Defiant Health Radio with Dr. William Davis

Cholesterol testing often confuses many, with doctors focusing on less informative total and LDL values. The podcast highlights that HDL cholesterol and triglycerides offer real insights into metabolic health. Low HDL can signal issues like insulin resistance and inflammation, while triglyceride levels can remain elevated well after eating carbs. Understanding these connections is crucial for heart health. Listeners learn how maintaining triglycerides below 60 mg/dl and recognizing the relationship between triglycerides and HDL can aid in achieving better cardiovascular outcomes.

Discover how diet changes can improve skin health by boosting butyrate levels. Learn about the importance of maintaining acidic skin pH and practical strategies like consuming fermented foods and prebiotic fibers. Explore the benefits of probiotic products for overall wellness and achieving flawless skin.

Prepare yourself for a fascinating exploration into the depths of body fat and its varying health implications. We promise you'll walk away with a new comprehension of fat distribution and how it can impact your life. Not all fat is equal; differences abound between abdominal visceral, ectopic, and subcutaneous fat. We navigate these variations and their unique health implications, shedding light on why abdominal visceral fat can be particularly harmful. What if you could reduce abdominal visceral fat and ectopic fat stores with simple dietary adjustments? And what if these changes could minimize your need for conventional health care? This episode is a treasure trove of vital information around this subject. We delve into the tragic health implications of weight and muscle loss due to calorie reduction and discuss the best ways to maintain a healthier balance. In a deep dive into ectopic fat, we examine how its accumulation in organs can cause severe health complications.Brace yourself for a groundbreaking revelation: the key to controlling your health and appearance lies in the right combination of diet, nutrients, and supplements. We passionately share how a strategic blend of these can help you reduce abdominal visceral fat, subcutaneous fat, and increase lean muscle mass. Join us in our movement of self-empowerment and health to minimize your need for conventional health care. Get ready to revolutionize your understanding of body fat and its profound implications on your health.For BiotiQuest probiotics including Sugar Shift, go here.A 15% discount is available for Defiant Health podcast listeners by entering discount code UNDOC15 (case-sensitive) at checkout.*_________________________________________________________________________________Get your 15% Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, low-carb snack bars and other high-quality organic foods here.* For 12% off every order of grass-fed and pasture-raised meats from Wild Pastures, go here.*Dr. Davis and his staff are financially compensated for promoting BiotiQuest and Paleovalley products.Support the showBooks: 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

Ready to uncover the intriguing connection between Parkinson's disease and the gastrointestinal microbiome? Join us as we explore this fascinating subject with data analytics specialist turned microbiome researcher, Martha Carlin. Martha brings us up to speed on her research endeavors, one of which includes the Bio Collective, a project that collected fecal samples from 1,000 participants, and her venture, BiotiQuest, that developed unique probiotics with collaborative microbial species.Some of you following my Defiant Health podcasts or my DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com website may already be familiar with Martha Carlin. For those of you not yet acquainted, Martha Carlin, formerly a data analytics specialist, turned all of her attentions to the microbiome when her husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. She quickly learned that current medical treatments for this condition do not slow the progression of the disease from increasing disability and dementia; they only reduce some of the phenomena such as tremor or impaired gait. She therefore founded several organizations to better study both Parkinson’s disease and the gastrointestinal microbiome. As we venture deeper, we connect with Martha and Dr Raul Cano, founders of Biotiquest, to understand their innovative probiotic products designed to support various health aspects. Martha shares the results of their recent study, showing a significant shift in the microbiome and drop in serum lipopolysaccharide. In the captivating latter part of our conversation, we investigate the promising potential of probiotics and fasting in Parkinson's disease treatment. Martha and Raul share their patent news and discuss their probiotics' successful use to reduce endotoxemia and target abdominal visceral fat. We also examine the story of a man's remission of Parkinson's disease after a long fast, sparking a discussion on the potential of a 30-day fast experiment. By tuning in, you'll gain a wealth of insights into the evolving field of microbiome research and the impressive impacts of probiotics on our health.Full disclosure: BiotiQuest is a sponsor of this Defiant Health podcast. But the reason I asked Martha and BiotiQuest to be a sponsor is because their interests are aligned With my philosophy and scientific interests: we are both interested in giving people better tools for health, specifically better tools to manage the microbiome. For BiotiQuest probiotics including Sugar Shift, go here.A 15% discount is available for Defiant Health podcast listeners by entering discount code UNDOC15 (case-sensitive) at checkout.*_________________________________________________________________________________Get your 15% Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, low-carb snack bars and other high-quality organic foods here. For 12% off every order of grass-fed and pasture-raised meats from Wild Pastures, go Support the showBooks: 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

