Defiant Health Radio with Dr. William Davis (William Davis, MD)

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	05 Feb 2022	Make Saccharomyces boulardii Sparkling Cider Probiotic	00:18:47
Saccharomyces boulardii is a probiotic fungus, a relative of Saccharomyces cerevisiae used to ferment wine and beer, but better adapted to living in the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Although it does not take up long-term residence, its passage through the GI tract has been associated with substantial health benefits. Making a sparkling cider with this microbial species is an easy way to increase the number of microbes you can obtain while enjoying this delicious effervescent drink. It also saves you money, as future batches can be made from previous batches. Florastor is our preferred source of the Saccharomyces boulardii CNDM I-745 strain, available at most major pharmacies and department stores, as well as online sources. If these sorts of unique methods to rebuild a damaged microbiome interest you, then take a look at my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight, available through all major book retailers. For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs: Books: My new book released Feb 1st, 2022: 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/ Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/ Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis): InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory! Support the show 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
	15 Feb 2022	"I have SIBO--So What's Next?"	00:16:43
If you suspect that you have small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, SIBO, have "telltale signs" of SIBO such as fat malabsorption or restless leg syndrome, or have tested positive for breath hydrogen gas, then what should your next steps be? Let's consider your options so that you can choose the option that is best for you. Xifaxin (rifaximin) Candibactin AR/BR FC Cidal with Dysbiocide "SIBO Yogurt" Lactobacillus gasseri Lactobacillus reuteri Bacillus coagulans For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs: Books: My new book is 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/ Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/ Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis): InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory! Support the show 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
	25 Feb 2022	I read an excerpt from my new book, Super Gut: Chapter 5	00:31:10
Here I read an excerpt from my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Program to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight, specifically chapter 5, Mind Your Mucus. Before we get to the business of restoring lost microbes and pushing back unwanted species from the upper GI tract, we can also take action to strengthen the mucus barrier. Some strategies I advocate can bring relief from issues like abdominal discomfort and bloating within minutes to hours of adopting. I discuss: What role mucus plays in gastrointestinal health Why the fragile single-layer mucus barrier of the small bowel is ill-suited to blocking microbes normally present in the colon and stool How and why foods like the eugenol of cloves and catechins of green tea can be used to thicken and fortify the mucus barrier Find Super Gut in these bookstores: Barnes & Noble Amazon Books a Million For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs: Books: My new book is 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/ Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/ Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis): InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory! Support the show 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
	04 Mar 2022	Five Events That Transformed My Views on Health	00:40:15
Over the past 30 years, I have made a number of blunders in health. But I always made it a point to learn from my mistakes. Doing so taught me a number of important lessons in health and nutrition, lessons that revealed just how little conventional ideas on health yielded and how doing things very differently yields enormous health advantages. In this episode of Defiant Health, I therefore recount: How cutting dietary fat and eating plenty of "healthy whole grains" leads to metabolic disasters How the death of my mother from sudden cardiac death showed me how inadequate heart procedures are for dealing with coronary heart disease How rejecting cholesterol and resorting to more advanced lipoprotein testing illustrated how not cutting fat and banishing all grains and sugars yielded huge advantages and led to methods to reduce coronary calcium scores Despite the enormous advantages of the Wheat Belly grain-free lifestyle, there were people who had residual health issues such as stalled weight loss, food intolerances, or autoimmune conditions that finally responded to more vigorous efforts to rebuild a healthy microbiome How identifying, then replacing, microbes lost from the modern human microbiome yields extraordinary benefits such as deeper sleep, restoration of youthful muscle, smoother skin with fewer wrinkles, and preservation of bone density. And why and how following these strategies, drawn from lessons learned by making huge blunders in health, yields a level of health that is superior to the "health" the doctor provides. BioGaia Gastrus tablets are the source for Lactobacillus reuteri: https://everidis.com/product/biogaia-gastrus/ (From the North American distributor) My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions. Find Super Gut in these bookstores: Barnes & Noble Amazon Books a Million For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs: Books: My new book is 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com Dr. Davis' Infinite Health F Support the show 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
	08 Mar 2022	Depression and the Gut-Brain Axis	00:18:24
Conventional "solutions" for depression are largely inadequate: often ineffective, with side-effects that include weight gain, sexual dysfunction, and suicide. Evidence is increasingly pointing towards the intestinal microbiome as a source for depressive symptoms. This tells us that prescription drugs such as the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, that only address a step in the pathway of serotonin metabolism, do not address the underlying cause of many, if not most, cases of depression: disruption of the intestinal microbiome. Species such as Turicibacter sanguinis are proving to be crucial players in mood, while bacterial and fungal overgrowth, SIBO and SIFO, can also be common contributors to depression. The bad news: these disruptions of the intestinal microbiome are common and widespread. The good news: there are steps you can take to remedy the situation and thereby potentially have marked effects on mood and depression. AIRE device from FoodMarble: https://foodmarble.com BioGaia Gastrus tablets are the source for Lactobacillus reuteri: https://everidis.com/product/biogaia-gastrus/ (From the North American distributor) My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions. Find Super Gut in these bookstores: Barnes & Noble Amazon Books a Million For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs: Books: My new book is 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/ Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/ Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis): InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com YouTube Channel: https://www.youtub Support the show 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
	20 Mar 2022	SIBO Yogurt	00:25:40
Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, or SIBO, in which unhealthy bacterial species have proliferated and ascended up the 24-feet of small intestine, is now epidemic, an epidemic that underlies common health struggles that include weight gain, obesity, pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes, autoimmune diseases, irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, and numerous other health conditions. Solutions for SIBO typically involve antibiotics, despite being a condition that was likely caused, or at least worsened, by antibiotics in the first place. But I believe that we may have a solution that involves cultivating specific microbial species as a yogurt, something I call "SIBO Yogurt" that provides microbes with specific characteristics that may reduce or eradicate SIBO. AIRE device from FoodMarble: https://foodmarble.com For the full instructions on how to use the AIRE device for detection of SIBO, the herbal antibiotic regimen we use, and the recipe on SIBO Yogurt, see the Super Gut book: My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions. Find Super Gut in these bookstores: Barnes & Noble Amazon Books a Million 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/ Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/ Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis): InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory! Support the show 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
	25 Mar 2022	Vitamin D: Get It Right For Full Benefit	00:33:29
It's a basic requirement of life and health: vitamin D. Even after I and others have been broadcasting this message for over 10 years, many still ignore it, remain skeptical, or simply don't get it right. And, sadly, you cannot rely on your doctor to get it right, as they often say things like "You can get all the vitamin D you need from diet, or "Just get some sun," or "There's no need for vitamin D"--all of which is tragically wrong. But getting it right yields SO many health benefits. So it is important for YOU to know when vitamin D is just right and enjoy all its spectacular health benefits. My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions. Find Super Gut in these bookstores: Barnes & Noble Amazon Books a Million 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/ Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/ Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis): InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory! Support the show 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
	30 Mar 2022	The Birth of Wheat Belly	00:46:06
How did a cardiologist aborting heart attacks, putting in stents, and performing other heart procedures end up talking about the destructive effects of wheat? It was far from a straight line but a series of blunders and inadvertent discoveries that led me down this path. But it was a path that showed me how powerful going against conventional advice could be that led to spectacular weight loss in people, putting many people with type 2 diabetes into remission, reducing blood pressure, and reversing numerous other common chronic health conditions. To read further about the rationale, science, and practice of wheat/grain-free living, see my Wheat Belly: Revised & Expanded Edition. My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions. Find Super Gut in these bookstores: Barnes & Noble Amazon Books a Million For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs: Books: My new book is 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/ Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/ Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis): InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory! Support the show 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
	03 Apr 2022	The Intestinal Microbiome and Sleep	00:26:21
The intestinal microbiome, i.e., the collection of microbes in your gastrointestinal tract, are proving to be major players in the length, quality, and content of your sleep. The intestinal microbiome can make the difference between deep, restful, dream-filled sleep, to superficial, disrupted, dreamless sleep, and all the emotional and health consequences that accompany these crucial differences. You can take steps, including cultivation of specific microbial species, to regain wonderful, restful, dream-filled sleep by taking control over your microbiome, including cultivation of specific species that exert effects over sleep. L reuteri Sourced initially as BioGaia Gastrus tablets. You can find it on Amazon or from their North American distributor, Everidis. L casei Shirota Sourced from the commercial product Yakult, available from most big box stores (in the dairy refrigerator). www.yakultusa.com Bifidobacterium longum 1714 Lactobacillus plantarum PS128 Lactobacillus fermentum ME-3 My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions. Find Super Gut in these bookstores: Barnes & Noble Amazon Books a Million For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs: Books: My new book is 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/ Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/ Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis): InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your Support the show 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
	13 Apr 2022	Making Sense Out of Thyroid Health	00:23:38
Although I and others have discussed thyroid health issues many times over the years, I still see people struggling to understand how to best manage this important area of health. And getting thyroid right to optimal levels is really fairly straightforward, except that many doctors remain uninformed or disinterested in helping you achieve ideal thyroid status. Among the issues I address: How to recognize symptoms of thyroid dysfunction, especially hypothyroidism How to use oral temperature as a screening tool for thyroid disease What blood tests you need to insist on for a full thyroid assessment How to manage iodine Why so many people taking levothyroxine remain hypothyroid The role of the microbiome in thyroid health Why addressing the T3 thyroid hormone is our workaround for an inability to fully avoid industrial chemicals My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions. Find Super Gut in these bookstores: Barnes & Noble Amazon Books a Million For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs: Books: My new book is 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/ Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/ Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis): InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory! Support the show 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
	20 Apr 2022	Become a Microbiome Citizen Scientist	00:25:55
The tools and insights into the human microbiome are exploding and everyday people--non-scientists, non-microbiologists--are able to generate new experiences and learn new lessons that provide important advantages in health. We, as microbiome citizen scientists, are learning new lessons virtually every day: how to increase energy, smooth skin wrinkles, reduce arthritis pain and perhaps even slow or reverse joint arthritis, improve mood, deepen sleep, all by managing our microbiomes. For example, we have discovered that microbes fermented to high counts generate deep sleep, a phenomenon not previously described in experimental clinical trials. Join the movement and become a microbiome citizen scientist and empower yourself in health. Mentioned in the podcast: "SIBO Yogurt" contains Lactobacillus gasseri, Lactobacillus reuteri, and Bacillus coagulans. Full details (strains, how to source, fermentation methods) can be found in my Super Gut book as well as the DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com Inner Circle membership website. BiotiQuest Sugar Shift AIRE device for breath H2 and methane My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions. Find Super Gut in these bookstores: Barnes & Noble Amazon Books a Million For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs: Books: My new book is 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/ Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/ Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis): InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com YouTube Channel: Support the show 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
	03 May 2022	The Oxytocin Project	00:18:51
Lactobacillus reuteri is one of the most important bacterial species in the human microbiome. Yet it has been lost by the majority of Americans due to this microbe's susceptibility to common antibiotics like amoxicillin and ampicillin. One of the terrific benefits of L. reuteri is its ability to provoke release of the hormone, oxytocin, from the brain. Until recently, there was no user-friendly way to boost oxytocin. It cannot be ingested orally because the digestive process breaks it down. It can be injected but lasts only about 3 minutes. It can be administered via nasal inhaler but requires 3 squirts four times per day in each nostril, with each dose lasting only 60-90 minutes. We now know that restoring this lost microbe, L reuteri, is key: restore it and you create a source of endogenous oxytocin. Oxytocin is the hormone of love and empathy. It causes you to engage with other people, take an interest in them, understand their points of view better--can you appreciate how important this hormone can be for human social interaction? Spread the word: you can restore L reuteri and thereby oxytocin and perhaps make the world a little better place. One source of L. reuteri is the BioGaia Gastrus product available on Amazon or through the U.S. distributor, Everidis: everidis.com I shall be reporting on the results of our animal study comparing different strains of L. reuteri, meaning that we will know which strain is most effective for this phenomenon. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions. Find Super Gut in these bookstores: Barnes & Noble Amazon Books a Million For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs: Books: My new book is 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.fac Support the show 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
