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What happens when we remove grains?

When a wheat- and grain-free lifestyle is put to work in real life, the benefits documented in clinical studies can be seen in action with unexpected and dramatic reversal of numerous health conditions.

Clinical studies have shown:

Weight loss
Reduction in overall calorie intake
Drops in blood sugar and hemoglobin A1c (a long-term measure of blood sugar)— many people with diabetes are cured
Reduction of blood pressure
Increased likelihood of remission of rheumatoid arthritis
Reversal of neurological conditions such as cerebellar ataxia, some forms of seizures, and peripheral neuropathy
Reversal of multiple forms of skin rash
Reductions in paranoia and hallucinations in people with schizophrenia
Improved attention span and behavior in children with attention deficit disorder and autistic spectrum disorder
Relief from the bowel urgency and disruption of irritable bowel syndrome

That is just a sample of the evidence that already exists in the scientific and clinical literature.

This is not conjecture or claims based on a few anecdotes. It is based on a rational, scientific examination of the evidence, coupled with the experiences of millions of people who have come to understand the power of this lifestyle change.

Yours in grainless health,

Dr. William Davis

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The next Wheat Belly Detox Challenge starts Wednesday, January 4th!

The next Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox Challenge is scheduled to start Wednesday, January 4th, 2017! – Tweet this!

Through my 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. Now, I have created an easy and accessible 10-Day Detox Program.

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 new addition to the Wheat Belly phenomenon guides you through the complete 10-Day Detox experience.

In addition to the brand-new quick-start program, I’ll teach you

How to recognize and reduce wheat-withdrawal symptoms,

How to avoid common landmines that can sabotage success

How to use nutritional supplements to further advance weight loss and health benefits.

The “Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox” also includes

Inspiring testimonials from people who have completed the program (and have now made grain-free eating a way of life)

Exciting new recipes to help get your entire family on board.

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.

Amazon: http://amzn.to/1JqzMea

Barnes & Noble: http://bit.ly/wheatbelly10daygraindetox-bn

Indiebound: http://bit.ly/1KwcFTQ

Step 2

Come join the Private Facebook Group.

http://bit.ly/WheatBelly-PrivateFBGroup

Step 3

Head back to the Private Facebook Group starting October 25th (the day before the official start of the Challenge) and onwards for tips, videos, and discussions to help you get through your detox and reprogram your body for rapid weight loss and health. Dr. Davis will be posting video instructions and answers to your questions.

Need support? Lapsed and want to get back on board?

Join the thousands of people who are losing weight and regaining health by following the Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox. Join us if you desire support through the sometimes unpleasant process of wheat/grain detoxification and withdrawal or if you are among those who previously followed the program but lapsed, and now want to get back on board as confidently as possible—this Detox Challenge was made for you.

Yours in grainless health,

Dr. William Davis

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Happy Holidays 2016!

Thanks, everyone, for making 2016 yet another rewarding and wonderful year for spreading the Wheat Belly message of health, watching so many people lose the weight they want to lose, transforming their appearance by marvelously reversing inflammation, regaining health in so many ways while positively influencing other people around you. I’ve enjoyed the camraderie, the shared lessons, the fun, and the fabulous successes.

2017 will be even better for each and every one of you as your health improves further and further with this lifestyle and we learn even more lessons on how to look, feel, and perform at our very best.

Happy Holidays to everyone and may 2017 be your best year ever!

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Wheat Belly holiday swaps

Yes, you can have pumpkin pie!

Some people worry that, by following the Wheat Belly lifestyle, they will have to suffer through a holiday dinner of dry turkey meat and lettuce leaves and miss out on all the traditional tasty dishes. But that is simply not true. You can enjoy a glorious, delicious, and healthy Christmas dinner, for instance, while living the Wheat Belly lifestyle. But, in order to preserve your health and not gain, say, 3 pounds from the holiday feasting, there are some easy swaps you can use to replace unhealthy holiday staples with a healthy and Wheat Belly-compatible alternative.

