Defiant Health Radio with Dr. William Davis

Dietary guidelines advise us that a diet low in fat and rich in “healthy whole grains” helps maintain healthy weight. Is this true? It absolutely is NOT true. This belief is based on flawed evidence, questionnaires, for instance, that asked people questions about their diet. What did you eat for breakfast on Monday? You scratch your head and search your memory. You say something like “I had a bowl of stone-ground oatmeal in skim milk with some sliced strawberries.” What did you have for lunch? You say “I think that was the day i ordered out for lunch and got a submarine sandwich with cold cuts and cheese.” What did you eat for dinner, and so on. They query you about the foods you consumed over several days. Several years pass and they re-contact you and ask whether anything has changed in your health diagnosed, perhaps, with hypertension, or coronary heart disease, or colon cancer. They then try to correlate the development of these conditions with your diet from 5 or 10 years earlier. As you can imagine, this is a deeply flawed way to study the health effects of diet. In one real study, for instance, females who chose more whole grains gained 10 pounds over several years, while females who chose more white flour products gained 12 pounds. Interpretation: whole grains help control weight. I hope you see the fallacy in logic here. A better interpretation would be that white flour products are associated with weight gain, while whole grain products are associated with weight gain, also, but just a little less than white flour products. Yet evidence like this is held up as proof that whole grains help control weight. This is called observational evidence that is weak and commonly yields false associations. After all, your recall for the contents of your meals is sketchy and often incomplete, diet changes over the years, often substantially. Trying to associate the development of disease with the diet followed several years ago is, consequently, nearly useless. So let’s not talk about how whole grains help manage weight, but how ALL foods containing wheat products make you fat. _______________________________________________________________________________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 probSupport the showYouTube 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

It’s happening with alarming frequency: Someone has routine blood work done and an increase in liver markers, AST, ALT, and sometimes GGT, are noted. The doctor sometimes then orders a liver ultrasound, CT, or MRI and infiltration of the liver with fat is identified, the situation called fatty liver. If caught in later stages, fibrous tissue can be seen replacing normal liver tissue, meaning that someone is progressing to cirrhosis, a very bad condition. Add fatty liver to the widespread epidemics of overweight, obesity, and type 2 diabetes. People with these conditions are also the ones who typically also have fatty liver. In other words, fatty liver is, in the majority of cases just another facet of obesity and type 2 diabetes. The risk is that fat infiltration of the liver can progress to more serious liver diseases such as cirrhosis and liver cancer. Fatty liver is a situation that applies to about 30-50% of the U.S. population, even higher in some groups of people. 90% of people undergoing bariatric procedures to lose weight, for example, have fatty liver.  Most doctors will then tell you that there is nothing you can do about this situation. Perhaps lose a few pounds, that might help. But he/she tells you that they will monitor liver tests as you progress to cirrhosis and liver failure, then prepare you for a liver transplant. These is awful advice. Cirrhosis is a very serious and often fatal condition with extremely messy complications such as esophageal varices, i.e., varicose veins in the esophagus that rupture, causing profound hemorrhage. It causes jaundice and accumulation of ascites, or fluid in the abdomen, causing grotesque enlargment of the abdomen. And liver transplant is a terrible procedure that only adds a few years to your life if it is successful. The truth, however, is that most people can reverse fatty liver on their own within a few weeks without drugs, without procedures, without surgery. So let’s talk about that. SIBO Yogurt recipe________________________________________________________________________________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 Support the showYouTube 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

You’ve likely heard the headlines: the new class of GLP-1 agonist drugs with silly names such as Wegovy, Ozempic, Saxenda, Rybelsus, and Mounjaro are flying off the shelves so fast that pharmacies are running out. Originally intended to reduce blood glucose in people with type 2 diabetes, it was observed that people taking these drugs lost weight, sometimes a substantial quantity. Human clinical trials have since corroborated these weight loss effects. If you have been following this and other conversations, you already know that pharmaceuticals almost never come without a price, i.e., side-effects, unintended effects, as well as costs. So are taking these drugs for weight loss worth the cost? Are they safe? And do they yield weight loss that lasts? Let’s talk about these issues, but especially the long-term health price people will pay by relying on these drugs for weight loss. How to make L reuteri yogurt: A step-by-step guideBioGaia Gastrus tablets________________________________________________________________________________Get your 15% Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars here.  Enter discount code DEFIANT (case-insensitive) at checkout.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 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. __________________________________________________________________________________More about my programs, blogs, discussion groups, and additional discussions, go to DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com. Books:Support the showYouTube 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

