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Defiant Health Radio with Dr. William Davis William Davis, MD
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- Health & Fitness
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4.9 • 54 Ratings
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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
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What's the best way to eradicate SIBO?
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.
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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 StarterYogurt Plus StarterEasy Kefir StarterLR SuperfoodL gasseri SuperfoodPrebio Plus prebiotic fiber mixAnd 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 -
Anti-Aging Yogurt
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
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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.
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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 StarterYogurt Plus StarterEasy Kefir StarterLR SuperfoodL gasseri SuperfoodPrebio Plus prebiotic fiber mixAnd 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
Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox -
Cholesterol: Not what it’s cracked up to be
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.
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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 -
Hyaluronic acid: Dietary missing link
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 -
Why cutting calories is dangerous
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 -
Health begins in the mouth: An interview with functional dentist Debbie Ozment, DDS
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
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Really appreciate the consistent messaging and emphasis of benefits. So helpful for staying on track. Between the podcasts, the books, the website, the FB page, and the webinars, there’s a surplus of info and it’s all very helpful. Thanks, Doc.
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Please keep doing more!
Love each episode and they are so helpful to keep on track! I would love to hear more about Undoctored and what to say when people can’t believe I don’t do useless and dangerous interventions/procedures that healthcare labels “prevention”. Please do an episode on the side effects of statins, colonoscopies, mammograms, etc.
Also, please interview people about cooking ideas, restaurant ordering tips, etc. Just more helpful tips to eat healthy and avoid accidental exposures. Also, love the yogurts! Thank you 😊.
Great podcast!
The last episode Big butt or big gut was so good!! Love the blood test maker recommendations and the simple plan of losing visceral fat. I always love your podcast but this was one I can’t to share with some family and friends. Such good info put simply and actionably