So here is a list of easy swaps to make for ingredients and dishes that will help you navigate this holiday safely while not sacrificing anything in taste. And, as someone who avoids all wheat and grains, you cannot consume any dish containing wheat or grains else re-exposure phenomena will show–diarrhea, bloating, joint pain, anxiety, anger, mind “fog,” return of inflammation and autoimmune conditions, etc.–enough to ruin your holiday. But family and guests who are not wheat- and grain-free can safely eat your wheat/grain-free dishes without any problem whatsoever (except for those with allergies to our replacement ingredients, such as nuts). By following such Wheat Belly swaps, there is therefore no need to prepare, say, a pumpkin pie for the grain-eaters and a pumpkin pie for the non-grain eaters. Just serve the wheat/grain-free version and everyone will be happy.

In addition to the many holiday recipes in the Wheat Belly Cookbook and Wheat Belly 30-Minute Cookbook, here are some ideas for healthy swaps and recipes. On the left find the traditional ingredient or dish; on the right is our Wheat Belly swap:

Gravy thickened with wheat flour or cornstarch———-Gravy thickened with coconut milk/coconut flour, cream/butter, pureed mushrooms, eggplant, zucchini, broccoli, pumpkin, squash. (More on Wheat Belly compatible thickeners, savory and non-savory, can be found here.) Of course, use drippings as your gravy base.

Mashed potatoes———-Mashed steamed cauliflower. Recipe here.

Biscuits and gravy———Biscuits and gravy made with almond flour and safe thickeners. Recipe here.

Cranberry sauce———-Cranberry sauce made with organic cranberries and sweetened with your choice of one of our benign sweeteners

Dressing/stuffing———-Dressing/stuffing without breadcrumbs or bread. Recipe here. (Note that this dressing recipe is not intended to be cooked in the turkey, but made separately.)

Soup—————-Soups without noodles or unhealthy thickeners. Recipe for Cream of Mushroom soup here. Be sure to save your leftover turkey with the bones to make soup/broth afterwards.

Pumpkin pie———Pumpkin pie with a ground pecan crust and no-sugar-added filling. Recipe here.

Cheesecake————Cheesecake made with a nut meal crust and no-added-sugar filling. Recipes for Pumpkin Pie Cheesecake, Double Chocolate Cheesecake, Blueberry Cheesecake Pie.

These Wheat Belly food swaps allow you to have a safe and healthy holiday without weight gain, without the agony of wheat/grain re-exposure, without rises in blood sugar, while participating in the all the good eating and fun.

Happy holidays, everyone!

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Wheat Belly Cruise 2016: A huge success!

Now that the 2016 Wheat Belly Cruise is over, I wanted to recap how it all went for those of you who would like to consider joining us in 2017.

First of all, the food: spectacular! The Wheat Belly Cruise organizer, Paul MacInnis, and I met with executive chef, Victor, as well as several others among the nearly 160 or so culinary staff. While they were incredibly well-versed in gluten-free practices, we had to bring them up to speed on our grain-free, no-added-sugar lifestyle. They were interested and energetic, whipping up almond flour-based chocolate cake and other goodies for us, for instance.

Beyond this, the food ship-wide was wonderful: fresh, delicious, with incredible variety. The staff in the formal dining room accommodated our needs without hesitation, including hosting three Wheat Belly lunches with menus that were created especially for us. Food choices in the buffet were varied and clearly labeled with “gluten-free,” “no sugar added,” “lactose-free,” and “vegetarian” to help navigate the impressive selection. I ate all my breakfasts in the buffet and had no problem finding healthy foods that fit into the Wheat Belly lifestyle.

(Yes: the label should read “corned beef hash.”)

Of the 14 specialty restaurants on ship, I had dinner at Qsine with its unique, playful form of presentation, The Lawn that felt like eating at a golf club, and Murano, an elegant and delicious experience including the best filet mignon I’ve ever tasted. (Below is one of the dishes being prepared table-side.)

Of the ports of call, my favorite was St. Maarten. We toured the coastline by boat, then snorkeled off a small island. The sea was aqua and clear and nearly as warm as bathwater with plenty of fish to view. St. Thomas was also very nice—below is one of its many beautiful beaches.