Has your dinner ever declared war on your stomach? Imagine if you could decipher the secrets of your gut and take back control. Today, we're embarking on a fascinating journey through the complex world of food intolerances, exploring how changes in our diets and lifestyles may be contributing to this modern malady. From synthetic sweeteners to shifts in our gut microbiome, we'll investigate why this issue, once dismissed as psychological, is now taking center stage in medical conversations.Intolerances to foods has become a widespread problem, with approximately 20% of the population experiencing unpleasant symptoms with consumption of common foods such as eggs, beef, vegetables, even after many decades of consuming them without problems. Food intolerances are a uniquely modern phenomenon—your great grandmother would have no idea what you are talking about if you reported such intolerances. In some cases, food intolerances have reached absurd levels. People who undergo IgG food testing to identify an immune response to foods, for instance, are often given lists of 20, 30, or 40 common foods they cannot consume because they trigger an IgG antibody-driven immune response, an impossibly restrictive lifestyle. Something has therefore changed—but what? Could it be some change in food? Could it be some change in us? Get ready, folks, it's time to take responsibility for our health. In this episode of Defiant Health, let’s try to make sense out of this troublesome modern phenomenon.Get your 15% Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, low-carb snack bars and other high-quality organic foods here. For 12% off every order of grass-fed and pasture-raised meats from Wild Pastures, go here. *Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products. _________________________________________________________________________________For BiotiQuest probiotics, go here.A 15% discount is available for Defiant Health podcast listeners by entering discount code UNDOC15 (case-sensitive) at checkout.**Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting these products. Support the showBooks: 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

Monitoring blood glucose, or blood sugar, can be a useful tool in achieving a number of important health effects. You can apply it to accelerate weight loss, for instance, or accelerate the reversal of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, triglyceride blood levels, fatty liver, slow many of the phenomena of aging, and other effects. And you can achieve this by following what I call the blood glucose “No change rule,” meaning allowing no change in blood sugar from just prior to a meal to 30-60 minutes after the start of the meal. This is, of course, completely contrary to conventional thinking on how to use blood glucose measurement, nearly always used to assess your response to drugs that reduce blood sugar. In other words, people are told by doctors that the usefulness of blood glucose monitoring is to assess whether the drugs you’ve been given to reduce blood glucose are doing the job and controlling blood sugar. But that is NOT what we are talking about here. We are talking about how to put blood glucose monitoring to use to achieve significant health benefits. Revolutionize your health journey as we cast light on the "blood glucose no change rule." Imagine maintaining a stable blood sugar level from just before your meal to thirty minutes after, and the enormous health benefits that could unlock. Experience accelerated weight loss, reversal of type 2 diabetes, and a decline in high blood pressure. We also unravel how a simple blood glucose monitor, a device often sidelined, can become your secret weapon towards achieving your health goals.________________________________________________________________________________Get your 15% Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, low-carb snack bars and other high-quality organic foods here. For 12% off every order of grass-fed and pasture-raised meats from Wild Pastures, go here. *Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products. _________________________________________________________________________________For BiotiQuest probiotics, go here.A 15% discount is available for Defiant Health podcast listeners by entering discount code UNDOC15 (case-sensitive) at checkout.**Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting these products. Support the showBooks: 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

Donna Schwenk, expert in fermenting foods and probiotic microbes, discusses the power of kefir, L. reuteri yogurt, revitalization, and sex. Topics include fermented vegetables for alleviating symptoms of SIBO and Candida, the benefits of L. reuteri yogurt for skin, strength, and sleep, the importance of fermented foods in daily routine, and the positive impact of strength training and L. reuteri on body composition and overall health.

Ever wonder why some people seem to age more gracefully, retaining a youthful glow and vitality while others show the rapid signs of aging and deterioration? It’s happening over and over again: Participants in my program look, act, and feel younger and younger, the longer they engage in all the strategies of my programs. Just the other day, for instance, I had a video conference with a woman who was in good health, but had added the Lactobacillus reuteri yogurt one year ago, the yogurt that we make that restores this important keystone species to your gut microbiome, triggering release of the hormone oxytocin from the brain. The last time I saw her one year ago at age 62, she looked pretty good: vigorous, happy, and appearing several years younger than her chronological age. One year later, she looks like someone in her 30s: smooth moist skin without wrinkles, speaking and moving with the vigor and rapidity of someone much younger. She also reported that she was happier, experiencing better feelings of well-being, and was stronger. There are concrete reasons for why engaging in all the elements of my program reverse or minimize multiple facets of the aging process. It can get a little complicated, so bear with me. It involves a number of important health factors that you simply cannot get from your doctor who prefers to dispense pharmaceuticals and medical procedures and cannot be generally bothered with advising you on how to regain or preserve youthfulness.So, in this episode of Defiant Health, let’s review the strategies that we follow that, in case after case, has restored and maintained youthful appearance and health. _____________________________________________________________________________________Further discussion can be found on my DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com blog. For access to my Inner Circle discussions, including weekly Zoom video discussions: InnerCircle.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.comGet your 15% Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, low-carb snack bars and other high-quality organic foods here. For 12% off every order of grass-fed and pasture-raised meats from Wild Pastures, go here. *Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products. _________________________________________________________________________________For BiotiQuest probiotics, go here.A 15% discount is available for Defiant Health podcast listeners by entering discount code UNDOC15 (case-sensitive) at checkout.**Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting these products. Support the showBooks: 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

