nearly always have full mouths of intact healthy teeth — no cavities, no abscess formation, no tooth loss, and these people often lived until age 40, 50, 60 or 70. People did live a long time, if they survived the childhood years.

But they had no dental floss, toothpaste, fluoridated toothpaste, toothbrushes, dentists, fluoridated water, orthodontists. They had no dental hygiene to speak of, short of a twig maybe, to pick out some loose fragments of wild boar they just ate. They had virtually no tooth decay, despite having virtually no dental hygiene.

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Well, why would that be? They didn’t eat grains that contain amylopectins, that rot your teeth. Amylopectins, recall, are the carbohydrates from grains, that are almost instantly turned to sugar in your mouth. It’s like eating a bunch of sugar. Sugar is also a source of dental decay, but we all know that. But we’re told to eat “healthy whole grains”, not told, that the amylopectin carbohydrate rapidly is converted to sugar by the enzyme amylase in your saliva, also in the stomach — it’s converted to sugar — rots your teeth.

When humans added the seeds of grasses, grains, like einkorn wheat (the ancient ancestor of modern wheat), or maize and corn, and millet, and other grains, there was an explosion in tooth decay, such that, once people added grains, tooth decay increased to 16 to 49% of all teeth recovered. They were crooked, and rotten, with cavities, and abscess formation, and tooth loss.

In that observation is an astounding insight into dental health. Don’t eat grains, and dental decay and other associated dental problem, plummet. Now, I don’t really mean that you have to divorce your dentist. There’s a good reason to see them, because your prior life may have been filled with grains and sugars, right, so you may have to deal with a dentist just because of prior habits. But once you go grain-free, you will be astounded at how much better dental health can be.

Imagine if we started children out this way, and they didn’t have to deal with tooth decay, tooth loss, tooth aches, all that kind of stuff. And when their adult teeth came in, they’re healthy, aligned properly, and last them a lifetime. You could imagine, if ancient people lost their teeth at age say 11 or 14 or 20, and they’re eating foods they caught, often raw, well you can’t do that, when you’re missing eight teeth, or half of your teeth. You would probably die. It takes a long time, for instance, to chew raw food.

Tooth decay exploded with the introduction of grains. That’s why, if you read historical accounts of the Middle Ages, of the 17th century, 18th century — tooth decay was a huge public health problem. In modern times is not quite the same problem, because we’ve compensated with all these efforts at dental hygiene — toothpaste, etc, dentists.

What if we instead, didn’t become so reliant on dental hygiene alone, and got rid of the food that triggers extravagant tooth decay: grains, the seeds of grasses. So, continue your dental hygiene efforts, but recognize that you’ve taken away this extravagantly effective producer of tooth rot, tooth decay, that is; grains.

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