There was no shortage of choices in bars and alcoholic beverages on the ship. Cellar Masters is an elegant cherry-wood wine bar with dozens of open bottle wine choices (nitrogen-maintained). There are also martini and mixology bars, and lounges with entertainment. My choice of grain-free cocktails was Ciroc (grape) vodka martinis–fabulous! Every night, there was a major entertainment event that included a band that played music from Journey, another from Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, as well as comedians, dancers, and acrobatics.

Of course, Wheat Belly Cruise attendees came for a Wheat Belly experience and not just to live it up in tropical paradise. While at sea, I therefore hosted several workshops that covered everything-you-need-to-know to succeed living the Wheat Belly lifestyle: shopping, purging your kitchen, cooking, baking, reading labels, counting net carbs, navigating probiotics and prebiotic fibers, how to choose nutritional supplements, etc. We hosted cooking demonstrations, such as one given by the chief pastry chef shown below demonstrating how he makes grain-free bread and pizza.

The cruise also provided a chance to meet and interact with people who have already undertaken the Wheat Belly lifestyle with fabulous results that they wanted to share, such as weight loss of 60-130 pounds, reversal of rheumatoid arthritis, type 2 diabetes, and other conditions. Yes, we all had a spectacular time, but the cruise also allowed everyone to leave the cruise with complete confidence that they can maximize their health and weight loss results living the Wheat Belly lifestyle and doing it right!

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The best gift of all

This holiday season we are all in search of the perfect gift. What is the one thing you truly desire for yourself and your family? Don’t you think we all want it? What if you were handed a beautifully wrapped box containing a miraculous tool that caused dramatic weight loss without limiting calories or requiring exercise?

What if this gift reduced appetite, shrunk belly fat, dropped your dress size into the single digits, and accomplished all of this while sparing you from a Biggest Loser sob fest?

What if that same gift freed you from acid reflux, heartburn, bowel urgency, and diarrhea, but also improved mood, increased energy, deepened sleep, and reduced or eliminated joint pain? And all of this makes you look and feel younger and desirable.

What if this gift would make you look & feel younger, desirable, even improved your libido? – Tweet this!

What if this gift also reversed skin conditions such as seborrhea, eczema, psoriasis, acne, dandruff and earned you compliments on the smoothness of your skin? What if chronic sinus congestion, sinus infections, and asthma were brought to a halt and you were freed from the repeated need for antibiotics and inhalers?

What if that same little box contained a gift that, if used every day, reversed serious inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, and ulcerative colitis?

What if this gift could also replace cholesterol drugs, blood pressure drugs, diabetes drugs, anti-inflammatory drugs, antidepressants, and acid reflux drugs while reducing cholesterol values, blood sugars, and inflammation— eliminating your need for dozens of prescription medications, not to mention their unwanted side effects?

And, what if this same mysterious gift not only made you feel better than you have in years, but also had the potential to help you achieve a physical makeover that made you look 10, even 20, years younger without Botox, filler injections, surgery, or without any unwanted health consequences?

Who wouldn’t want to receive such an amazing gift? We’ve all heard the old saying “Without your health you have nothing.”

This gift is the blueprint for a grain-free life enjoyed in good health. – Tweet this!

You can have it and the best part is you can share it as well!

Yours in grainless health,

Dr. William Davis

PS: The Next Wheat Belly 10-Day Detox starts on January 4, 2017.

The complete blueprint for a grain-free life is detailed in the Wheat Belly Total Health and Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox books.

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What If You Had a Priceless Gift?

This holiday season we are all in search of the perfect gift. What is the one thing you truly desire? Don’t you think we all want it? What if you were handed a beautifully wrapped box containing a miraculous tool that caused dramatic weight loss without limiting calories or requiring exercise?

What if this gift reduced appetite, shrunk belly fat, dropped your dress size into the single digits, and accomplished all of this while sparing you from a Biggest Loser sob fest?

What if that same gift freed you from acid reflux, heartburn, bowel urgency, and diarrhea, but also improved mood, increased energy, deepened sleep, and reduced or eliminated joint pain? All of this making you look and feel younger and desirable.

