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Defiant Health Radio with Dr. William Davis

William Davis, MD, cardiologist and author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Wheat Belly books, as well as Undoctored and, most recently, Super Gut, brings the unvarnished truth about many health conditions. So much information in health is crafted by industry, bent to the benefit of healthcare systems, delivered by willfully ignorant physicians. Yet a critical mass of truly useful, safe, effective health information has been reached–but someone has to deliver it to you. That is Dr. Davis’ intention. Among the topics the Defiant Health Podcast covers are:–Microbiome health–The key to so many health conditions, as well as preservation of youth and vigor, can be found in the microbiome.–Heart health–You will find no mention of cholesterol or statin drugs here, only hard-hitting, science-based insights.–Thyroid health–Why do endocrinologists and other doctors get thyroid health so wrong? Let’s get it right.–Weight loss–We don’t count calories, don’t push the plate away, or echo other ineffective knuckle headed solutions that have created the most overweight population of humans in history.–How to get rid of type 2 diabetes–it’s painfully easy. –Get on the road to reversing autoimmune diseases–Take steps today to prevent neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s dementia, Parkinsonism, and multiple sclerosis–And many others.For more information on Dr. Davis’ insights and programs, seeWheat Belly books–esp. the Wheat Belly Revised & Expanded Edition, 2019Wheat Belly 30-Minute CookbookWheat Belly 10-Day Grain DetoxUndoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your DoctorWheat Belly Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.comTalk to me through my membership website, the Undoctored Inner Circle:InnerCircle.Undoctored.com

Copyright: © 2022 Defiant Health Radio with Dr. William Davis

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The keys to body shape, muscle, and fat Apr 15, 2023

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

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

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

BioGaia Gastrus tablets
Biogaia Osfortis
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Get your 15% Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars here.
They are currently also offering a 12% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Go here for more information.
*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
_________________________________________________________________________________
For Cutting Edge Cultures starting cultures and probiotics, go here.
A 15% discount is available for Defiant Health podcast listeners by entering discount code DEFIANT (case-insensitive) at checkout.
Take a look at their

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

*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Cutting Edge Cultures and their products.
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More about my programs, blogs, discussion groups, and additional discussions, go to
DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com.

Books:

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

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

Fit, Healthy & Happy Podcast
Welcome to the Fit, Healthy and Happy Podcast hosted by Josh and Kyle from Colossus...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Support the show

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@WilliamDavisMD

Blog: WilliamDavisMD.com

Membership website for two-way Zoom group meetings: InnerCircle.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Books:

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

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

VLDL: The REAL Cause of Heart Disease Mar 30, 2023

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For over 50 years, people in conventional healthcare have urged Americans to reduce their intake of saturated fat, eat more “healthy whole “grains,” and take statin cholesterol drugs to further reduce cholesterol. Has it worked? No, it absolutely has not worked. As I’ve discussed previously, both in my Defiant Health podcast as well as my DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com blog, and of course my books, conventional strategies have little, if any, impact on the incidence of heart disease. And, in some instances, conventional strategies increase risk, especially their dietary advice.
Witness, for example, that more than 80 million Americans now take a statin cholesterol drug, yet the incidence of heart disease has not gone down and hospitals do a very brisk business in heart procedures while the pharmaceutical industry continues to profit by dispensing drugs that hardly achieve anything.
The recent Fourier trial has brought the cholesterol paradigm to its knees by taking it to its extreme. In this very large clinical trial involving over 20,000 participants, every participant was on a statin drug but half were also given the injectable drug Repatha to further reduce LDL cholesterol. So half of participants were on both a statin drug and Repatha injections. Participants receiving statin + Repatha had LDL cholesterol drop from 92 mg/dl to 30 mg/dl, an extremely low value. If the “LDL cholesterol is bad” argument is valid, then reducing it to this extremely low value should yield a significant reduction in heart disease—and it did not. There was a barely measurable 1.5% reduction in cardiovascular events over 2 years and, while the numbers have been a topic of debate, there was a likely increase in overall death in people receiving Repatha—not to mention that the drug costs around $600 per month per person. And, of the 13,000 people on Repatha plus statin with LDL cholesterols of 30, 1300 of them died, had heart attack, stroke, or required a heart procedure over the 2 years—in short, reducing cholesterol, even to extremely low values, does not work.
As I have often said, the real tragedy of focusing on cholesterol is that it takes everyone’s attentions away from the REAL causes of heart disease. Among them: VLDL, or very low-density lipoproteins.