	12 May 2022	What should blood sugar be after a meal?	00:17:11
Tracking finger stick blood glucoses can be an extremely powerful tool for health--if used properly. Unfortunately, most conventional doctors have no idea how to do this and instead advise you that blood sugars of up to 200 mg/dl are acceptable. This is absolutely and completely wrong. Tracking blood sugars prior to a meal, then 30-60 minutes after a meal, to identify peak blood glucose provides insights into diet and health that can even be used by someone with type 2 diabetes to become non-diabetic, to facilitate weight loss, and even to address risk for heart disease. We do so by following my "No Change Rule" for blood glucose. 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 page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order: https://paleovalley.com/offers/grass-fed-beef-sticks-bk-lt-promo/defiant?uid=123&oid=2&affid=733 My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions. Find Super Gut in these bookstores: Barnes & Noble Amazon Books a Million For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs: Books: My new book is 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/ Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/ Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis): InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory! Support the show 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
	18 May 2022	Unexpected Ways to Boost Your Immune Response	00:20:47
Here are a number of strategies that you can adopt on your own to substantially improve your immune response and thereby maximize protection against viral and bacterial infections, while also improving other aspects of the immune response that could otherwise lead to autoimmune disease and even cancers. I therefore provide actionable steps you can take to boost the immune response, methods that most doctors are unaware of but allow you to achieve a level of health that is superior to that obtained through a doctor's office. 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 page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order: https://paleovalley.com/offers/grass-fed-beef-sticks-bk-lt-promo/defiant?uid=123&oid=2&affid=733 One source of L. reuteri is the BioGaia Gastrus product available on Amazon or through the U.S. distributor, Everidis: everidis.com Store locator for Yakult, the source for Lactobacillus casei Shirota: https://www.yakultusa.com/store-locator/ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions. Find Super Gut in these bookstores: Barnes & Noble Amazon Books a Million For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs: Books: My new book is 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/ Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/ Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis): InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com Support the show 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
	24 May 2022	Little Known Benefits of Omega-3 Fatty Acids	00:19:55
If you've been following my programs, you are likely already supplementing around 3000-3600 mg per day of EPA+DHA for heart health benefits, as well as reduced potential for Alzheimer's dementia and to reduce triglycerides. But did you know that there are important benefits of omega-3 fatty acids for pregnancy, lactation, early neurodevelopment, and for reducing endotoxemia? Omega-3 fatty acids are a good example of something that is essential, as they play crucial roles in many aspects of human health and development. 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 page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order: https://paleovalley.com/offers/grass-fed-beef-sticks-bk-lt-promo/defiant?uid=123&oid=2&affid=733 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ My new book is Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that shows you 1) how to identify and replace lost microbes from the human microbiome with extraordinary results, and 2) how to beat back unhealthy microbes that have proliferated and can be responsible for numerous health conditions. Find Super Gut in these bookstores: Barnes & Noble Amazon Books a Million For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs: Books: My new book is 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/ Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/ Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis): InnerCircle.InfiniteHealth.com YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory! Support the show 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
	06 Jun 2022	Two Nutrients, Two Microbes Crucial for Pregnancy and Lactation	00:21:32
Here are two nutrients and two microbes that play huge roles in material and infant health, yet almost no obstetrician or gynecologist is advising their patients about them--a major oversight! Because doctors are not doing their job in advising people on how to stack the odds in favor of not having premature labor, correcting vaginal dysbiosis, and markedly improving the health of their child, you can take the reins of health on your own. I also include a discussion about human milk oligosaccharides and their importance to babies and perhaps even to adults. 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 page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order: https://paleovalley.com/offers/grass-fed-beef-sticks-bk-lt-promo/defiant?uid=123&oid=2&affid=733 10% discount for Layer Origin human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) products: Use discount code "DRDAVIS" (not case-sensitive) and order here: https://layerorigin.com/?ref=drwilliamdavis Sources of BioGaia L. reuteri tablets: Gastrus tablets: everidis.com/shop-products/ Source for Bifidobacteria infantis as Evivo: https://www.evivo.com More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight, including extras for anyone pre-ordering before Feb 1, 2022 release: 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis Infinite Health Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com Dr. Davis Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/ Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/ Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis): InnerCircle.Undoctored.com YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory! Support the show 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
	21 Jun 2022	Five Strategies for Heart Health You Probably Didn't Know About	00:38:59
While the world obsesses about this silly notion of cholesterol as a cause for heart disease, they ignore the many other--and more important--causes of heart disease, causes that you can manage effectively on your own. It does NOT require prescription drugs or procedures to have a major impact on the factors that lead to heart attack, need for heart procedures, or sudden cardiac death. The number one killer of men and women worldwide can be managed YEARS before danger sets in but the answers will not be found in cholesterol, fat intake, or other conventional notions of heart health. 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 page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order: https://paleovalley.com/offers/grass-fed-beef-sticks-bk-lt-promo/defiant?uid=123&oid=2&affid=733 10% discount for Layer Origin human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) products: Use discount code "DRDAVIS" (not case-sensitive) and order here: https://layerorigin.com/?ref=drwilliamdavis More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight, including extras for anyone pre-ordering before Feb 1, 2022 release: 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis Infinite Health Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com Dr. Davis Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/ Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/ Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis): InnerCircle.Undoctored.com YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory! Support the show 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
	30 Jun 2022	The Great Microbiome Desert	00:32:30
Compared to human populations following hunter-gatherer lifestyles, we have lost hundreds of microbial species in our gastrointestinal microbiomes. Many of these species performed useful functions in human health that we have therefore lost. Loss of these species has also allowed unhealthy, potentially pathogenic species, to proliferate and dominate, even ascending up the small intestine. This situation--small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, or SIBO--is now epidemic, affecting greater than 1 in 3 Americans. And it takes a serious toll on your health, mental and physical. Your journey back to health starts by recognizing and acknowledging that there is indeed a problem. Then begin taking steps to correct this situation. L reuteri Sourced initially as BioGaia Gastrus tablets. You can find it on Amazon or from their North American distributor, Everidis. L. gasseri https://products.mercolamarket.com/biothin-probiotic/ AIRE device from FoodMarble: https://foodmarble.com 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 page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order: https://paleovalley.com/offers/grass-fed-beef-sticks-bk-lt-promo/defiant?uid=123&oid=2&affid=733 10% discount for Layer Origin human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) products: Use discount code "DRDAVIS" (not case-sensitive) and order here: https://layerorigin.com/?ref=drwilliamdavis More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight, including extras for anyone pre-ordering before Feb 1, 2022 release: 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis Infinite Health Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com Dr. Davis Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/ Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/ Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis): InnerCircle.Undoctored.com YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory! Support the show 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
	12 Jul 2022	The Low-Fat Dietary Disaster	00:28:21
Make no mistake: the low-fat dietary message of the last 50+ years has been a huge disaster. Coupled with predatory practices of Big Food companies, the result is the world's worst epidemics of obesity and overweight, type 2 diabetes, fatty liver, and Alzheimer's dementia in the history of humans on this planet. Yet there has been no attempt by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, USDA, or any other agency to retract this awful and disastrous message. Beyond the obvious consequences, there are many other less obvious consequences. Let's talk about those less well-recognized, yet still with profound effects for health, of the awful advice to cut dietary fat. Then let's talk about solutions to this mess. 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 page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order: https://paleovalley.com/offers/grass-fed-beef-sticks-bk-lt-promo/defiant?uid=123&oid=2&affid=733 10% discount for Layer Origin human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) products: Use discount code "DRDAVIS" (not case-sensitive) and order here: https://layerorigin.com/?ref=drwilliamdavis More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight, including extras for anyone pre-ordering before Feb 1, 2022 release: 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis Infinite Health Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com Dr. Davis Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/ Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/ Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis): InnerCircle.Undoctored.com YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory! Support the show 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
	23 Jul 2022	Oxytocin: Hormone of Humanity	00:18:50
In previous episodes of Defiant Health, I've discussed many of the spectacular potential health effects of boosting oxytocin. Let's now discuss the emotional, social, maternal, and sexual effects of oxytocin that essentially define the human experience. Because modern people have lost much of their capacity to boost oxytocin to high levels, we have lost many of these beneficial effects. Yes: you can regain this capacity and thereby regain the potential for more intense affection, love, trust, generosity, sexuality, and healthier maternal relationship with your baby. 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 page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order: https://paleovalley.com/offers/grass-fed-beef-sticks-bk-lt-promo/defiant?uid=123&oid=2&affid=733 And until July 30th, 2022, they are offering a 20% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! https://wildpastures.com/promos/save-20-for-life/bonus15?oid=2&affid=3&source_id=newsletter For 10% discount for Layer Origin human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) products: Use discount code "DRDAVIS" (not case-sensitive) and order here: https://layerorigin.com/?ref=drwilliamdavis __________________________________________________________________________________________________ More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight, including extras for anyone pre-ordering before Feb 1, 2022 release: 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis Infinite Health Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com Dr. Davis Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/ Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/ Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis): InnerCircle.Undoctored.com YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory! Support the show 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
	04 Aug 2022	Lessons to Learn From Lactose Intolerance	00:17:40
Many people have been advised by their doctors or have decided on their own that adverse reactions to dairy products are due to an inability to digest lactose, the primary sugar in dairy products. While there are indeed people who have lost the ability to digest lactose, numerous people who have adverse reactions to dairy are not truly lactose intolerant, but have disruptions of the gastrointestinal microbiome that are responsible for these reactions. Understanding and addressing the difference can be life-changing. And you can make the distinction on your own, even if the doctor does not understand the difference. 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 page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order: Paleovalley 15% discount They are currently offering a 12% discount and free shipping for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Wild Pastures pastured meats __________________________________________________________________________________________________ More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight that includes the recipes for L. reuteri and other yogurts and full prescriptive lifestyle plan: 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis Infinite Health Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com Dr. Davis Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/ Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/ Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis): InnerCircle.Undoctored.com YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory! Support the show 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
	20 Aug 2022	Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity is REAL	00:24:39
For years, unpleasant symptoms such as abdominal pain, headache, joint pain, and skin rashes experienced with consumption of wheat and grains were dismissed as just being in our imagination, the product of a neurotic mind. If celiac disease was not diagnosed, then these sorts of abnormal symptoms were dismissed as inconsequential. Recent evidence tells us that this absolutely not true and that the awkwardly named non-celiac gluten sensitivity is a real disease with very real, sometimes severe, health implications. Some of these abnormal responses can be measured. And, of course, it is a condition that is addressed with elimination of all wheat and grains in the diet. 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 page on the Paleovalley website, enter the code and the discount will be automatically applied to your order: https://paleovalley.com/offers/grass-fed-beef-sticks-bk-lt-promo/defiant?uid=123&oid=2&affid=733 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! https://wildpastures.com/promos/save-20-for-life/bonus15?oid=2&affid=3&source_id=newsletter 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, including extras for anyone pre-ordering before Feb 1, 2022 release: 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis Infinite Health Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com Dr. Davis Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/ Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/ Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis): InnerCircle.Undoctored.com YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZp4ONYOXZkf92UxxNnAiKQ And, of course, subscribe to the Defiant Health podcast through your favorite podcast directory! Support the show 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
