Lydia posted this wonderful comment describing her unexpected and profound wheat-free experience and how she is using it to change the lives and health of those around her.
“I started Wheat Belly 56 days ago. Since then I have learned so much about food, about not basing my life around the scale and counting calories. I have ALWAYS been overweight and for 10 years the medical issues that come with it: thyroid, insulin resistance, depression.
In this short amount of time, I have lost 23 pounds and 2 prescriptions. I have never felt this clear minded or positive about anything before. Every ‘diet’ I have ever been on (and that is A LOT) has failed. Wheat Belly was the first way of eating in which I’ve felt free of normal dieting restrictions. I am confident that this is a lifestyle and doesn’t require ‘cheat days.’
Along with changing my outlook and health, I’ve managed to help my 57-year old mother who has not been well my entire life. Four back surgeries, every kind of arthritis, migraines, thyroid, high blood pressure, adult onset diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome, acid reflux, and the list goes on. She was on 16 different prescriptions with multiple doctors and specialist who do not have answers other than more pills.
In the first two months, she’s had relief for the first time. 43 pounds lighter, standing straighter, more energy, life and color back to her face and voice, control over muscles. It’s absolutely outstanding.
I’ve been such an advocate for your book that 17 of my friends now own both of your books and are starting their journey. They come to me for advice and motivation. This group of people includes my brother, who is a pharmaceutical scientist! He’s now a firm believer that your body is capable of healing and maintaining health when fueled by the right foods. My life is changed and my mother got hers back.”
The Wheat Belly movement continues to grow and grow.
Had Wheat Belly just been a book, first released in August, 2011, it would have enjoyed — at best — a few months in the spotlight and then, as with all books, fizzle out of public attention. Instead, the Wheat Belly wheat-free movement has grown larger and larger, now growing faster and faster.
And this has little or nothing to do with me. While I got the discussion going, exposing modern semi-dwarf wheat for the poisonous food it is, it’s people like Lydia and her mom that keep spreading this message.
Think how profound this revelation is: We do the OPPOSITE of what we are advised to do by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, we go against the Food Pyramid and Plate of the USDA, ignore the advice of the Academy of Dietetics and Nutrition and the absurd teachings of the American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association — and lives and weight are transformed.
Not just losing a few pounds, but getting rid of long lists of nasty prescriptions, being freed from pain and mental fog, reclaiming energy and happiness that many thought were long gone.
Following the wheat-free lifestyle not only changes your life —it also ripples through the lives of the people around you.
New Study from university of Sydney, Australia
With the Wheat Belly Diet red meat and fats are ok for heart, are we again receiving information that has a hidden agenda?
HDL good cholesterol reduces the ability of the cancer to spread.
“Scientists have long known that aggressive cancer cells accumulate bad cholesterol, but this is the first time we have seen how blocking LDL uptake could help stop cancer cells from moving”
“Understanding how cancer cells start to migrate is very important because that’s the stage where current cancer treatments are not helping very much. It’s been known for quite a while that cholesterol somehow is needed for these cancer cells to become mobile and to move. But the researchers didn’t know where that cholesterol was coming from”
“We were able to identify that it’s bad cholesterol that helps cancer cells to move and spread, and in contrast the good cholesterol helps cells not to move and not to invade other tissues. One of the things that make cancer so difficult to treat is the fact that it can spread around the body. Our findings advance the theory that knowing how to manipulate and lower bad cholesterol could significantly help to reduce the ability of cancer cells to spread”
“People with common cancers often have low LDL levels because the cholesterol has been absorbed by the cancer cells which need it to grow and spread. It’s well known that prostate, breast as well as liver cancers are very much related to our metabolism and cholesterol levels. People with a family history of high cholesterol, consume excessive alcohol and eat unhealthy Western diets should be aware that dangerous LDL levels could contribute to the way cancer develops”
University of Sydney study lead author, Associate Professor Thomas Grewal, May 2014.
The most effective way to raise your bad cholesterol levels is through a high-sugar, high-animal-foods diet, alongside a stressful sedentary lifestyle.