What if this gift would make you look & feel younger, desirable even improved your libido? – Tweet this!

What if this gift also reversed skin conditions such as seborrhea, eczema, psoriasis, acne, dandruff and earned you compliments on the smoothness of your skin? What if chronic sinus congestion, sinus infections, and asthma were brought to a halt and you were freed from the repeated need for antibiotics and inhalers?

What if that same little box contained a gift that, if used every day, reversed serious inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, and ulcerative colitis?

What if this gift could also replace cholesterol drugs, blood pressure drugs, diabetes drugs, anti-inflammatory drugs, antidepressants, and acid reflux drugs while reducing cholesterol values, blood sugars, and inflammation— eliminating your need for dozens of prescription medications, not to mention their unwanted side effects?

And, what if this same mysterious gift not only made you feel better than you have in years, but also had the potential to help you achieve a physical makeover that made you look 10, even 20, years younger without Botox, filler injections, surgery, or without any unwanted health consequences?

Who wouldn’t want to receive such an amazing gift? We’ve all heard the old saying “Without your health you have nothing.”

This gift is the blueprint for a grain-free life enjoyed in good health. – Tweet this!

You can have it and the best part is you can share it as well!

Yours in grainless health,

Dr. William Davis

PS: The Next Wheat Belly 10-Day Detox starts on January 4 2017.

blueprint for a grain-free

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How about a Glass of Wine?

Having a glass or two of wine, brandy, or a cocktail is perfectly in line with the grain-free lifestyle, but you must be selective. The price of a poor choice can be reigniting an autoimmune condition, provoking high blood sugar, triggering an inappropriate emotional outburst that ruins your evening, or regaining those undesired pounds. The reward for choosing wisely can be a wonderful time spent with friends without such problems. Do recognize that any amount of wine, cocktails, or beer can stall weight loss. 

Navigating alcoholic beverages can be hazardous, as many are brewed from grains.

Wine is the safest choice in alcoholic beverages by a wide margin. – Tweet this!

Wine is as close to a perfect wheat, grain, and gluten-free beverage as it gets, regardless of varietal or vintage. If you consider the probable health effects that can be derived from light wine drinking (no more than two 4-ounce glasses per day), wine is proving to be both pleasurable and healthy.

The clear majority of wines are made without exposure to anything wheat, grain, or gluten. There is one rare exception: Because of a push to get away from animal-derived clarifying agents, such as gelatin derived from cows (due to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease), winemakers have sought non-animal sources of clarifying agents. Clarifying agents are used to make wines clearer and more appealing to the consumer. Clarification removes residual grape skin, seeds, or stem debris; dead yeast cells; and various proteins. Among the most popular clarifying agent choices are bentonite, potassium sorbate, and sodium benzoate. However, some winemakers have lately turned to gluten or deamidated gluten for wine clarification. Thankfully, this remains an uncommon practice. I believe it will become less common as an increasingly number of us raise a stink about grain/gluten exposure in ANY food.

Here is one such study.

Obviously, if you consume a rare rogue wine that provokes a gluten response, don’t drink it again; be sure to tell the winemaker about it. Also, be sure tell us about it on the Wheat Belly Blog or the Official Wheat Belly Facebook page.

The overwhelming majority of wines are wheat, grain, and gluten-free safe choices for alcoholic beverages. Whether you choose a chardonnay, pinot grigio, viognier, vinho verde, merlot, cabernet sauvignon, garnacha, malbec, rioja . . . or any of the other wines produced from other varietals and blends you can do so knowing you are safe. More so than any other class of alcoholic beverage, wines are therefore our first choice.

Enjoy your holiday toast with family and friends with a glass of wine! – Tweet this!

Yours in grainless health,

Dr. William Davis

 

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How to eliminate this uncomfortable, embarrassing problem.

Our ancestors who lived without grains, sugars, and soft drinks enjoy predictable bowel behavior. They ate some turtle, fish, clams, mushrooms, coconut, or mongongo nuts for breakfast, and out it all came that afternoon or evening—large, steamy, filled with undigested remains and prolific quantities of bacteria, no straining, laxatives, or stack of magazines required.