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

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Get your 15% Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars here.
They are currently also offering a 12% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Go here for more information.
*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
_________________________________________________________________________________
For Cutting Edge Cultures starting cultures and probiotics, go here.
A 15% discount is available for Defiant Health podcast listeners by entering discount code DEFIANT (case-insensitive) at checkout.
Take a look at their

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

*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially

Fit, Healthy & Happy Podcast
Welcome to the Fit, Healthy and Happy Podcast hosted by Josh and Kyle from Colossus...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Support the show

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@WilliamDavisMD

Blog: WilliamDavisMD.com

Membership website for two-way Zoom group meetings: InnerCircle.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Books:

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

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

What's the best way to eradicate SIBO? Mar 22, 2023

Show notes

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

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

Herbal antibiotics:
Candibactin AR + Candibactin BR from Metagenics
FC Cidal + Dysbiosis from Biotics Research
SIBO Yogurt microbes:
Lactobacillus gasseri BNR17
Lactobacillus reuteri ATCC 6475
Bacillus coagulans GBI30,6086

Use the same method we follow for making L. reuteri yogurt but ferment at 106 degrees F.
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Get your 15% Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars here.
They are currently also offering a 12% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Go here for more information.
*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
_________________________________________________________________________________
For Cutting Edge Cultures starting cultures and probiotics, go here.
A 15% discount is available for Defiant Health podcast listeners by entering discount code DEFIANT (case-insensitive) at checkout.
Take a look at their

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

*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Cutting Edge Cultures and their products.
__________________________________________________________________________________
More about my programs, blogs, discussion groups, and additional discussions, go to
DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com.

Books:

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

Fit, Healthy & Happy Podcast
Welcome to the Fit, Healthy and Happy Podcast hosted by Josh and Kyle from Colossus...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Support the show

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@WilliamDavisMD

Blog: WilliamDavisMD.com

Membership website for two-way Zoom group meetings: InnerCircle.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Books:

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

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

Anti-Aging Yogurt Mar 14, 2023

Show notes

Many of you are already familiar with my Lactobacillus reuteri yogurt, the yogurt that causes a boost in the release of the hormone oxytocin. Well, I’ve improved on my L. reuteri yogurt for even greater age-reversing effects. So, in this episode of Defiant Health, I show you how to take your youth-restoring effects even further by addressing factors lacking or entirely absent from modern life.
If you are not familiar with these concepts, I urge you to go to my DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com blog or my recent Super Gut book that tells you everything you need to know on how and why restoring this microbe—lost by nearly all modern people—can be a critical factor in maintaining or even restoring youthfulness.
I call it “yogurt” but it’s not really yogurt but just looks and smells like yogurt. Yogurt you buy in the supermarket does NOT provide these effects. Think of our “yogurt” as a microbial amplification system, a way to boost counts of the microbe a thousand-fold and thereby obtain greater biological effects.

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

BioGaia Gastrus tablets
________________________________________________________________________________
Get your 15% Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars here.
They are currently also offering a 12% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Go here for more information.
*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
_________________________________________________________________________________
For Cutting Edge Cultures starting cultures and probiotics, go here.
A 15% discount is available for Defiant Health podcast listeners by entering discount code DEFIANT (case-insensitive) at checkout.
Take a look at their

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

*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Cutting Edge Cultures and their products.
__________________________________________________________________________________
More about my programs, blogs, discussion groups, and additional discussions, go to
DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com.

Books:

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

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded edition
Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Fit, Healthy & Happy Podcast
Welcome to the Fit, Healthy and Happy Podcast hosted by Josh and Kyle from Colossus...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Support the show

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@WilliamDavisMD

Blog: WilliamDavisMD.com

Membership website for two-way Zoom group meetings: InnerCircle.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Books:

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

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

Cholesterol: Not what it’s cracked up to be Mar 04, 2023

Show notes

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

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

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Get your Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars here.
They are currently also offering a 12% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Go here for more information.
*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
_________________________________________________________________________________
For Cutting Edge Cultures starting cultures and probiotics, go here.
A 15% discount is available for Defiant Health podcast listeners by entering discount code DEFIANT (case-insensitive) at checkout.
Take a look at their Culture Veggies Starter, Yogurt Plus Starter, Easy Kefir Starter, LR Superfood, L gasseri Superfood, and their Prebio Plus prebiotic fiber mix.
__________________________________________________________________________________
More about my programs, blogs, discussion groups, and additional discussions, go to
DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com.