Ask most doctors, “Can arthritis be prevented or reversed?” Most will say no, or say that it’s genetic and therefore unstoppable. The better informed will say “Lose 10 pounds.” But that’s about as far as it goes and they tell you that, when the pain starts, take ibuprofen or naproxen, submit to steroid or hyaluronic acid injections, then undergo joint replacement surgery. Prevent the disease in the first place? No way. But there are indeed strategies that are natural, available, and effective that can prevent or reverse arthritis, provided you have not progressed to the most advanced “bone on bone” stage in which all the cartilage has been eroded and gone. When I say “arthritis,” I am referring to the most common and prevalent form, osteoarthritis. This discussion does not therefore include forms of arthritis such as rheumatoid arthritis or psoriatic arthritis. Those less common forms are indeed important, but require a separate and distinct conversation and are, by the way, also reversible. Let’s now however focus on this most common form, osteoarthritis. For years, osteoarthritis, especially of the knees and hips, was viewed as nothing more than wear-and-tear, the end-result of years of use. But that is not true. There are numerous metabolic and physiologic phenomena that may be as important, likely MORE important than simple wear and tear. So let’s explore these questions to show you that, yes, osteoarthritis can be prevented and can be reversed._______________________________________________________________________________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 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. ___________________________________________________________________Support the showYouTube 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

Do you have the sense that people are acting more selfishly, less considerately, less empathetically, less affectionately as time passes? How often can we blame incidents such as someone cutting you off in traffic, or the break up of a relationship, or the abandonment or neglect of children on narcissistic tendencies? Narcissistic behavior has been around for as long as humans have walked this planet. But, remarkably, psychologists have been charting the prevalence of narcissistic behavior since the 1960s using instruments or questionnaires such as The Narcissistic Personality Inventory, or NPI, or the Pathological Narcissism Inventory, or PNI. They have documented an astounding rise in narcissistic behavioral traits over the past half-century. The chart chronicling NPI scores, for instance, shows a steady upward climb at a 45-degree angle over the last 40 years. People responding positively when asked whether they felt that “I am an important person” increased from 12% in 1960 to over 80% in our time.  Perhaps you have a co-worker, friend, or even family member who exhibits narcissistic behavior that has caused problems for you. Given its widespread occurrence, most of us have experienced one or perhaps many encounters with narcissists. In this episode of Defiant health, let’s discuss why narcissistic behavior might be on the rise and ask whether there is something you can do about it. How to make L reuteri yogurt: A step-by-step guideBioGaia Gastrus tabletsBiogaia Osfortis________________________________________________________________________________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 StarterYogurt Plus StarterEasy Kefir StarterSupport the showYouTube 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

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 guideBioGaia Gastrus tabletsBiogaia Osfortis________________________________________________________________________________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 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. _______________________Support the showYouTube 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

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. ____________________________________________________________________________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-finiSupport the showYouTube 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

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 MetagenicsFC Cidal + Dysbiosis from Biotics ResearchSIBO Yogurt microbes:Lactobacillus gasseri BNR17Lactobacillus reuteri ATCC 6475Bacillus coagulans GBI30,6086Use the same method we follow for making L. reuteri yogurt but ferment at 106 degrees F. _____________________________________________________________________________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 StarterYogurt PSupport the showYouTube 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

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 guideBioGaia 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 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. __________________________________________________________________________________More about my programs, blogs, discussion groups, and additionaSupport the showYouTube 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

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. ________________________________________________________________________________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 Support the showYouTube 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