	30 Aug 2022	New Microbiome Insights Into Repeated Urinary Tract Infections	00:19:12
In this episode of Defiant Health, let’s talk about some new insights into a very serious issue that afflicts many females: repeated urinary tract infections, or UTIs. This can happen to a female at any age, but becomes an especially frequent problem as women get older. Of course, the conventional “solution” is to prescribe course after course of antibiotics that disrupt the entire body’s microbiome and not uncommonly leads to dysbiosis in the colon and other organs, SIBO, vaginal candida infections and other problems. A number of new observations have emerged that are completely changing the understanding of this common problem. One new and exciting insight is that the urinary system has its own unique microbiome, i.e., a collection of microbes that normally colonize the bladder and other portions of the urinary system, despite having been regarded as sterile for many years. It is disruption of this urinary microbiome that is a major contributor to repeated UTIs. It’s also become clear that the vaginal microbiome is a major determinant of urinary health. Let’s talk about why this happens and what steps you can take to stack the odds in favor of putting a stop to this annoying and health-impairing issue. ________________________________________________________________________________ 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 page on 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 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, including extras for anyone pre-ordering before Feb 1, 2022 release: 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis Infinite Health Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com Dr. Davis Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Officia Support the show 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
	11 Sep 2022	Everything You Wanted to Know About Constipation But Were Afraid to Ask	00:21:38
In this episode of Defiant Health, let’s clear up some misconceptions about the common problem of constipation, an issue that plagues around 10-20% of people at any one time. While the official definition of constipation is having 3 or fewer bowel movements per week, I would say that the official definition is way off. 3 or fewer bowel movements per week is an awful standard, one that is likely to impact health in other ways, as well as being uncomfortable. And the standard remedies for constipation have problems, real problems. So let’s cut through the nonsense and talk about how and why constipation develops and what you can do about it without resorting to absurd and harmful conventional solutions. AIRE device--The AIRE 2 device is the one that measures methane; more info here. ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 page on 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, including extras for anyone pre-ordering before Feb 1, 2022 release: 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis Infinite Health Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com Dr. Davis Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/ Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/ Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (membership website with direct interaction with Dr. Davis): InnerCircle.Undoctored.com YouTube Channel: Support the show 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
	24 Sep 2022	What's Missing From Dietary Guidelines	00:19:51
In this episode of Defiant Health, let’s discuss how the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans got a lot of things wrong. Of course, I have previously discussed on many occasions the hazards of a diet reduced in fat and rich in “healthy whole grains,” a style of eating that increases the likelihood of weight gain, fatty liver, type 2 diabetes, even increases cardiovascular risk, largely due to amylopectin A carbohydrate of wheat and grains, as well as gliadin protein-derived opioid peptides that are appetite stimulants. This was the focus of my Wheat Belly series of books. But the dietary guidelines that encouraged Americans to reduce fat intake also led to some inadvertent blunders that pose real health consequences. Perhaps we would never have learned about these issues if we had not made the national mistake of reducing fat. So let’s talk about these inadvertent blunders and what you can do to compensate for them. Supplements mentioned: Collagen hydrolysates--bovine, porcine, chicken, marine Hyaluronic acid Phosphatidylserine Omega-3 fatty acids, EPA + DHA Facto-fermented foods _____________________________________________________________________________ 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 page on 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis Infinite Health Blog: www.wheatbellyblog.com Dr. Davis Infinite Health Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialWheatBelly/ Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/527516110738721/ Dr. Davis Infinite Health Inner Circle (mem Support the show 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
	03 Oct 2022	Love Ain't What It Used To Be	00:15:23
In this episode of Defiant Health, I’d like to talk about how the intensity of love, affection, and other emotions and social interactions have lost intensity. The love of today, I’m going to argue, is less involved, less intense, less soul-wrenching, involving more superficial commitment than it used. If we could compare the love and affection of, say, 50, 100, 1000 years ago, I am going to illustrate how our current version of these emotions is an anemic, watered-down version. And, along with this change, I’m going to propose that many of the social phenomena that we are all familiar with—-divorce, social isolation, loss of community, increasing suicide—-are all related. The good news: I believe that you can fix this broken part of the human experience, both for yourself and for the people around you. 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-... _____________________________________________________________________________ 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 page on 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 here Support the show 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
	18 Oct 2022	Interview with oral microbiome champion, Dr. Debbie Ozment	00:28:45
In this episode of Defiant Health, I interview Oklahoma dentist, health and wellness coach, and advocate of managing the oral microbiome, Dr. Debbie Ozment. I met Dr. Ozment during one of my two-way weekly video meetups on my DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com where she provided a presentation on the oral microbiome. I was impressed with her tremendous command of this area that drives home the message that oral health and the oral microbiome are major determinants of overall health. She discusses, for instance, how the oral microbe Porphyromonas gingivalis plays a role in Alzheimer’s dementia, and Fusobacterium from the gums is proving to be a major cause for colon cancer---all factors you are able to address. I believe you will find Dr. Ozment’s interview informative and enlightening. About Dr. Ozment A graduate of Oklahoma University College of Dentistry, she served as adjunct faculty there for seven years. Dr. Ozment completed a Masters' degree in Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine from the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine and is a Diplomate with the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. Trained at Mayo Clinic, she is a Nationally Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach. Dr. Ozment's website Dr. Ozment's TED Talk Vitality Made Simple Podcast on Apple Podcasts GUM Picks ______________________________________________________________________________________ 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 page on 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. ______________________________________________________________________________________ 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Th Support the show 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
	27 Oct 2022	A Short History of Iodine	00:25:41
I’ve previously discussed this important micronutrient, iodine, but I fear the message has not gotten through to many people. So let’s tackle it again, highlighting just what a huge public health problem iodine deficiency was for most of human history until recently. Now, due to misguided modern dietary advice, deficiency of this important micronutrient is making a comeback and, with it, thyroid problems and all the associated challenges that accompany a failing thyroid gland. To view some images of goiters throughout human history, as depicted in numerous pieces of artwork, see my recent DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com blog post. _______________________________________________________________________________________ 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 here for more information. Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products. ______________________________________________________________________________________ For more information or to order Oxyceutics Gut to Glow, go to the Gut to Glow website. ______________________________________________________________________________________ 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com Support the show 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
	06 Nov 2022	Beat Your Sugar Cravings	00:22:23
There is no shortage of silly advice on how to reduce sugar cravings, the seemingly irresistible desire for something sweet. “Eat just a little,” “Combine sweets with other foods,” “Get more protein” or other advice dominates this conversation. This advice is ineffective and makes no physiological sense. Yet it is possible to completely ablate this impulse, turn it off entirely and put you back in the driver’s seat of appetite. But it requires some unconventional thinking that, I hope, you have come to expect from the discussions I provide. In this episode of Defiant Health, I shall therefore share 4 strategies that each dramatically reduce your desire for sugary foods and, when combined, can completely free you from such impulses. ______________________________________________________________________________________ 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 page on 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 here for more information. Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products. ______________________________________________________________________________________ For more information or to order Oxyceutics Gut to Glow, go to the Gut to Glow website. ______________________________________________________________________________________ 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 Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor Online media: Dr. Davis' Infinite Health Blog: www.DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com Support the show 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
	16 Nov 2022	Interview with JJ Flizanes on Emotional Healing	00:55:49
In this episode of Defiant Health, I’ve brought empowerment strategist JJ Flizanes back for a second interview. Because JJ brings such high energy and unique wisdom to emotional issues—issues that I do not discuss much at all—that I thought it would be helpful to everyone to bring her back on. JJ has a varied background as an actress, personal trainer, and now as a coach on behavior, helping people find their weak spots, behaviors or beliefs that block their success in health, weight loss, relationships and other spheres of life. Although I know that my programs, whether you call it Wheat Belly, Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox, Undoctored, or my most recent umbrella program, DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com and the Super Gut book, although I know that my programs work, they don’t always work for everybody. Some people start, but don’t follow through. Other engage in the programs intermittently and therefore don’t obtain full benefit. Other start strong, obtain huge benefits, then oddly give up. In other words, some people, despite the best of intentions, self-sabotage, even when the answers are easily within reach. And it’s often the case that this is part of a long-term pattern of self-sabotage, of knowing how to accomplish something but not giving it your all or just giving up. I therefore wanted to bring JJ back to discuss emotional healing. She focuses specifically on how to identify what she calls “core wounds,” events or people in your past that continue to influence current behavior. JJ also has a panel of strategies she puts to work to change or eliminate these behaviors. What I especially like about JJ’s approach is that she doesn’t waste time, asking you to engage in years of therapy, but to devote just a few hours, a few sessions to gain insight into your behavior and discover new solutions. For more on JJ Flizanes, go to her website and podcasts. ______________________________________________________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________________________________________________ For more information or to order Oxyceutics Gut to Glow, go to the Gut to Glow website. ____________ Support the show 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
	02 Dec 2022	Will my programs make you younger?	00:31:12
There are a number of factors that drive aging. Among the most important are inflammation, insulin resistance, glycation, endotoxemia, and hormonal senescence, in addition to genetically programmed factors. We cannot, of course, influence genetically determined factors. But we have enormous control over the other factors. The sad truth is that a conventional diet and modern healthcare advice accelerate aging via these mechanisms. Just look around you the next time you’re in a supermarket or mall—-do you see slender, vibrant, vigorous people who look younger than their years? Or do you see overweight, tired, people who look beaten down by life, older than their chronological age? If you want to impact the rate at which you age you therefore have to reject much conventional wisdom and adopt strategies that are somewhat unconventional. So let’s discuss the factors that you have control over that influence the rate at which you age. I believe that some pretty spectacular results are achievable that will cause the people around you to ask “What are you doing to look so good? ______________________________________________________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________________________________________________ For more information or to order Oxyceutics Gut to Glow, go to the Gut to Glow website. ______________________________________________________________________________________ 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 Support the show 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
	11 Dec 2022	What is Gut to Glow?	00:24:54
In this episode of Defiant Health, I’d like to talk about the unique oral skin health product I formulated called Gut to Glow. Some of you may know that, in addition to writing books, speaking, and supporting my programs, I have also taken on the role of Chief Medical Officer for a company called Realize Therapeutics that I co-founded, created to commercialize some of the concepts that I have developed. Those of you following my Lactobacillus reuteri yogurt discussions know that we are witnessing some interesting effects on skin, sleep, appetite, and libido. But some people have trouble making the yogurt, or find it inconvenient, or find it difficult to keep up making the yogurt while traveling, and asked for a easier, more convenient way to get L. reuteri. So I formulated a probiotic capsule with high counts of the microbe. But I went further and added additional ingredients to make it even better and more effective. So let’s talk about this formulation that we call Gut to Glow that, I believe, provides major advantages for skin, and remarkably, overall health. Oxyceutics Gut to Glow--Enter code "DEFIANT” for 15% off your order BioGaia Gastrus Making L. reuteri yogurt from my DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com blog ______________________________________________________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________________________________________________ For more information or to order Oxyceutics Gut to Glow, go to the Gut to Glow website. ______________________________________________________________________________________ For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs: Books:* Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight Support the show 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
	21 Dec 2022	Five Things Cardiologists Won't Tell You	00:44:02
