How many times have you promised yourself to finally lose that unwanted weight? How many times have you failed? This is nothing more than an exercise in self-destruction.
This annual ritual results in lowering your self-esteem, not your weight. – Tweet this!
You can feel good about yourself again. You can achieve a physical makeover that makes you look 10, even 20 years younger without Botox, filler injections, surgery, or without any unwanted health consequences. You can enjoy shopping for clothing. You can eliminate the need for a multitude of prescription drugs. You simply need a plan. Not just any plan, you need a plan that is backed up by facts and results.
The Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox is unlike all other detox programs. – Tweet this!
It does not involve cleansing your body with various juices or a magical concoction of supplements purported to remove body “toxins,” nor is it a timetable of daily enemas that complicate your meeting schedule. It is a detoxification process from the toxic effects of wheat and grains, a detoxification in the truest sense of the term. It is not just a matter of not eating wheat and grains or of eating “gluten-free” (as critics often perceive it).
This 10-day detox distills all the wisdom of the original Wheat Belly books and the lessons learned by the millions of people who have adopted this approach— incorporating the most insightful, cutting-edge, and effective strategies, and sharing them with you so that you can begin your path to weight and health success in a short 10 days.
This challenge brings with it a community of people who understand what you have gone through and are here to support you as you become the healthy person you desire to be.
It all begins with committing to the 10-day challenge. Just 10 days! Don’t you owe it to yourself?
No excuses…The next challenge begins on January 4th. You have time to prepare! – Tweet this!
Yours in grainless health,
Dr. William Davis
Two questions:
(1) Supplement pills contain fillers, including such things as cord starch and maltodextrin. I realize that the amount in each pill is tiny, but I take a lot of supplement pills (20+) and this can add up. Is this a big problem for those of us attempting a wheat-free lifestyle?
(2) Rice and corn…Avoid or limited?…Dr. Davis’ advice seems mixed on these foods. Please clarify.
Mike Wiener wrote: «Supplement pills contain fillers … I take a lot of supplement pills (20+) … Is this a big problem…»
It can be, and I spent some words on it in the Supplement Central article I’ve been working on, created largely to ease my annual review of what my family takes.
«Rice and corn…Avoid or limited?»
Avoid.
Rice was mentioned as a ‘limited’ in the original Wheat Belly book, but has been deprecated since then, and we’ve since learned of the arsenic problem. Rice is very high glycemic. It contains an adverse lectin (wheat germ agglutinin, WGA) which is a direct gut antagonist. There is risk of substantial arsenic contamination, as rice excels at pulling inorganic As out of the soil (and so the level is field-dependent). Being organic provides no protection on any of the foregoing (even on the As, as the As may be native or from field practices decades ago). Non-organic rices will have the usual problems with treatment uptake afield, in transport and in storage. Flow agents may be present as well.
Corn, also high glycemic, contains zein protein which may act much like the gliadin of wheat. There is nothing you can do to mitigate these other than eat less. Unless the corn is credibly non-GMO and organic, it is likely to harbor Bt toxin or glyphosate (Roundup Ready®) resistant genes. Bt merely makes the corn itself a pesticide, suspected as a gut biome antagonist. Glyphosate resistance pretty much assures some glyphosate uptake, another suspected gut hazard and a suspected endocrine hazard (and Roundup® isn’t just glyho). Unless credibly organic, other pesticide uptake issues arise.
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Dr. Davis, I read Wheat Belly a few years ago but have had a resurgence in interest in this topic and came back to your book and am reading your new book, The 10 Day Grain Detox. Your comments about the effects of phytates, wheat germ agglutinin and other toxic effects of grains really have my attention!! I am now wondering if in addition to the more obvious issues I have, elevated HgbA1C and insulin resistance, maybe my low grade persistent depression and dysphoria might be related to grains. I eat almost no wheat but I think I’ve succumbed to the ‘gluten-free’ craze and have substituted wheat with other grains in GF crackers and mixes. Do you have more information on grains effects on mood??? I am so grateful for the work you are doing and promoting this important information.
Hillary wrote: «I am now wondering if in addition to the more obvious issues I have, elevated HgbA1C and insulin resistance, maybe my low grade persistent depression and dysphoria might be related to grains.»
Carbs alone can drive elevated HbA1c and IR. Grains are just particularly effective at it, being 60% glucose, and addictive.
Depression and dysphoria have been remarked on by Dr. Davis since before the publication of Wheat Belly. Here’s a post from what was the old Heart Scan Blog in early 2011:
Heroin, Oxycontin, and a whole wheat bagel
re: «Do you have more information on grains effects on mood?»
You can type “depression” into this blog’s Search feature and get over 100 hits. The topic is also covered from a more theoretical point of view in the Wheat Belly Total Health book (2014).
re: «I think I’ve succumbed to the ‘gluten-free’ craze and have substituted wheat with other grains in GF crackers and mixes.»
Get the daily net carbs down to WB targets, and I suspect you’ll be delighted with results on multiple issues. 97% of the products on the Gluten-Free aisle, alas, are distinctly unhelpful on this aspect of optimal diet.
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Thanks so much for your response Bob! I looked at your contributor profile and could not agree more with your comments about humanity under attack……
To clarify my comments about my low grade depression, my wonder is not that these feelings are theresult of wheat withdrawal but possibly from phytates and other toxic components of other grains mentioned in the 10-Day Grain Detox that may be mucking with my brain. Any thoughts there??
Hillary wrote: «…my wonder is not that these feelings are the result of wheat withdrawal but possibly from phytates and other toxic components of other grains…»
Well, a full-time glycemic diet can probably do that all by itself, whether the active antagonist is table sugar or quinoa. Phytates from other grains can certainly interfere with micronutrient uptake, and several micros have neurological implications. Lectins from other grains (e.g. rice) can contribute to dysbiosis with multiple effects.
Someone coming off a diet that was just gluten-free or wheat-free may have nutritional issues of more import than these grain matters. A low-fat diet diet has neuro hazards. A higher-fat diet with adverse fats (like inflammatory grain and seed oils) and/or insufficient Omega 3s is in the same fix. Dysbiosis from any number of causes, including insufficient prebiotic fiber affects mood. Common micronutrient deficiencies affect mood.
Then there are actual ailments, prominently hypothyroidism, that affect mood. Hypo is usually a consequence of modern diet and exposure to thyroid antagonists. Fixing diet and iodine intake may or may not correct it without some thyroid hormone replacement therapy, which is why thyroid gets special attention in the Wheat Belly programs.
Circadian hygiene (quality sleep) would be another factor, and there are several more, such as prescription meds that may turn out to be optional. The WB program hits all these notes, and they all need to be hit. Presume that every point made in the 10-Day book is important.
All of this is by way of saying that rather than theorize about hidden hazards in the GF grains, my inclination would be to just overhaul the entire diet, per the current WB advice, and only dig deeper if problems persist.
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I joke
I thought you got shutdown for your homosexual grain comment Uncle Roscoe
Looks interesting.