If instead you are living a modern life and have pancakes with maple syrup for breakfast and you’ll be lucky to pass that out by tomorrow or the next day. Perhaps, you will be constipated, not passing out your pancakes and syrup for days, passing it incompletely in hard, painful bits and pieces. In constipation’s most extreme forms, the remains of pancakes can stay in your colon for weeks.

Bran is not the answer to eliminate this embarrassing problem. – Tweet this!

We have been given advice to consume more fiber. So, we eat bran cereal/muffins, whole grain breads or drink powdered fiber supplements. Most of these grain-based foods contain insoluble cellulose (wood) fibers. This does work for some, as indigestible cellulose fibers, undigested by our own digestive apparatus as well as undigested by bowel flora, yields “bulk” that people mistake for a healthy bowel movement. Never mind that all the other disruptions of digestion, from your mouth on down, are not addressed by loading up your diet with wood fibers. What if sluggish bowel movements prove unresponsive to such fibers? That’s when health care comes to the rescue with laxatives.

Drugs are not the answer to eliminate this uncomfortable problem. – Tweet this!

Laxatives are prescribed in a variety of forms, some irritative (phenolphthalein and senna), some lubricating (dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate), some osmotic (polyethylene glycol), some no different than spraying you down with a hose (enemas).

Opiate drugs such as Oxycontin and morphine are commonly constipating. There’s even a new drug being widely advertised to “treat” the constipation side-effect of opiates: Relistor, or methylnaltrexone, an opiate-blocker that requires injection and costs around $700 per month. Those of you who have read Wheat Belly Total Health recall that the gliadin protein of wheat and related proteins in other grains (e.g., secalin in rye) are partially digested to peptides that have opiate (“opioid”) properties, including binding to the opiate receptors in the human intestine. Wheat and grains therefore contain a disrupter of intestinal motility.

Simply remove wheat and grains and constipation, even obstipation (severe, unrelenting constipation with bowel movements occurring every several weeks), can be relieved within days. This works because you have just removed the opiates that slow the intestinal passage of food. You will have removed a source of cellulose fiber, as well as the modest content of prebiotic fibers from grains, namely amylose and arabinoxylan, but these are easily replaced.

 

 

 

This is the Wheat Belly approach to eliminating constipation. – Tweet this!

Eliminate all wheat and grains–thereby eliminating gliadin-derived opiates.
Cultivate the garden called bowel flora –by “seeding” with a high-potency probiotic, followed by “water and fertilizer” to nourish desired species with prebiotic fibers
Hydrate well. 
Supplement with magnesium . Virtually everyone begins with a magnesium deficiency . A magnesium deficiency adds to disrupted intestinal motility, could be reversed by supplementing magnesium. However, the degree of stool loosening varies among the different preparations due to their variations in osmotic (water-imbibing) effects. Magnesium water and magnesium malate are among our preferred forms, as they are least likely to generate loose stools while softly helping with regularity. Magnesium citrate can be used if you do indeed need a bit more stool softening and regularity (which can be due to delayed recovery of intestinal motility after removing wheat and grains).
Supplement with fiber. This is not necessary for most people living the Wheat Belly lifestyle. Just by adhering to the simple Wheat Belly strategies of consuming nuts; seeds such as pumpkin, sesame, chia, flaxseed, and sunflower; eating plenty of vegetable with limited servings of fruit and legumes like chickpeas, you obtain plentiful quantities of cellulose and other fibers. Additional flaxseed, chia, or psyllium are among the best choices.

You can see that the Wheat Belly approach does not rely on artificial means of reversing constipation to restore normal gut motility. It does not load up on unnatural quantities of cellulose fiber, as you would by eating bran cereals and muffins, nor does it rely on intestinal irritants, softening agents, or opiate-blocking drugs.

Doesn’t that make better sense?

Living Grain-Free is the answer to eliminate this embarrassing & uncomfortable problem. – Tweet this!

