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The Genius Code™ - Purpose, Mindset and ProsperityThe Snakes And Ladders LifeHave you ever found yourself in life feeling like you’re taking three steps forward and two steps back? And wondered what you need to do to get into the flow of life? Why is it that sometimes things seem to go well, while at other times, it’s like you’re facing multiple challenges? In The Genius Code™, using the analogy of the "Snakes And Ladders Life", I outline the overarching structure of what happens in our life, and what the one thing is that we should be focused on so as to ease into that flow.Life o...
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The Health Detective Podcast by Functional Diagnostic NutritionHow Your Microbiome Can Make You Happy w/ Dr. William Davis, Author of Wheat BellyIn this episode of the Health Detective Podcast, host Evan Transue, AKA, Detective Ev, interviews Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist and bestselling author, to delve into how the microbiome and specific dietary changes can dramatically improve health outcomes.
Dr. Davis shares his personal journey and groundbreaking discoveries such as the profound effects of Lactobacillus reuteri on oxytocin production, which can enhance mood, reduce anxiety, and increase acceptance of differing opinions. They discuss his pioneering work on the detrimental impacts of grains and sugars, the benefits of key nutrients like vitamin D, and how certain microbes can reshape...
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Defiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisUnlocking Wellness: Reed Davis on Environmental Toxins and Holistic Health Solutions“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...
2024-10-1836 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisA conversation with JJ Flizanes: Identifying your obstacles to success in weight loss, health, money, career, and relationshipsA 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...
2024-02-0357 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisHere’s what happens when you reduce endotoxemiaReady 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...
2023-11-0724 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisMaking Sense Out of Your Cholesterol PanelCholesterol 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...
2023-10-2830 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisButyrate: Unleashing the Power of Diet for Flawless SkinWhat 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...
2023-10-1320 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisThe Hidden Dangers of Abdominal Fat—and How to Get Rid of ItPrepare 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...
2023-10-0628 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisDeciphering the Complex World of Food Intolerances: The Role of Diet, Lifestyle, and SIBOHas 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...
2023-09-0727 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisThe blood glucose “No change rule” to accelerate weight loss and achieve other health benefitsMonitoring 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 contr...
2023-08-2818 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisCan you look and feel many years younger?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...
2023-08-0332 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisDisentangling the Web of Deceptive Diet AdvicePrepare 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 s...
2023-07-1329 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisUnveiling the Secrets of Ancestral Dental Health: Diet, Lifestyle and BeyondAnthropologists 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 hum...
2023-07-0717 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisCollagen: Anti-Aging Protein?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 co...
2023-07-0215 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisAlpha Dreams, Alpha-Delta Sleep and Other Microbiome Effects on SleepLong 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 ar...
2023-06-2327 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisWhat Lessons Can We Learn From the 50-Year Low-Fat Dietary Mistake?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...
2023-06-1034 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisHow and Why Wheat Makes You FatDietary 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...
2023-05-2729 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisHow NOT to have fatty liverIt’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...
2023-05-2123 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisThe Case Against GLP-1 AgonistsYou’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...
2023-05-1035 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisCan arthritis be prevented or reversed?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 “bon...
2023-05-0326 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisCan narcissism be reversed?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 P...
2023-04-2517 minThe Genius Code™ - Purpose, Mindset and ProsperityChoice PointsWhat is a Choice Point? Well, a choice point is a moment in your life when you have a decision to make which will alter the course of your life journey. Some choice points are easy to make, while others are extremely difficult and challenging to choose and take action on. Now choice points are not your everyday decisions that people make. Like what meal will you have, whether you should attend a particular meeting or not. Or what you might price your product or service at. They’re not choice points – they’re just everyday decisions to make.
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2023-04-2500 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisThe keys to body shape, muscle, and fatThe 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 musc...
2023-04-1540 minThe Genius Code™ - Purpose, Mindset and ProsperityWe Are All MirrorsHave you ever noticed traits or behaviours about other people that you don’t like? They could be simple things that they do… but they do them often… and it then starts to bug you or grate on your nerves. There are so many things that people do, or do not do, that can really irritate us. And when we look closely at them, it’s these traits or the actions that they take or in some cases the actions that they don’t take, that really begins to annoy us. It’s not necessarily the person themselves – but more about wha...
