Originally posted by Dr. Davis on 2016-07-25
on the Wheat Belly Blog,
sourced from and currently found at: Infinite Health Blog.
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Note: this solicitation would have closed by early 2017,
and was for the then upcoming Undoctored book.
I’m looking for
Wheat Belly Total Health testimonials!

The Wheat Belly Total Health approach begins
with wheat and grain elimination . . . but does not end there.
Followers of this program understand that
eliminating wheat and grains that started so many health and weight
problems removes the initial cause. But many health issues can
persist in their wake, some caused by wheat/grains, others just due
to common nutritional deficiencies with broad health implications.
For this reason, there are additional strategies to follow
if you hope to regain and maintain ideal health. These strategies
include correction of magnesium and iodine deficiencies, restoration
of vitamin D, achieving ideal thyroid status, and cultivation of bowel flora.
It seems like a simple list, but built into
this combination are powerful synergies: leave just one out
and your entire program can suffer and you may not enjoy a full return
to health. Or an initial health improvement will not sustain over time
and you can develop constipation, abdominal discomfort, erratic or high
blood sugars and blood pressure, and other health issues. It’s
something I call the ”2 + 2 = 11″ effect:
the total is greater than the sum of the parts—far greater.
Let me use high triglycerides as an example.
High triglycerides are a powerful index of the quality of diet, insulin
and blood sugar status, visceral fat, and cardiovascular risk with far
greater insight than the LDL cholesterol value most of my colleagues
focus on because of the excessive marketing of the statin drug industry.
Let’s say someone starts with a fasting blood triglyceride level
of 500 mg/dl—very high. What if we added the strategies of the
Wheat Belly Total Health approach one by one? It would play out
something like this:
- Eliminate wheat and grains–and triglycerides drop to
160 mg/dl
- Slash net carbs by never exceeding 15 grams net carbs per
meal–and triglycerides drop to 120 mg/dl
- Add omega-3 fatty acids via fish oil at full dose–and triglycerides
drop to 80 mg/dl
- Add vitamin D to achieve a 25-hydroxy vitamin D level of
60-70 ng/ml, the ideal level–triglycerides drop
to 65 mg/dl
- Cultivate bowel flora through a combined program of probiotics and
fermented foods along with daily attention to prebiotic fibers–and
triglycerides drop to 43 mg/dl, an ideal level
Every component of the Wheat Belly Total Health
program plays a role in reducing triglycerides to the ideal level
(60 mg/dl or less). The effect is further compounded by reversing
health conditions that caused triglyceride-raising prescription drugs
to be prescribed, such as beta blockers and diuretics. This same
principle holds true for hundreds of other health situations.
I would therefore like to illustrate this
principle for a new book I am writing that will be released in spring,
2017 (no longer called “Wheat Belly” but by a new title
with substantial overlap with the Total Health strategies) by sharing
stories and photos of people who have had health successes by
incorporating all the strategies of the Wheat Belly Total Health program.
As a thank you, I will have a free copy of the new book sent to you if
I use your story in the book.
If you’ve got a story you’d
like to share (with or without “before” and
“after” photos), please post a few sentences about your
experience on the Wheat Belly Facebook page.
(You could post it as a comment on this blog, but we need a way to communicate
privately in order to obtain your email address. Facebook provides a private
message function that is not available on this blog.) If your story fits needs
for the book, I and my staff will contact you for additional information.
This will be a chance to show off to everyone just how far you have come!