In this episode of the Defiant Health podcast, let me tell you about five things cardiologists will not tell you about heart health. Having practiced cardiology for 25 years, I learned what works and what does not work to prevent heart disease. Sadly, follow conventional health and diet advice from cardiologists and other doctors and you are following a recipe for developing heart disease, as well as type 2 diabetes, weight gain, fatty liver, and numerous other health conditions. Did you catch that? I’ll say it again: conventional diet and health advice CAUSES heart disease and other common health conditions. Think of it: more than 80 million Americans now take statin drugs to reduce cholesterol. That must mean that heart disease, conditions like heart attack and sudden cardiac death, are declining—-but they’re not. Heart centers that deliver procedures like coronary angioplasty, stent implantation, and implantation of defibrillators are as busy as ever. After all, heart disease is the #1 money maker for hospitals. It means that heart disease is big business, a business driven by greed and the need to grow the business. It is most certainly not based on delivering health and prevention of heart disease. Given all that, what are you NOT being told by cardiologists and doctors? So let’s discuss that question in this episode of Defiant Health. AIRE device for breath H2 testing SIBO Yogurt from my DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com blog ______________________________________________________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________________________________________________ For more information or to order Oxyceutics Gut to Glow, go to the Gut to Glow website. Enter code "DEFIANT” for 15% off your order. ______________________________________________________________________________________ For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs: Books:* Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight Support the show 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
	16 Jan 2023	What's so toxic about wheat?	00:34:58
In this episode of the Defiant Health podcast, let’s talk about this destructive thing in the human diet called wheat. Those of you familiar with my Wheat Belly books may know a lot of this already and this will just serve as a reminder to help you stay on course and preserve the health and slenderness you achieved. I’m always impressed that, because TV ads, misinformed dietitians, and other dietary conversations all urge you to consume grains, it’s easy to become complacent, often forgetting how your health improved by banishing all wheat and grains. If this is new to you, be prepared to be surprised, even angered, by coming to understand what a toxic, chronic poison modern wheat is, this thing created by crude genetic manipulations, and its destructive effects on your health. In the early days of my Wheat Belly message, some people dismissed it as nothing more than promoting a gluten-free diet, or another version of a low-carb diet. But I believe that, once you hear the full arguments based on scientific evidence, you will come to understand the magnitude of mistake made when humans first began to incorporate the seeds of grasses—that’s what wheat is—-into the human diet and the enormous impact it has on health, despite being advised by virtually all agencies in the business of offering dietary advice to include it in every meal, every day. __________________________________________________________________________ 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 page on 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 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 Support the show 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
	24 Jan 2023	Big Butt or Big Gut: Is There a Difference?	00:29:03
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. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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 Support the show 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
	30 Jan 2023	Is your skin aging faster than it should?	00:23:54
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 Support the show 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
	07 Feb 2023	Health begins in the mouth: An interview with functional dentist Debbie Ozment, DDS	00:41:33
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 ________________________________________________________________________________________ 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. ________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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 Support the show 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
	14 Feb 2023	Why cutting calories is dangerous	00:19:31
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. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 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 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
	22 Feb 2023	Hyaluronic acid: Dietary missing link	00:15:45
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. ______________________________________________________________________________________ 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 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
	05 Mar 2023	Cholesterol: Not what it’s cracked up to be	00:26:49
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 fiber mix. __________________________________________________________________________________ More about my programs, blogs, discussion groups, and additional discussions, go to DrDavisIn Support the show 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
	15 Mar 2023	Anti-Aging Yogurt	00:28:58
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:* Support the show 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
	22 Mar 2023	What's the best way to eradicate SIBO?	00:34:25
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. _____________________________________________________________________________ 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 Support the show 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
	30 Mar 2023	VLDL: The REAL Cause of Heart Disease	00:35:44
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-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Go here for more information. Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for su Support the show 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
	15 Apr 2023	The keys to body shape, muscle, and fat	00:40:59
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 ________________________________________________________________________________ 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:* Support the show 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
	25 Apr 2023	Can narcissism be reversed?	00:17:54
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 guide BioGaia Gastrus tablets Biogaia 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 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. __ Support the show 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
	03 May 2023	Can arthritis be prevented or reversed?	00:26:47
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 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:* Support the show 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
	10 May 2023	The Case Against GLP-1 Agonists	00:35:03
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 guide BioGaia 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 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 Support the show 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
	21 May 2023	How NOT to have fatty liver	00:23:33
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 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 Support the show 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
	27 May 2023	How and Why Wheat Makes You Fat	00:29:26
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 probiotics, go here. A 15% discount is available for Defiant Health podcast listeners by entering discount code DEFIANT (case-insensitive) at checkout.* Dr. Davis and his organization are finan Support the show 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
	10 Jun 2023	What Lessons Can We Learn From the 50-Year Low-Fat Dietary Mistake?	00:34:44
Why has the 50-year-old recommendation to reduce dietary fat failed to make a dent in heart disease, death, or heart procedures? Could it be that the entire premise of this advice is based on flawed evidence and misleading conclusions about LDL cholesterol? In this eye-opening episode, we uncover the shocking truth about the ineffectiveness of cutting dietary fat and how it's time for a new approach to managing cardiovascular risk. We dive into the science behind carbohydrates and sugars, and how they create small LDL particles - a direct cause of coronary disease. These particles are different from LDL cholesterol and can persist in our bloodstream for five to seven days, giving them ample time to create atherosclerotic plaque in our coronary arteries. We debunk myths about measuring small LDL particles and emphasize the need for individuals to take control of their own health by understanding how to manage it effectively. Don't miss out on the strategies that could help reduce or even eliminate your cardiovascular risk, such as the Wheat Belly books, Super Gut books, or joining the DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com website. It's time to join the movement for self-empowered health and take control of your well-being today! So tune in, get informed, and make the change that could save your life. ______________________________________________________________________________ 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. _________________________________________________________________________________ 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.* Dr. Davis and his organization are financially _________________________________________________________________________________ For BiotiQuest probiotics, go here. A 15% discount id 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 show 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
	23 Jun 2023	Alpha Dreams, Alpha-Delta Sleep and Other Microbiome Effects on Sleep	00:27:57
Long regarded as a passive phenomenon, you have likely heard that sleep is an active process complete with various phases, roles in maintaining metabolic and mental health, but often shortchanged in modern life yielding widespread sleep deprivation. But a phenomenon not widely appreciated or explored is the role of the gastrointestinal microbiome on sleep. So, in this episode of the Defiant Health podcast, let’s get thinking about the role of the gastrointestinal microbiome on sleep quality, sleep phases, sleep duration, and content, i.e., dreams, including how you can put the microbiome to work to improve on the architecture of your sleep patterns. How to make L reuteri yogurt: A step-by-step guide SIBO Yogurt BioGaia Gastrus tablets for L. reuteri Yakult store locator ________________________________________________________________________________ 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 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 show 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
	02 Jul 2023	Collagen: Anti-Aging Protein?	00:15:28
Collagen is a protein, the most abundant protein in the human body. It is the protein that provides tensile and flexible strength to tendons and ligaments, is a major component of the dermal layer of skin, the cartilage in joints, an important structural protein in all the body’s organs. But, if you are like most of us, you have been living a collagen-deficient lifestyle. While your body can manufacture collagen, you are also meant to obtain significant amounts of collagen in your diet. The astounding blunders of the last 50-year low-fat era has caused most people to avoid collagen-rich foods, namely organ meats. Many have gone to the opposite extreme, for instance consuming foods like boneless skinless chicken breast in which most of the collagen content has been discarded. In this episode of the Defiant Health podcast, I am going to argue that dietary collagen intake plays a major role in maintaining the characteristics of youthfulness. Let’s discuss how and why collagen has virtually disappeared from modern habits and how you can bring it back with benefits for health and youthfulness. We demystify the process of glycation in which collagen becomes brittle, disorganized, and irreversibly damaged. Discover how to counteract this breakdown with increased collagen intake, and engage in the ongoing debate on the best form of collagen. We'll also guide you on how to ensure that collagen gets to the parts of the body that need it the most. Stay tuned as we discuss the importance of collagen in an anti-aging regimen and how it can help maintain youthfulness. Who knew that the fountain of youth could be as simple as upping your collagen intake? Let's uncover this protein powerhouse together. How to make L reuteri yogurt: A step-by-step guide BioGaia Gastrus tablets for L. reuteri ________________________________________________________________________________ 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 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. Books:* Support the show 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
	06 Jul 2023	Unveiling the Secrets of Ancestral Dental Health: Diet, Lifestyle and Beyond	00:17:10
Anthropologists will tell you that, of all body parts preserved in the fossil record, going back thousand or even millions of years, teeth are the best preserved, even better than bone. And teeth are, of course, the entryway into the gastrointestinal tract, the first exposure to whatever food you are ingesting or chewing. We often think of teeth as these inert things, but they are not. They are biologically responsive influenced by many factors, but especially the composition of diet. So, in this episode of Defiant Health, let’s consider what teeth can tell us about the human diet: how to eat, how not to eat, how teeth can instruct us on what and how the human body is adapted to the components of diet, and how a simple practice can make or break the difference in dental health. ________________________________________________________________________________ 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 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. 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 Support the show 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
	13 Jul 2023	Disentangling the Web of Deceptive Diet Advice	00:29:25
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 show 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
	25 Jul 2023	Seven Important Measures of Cardiovascular Health--and It's Not Cholesterol	00:38:41
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 show 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
	03 Aug 2023	Can you look and feel many years younger?	00:32:53
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.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 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 show 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
	10 Aug 2023	Donna Schwenk on the Power of Kefir, L. reuteri Yogurt, Revitalization, and Sex	00:50:42
Our great grandmothers were usually knowledgeable and adept at fermenting foods, i.e., allowing microbes to grow on food, thereby keeping foods, such as vegetables, fruits, and meats, from spoiling while increasing the nutritional value of the food and providing you with beneficial probiotic microbes. They may not have appreciated these benefits, but surely at least knew that it was a useful method of preserving food without refrigeration. Modern processed foods, widespread availability of home refrigeration, and convenience caused most of us to abandon this practice. But it represents yet another mistake we’ve made in healthy eating, coupled with blundering dietary guidelines, exploitative practices, and ignorance or indifference of food manufacturers. Wife and mother, Donna Schwenk, struggled with health issues of her own and her family. Twenty two years ago, she stumbled on the idea of creating fermented vegetables. Adopting them into her lifestyle and that of her family, she witnessed transformations in health. Donna is a vocal advocate for the fermenting lifestyle and shares her wisdom in her culturedfoodlife.com website loaded with recipes and wisdom on how to put fermented foods to work to restore your emotional and physical health. In this episode of the Defiant Health podcast, Donna shares some of the most recent lessons she’s learned through her fermenting projects. Learn about the surprising role of fermented vegetables in alleviating symptoms of SIBO and Candida overgrowth, as Donna details her daily fermentation routine. Be prepared to have your mind blown as Donna reveals her remarkable remedy for food poisoning, and even the surprising health benefits her dog has experienced! Beyond personal anecdotes, we delve into the controversial health topics, illuminating why some major health organizations haven't updated their advice despite new evidence, and the importance of strength training as we age. Wrap up the episode by exploring the tantalizing world of homemade cheese. Hear her recount the incredible potential of probiotic yeast and the lasting health benefits her family has experienced from a diet rich in fermented vegetables. Whether you're a fermented foods enthusiast or just embarking on your journey, this episode promises to be packed with nuggets of wisdom and fascinating insights. Tune in to be inspired and empowered with the knowledge to transform your health through food. For more from Donna Schwenk: CulturedFoodLife.com with lots of recipes, informative discussions, and products available for purchase. _________________________________________________________________________ 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 show 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