Yours in grainless health,

Dr. William Davis

 

 

 

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Fat Blasters: Ketosis’ best friend

After elimination of virtually all dietary carbohydrates/sugars, the key to achieving physiologic ketosis is to maintain high fat intake. Not increased protein intake that can, in fact, “turn off” ketosis, since liberal protein intake modestly increases blood insulin and sugar levels, thereby undoing the process that generates ketosis. The key is to increase fat intake and thereby feel satiated and turn off all desire for carbs while not provoking insulin release. If accelerated weight loss or breaking a weight loss plateau is among your goals, increased fat intake—counterintuitively—encourages mobilization of fat from body stores, since insulin levels are extremely low (near-zero) while you are in ketosis. Beyond weight loss, physiologic ketosis enhances mental clarity, accelerates reversal of metabolic syndrome/insulin resistance/type 2 diabetes/fatty liver/hypertriglyceridemia/hypertension and, if anecdotal reports and experimental animal models continue to be validated, reduce/reverse several forms of cancer.

It means eating fatty meats, never lean; not trimming the fat off meat but eating it; liberal use of healthy cooking oils such as coconut, olive, lard, tallow, oils saved from cooking bacon. It also means that, if you include selected dairy products in your diet, using liberal quantities of organic butter, ghee, and full-fat yogurt and cheese. It can also mean relying on Wheat Belly Fat Blasters as a naturally-sweetened, high-fat treat that helps sustain your ketosis effort, such as these Raspberry Cheesecake Fat Blasters.

Raspberry Cheesecake Fat Blasters Recipe

You’ll think you’ve died and gone to heaven with these little morsels of cheesecake. You can easily substitute any berry, such as strawberries or blueberries, for raspberries.

8 ounces organic cream cheese, at room temperature
3/4 cup coconut oil, melted
1/2 cup raspberries
Sweetener equivalent to 1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Place paper liners in 20 cups of a mini muffin pan.

In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, blend the cream cheese, coconut oil, raspberries, sweetener, and vanilla until thoroughly combined.

Evenly divide the mixture among the lined cups and refrigerate for at least 1 hour before eating, or place in the freezer for 30 minutes.

Store in the refrigerator.

Per serving: 114 calories, 1 g protein, 1 g carbohydrates, 12 g total fat, 9 g saturated fat, 0 g fiber, 16 mg sodium

(More Wheat Belly Fat Blaster recipes can be found in the Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox book and Wheat Belly 30-Minute Cookbook.)

You can stack the odds in your favor even further by monitoring blood ketones using an Abbott FreeStyle blood glucose/ketone device and ketone fingerstick test strips. Aim for randomly-obtained ketone levels of 1-3 mmol/L. (Ignore the cautions about ketosis aimed at people with type 1 diabetes for whom high ketone levels, or ketoacidosis, is a dangerous condition that develops when there is no insulin being produced under any condition and ketosis proceeds without normal physiologic regulation—not a situation that applies outside of type 1 diabetes.)

There is a downside to ketosis, although it’s not what conventional critics claim (the brain will starve without carbs, you can’t function or exert yourself without carbs, ketosis causes dehydration, etc., none of which is true). The downside is that all prebiotic fibers that nourish bowel flora come from carbohydrate-containing foods such as potatoes, bananas, onions, and beans. Cut yours carbs to near-zero and you will starve bowel flora that leads to distortions of bowel flora species, i.e., dysbiosis, that, in turn, leads to insulin resistance, higher blood sugars, higher triglycerides, higher blood pressure, higher cholesterol values, disrupted sleep, anxiety, depression, abdominal discomfort, bloating, constipation, increased risk for colorectal cancer, and disruptions of the mucous lining and permeability of the intestinal tract and thereby increased potential for autoimmune conditions. If efforts are not made to nourish bowel flora, a low-carb ketotic effort will—not may, but will—result in dysbiosis and its unwanted consequences.

So slash carbs (no grains, of course, and no sugars), load up on fat, boost fat intake with delicious Fat Blasters, but supply your precious bowel flora with the prebiotic fibers they require to support your health.

 

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