Books:

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

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

Fit, Healthy & Happy Podcast
Welcome to the Fit, Healthy and Happy Podcast hosted by Josh and Kyle from Colossus...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Support the show

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@WilliamDavisMD

Blog: WilliamDavisMD.com

Membership website for two-way Zoom group meetings: InnerCircle.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Books:

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

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

Hyaluronic acid: Dietary missing link Feb 22, 2023

Show notes

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

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

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

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Get your Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars here.
They are currently also offering a 12% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Go here for more information.
*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
_______________________________________________________________________________________
More about my programs, blogs, discussion groups, and additional discussions, go to
DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com.

Books:

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

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

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Support the show

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@WilliamDavisMD

Blog: WilliamDavisMD.com

Membership website for two-way Zoom group meetings: InnerCircle.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Books:

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

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

Why cutting calories is dangerous Feb 13, 2023

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

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

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Get your Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars here.
They are currently also offering a 12% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Go here for more information.
*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight:
https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/super-gut/
For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

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

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

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

Support the show

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@WilliamDavisMD

Blog: WilliamDavisMD.com

Membership website for two-way Zoom group meetings: InnerCircle.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Books:

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

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

Health begins in the mouth: An interview with functional dentist Debbie Ozment, DDS Feb 06, 2023

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

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

Dr. Ozment is an advocate of combining oral microbe assessment with gastrointestinal microbe assessment to establish important connections.
More about Dr. Ozment:
TED Talk: The Forgotten Orifice
Vitality Made Simple podcast on Apple Podcasts
Website: DrDebbieOzment.com
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Paleovalley is offering 20% off all products for the entire month of February, 2023!
Get your Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars here.
And, in anticipation of Valentine's Day, they have created
Red Velvet Superfood Bars and Chocolate Bone Broth Protein!
They are currently also offering a 12% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Go here for more information.
*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
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More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight:
https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/super-gut/
For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

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

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

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

This Old Tree
Heritage trees and the human stories behind them.

Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Fit, Healthy & Happy Podcast
Welcome to the Fit, Healthy and Happy Podcast hosted by Josh and Kyle from Colossus...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Support the show

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@WilliamDavisMD

Blog: WilliamDavisMD.com

Membership website for two-way Zoom group meetings: InnerCircle.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Books:

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

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

Is your skin aging faster than it should? Jan 29, 2023

Show notes

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

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

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

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

Dr. Davis is a co-founder and principal in Realize Therapeutics Corp. that sells the Gut to Glow product.
L reuteri yogurt recipe:
https://drdavisinfinitehealth.com/201...
The L reuteri yogurt recipe and many other recipes that you can use to replace lost microbes can be found in my new book, Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight available through Amazon and other book retailers:
https://www.amazon.com/Super-Gut-Four...
BioGaia Gastrus tablets:
https://everidis.com/product/biogaia-...
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More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight:
https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/super-gut/

Fit, Healthy & Happy Podcast
Welcome to the Fit, Healthy and Happy Podcast hosted by Josh and Kyle from Colossus...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Support the show

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@WilliamDavisMD

Blog: WilliamDavisMD.com

Membership website for two-way Zoom group meetings: InnerCircle.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Books:

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

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

Big Butt or Big Gut: Is There a Difference? Jan 24, 2023

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

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

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Get your Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars:
Use the coupon code "Defiant" for an additional 15% discount. Go to this pageon the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order.
They are currently offering a 12% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Go herefor more information.
*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
________________________________________________________________________________________________
More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight:
https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/super-gut/
For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:

Books:

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

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

Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox

This Old Tree
Heritage trees and the human stories behind them.

Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Fit, Healthy & Happy Podcast
Welcome to the Fit, Healthy and Happy Podcast hosted by Josh and Kyle from Colossus...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Support the show

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@WilliamDavisMD

Blog: WilliamDavisMD.com

Membership website for two-way Zoom group meetings: InnerCircle.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com

Books:

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

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

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