	28 Aug 2023	The blood glucose “No change rule” to accelerate weight loss and achieve other health benefits	00:18:35
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 show 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
	06 Sep 2023	Deciphering the Complex World of Food Intolerances: The Role of Diet, Lifestyle, and SIBO	00:27:21
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 show 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
	21 Sep 2023	My Conversation with BiotiQuest's Martha Carlin: Parkinson's Disease, Eradicating Endotoxemia, Hazards of Extreme Exercise	00:35:39
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 show 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
	06 Oct 2023	The Hidden Dangers of Abdominal Fat—and How to Get Rid of It	00:28:21
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 show 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
	13 Oct 2023	Butyrate: Unleashing the Power of Diet for Flawless Skin	00:20:18
What if a simple diet change could drastically improve your skin health? Get ready for an enlightening discussion on the gut-skin axis as we explore the amazing benefits of boosting gastrointestinal and thereby skin butyrate or butyric acid. The secret to healthier skin might be a pH shift away. We delve into the importance of maintaining an acidic pH for skin health, and how an alkaline pH can lead to skin rashes and dryness. Learn practical strategies to increase intestinal and skin butyrate, such as incorporating fermented foods and prebiotic fibers into your diet. It's time to ditch the skincare products and start focusing on what truly matters - your diet. So, join us on this remarkable journey to achieving healthier, better-looking, and more youthful skin. 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 show 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
	28 Oct 2023	Making Sense Out of Your Cholesterol Panel	00:30:16
Cholesterol testing is among the most common blood tests run in conventional healthcare, yet it is a perennial source of confusion and, to be honest, abuse by doctors who don’t appreciate the full implications of the values. It may surprise you to know that doctors focus on the least helpful values such as total or LDL cholesterol while often ignoring the two genuinely helpful values, HDL cholesterol and triglycerides. HDL for instance is packed with useful insights into your health, as it is a reliable index of metabolic health. Low HDL, that I would define as less than 60 mg/dl, is a reflection of multiple health distortions such as insulin resistance, inflammation, excessive intra-abdominal fat, small LDL particles and VLDL that cause heart disease. You might also be surprised to learn that consuming fats only spikes triglyceride levels for a few hours, whereas the process of your liver converting carbohydrates to triglycerides can cause a much larger increase after six to eight hours or more. Discover the factors that can amplify this process, including insulin resistance, inflammation, excessive intra-abdominal fat, and even dysbiosis and small intestine bacterial overgrowth. The road to cardiovascular health doesn't have to be paved with cholesterol. We'll reveal how VLDL particles and triglyceride levels are intricately linked, why it's essential to keep your triglycerides below 60 milligrams per deciliter, and how higher triglycerides can result in lower HDL levels. Discover how simple dietary changes can lead to lower triglycerides and higher HDL levels, and why measuring LDL particles using NMR lipoprotein analysis offers a more accurate picture than the commonly used LDL cholesterol. Join us as we dispel the myths around cholesterol and empower you to take control of your cardiovascular 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 show 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
	06 Nov 2023	Here’s what happens when you reduce endotoxemia	00:24:56
Ready to unlock the secret to your health buried deep within your gut? In today's illuminating episode, we reveal the unsuspected ways in which small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) and lipopolysaccharide endotoxins (LPS endotoxins) can drastically alter your health. We delve into the underworld of fecal microbes and their dangerous ability to cause inflammation and endotoxemia. Connect the dots between these hidden threats and a host of health conditions, from obesity to anxiety and even dementia. You'll be astounded to know how common SIBO is, with studies showing its presence in a whopping 50% of people with fatty liver and 40% suffering from irritable bowel syndrome. Imagine a world where conditions like restless leg syndrome, fibromyalgia, and obesity could be managed by understanding and treating SIBO? We're here to guide you through that very journey. We examine the process of detecting and treating SIBO using the revolutionary AIRE device from Food Marble. You'll learn how a rise in values by four units or more means a positive SIBO test. Lastly, we explore the power of natural remedies, like fermenting specific microbes for four weeks and the benefits of daily consumption of fermented foods. Join us, as we navigate the complex world of the small intestine, uncovering the pivotal role it plays in our overall 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 show 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
	17 Nov 2023	The 7 counterintuitive keys to successful long-term weight loss	00:31:56
There are a variety of ways to lose weight: reduce calories, pharmaceuticals, bariatric procedures. But these are successful only in the beginning: You lose, say, 40 pounds over a year only to gain it all back. Of that 40 pounds, 10 pounds is muscle. And, when you gain it back, it is nearly all fat, very little muscle. You are now less healthy than you were at the start of your weight loss journey. And, if repeated, as with yo-yo dieting in which you lose, regain, then lose and regain again, your metabolic health gets worse and worse and, not only are you discouraged and demoralized, but you are also setting yourself up for some pretty serious health consequences including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and increased potential for cognitive decline and dementia. So let’s be smarter. Let’s not repeat the mistakes of conventional thinking in weight loss and let’s instead discuss 7 counterintuitive strategies that help you lose weight, not lose muscle, and thereby not regain the weight or regain the fat and thereby not only enjoy your new shape and body composition, but avoid all the health complications of the conventional path. 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 show 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
	27 Nov 2023	Radiant Skin and Health: A Holistic Approach with Aesthetician Rachel Varga	00:35:20
Promising radiant skin and a healthier life, I'm thrilled to welcome aesthetician Rachel Varga, founder of the School of Radiance, to share her holistic approach to skin health and wellness. Rachel is ready to debunk some skincare myths, pointing out that effective skincare isn't just about what you put on your skin. It's about understanding the role of diet, sleep, and exposure to environmental toxins. She believes that radiant, glowing skin is a byproduct of overall health and well-being. Are men exempt from skincare? Absolutely not! We shift gears to discuss the common misconception that beauty and skincare are for women only. We share personal experiences that show how essential it is to involve your partner in the journey towards better skin health. We're opening up about the psychological aspect of self-care and its profound effect on relationships. Tune in as we dive into the world of nutricosmetics and skincare strategies, emphasizing that lasting beauty and health are achievable for both men and women. Rachel doesn't just leave you with tips - she delivers practical strategies for promoting radiant health and well-being. She emphasizes the need to reduce oxidative stress and environmental toxins, encouraging listeners to purify their air and water. And guess what? The future of medical aesthetics is fascinating. Discover how surface and exterior practices combined with wellness practices such as gut analysis, sauna use, and cryotherapy can improve skin health. Remember, looking good is a byproduct of being well. So, don't miss out on this enlightening conversation. And do visit The School of Radiance for more resources and exclusive savings with the promo code "WilliamDavis". More about Rachel Varga's School of Radiance programs here. 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 show 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
	08 Dec 2023	The Little Known Secrets of Slowing Aging by Reducing Glycation	00:19:10
There are a handful of strategies that you can engage that slow the phenomena of aging, i.e., slow or stop the development of skin thinning and development of wrinkles, deterioration of joint health, so-called hardening of the arteries or atherosclerosis, reduction in hormonal status, loss of muscle, loss of bone density, etc. One issue that is rarely discussed is the process of glycation, i.e., glucose modification of proteins. Glycation is something you have enormous control over and thereby slow numerous phenomena of aging. You can reduce the likelihood, for instance, of developing cataracts, reduce the likelihood of thinning skin and age spots, reduce risk for cardiovascular disease, reduce potential for joint deterioration. It’s also something you can measure and track. So, in this episode of Defiant Health, let’s discuss how you can easily and effectively minimize the process of glycation and thereby take over this important aspect of aging. 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 show 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
	16 Dec 2023	SIBO: The Great Masquerader	00:28:57
If you have been following my discussions in this Defiant Health podcast or in my blog, DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com, or my Super Gut book, you know that I have been arguing that there is an epidemic of SIBO going on in the U.S., an epidemic involving every 1 in 2 people. It is an epidemic responsible for an astounding amount of health struggles. The more we all come to understand small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, or SIBO, the more you have to appreciate all the varied ways this situation can show itself. First of all, for those of you unfamiliar, what is SIBO? SIBO refers to the situation in which modern people, due to exposure to multiple courses of antibiotics and other disruptive factors, have lost hundreds of beneficial bacterial species in our colons. These beneficial species were responsible for suppressing the proliferation of unhealthy microbial species, mostly fecal microbial species such as E. coli, Salmonella, and Citrobacter. The loss of beneficial microbes allows unhealthy fecal species to proliferate, then ascend up from the colon where they originated and into the 24-feet of small intestine. The small intestine is poorly-equipped to deal with this invasion of fecal microbes. The small intestine is, by design, permeable, since that is where the bulk of nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, and amino acids are absorbed. But trillions of fecal microbes in the small intestine, microbes that live for only a few hours, live and die and release their toxic components that can gain access to the bloodstream. One of the primary toxic components is called endotoxin. When endotoxin enters the bloodstream, that’s called “endotoxemia” and endotoxemia is now recognized to be the primary way in which gastrointestinal microbes are able to exert effects tin every organ of the body. It means that SIBO and thereby endotoxemia can be experienced as a wide variety of health problems and diseases. So, in this episode of Defiant Health, let’s discuss whether this is a situation that applies to you or to someone close to you and what steps you can take to undo these harmful effects. 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 show 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
	29 Dec 2023	Why I take no prescription medications	00:21:44
Personally, I take no prescription medications. I do not take a statin drug to reduce cholesterol, nor baby aspirin. I take nothing for high blood pressure, acid reflux, or irritable bowel syndrome. I take nothing for headaches, pain, or sleep—not a single prescription medication. Yet my blood pressure is typically around 108/72. My triglycerides are 40 mg/dl, HDL cholesterol is 94 mg/dl, and I have zero small LDL particles. My fasting glucoses are in the 80s mg/dl, last HbA1c was 4.8%, my liver markers are all at the low normal range with no fatty liver suggested. In other words, I have perfect metabolic health without reliance on any medication. The majority of the followers of my programs likewise enjoy perfect metabolic health without reliance on any prescription medications. Of course, there are people who adopt the strategies of my program after incurring some form of irreversible damage such as permanent loss of pancreatic beta cells that result in type 1 diabetes, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis that results in impaired ability to produce thyroid hormones, or loss of stomach parietal cells that results in absence of stomach acid, hypochlorhydria. So key is to adopt these strategies before such permanent damage is done. People who have incurred such damage will therefore need to take insulin, thyroid hormones, or engage in efforts to acidify the stomach. But barring the development of such irreversible changes, the majority of us on my programs have no need for pharmaceutical medications. So, in this episode of Defiant Health let’s discuss how and why, by adopting just a handful of strategies, how you can enjoy perfect metabolic health with no reliance on prescription medications. This episode isn't just a narrative; it's an invitation to a revolution in health care, where the focus shifts from treating symptoms to nurturing the root causes of our ailments, empowering you to become the curator of your own health destiny. _______________________________________________________________________________ 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 show 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
	08 Jan 2024	The Perils of Carb Loading and the Power of Fat Adaptation for Athletic Excellence	00:19:54
You likely know people who engage in strenuous exercise—a marathon, triathlon, long-distance biking, even just day-to-day exercise—or perhaps you do so yourself. In anticipation of the need for a great deal of energy to engage in such an effort and to increase endurance and performance, many people follow a practice called carb loading. While there are number of protocols for doing so, for most people carb loading typically consists of a large serving of pasta consumed the day before, followed by liberal consumption of sugary soft drinks and sugary energy bars, all designed to maximize liver and muscle glycogen stores that can be burned for energy. Is carb loading safe? Is it necessary? In this episode of Defiant Health, let’s discuss how and why carb loading is an unhealthy process with some effects that are irreversible. I’ll also discuss how you can maintain or increase performance without relying on this unhealthy practice. I also want you to consider supporting the sponsors of this Defiant Health podcast, Paleovalley and BiotiQuest. Choosing high-quality products to support your health journey is important. This is why Paleovalley is a supporter of my Defiant Health podcast. Their grass-fed pasture-raised beef sticks, for instance, are fermented, unlike nearly all other beef sticks. If you haven’t tried their pasture-raised pork sticks, you are in for a real treat, as they are irresistibly delicious. And BiotiQuest, also a sponsor of this podcast, provide unique probiotic products that, in my experience and the experience of the followers of my program, are unlike all other probiotics, as they are crafted using the scientific insights of academic microbiologist, Dr. Raul Cano, an innnovator in the concept of collaborative effects among microbes. _____________________________________________________________________________ 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 show 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
	16 Jan 2024	Infertility, miscarriages, brain fog and environmental toxins: My conversation with Dr. Tom O’Bryan	00:41:51