Here are some massive historical proven studies on the subject (1960-2014):
A huge meta-analysis of 27 studies published in 2009 in the American Journal of Cardiology showed that dropping meat from your diet “can decrease cholesterol levels by 10%-15%”
The huge INTERHEART study of 30,000 men and women in 52 countries showed that at least 90% of heart disease is lifestyle related
Ornish D, Brown SE, Scherwitz LW, et al. “Can lifestyle changes reverse coronary heart disease?” Lancet 336 (1990): 129-133.
Morrison LM. “Diet in coronary atherosclerosis.” JAMA 173 (1960): 884-888.
Lyon TP, Yankley A, Gofman JW, et al. “Lipoproteins and diet in coronary heart disease.” California Med. 84 (1956): 325-328.
Morrison LM. “Arteriosclerosis.” JAMA 145 (1951): 1232-1236.
Brand new study published in the journal Cell Reports, May 2014. As reported by The Australian, Sydney Morning Herald & News Corp Australia on May 07, 2014.
Hey, lets modify a natural substance like wheat and mess with nature. What could possibly go wrong??!!
And now they wanna genetically modify salmon, and a whole bunch of other foods?? Insane!!!!
Thank god Obama put a 4-year ban on GM salmon
Il will take time before the mentally change about grain,
http://www.medicaldaily.com/healthier-school-lunch-requirements-are-met-both-support-and-pushback-280412
re: Norman Borlaug, see:
https://drdavisinfinitehealth.com/2014/03/whats-worse-than-genetic-modification/comment-page-1/#comment-202871
This is the idiot who invented semi-dwarf wheat. He even got a Nobel prize for making us all sick:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug
I am commenting on an older blog about severe weight loss on the WB diet. I have been wheat-free and grain free for almost two years. I have lost 30 lbs. I am 5.9, was 142 lbs when I started, now 116 lbs. I know this is way underweight, my BMI is too low, my doctor says I am too thin, and I look skeletal. Am still fighting constant constipation, and stomach distress. Your comment was that the weight will come back, but I am still losing. How can I stop the weight loss and stabilize?
Eat a lot more fat.
Yes! Must ready lots of good fats
Google “Bulletproof Coffee” for an easy extra amount of fats and other benefits.
interesting concept – they do say it is for weight loss, though. Is using MCT oil a good idea since they are made in a lab?
Sandy,
MCT Oil is refined from and part of coconut oil. I believe coconut oil is a natural substance taken from coconuts. Everyone involved in this way of eating, whether it is called Wheat Belly, Paleo, Primal, Perfect Health Diet, Whole 30 and others also believe it is an easy way to add good fats to your diet. Bodybuilders like this too.
The weight loss happens when you don’t eat enough. Adding healthy fats like MCT oil, coconut oil and grass fed butter to
your morning coffee can be very satisfying to those who want to loose weight and forgo a meal. If you eat a healthy breakfast along with the Bulletproof Coffee, you will be adding fats and carbs in a healthy manner. You can add this oil to your morning smoothie.
Healing your gut is paramount. You may wish to consider the supplements Dr. Davis recommends to ensure proper nutrition.
Sandy,
It could be an issue of first healing your gut biome…..probiotics, fermented foods, resistant starch might help. Do you have hyperthyroid or adrenal issues?
yes, definitely adrenal. I have started on probiotic and had a green banana in a smoothie. Slowly trying to add hummus and chia. Thanks for the help
You are looking awesome, please share with me the details of how you went about it. I am always on and off wheat but this time I am determined to do it for life, lm 2 weeks into it.
I was on and off for 7 months. Finally I said, this is enough. When I ate wheat I just had a weird feeling the next day that I couldn’t describe. That did it. Two months after I stopped I had calamari and got tags on my elbows. That really did it! Ten months later I am in Bali at a restaurant that serves real, local and organic as much as possible food. I ate a tiny slice of sourdough bread (Australian wheat). Don’t believe the hype, sourdough fermenting does not make the wheat OK. If you don’t believe your body, get the Commonwealth Labs blood test. It will show gluten allergy – NO and wheat allergy – I, II, III, or IV depending on how bad you are allergic to the gliadin and other proteins in wheat other than gluten. You can’t eat a little wheat just like you cannot be a little bit pregnant.
Well said, Lydia. A powerful testimonial. Congratulations on all you’ve accomplished for yourself and others.