Ready for a heart-to-heart talk about the real culprits behind heart disease? Get ready to challenge everything you thought you knew about cholesterol and heart health. Our journey begins with debunking the age-old myth that cholesterol is the primary cause of heart disease—an erroneous belief rooted in misinterpreted studies from the mid-20th century. We're also laying out seven self-manageable measures of heart disease risk that you can address right at home. If you ask your doctor about how to reduce your risk for heart disease, i.e., coronary heart disease and heart attacks that remain the number one killer of Americans, he/she will tell you that reducing saturated fat, eating whole grains, perhaps taking a baby aspirin, and reducing cholesterol with a statin cholesterol drug are the keys. Is this true? Of course it’s not. 88 million Americans take statin cholesterol drugs, for instance, and there has been no measurable reduction in heart disease events. Many people have worked to reduce saturated fat intake and it’s part of the reason why we have record-setting levels of overweight and obesity. In other words, the conventional ideas of reducing risk for heart disease are nothing more than fairy tales based on misinterpretations, misrepresentations, and a desire to maintain the very profitable status quo of procedures for heart disease, the #1 moneymaker for hospitals. Of course, the real tragedy is that the focus on cholesterol, saturated fat, etc. takes everyone’s attention off the real causes of heart disease that are, in truth, identifiable, measurable, and readily correctable. Just don’t ask your doctor to tell you how. So, in this episode of Defiant Health, let’s consider this question and discuss seven measures of heart disease risk that you are able to address on your own. The path to understanding heart disease veers towards an in-depth look at coronary atherosclerosis, often ignored in conventional advice. Brace yourself as we expose how plaque buildup in your arteries, not cholesterol, poses a more accurate risk assessment for heart disease. We end our expedition by revealing the unsung hero in heart disease prevention – lipoprotein analysis. Together, we'll explore how lipid levels impact coronary calcium scores and discover how Vitamin D and fish oil may work to curb this increase. Managing insulin and glucose levels is vital, and we'll explain why. We're also exploring the overlooked roles inflammation and disrupted bowel flora play in heart health. Lastly, we'll offer insights into a diet program teeming with key nutrients that can help achieve optimal heart health. Know your heart better, and let knowledge empower your journey towards a healthier heart.Further discussion can be found on my DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com blog. For access to my Inner Circle discussions, including weekly Zoom video discussions: InnerCircle.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com_____________________________________________Get your 15% Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, low-carb snack bars and other high-quality organic foods here. For $20 off every box Support the showBooks: 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

Prepare to be astonished as we unravel the enigma of diet advice that has left us entangled in numerous contradictions and confusions. We're taking you on a journey, tracing back the pivotal events that have led us to our current state of dietary disarray. In the spotlight are none other than the controversial figures of Dr. Dean Ornish and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, whose well-intentioned but misguided advice has arguably had disastrous health implications. Brace yourselves as we delve into the real-life consequences of their low-fat, vegetarian, no-animal product diets. But the rabbit hole goes deeper. The episode shifts focus to the questionable dietary guidelines released by the US Department of Health and Human Services in 1977. We challenge the widely accepted belief that fat, particularly saturated fat, is the villain behind cardiovascular diseases, which has led to erroneous dietary recommendations. Unmasking the food industry's role in the carbohydrate-centric diet we're accustomed to today, we aim to lay bare the bitter truth. As we wrap up, we explore the seeming paradox of hunter-gatherer populations, who, despite their unconventional diets, evade the modern diseases that plague us today. Join us in this enlightening and potentially life-altering discourse on diet and health.No other species on the planet experiences this uncertainty. A wolf, deer, frog, giraffe or lion knows exactly what it wants to eat without regard to fats or calories. And obesity and our human “diseases of lifestyle” are virtually unknown among these creatures (except for the ones we domesticate and feed fake food).There was a series of events that led us down this path. In this episode of Defiant Health, let’s recount a handful of those events, because it will help you make sense out of diet: what is true, what is false, what is misinterpretation, misrepresentation, or plain blundering or marketing. _________________________________________________________________________Get your 15% Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, low-carb snack bars and other high-quality organic foods here. For 12% off every order of grass-fed and pasture-raised meats from Wild Pastures, go here. *Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products. _________________________________________________________________________________For BiotiQuest probiotics, go here.A 15% discount is available for Defiant Health podcast listeners by entering discount code UNDOC15 (case-sensitive) at checkout.**Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting these products. Support the showBooks: 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