In this episode of Defiant Health, Dr. Tom O’Bryan discusses his unique approach to managing environmental toxins that now flood our lives, toxins that increase our risk for numerous health struggles including cognitive impairment, autoimmune diseases, and cancers. Dr. O’Bryan brings his considerable experience in educating and investigating the effects of such factors as particulate matter in air, glyphosate, abnormal gut permeability, and diet. He has a special interest in reproductive and cognitive health and describes his and his family’s unique approach to minimizing exposures in their home and environment. Among Dr. O’Bryan’s unique abilities is to translate the science into practical, actionable steps that you and your family can adopt. News for how to join Dr. O'Bryan's upcoming summit, The Inflammation Equation, can be found on his Facebook page. For more of Dr. O'Bryan's educational materials, go to his website, TheDr.com. _____________________________________________________________________________ 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 show 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
	03 Feb 2024	A conversation with JJ Flizanes: Identifying your obstacles to success in weight loss, health, money, career, and relationships	00:57:48
A former actress and long-time personal fitness coach, JJ Flizanes has focused these last few years on helping people identify the reasons that they often fall short of their goals, goals such as weight loss, enjoying successful relationships, success at work, or just finding happiness. Through her several popular podcasts that include Fit 2 Love and Spirit Purpose and Energy and her books, JJ helps people identify the obstacles to success and how to manage or correct them to finally achieve the goals you desire. JJ is especially adept at identifying the internal dialogues that people conduct with themselves that often result in self-sabotage, dialogues that many are completely unaware of. In this episode of Defiant Health, JJ therefore describes her unique approach that she also shares in her book The Invisible Fitness Formula. For more about JJ Flizanes: JJFlizanes.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@jjflizanes Invisible Fitness, the book, on Amazon: Invisible Fitness Formula: 5 Secrets to Release Weight & End Body Shame _____________________________________________________________________________ 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. Doctor, I have a question* William L Hoover, II, M.D. and Gordon L MacPherson, Medical Media Producer, will dig... Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Support the show 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
	21 Feb 2024	How to Stop "Treating" Health Conditions	00:31:24
It’s a concept that many people struggle to embrace or understand. But once you ‘get” it, a lot of issues in health will become clearer and you can save yourself a considerable amount of time, effort, and money. The idea is to get away from the idea of “treating” health conditions. This is the approach used in pharmaceuticals and employed by most doctors. If, for instance, blood glucose is high, drugs like insulin, metformin, or a GLP-1 agonist like Wegovy or Ozempic is introduced to force blood glucose down. If blood pressure is high, a drug such as a thiazide diuretic, beta blocker, or ACE inhibitor is prescribed to for blood pressure down. If there is an inflammatory or autoimmune condition, they pick a single inflammatory mediator and block it. But there are major drawbacks to approach health in this way that I will discuss in this episode of the Defiant Health podcast. Instead, I would like you to consider a completely different approach. Rather than try to improve some health measure with a pharmaceutical or even a medical procedure, I would suggest that we instead address and correct the common factors that allow such health conditions to emerge in the first place. I’ll explain what that means. But it means that this approach can not just reduce blood glucose or blood pressure or reverse many inflammatory or autoimmune conditions, but also result in weight loss, loss of abdominal fat, reduce inflammation, improve insulin resistance, restore youthful characteristics, smooth your skin, restore healthy musculature and provide other effects that yield benefits that go beyond the original issue. It is not uncommon, for example, to take this approach for, say, weight loss but find yourself no longer a type 2 diabetic or pre-diabetic, or no longer hypertensive, while enjoying relief from multiple forms of skin rashes, irritable bowel syndrome, fatty liver, anxiety or depression and hundreds of other conditions. So, in this episode of Defiant Health, let’s discuss this radically different approach to 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 show 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
	06 Mar 2024	My recent antibiotic experience	00:25:37
I recently had an experience in which I had to take an antibiotic. Those of you who have been following my Defiant Health podcast discussions, or have been reading my thousands of blog posts on DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com, or my books, especially my latest Super Gut book, know that I advocate for absolutely minimizing our reliance on antibiotics, as they are extremely destructive to the microbiome. Antibiotics disrupt microbial composition of the gastrointestinal tract, the airway, the sinuses, reproductive organs, urinary tract, and other body parts with serious potential long-term consequences. Well, I had a failed root canal and crown put in more than 30 years ago. It recently failed and I had the tooth extracted, following by insertion of an implant. Because the periodontist had to drill into the jawbone and insert an anchor for the implant, he prescribed an antibiotic to prevent osteomyelitis, or infection of the jawbone that can be catastrophic. I therefore spent weeks dreading this process as, in past, I’ve had some nasty experiences with antibiotics: GI distress, abdominal discomfort, skin rashes. But I was especially dreading the awful insomnia that I feared I’d experience with loss of the L. reuteri that I had been supplementing for several years that converted me from a severe chronic insomniac to a deep sleeper. To my great surprise, I experienced none of these effects and I wanted to share with you why and how I believe I, and my listeners who have engaged similar strategies, avoided these effects from antibiotics. It’s my n of one experience, along with some of my listeners, so it’s proof of nothing. But, because these concepts are evolving rapidly with very little formal evidence, it’s worth at least being aware and even trying some of these strategies. ___________________________________________________________________ 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 Better Animal Handling Weekly 10 to 20 minute lessons in handling of dogs, horses, and other animals. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Support the show 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
	21 Mar 2024	Potpourri: Hyaluronic acid, allulose, L. reuteri and reproductive health	00:28:23
There are a great many emerging ideas to discuss, but sometimes these topics are just not big enough to fill out an entire podcast episode. So I decided to start something I call “Potpourri,” a collection of unconnected but interesting topics that may be helpful in guiding you in your health journey. I’d like to say “Ask your doctor about these issues,” but you and I know that they will, more than likely, know absolutely nothing about these questions because 1) it’s not a pharmaceutical or procedure, and 2) it will make no money for them. But just because your doctor is indifferent or ignorant does not mean that they don’t pack a wallop of potential health benefits for you. So in this episode of the Defiant Health Podcast, I’d like to talk about hyaluronic acid, the sweetener allulose, and the relationship of Lactobacillus reuteri and reproductive 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 Better Animal Handling Weekly 10 to 20 minute lessons in handling of dogs, horses, and other animals. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Ask a Farmer Answering questions about Canada's food system Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Support the show 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
	21 Apr 2024	The Microbiome-Cancer Connection	00:22:06
Cancer is, of course, something we all fear, a collection of diseases that strike us down unexpectedly and often put us at the mercy of a deeply flawed and exploitative medical system. So it can help to identify the factors that leads us down this path and take action to minimize such risks. We don’t smoke cigarettes, we try to consume organic foods whenever possible to minimize the carcinogenic effects of herbicides and pesticides, we avoid getting sunburned—advice you are all likely familiar with. But the microbiome is proving to be an exceptionally powerful factor in causing or preventing cancer, in some unexpected ways. For instance, it has become clear that many instances of colon cancer get their start in the mouth. It is also becoming clear that numerous forms of cancer, from breast cancer to prostate cancer, originate with the composition of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract. It is the one common thread among many forms of cancer. This single insight has the potential to give you enormous control over your lifetime risk for these diseases. So, in this episode of Defiant Health, let’s consider these cancer-related issues of the microbiome. It is, admittedly, a conversation that is just getting started with many more lessons to learn. But gain an awareness of these microbiome-related issues and you can take concrete steps to address these risks. ___________________________________________________________________ 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. Support the show 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
	04 May 2024	The Microbiome and Skin: My Interview with Microbiologist Kiran Krishnan, PhD	00:57:11
In this episode of the Defiant Health podcast, I have a special guest: microbiologist Kiran Krishnan, PhD. In addition to conducting research on microbiome and health issues, Dr. Krishnan also built a successful company called Microbiome Labs, a major provider of unique probiotic products. Dr. Krishnan has gained an international reputation for innovative thinking on microbiome issues pioneering, for instance, the science and application of spore-forming microbes. His studies have shown that such spore formers can reduce endotoxemia, minimize the damage done by antibiotics, and increase microbial diversity. In this interview, Dr. Krishnan tells us about a novel approach to skin health he and his team have developed. ___________________________________________________________________ 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. Support the show 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
	25 May 2024	Nootropics vs Neurotrophics: Know the difference for preservation of brain health	00:26:19
You have likely heard the headlines: cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia are on the rise. Part of the increase is due to an aging population. But there are reasons that are adding to the increase beyond this. The epidemics of insulin resistance (recall that dementia is often labeled “type 3 diabetes,” meaning that the brain becomes insulin resistant), SIBO endotoxemia, the ubiquity of heavy metal toxicity, and deficiencies of important nutrients such as omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin D are likely making their own contributions. There are a number of strategies that you can adopt, however, that hold potential for reducing your risk for developing cognitive impairment, or at least delay its onset. There are also various factors that you can supplement, some of which hold potential for improving cognition and, in some cases, slow or help prevent cognitive impairment and dementia. But this area is filled with imprecise thinking and, sadly, misleading marketing. To help you get your arms around these ideas, let me introduce you to a concept that makes gaining an understanding of what works and what doesn’t that can keep you on track and avoid pitfalls that waste time, effort, money, and have little to no benefit for brain health. It is to understand what factors provide nootropic and thereby temporary effects vs neurotrophic factors that actually generate healthy improvements in brain health and physiology. ________________________________________________________________________________ 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. Redefining Strength Fitness Hacks Podcast Feel, move and look your best at any and every age Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Support the show 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
	04 Jun 2024	Decoding Emotional Eating: My Interview with Life Coach Molly Zemeck	00:33:24
In this episode of the Defiant Health podcast, I interview life coach, Molly Zemek. Molly comes from the unique background of having worked as a Le Cordon Bleu formally-trained French chef for 10 years. She is also a certified sommelier. But, with this intensive background in food and wine, she found herself falling victim to uncontrolled eating and drinking impulses. She then turned her attention to gaining control over her eating and drinking impulses and now, as a life coach, helps others deal with their temptations and impulses. She does so through her new book “Decoding Your Emotional Appetite: A Food Lover’s Guide to Weight Loss” and her podcast “Weight Loss for Food Lovers” where she brings the lessons learned from her own journey and that of her coaching clients. We also dive into the complexities of managing alcohol consumption, especially from the perspective of a trained sommelier. Molly shares her insights on mindful drinking, including techniques like keeping a diary of alcohol intake and planning intentional choices. Discover how to appreciate the art of wine and food pairing without excess and find new ways to relax and connect without relying on alcohol. Molly's unique blend of culinary expertise and life coaching offers a holistic approach to achieving balance and healthy living. Don't miss this enlightening conversation that can help you develop a healthier relationship with food and drink. More from Molly Zemek: MollyZemek.com Molly’s new book: Decoding Your Emotional Appetite Molly’s podcast: Weight Loss for Food Lovers ________________________________________________________________________________ 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. Support the show 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
	12 Jun 2024	“The Dark Dirty World of Sugar”: An interview with Joyce Laszloffy	00:49:15
In this episode of the Defiant Health podcast, I interview Joyce Laszloffy who personally struggled with a crippling sugar addiction and overweight for many years. She experienced extreme ups and downs, trying to overcome the powerful pull that sugary foods can have on us. She shares how, for years, she managed to hide her addiction from her family and friends, often feeling powerless and humiliated, dealing with health issues including high blood pressure, pre-diabetes, fatty liver, depression and mood swings, until she found the key to finally kicking the habit. She has since taken her ideas to others through her courses, helping people banish sugars in all its forms from their lives with often spectacular results. Joyce delves into her belief that the problem often lies not within individuals but within the food system itself. Drawing from her journey of becoming vegetarian and vegan, she explains the importance of aligning dietary decisions with personal beliefs and identity. By understanding the psychology and science behind addiction, Joyce outlines why conventional methods such as willpower and restriction frequently fall short. She encourages listeners, particularly women, to arm themselves with knowledge and approach quitting sugar in a holistic, value-driven way to reclaim their health and happiness. Grab Your FREE Sugar Sleuth Tool Kit now to learn where sugar is lurking. https://get.ikickedsugar.net/freeguide/ You can learn more about I Kicked Sugar and Joyce Here: FREE 2 Hour Workshop: https://get.ikickedsugar.net/register-training/ ________________________________________________________________________________ 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. Support the show 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
	01 Jul 2024	Skin Health from Within: Nutrients, Modern Diets, and the Gut-Skin Axis	00:31:17
In this episode of the Defiant Health podcast, I bring together a number of strategies I’ve discussed piecemeal in past that have enormous potential to improve skin: reduce wrinkle depth, increase dermal collagen, increase dermal moisture, accelerate healing, reduce existing sun damage and prevent future sun damage. Recall that we don’t achieve this with topical application, but with oral consumption. It’s the dermal layer of skin, after all, beneath the largely impenetrable epidermis, that is the seat of skin health and appearance. If the dermis cannot be effectively accessed through the exterior epidermis, how do you achieve improvements in the dermal layer? Orally, of course. For instance, hyaluronic acid consumed orally exerts dermal benefits body-wide. So let’s discuss strategies that you can adopt that provide smooth, healthy, more youthful skin, but all achieved orally. ______________________________________________________________________________ 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. From now through August, Paleovalley is running a Buy One Get One Free promotion on Essential Electrolytes. Also, their 11th Anniversary Sale will be from August 11th to 18th. Mark your calendars for their biggest sale of the year! Support the show 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