2023-04-0400 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisWhat's the best way to eradicate SIBO?I’ve previously discussed this widespread epidemic we are experiencing called SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. For those of you unfamiliar with this condition, it is the situation that has developed in millions of people not from a virus or exposures to other people, but from numerous factors in modern life, but especially overexposure to antibiotics, food additives, herbicides, and prescription drugs. Exposure to these factors has resulted in the loss of literally hundreds of microbial species in our gastrointestinal microbiomes, i.e., the trillions of microbes dwelling in our GI tracts. These microbes helped suppress the proliferation of un...
2023-03-2234 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisAnti-Aging YogurtMany 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 kno...
2023-03-1528 minThe Genius Code™ - Purpose, Mindset and ProsperityHow To Build Your Self WorthSelf-worth is one of those things that impacts every aspect of your life – it impacts your relationships, your finances, your business or career – it impacts everything. If your self-worth is low, then you unconsciously feel you are not deserving of better – and therefore you cannot bring about what you want in your life. Ultimately self-worth is about how much you value yourself. In The Genius Code, I explain what is needed to build your self-worth, what the difference is between self-worth and self-esteem, and why one is more detrimental.
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2023-03-0700 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisCholesterol: Not what it’s cracked up to beIn 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 su...
2023-03-0526 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisHyaluronic acid: Dietary missing linkIn 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 m...
2023-02-2215 minThe Genius Code™ - Purpose, Mindset and ProsperityGive From The SaucerThere are two types of people in this world – there are “the givers” and then there are “the takers”. Givers naturally want to help and support other people – and they do this in a variety of different ways. Their internal radar is always on to see how they can help other people. But just like the takers, there is a shadow side to being a giver. And this shadow side will affect our confidence. In The Genius Code, I explain why it is so important to give from the saucer and not from the cup, to help build your self-confide...
2023-02-2100 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisWhy cutting calories is dangerousIn 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...
2023-02-1419 min
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2023-02-0810 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisHealth begins in the mouth: An interview with functional dentist Debbie Ozment, DDSIn 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?...
2023-02-0741 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisIs your skin aging faster than it should?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 ar...
2023-01-3023 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisBig Butt or Big Gut: Is There a Difference?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 mea...
2023-01-2429 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisWhat's so toxic about wheat?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...
2023-01-1634 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisFive Things Cardiologists Won't Tell YouIn 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.
2022-12-2144 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisWhat is Gut to Glow?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 som...
2022-12-1124 min
YPLIFEMaking Godly DecisionsThis week Brother Davis talks about making wise decisions. Every day we make hundreds of decisions, and often times we make decisions without God. Today I want to help you make Godly decisions in your life!
2022-12-0717 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisWill my programs make you younger?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...
2022-12-0231 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisInterview with JJ Flizanes on Emotional HealingIn 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 prog...
2022-11-1655 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisBeat Your Sugar CravingsThere 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 therefor...
2022-11-0622 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisA Short History of IodineI’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...
2022-10-2725 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisInterview with oral microbiome champion, Dr. Debbie OzmentIn 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 th...
2022-10-1828 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisWhat's Missing From Dietary GuidelinesIn 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...
2022-09-2419 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisEverything You Wanted to Know About Constipation But Were Afraid to AskIn 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 a...
2022-09-1121 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisNew Microbiome Insights Into Repeated Urinary Tract InfectionsIn 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...
2022-08-3019 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisNon-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity is REALFor 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...
2022-08-2124 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisLessons to Learn From Lactose IntoleranceMany 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...
2022-08-0417 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisOxytocin: Hormone of HumanityIn 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...
2022-07-2418 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisThe Low-Fat Dietary DisasterMake 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...
2022-07-1228 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisThe Great Microbiome DesertCompared 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...
2022-06-3032 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisFive Strategies for Heart Health You Probably Didn't Know AboutWhile 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...
2022-06-2138 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisTwo Nutrients, Two Microbes Crucial for Pregnancy and LactationHere 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....
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2022-06-0321 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisLittle Known Benefits of Omega-3 Fatty AcidsIf 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...
2022-05-2419 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisUnexpected Ways to Boost Your Immune ResponseHere 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...
2022-05-1820 minDefiant Health Radio with Dr. William DavisWhat should blood sugar be after a meal?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...
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