	16 Jul 2024	The Finer Points of Vitamin D Supplementation	00:23:07
Achieving an optimal level of vitamin D provides numerous health advantages, from relief from winter blues to reduction in cardiovascular risk to reduced risk for several forms of cancer. It’s one of the most important nutrients to get right, i.e., achieve an ideal blood level of the primary blood marker for vitamin D, 25-OH vitamin D. But, even after many years of I and others discussing the importance of vitamin D, I still see plenty of people getting it wrong, often on the advice of their doctors. Sadly, you would think that doctors would be champions of nutrition, intelligent management of nutrients like vitamin D, the microbiome and other issues in health, but they usually are not. If anything, they are experts in the business of healthcare, but not in health—big difference. So, in this episode of the Defiant Health podcast, let’s discuss some of the finer points that help you get your vitamin D status perfect. ______________________________________________________________________________ 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. Support the show 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
	29 Jul 2024	Common Myths and Misconceptions About Wheat	00:28:10
Despite having written 7 books in the Wheat Belly series pointing out the harms that this “food” has inflicted on people, harms that doctors nearly always misdiagnose as an opportunity to “treat” with pharmaceuticals and procedures, questions and ideas to the contrary continue to crop up. Some of these ideas are simply due to the barrage of advertising that comes from Big Food and Big Agribusiness, industries that continue to make a lot of money by propagating fictitious claims that grains are healthy. Some of it is due to the continued repeated urgings by the U.S. government, insisting that grains should remain a staple of the American diet. Dietitians stick to their argument that all foods fit into a healthy diet, including sugary soft drinks, candy bars, and grains, provided it’s all consumed “in moderation” and in the context of a “balanced diet.” And sometimes it’s just that some people are looking for novelty, the newest and shiniest thing to titillate their dietary habits. And make no mistake: the grain industry is extremely well funded, keeping many dietitians, nutritionists, publicists, etc. on the payroll to repeat the same misconceptions over and over again: “There is no evidence that wheat is bad for you, with the caveat that you eat the right amounts as recommended.” So let me dispel common myths and misconceptions that continue to swirl and threaten to derail you off the path of health and slenderness. (As in my books, my use of the term “wheat” encapsulates all forms of grains, as they share numerous characteristics.) So, in this episode of the Defiant Health podcast, let’s take apart some of these commonly held myths and misconceptions surrounding wheat and grains to protect you from the flood of misinformation and disinformation. ____________________________________________________ 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. Support the show 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
	10 Aug 2024	How much of your personal health begins in the mouth?	00:28:02
The oral microbiome is second only to the colon in the density of microbes living there. The mouth is really a collection of varied ecosystems that differ in composition. For instance, the microbiome of the teeth is different from that of the tongue that is, in turn, different from the microbiome of the gumline. The oral cavity is therefore teeming with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of species of bacteria, fungi, Archaea, and viruses. It is a virtual tropical jungle of life. But what is especially remarkable is that the oral microbiome is an ecosystem of life that plays a role not just in dental health (cavities, tooth loss, gingivitis, periodontitis, breath odor) but also in contributing to causing diseases in other parts of the body such as cardiovascular disease, colon cancer, reproductive and cognitive health. So, in this episode of the Defiant Health podcast, let’s consider how the oral microbiome contributes to all sorts of health issues. While solutions are still being sorted out, let’s discuss at least some of what we know that can be effective in improving the condition of the oral microbiome and thereby hope to have a favorable impact on health elsewhere in the body. ________________________________________________________________________________ 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. Support the show 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
	25 Aug 2024	The GLP-1 Agonist Weight Loss Disaster	00:25:45
You’ve likely heard the headlines gushing about the weight loss effects of the GLP-1 agonist class of drugs, agents that go by names like Wegovy, Mounjaro, Rebelsus and others. Doctors are declaring these drugs as breakthroughs or even magical, witnessing the rapid and dramatic weight loss they can achieve. People appear willing to accept the side-effects of nausea, vomiting, even bowel obstruction, a catastrophic complication, or thyroid cancer, or pancreatitis that can irreversibly damage your pancreas and make you a type 1 diabetic. They also accept the costs that vary widely, depending on who dispenses it, but not uncommonly hundreds of dollars, even over a thousand dollars a month. And doctors jump at the chance to prescribe these drugs, as they often have arrangements with the dispensing pharmacy for kickbacks in one form or another. Prescribe the drug, make a lot of money, for many doctors an irresistible temptation. People lose weight and even can become non-type 2 diabetic and modestly reduce risk for heart disease—so what’s not to like? Plenty. That is the topic of discussion today on the Defiant Health podcast, a place where you hear ideas you cannot hear anywhere else because we dig deeper, are not swayed by big payoffs, and thumb our nose at conventional wisdom. The GLP-1 agonist drugs are not miraculous, but invite health disaster or hold you hostage for the rest of your life, shelling out money to enrich the pharmaceutical industry and doctors. ________________________________________________________________________________ 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. Support the show 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
	14 Sep 2024	The Powerful Influence of the GI Microbiome on Sleep	00:21:53
Sleep issues represent a major struggle for millions of people: too little sleep, trouble falling asleep, trouble staying asleep, early morning awakenings followed by difficulty falling back asleep. Some people complain that, despite having a full night of sleep, they awake feeling like they didn’t sleep at all, struggling with sleepiness, fog, and fatigue all through waking hours. There are also known associations of health conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome and Parkinson’s disease with disruptions of sleep. The science that explores the role of gastrointestinal microbes in sleep are yielding new and exciting lessons. Recently, for instance, lack of sleep has been shown to adversely impact the composition of the GI microbiome, i.e., there is a bidirectional cross-talk: the brain communicates with the gut, the gut communicates with the brain in ways that influence sleep. But new observations are also emerging from our fermentation projects, especially our yogurts in which we ferment unique microbial species to very high counts, increasing the number of microbes a hundred, or even a thousand-fold, efforts that are yielding new lessons that have not yet been formally described in human scientific studies. So let’s discuss some of these interesting lessons that are emerging involving sleep. ________________________________________________________________________________ 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. Support the show 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
	30 Sep 2024	How NOT to have atrial fibrillation	00:28:21
Atrial fibrillation, or A fib for short, is the most common heart rhythm issue that plagues people. About 30% of people will experience this rhythm disorder at some time in their lives, an issue that becomes more and more likely as we age. The rhythm is typically experienced as the sudden onset of breathlessness and lightheadedness, and sometimes chest pain, even while you are sitting or relaxing. This is because, with A fib, the heart rate is typically in the range of 150-220 beats per minute, way above the normal resting heart rate of 60-70 beats per minute. It’s the result of chaotic electrical signals originating from the atria of the heart, the normally thin-walled sacks at the top of the heart on the right and left side, i.e., the right and left atria. Beyond the symptoms of breathlessness and lightheadedness, A fib puts you at risk for stroke—not mini-strokes, but large catastrophic strokes. This is because there is a passive sack or appendage attached to the side of the left atrium called the left atrial appendage. Because during a bout of A fib, the atria stop their normal contractions in synchrony with the powerful ventricles, the main pumping chambers of the heart, blood stasis or standstill occurs, allowing the formation of blood clots in the left atrial appendage. Should the blood clot fragment or dislodge, it can go to your brain, resulting in a catastrophic stroke. This is why, in conventional cardiac care, blood thinners are administered almost immediately with the onset of A. fib. The management of this abnormal heart rhythm is fraught with difficulties and complications: toxic pharmaceuticals, procedures such as DC cardioversion in which a large and painful electrical shock is delivered with paddles to your chest, and others. So it is a good idea to take steps to avoid ever having this abnormal heart rhythm. Conventional advice typically includes achieving such things as controlling blood sugar and blood pressure with prescription drugs, or losing excess weight. But this leaves out some hugely important strategies that you can readily adopt that reduce your potential for experiencing A fib, as well as numerous other health problems. So that is the topic we consider here in this episode of the Defiant Health podcast. ________________________________________________________________________________ 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 show 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
	16 Oct 2024	Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Facts and Controversies	00:21:53
Over the last 30 years, the question over whether omega-3 fatty acids from fish has been the subject of controversy, swinging from exuberance over its potential benefits to skepticism over whether they provide any benefit at all. It seems that one day we hear that fish oil reduces risk for heart attack, while the next day we hear that there is no such benefit, even harm. We’ve also been subjected to numerous marketing claims for competing products with claims such as “40 times more potent than fish oil” or “You can’t buy this in a health food store” that further muddy the waters. So let’s review all that we have learned over the past 3 decades to decipher just what role, if any, omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil should play in your program to regain or maintain magnificent health. We dive into the history and outcomes of landmark studies like GISSI-Prevenzione, OMEGA Remodel, and REDUCE-IT, which have left researchers and medical professionals both excited and perplexed. Discover how high-dose EPA might just be the key to reversing coronary atherosclerosis, as outlined in the EVAPORATE trial. Join us as we dissect the data and reveal why omega-3s are more than just a fleeting trend; they could be a cornerstone of heart health backed by decades of research. Learn about different forms of fish oil supplements, and how the absorption rates can vary, cutting through the marketing jargon that often exaggerates their potency. Personalization is key, and we discuss how the RBC omega-3 index can offer tailored dosing advice. With a recommended daily intake of 3,600 milligrams, omega-3s promise noticeable improvements, but patience is needed as it takes about three months to reach a steady state. Subscribe now, and let us guide you through the science-backed journey to achieving optimal health, naturally. ________________________________________________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________________________________________ OmegaQuant test for RBC Omega-3 Index: https://omegaquant.com/ Support the show 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
	18 Oct 2024	Unlocking Wellness: Reed Davis on Environmental Toxins and Holistic Health Solutions	00:36:35
“Everyone coming in the door were sick and had already been to 8 or 10 healthcare practitioners and weren’t better yet. This is all wrong.” “It’s not just what you eat. It’s the air you breathe and the water you drink, the personal care products you use, household cleaning products. . .” Here is a conversation I had recently with with Reed Davis, a board-certified Holistic Health Practitioner (HHP) and Certified Nutritional Therapist (CNT). Over many years of experience, Reed has developed expertise in applying functional lab testing to pinpoint environmental, hormonal, nutritional, and other health disruptions and toxicities. He is the Founder of Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® (FDN) and the FDN Certification Course that has trained over 4000 graduates in 50 countries that follow Reed’s principles of functional testing and remediation. Reed is a fountain of knowledge and experience on solving health questions even after many doctors have failed. To identify a FDN-trained practitioner near you, a practitioner taught by Reed Davis in his unique approach, go to FDNtraining.com/william. ________________________________________________________________________________ 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. Support the show 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
	03 Nov 2024	The myth of “optimal medical therapy”	00:25:26
Over 30 years ago, I help set up the first CT heart scan device in Wisconsin, one of the first in the entire midwest. This was so long ago that it was really an electron beam tomogrraphy, or EBT, device that predated the more recently developed CT devices. The point is that these devices acquired images quickly, about 1/10th of a second. This is important because the heart is perpetually in motion through various cycles of its beating rhythm, with motion also provided by breathing. But these devices allowed us to precisely quantify calcium in the coronary arteries of the heart, the arteries that close and cause heart attacks. My friend, Dr. John Rumberger while at the Mayo Clinic, performed studies demonstrating that calcium consistently occupies 20% of total atherosclerotic plaque volume in the coronary arteries. In other words, quantifying calcium in the coronary arteries served as a gauge or dipstick for total atherosclerotic plaque in the heart’s arteries. Some years later, cardiologist Dr. Arthur Agatston, whose name you may recognize from his popular South Beach Diet books, developed a scoring system for coronary calcium, yielding something that came to be called an “Agatston score”: the higher the Agatston or calcium score, the more atherosclerotic plaque was present in the coronary arteries. Subsequent research has shown that the Agatston or calcium score is, by a long stretch, the best predictor of future cardiovascular events, far better than crude measures like cholesterol and these scores, in the 30+ years since my team and I started doing these scans, have become well-established as predictors of cardiovascular events like heart attack. But what to do with the score—can it be stopped? Can it be reduced? That is the topic for this episode of the Defiant Health podcast, highlighting what my colleagues call, even to this day, “optimal medical therapy” that has repeatedly been shown to NOT work and the answers lie elsewhere, answers that I shall discuss. _______________________________________________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________ Support the show 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
	20 Nov 2024	Seven Reasons to NEVER Eat Wheat Again	00:25:40
Those of you who follow my discussions that started with the Wheat Belly series of books already know that there is a long list of reasons why humans made an enormous blunder when we first resorted to the consumption of the seeds of grasses, meaning wheat and related grains. We know this from the anthropological record of human disease, we know this from modern science that has exposed the many problems that arise with their consumption from tooth decay to arthritis. But in my many conversations with people, I find that, because we are all bombarded with the opposite message from TV commercials, media reports, even doctors and dietitians, much of the rationale and science that tells us that wheat consumption is awful for health becomes diluted, or discounted, or ignored. My Wheat Belly arguments, for instance, have been dismissed as just another “gluten-free” message that has no bearing outside of celiac disease. Or that there are bad health consequences of banishing an entire category of food. Or that, if the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans tell us that grains must be a part of the human diet, it must therefore be true. Of course, this is all not true: misinterpretations, misrepresentations, sometimes outright lies, all to prop up continued consumption of a class of “foods” that accelerate disease, aging, and should have no place in the diet of humans. So for this reason, I am going to be guilty of repeating myself and once again reiterating why the arguments against the inclusion of wheat and grains are overwhelming, the health impact of their consumption shockingly awful, and the health benefits of their abandonment huge and life-changing. _______________________________________________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________ MyReuteri and Gut to Glow can be found here: oxiceutics.com Support the show 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
	06 Dec 2024	The curious phenomenon of bacterial translocation that is key to so many health conditions	00:24:13
I’ve spent some time reflecting back on all my years practicing in hospitals, often not sleeping for extended periods, sometimes days, covering hospitals floors and ICUs, resuscitating people who experienced cardiac arrests, taking them to the cath lab to open arteries, but also witnessing people with all sorts of other health conditions: cancers, wound infections, sepsis, delirium, the various stages of dementia, and hundreds of other debilitating disease. I now recognize that, looking back, so many health conditions can be better understood in light of the contribution of the microbiome, i.e., the trillions of microbes occupying the gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus, the nasal sinuses, the airways, the brain, the prostate, the vagina and uterus, the skin—virtually every part of the human body. We all know about acute bacterial infections. But I’m talking about something different. While microbes exert effects via a number of different routes—think the gut-brain axis, the gut-skin axis, the gut-muscle axis, effects exerted via hormones, inflammatory mediating proteins, and bacterial breakdown products. But beyond this, there is a curious phenomenon in which bacteria and fungi themselves, by a number of means, travel through the body to take up residence and cause trouble. But the “trouble” is not an infection in the conventional sense, but something different, less acute, less urgent, less dramatic, but nonetheless playing a big role in your health. This is the fascinating and scary phenomenon called “translocation,” the topic for this episode of the Defiant Health podcast. _______________________________________________________________________________ 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. _____________________________________________________________________________ MyReuteri and Gut to Glow can be found here: oxiceutics.com Support the show 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
	13 Dec 2024	Why managing skin pH is crucial for skin health and appearance	00:21:47
I’ve been showing thousands of people how to restore this microbe lost by the majority of modern people, Lactobacillus reuteri. But, of all the spectacular improvements in health we can gain by managing our microbiomes, such as an increase in empathy and generosity, reduction in anxiety and depression, deeper sleep, increased libido, restored youthful musculature and strength, the females in my audience have repeatedly said something like, “Well, that’s all well and good, but I’m mostly interested in the skin benefits.” So I’ve spent a good deal of time, energy, and resources in exploring this question, including performing a small human clinical trial to better understand how and why restoration of L. reuteri, especially when combined with other non-microbial synergistic factors, can restore youthful healthy skin. One issue that has emerged to the forefront in our quest to better under skin health and appearance is the issue of skin pH. We may not think about skin this way, but healthy skin is acidic. The pH of healthy skin in someone not plagued by eczema, acne, rosacea, psoriasis, or other skin conditions is typically around 4.5. Recall that neutral is 7.0 and the blood is mildly alkaline at a pH of 7.4. Unhealthy skin, in contrast, skin with various skin rashes, has a pH of around 5.5—given the logarithmic nature of the pH scale, unhealthy skin is therefore 10-fold less acidic than healthy skin, a huge difference. This difference in pH is a crucial determinant of what you skin looks and feels like, whether you will be prone to these sorts of skin rashes or whether you can enjoy smooth youthful skin. So let’s dive into that topic, the importance of managing skin pH. _______________________________________________________________________________ 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. _____________________________________________________________________________ MyReuteri and Gut to Glow can be found here: oxiceutics.com Support the show 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
	04 Jan 2025	Managing Endotoxemia: Key to SO Many Aspects of Health	00:41:29
I’ve touched on the topic of endotoxemia in past episodes of the Defiant Health podcast. In this episode, let’s dive deeper into this topic that is absolutely crucial to understanding and managing SO many aspects of health, from subduing anxiety and panic, to depressive, to joint pain and skin rashes, to gastrointestinal conditions, even weight management. What is endotoxemia? Fecal microbes, so-called Gram-negative species because of the way these microbes take up stain for examination under a microscope, species such as E. coli and Salmonella, have something called lipopolysaccharide endotoxin in their cells walls. Other species, so-called Gram positive species such as Enterococcus, Staphylococcus, and Streptococcus, that stain in a different manner, have something called lipoteichoic acid in their cell walls. When these microbes die, both Gram-negative and Gram-positive, these toxic factors are released into the intestines. If these fecal microbes are confined to the colon, where they belong, a section of GI tract adapted to their presence, the entry of these toxic components are limited and current evidence is unclear in how importat this process is. The real trouble occurs, however, when fecal microbes have invaded the 24-feet of small intestine, a process we label small intetinal bacterial overgrowth, or SIBO, because the small intestine—the stomach, duodenum, jejunum, and ileum are not well-adapted to the invasion of fecal species. Here, they die, release their toxic components, which then enter the bloodstream, the process labeled endotoxemia. People with SIBO therefore have high blood levels of endotoxin. This is how microbes in the GI Tract export their effects to other parts of the body. Let’s discuss this process and how you can take control over your emotions, mood, sleep, energy, weight, and numerous other aspects of 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. _____________________________________________________________________________ MyReuteri and Gut to Glow can be found here: oxiceutics.com Support the show 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
	22 Jan 2025	Is blue light damaging your eyesight?	00:24:58
Over the past decade, most of us have converted our home lighting to light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs, as they save a significant amount of energy, requiring 75-90% less energy than older incandescent lights. Personally, I converted the 50 or lightbulbs in my house to nearly all LEDs. Most current LEDs emit, of course, visible light. But they also emit a significant amount of blue light and very little red and infrared (IR), in contrast to old-fashioned incandescent bulbs that emit some blue and a lot of red and IR. Remember when you had to change an incandescent bulb when it died? If you tried to unscrew it, it could burn your hand because the bulb was extremely hot. That’s the effect of red and IR that generates heat. Change a LED bulb and you can do so immediately, as the bulb is cool, even after dying just moments earlier. This is due to the absence of significant amounts of red and IR. While well-intended to save energy, it is now becoming clear that the wholesale conversion to blue-emitting LED lighting has been exerting adverse health effects, especially visual. So let’s begin talking about the role of light, specifically blue wavelengths in this episode of the Defiant Health podcast, then about the role of red and IR in a future episode. _______________________________________________________________________________ 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. _____________________________________________________________________________ MyReuteri and Gut to Glow can be found here: oxiceutics.com Support the show 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
	05 Feb 2025	Are health coaches the future of healthcare?	00:40:51
We all recognize that American healthcare is a badly broken system. Wildly overpriced, exploitative, with a focus on pharmaceuticals and medical procedures to the exclusion of basic issues such as nutrition, the role of nutrients, and the microbiome. Can we expect doctors, healthcare executives, pharma or medical device executives to find better solutions? I highly doubt it. One of the problems plaguing conventional delivery of healthcare is that doctors lack the time, knowledge, and frankly the interest in spending more time with their patients, hearing about their issues, then creating solutions that address their unique concerns. Enter the age of health coaches. A number of years ago, when I first heard about this phenomenon, of heath coaches playing a role in the delivery of health, I was skeptical. But over the past decade, as I’ve worked with health coaches, witnessed what they could accomplish, and heard plenty of positive feedback from the public engaging their services, my opinions about health coaching has completely changed. I now see them as part of the engine that will drive improvements in healthcare. I therefore tracked down Sandra Scheinbaum, a Phd clinical psychologist who counseled patients for many years but then diverted her career into functional medicine and health coaching, bringing the unique insights into human behavior and emotions that came from decades of practicing clinical psychology, now applied to health coaching. Dr. Scheinbaum founded the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy that educates and trains people in acquiring the skills and knowledge to practice as a health coach. She is also author of several books including Functional Medicine Coaching: Stories from the Movement That's Transforming Healthcare, and her newest book, Your Health Coach Will See You Now available in April 2025 on Amazon and selected bookstores. In this episode of Defiant Health, Dr. Scheinbaum recounts how she made this change in direction and what she foresees for the future of this important phenomenon of health coaching. For more information: FunctionalMedicineCoaching.org ___________________________________________________________________ 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 show 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
	04 Mar 2025	Dr. Eric Westman on the Power of Limiting Carbohydrates to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes; Cholesterol is not a disease	01:02:28
I first met Dr. Eric Westman at a low-carbohydrate meeting a number of years ago where he discussed an extremely important and insightful human clinical trial he had conducted in which he counseled participants with type 2 diabetes to follow a very low-carbohydrate, essentially ketogenic, diet. He was almost prohibited from conducted the study because some colleagues felt it was too dangerous. Nonetheless, the study was completed and demonstrated that type 2 diabetic participants no longer needed insulin and most diabetes drugs while achieving improved blood glucose measures by engaging in a lifestyle that was the direct opposite of conventional dietary advice. As groundbreaking as this study was for its time, it is simply not talked about enough, as it is one of the most important pieces of evidence that validates the idea that limiting carbohydrates and sugars, not fats or saturated fats, is key to, in this case, improving diabetes control, even helping make many people non-diabetic. I therefore thought it would be a good idea to ask Dr. Westman to describe his rationale for the study, discuss the results, and share the lessons he has learned since then. 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. _____________________________________________________________________________ MyReuteri and Gut to Glow can be found here: oxiceutics.com Support the show 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
	20 Mar 2025	Why Cutting Calories is Dangerous	00:23:52
Over 50% of Americans are, at any one time, trying to lose weight. So it’s understandable that the GLP-1 agonist drugs like Ozempic and Mounjaro have become so popular, given their spectacular upfront results. Others have used reduced calorie diets in their various forms: counting points, assigning foods red, yellow, or green lights, meal replacement products, etc. Or bariatric procedures like lap-band, jejunoileal bypass, or gastric bypass. But there is a lot that people are not told about these methods. The near-term prospect of losing weight is so enticing to people and so profitable to doctors, the healthcare system, and the pharmaceutical industry that is simply no incentive to tell you the full story. So let me fill you in on the real story, the full details about why cutting calories, regardless of the form it takes, can be so dangerous. _________________________________________________________________________________ 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. _____________________________________________________________________________ MyReuteri and Gut to Glow can be found here: oxiceutics.com Support the show 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
	02 Apr 2025	Cold Water Immersion: Cardiac Russian Roulette	00:18:26
The practice of immersing your body in ice water is growing in popularity based on claims of improved mood and well-being, muscle recovery after exercise, even longevity. But this ignores the well-established fact that sudden cardiac death is a real risk due to coronary spasm, causing heart attack, and unstable heart rhythms due to a situation called autonomic conflict. There are a growing number of lawsuits that have been filed for the many sudden cardiac deaths that have occurred. So let’s discuss what we know about this concept of cold water immersion and why it is such a dangerous practice. • Immersion in water around 15°C/60°F triggers dangerous physiological responses • Cold exposure causes coronary arteries to spasm, potentially leading to heart attack • Most adults have some degree of endothelial dysfunction, making them vulnerable • "Autonomic conflict" occurs when both nervous system branches activate simultaneously • Multiple lawsuits have been filed over deaths from ice baths and polar plunges • Safer alternatives exist for achieving the claimed benefits of cold exposure • Cold showering (starting warm and gradually cooling) may offer similar benefits with less risk ________________________________________________________________________________ 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. _____________________________________________________________________________ MyReuteri and Gut to Glow can be found here: oxiceutics.com Support the show 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
	12 Apr 2025	Will eating yogurt change your life?	00:16:49
Go to any supermarket and you will see the impressive variety of products in the dairy aisle labeled "yogurt." You have a mindboggling collection of choices: non-fat, low-fat, full-fat, flavored, unflavored. Single-serve cartons, quart containers, squeezable tubes, jars. Will consuming any of these products change your life in any significant way? Will you be heathier, have better bowel health, skin health, metabolic health, mental health? Let’s discuss why, no, you will not experience any dramatic life-altering effects from consuming these products. They may be tasty, but they will not change your life in any meaningful way. But, by modifying what we call yogurt, you CAN create something that looks and smells like yogurt but DOES provide substantial life- and health-changing effects. __________________________________________________________________________ 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. _____________________________________________________________________________ MyReuteri and Gut to Glow can be found here: oxiceutics.com Support the show 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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