Defiant Health Radio with Dr. William Davis
Episodes
Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity is REAL
20 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For years, unpleasant symptoms such as abdominal pain, headache, joint pain, and skin rashes experienced with consumption of wheat and grains were dis...
Lessons to Learn From Lactose Intolerance
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Oxytocin: Hormone of Humanity
23 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In previous episodes of Defiant Health, I've discussed many of the spectacular potential health effects of boosting oxytocin. Let's now disc...
The Low-Fat Dietary Disaster
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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, t...
The Great Microbiome Desert
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Compared to human populations following hunter-gatherer lifestyles, we have lost hundreds of microbial species in our gastrointestinal microbiomes. Ma...
Five Strategies for Heart Health You Probably Didn't Know About
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
Two Nutrients, Two Microbes Crucial for Pregnancy and Lactation
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Here are two nutrients and two microbes that play huge roles in material and infant health, yet almost no obstetrician or gynecologist is advising the...
Little Known Benefits of Omega-3 Fatty Acids
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 w...
Unexpected Ways to Boost Your Immune Response
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Here are a number of strategies that you can adopt on your own to substantially improve your immune response and thereby maximize protection against v...
What should blood sugar be after a meal?
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tracking finger stick blood glucoses can be an extremely powerful tool for health--if used properly. Unfortunately, most conventional doctors have no ...
The Oxytocin Project
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Become a Microbiome Citizen Scientist
20 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The tools and insights into the human microbiome are exploding and everyday people--non-scientists, non-microbiologists--are able to generate new expe...
Making Sense Out of Thyroid Health
13 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
The Intestinal Microbiome and Sleep
03 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The intestinal microbiome, i.e., the collection of microbes in your gastrointestinal tract, are proving to be major players in the length, quality, an...
The Birth of Wheat Belly
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How did a cardiologist aborting heart attacks, putting in stents, and performing other heart procedures end up talking about the destructive effects o...
Vitamin D: Get It Right For Full Benefit
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
SIBO Yogurt
20 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, or SIBO, in which unhealthy bacterial species have proliferated and ascended up the 24-feet of small intestin...
Depression and the Gut-Brain Axis
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Conventional "solutions" for depression are largely inadequate: often ineffective, with side-effects that include weight gain, sexual dysfun...
Five Events That Transformed My Views on Health
04 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 numbe...
I read an excerpt from my new book, Super Gut: Chapter 5
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ch...
"I have SIBO--So What's Next?"
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If you suspect that you have small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, SIBO, have "telltale signs" of SIBO such as fat malabsorption or restles...
Make Saccharomyces boulardii Sparkling Cider Probiotic
05 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Saccharomyces boulardii is a probiotic fungus, a relative of Saccharomyces cerevisiae used to ferment wine and beer, but better adapted to living in t...
Yogurt of Love
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Restoration of a microbe lost by the majority of people, Lactobacillus reuteri, causes the brain to release oxytocin, the hormone of love, affection, ...
Statins, Anger, Hate, and Aggression
16 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Widely-prescribed statin cholesterol drugs have been associated with muscle weakness and pain, as well as markedly increased potential for type 2 diab...
The Seven Hidden Dangers of Sugar
09 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone knows that sugar rots teeth and raises blood sugar. But there are additional phenomena that result from consumption of sugar that even your d...
Ancient Love
29 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Because most of us as modern people have lost the intestinal microbe, Lactobacillus reuteri, that is responsible for increasing release of the hormone...
Secrets of the Microbiome Revealed in my new Super Gut
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
My new book, Super Gut: A 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight, will be released Feb 1, 2022. It is a book packed...
Identify the Emotional Roadblocks Holding You Back: An Interview With JJ Flizanes
03 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Defiant Health, we consider something that we do not often consider: identifying the emotional stumbling blocks to success. Whether...
Interview with Dr. David Perlmutter and about his new book "Drop Acid"
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Neurologist Dr. David Perlmutter, known to most Defiant Health listeners as The NY Times bestseller author of Grain Brain, as well as Brain Maker and ...
Top Ten Reasons to Never Eat Wheat
14 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the widespread advice to consume more "healthy whole grains," a wide range of health problems, sometimes catastrophic, develop with ...
The Truth About Food Intolerances
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Food intolerances are proving to be a rapidly growing problem: intolerances to nightshades, so-called FODMAPs, fructose, histamine-containing foods an...
Appetite Control Freak
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Many people struggle with controlling their appetite, inevitably giving into temptation and impulse and thereby struggling with weight and multiple me...
The Magic of Oxytocin
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It has only recently become clear that the hormone oxytocin profoundly influences many features of aging: skin, muscle, bone, etc. Most modern people,...
Collagen: It's Not Just About Skin Health
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The modern diet is woefully deficient in the protein collagen and, as a result, we experience increased potential for skin wrinkles, slower healing, a...
Does Wheat Cause Heart Disease?
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The American Heart Association and other agencies, dietitians, and doctors all urge us to cut our intake of fat and eat more "healthy whole grain...
Do You Have the Oxytocin Deficiency Syndrome?
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Most people already know that the hormone oxytocin is the hormone of love and of uterine contraction during childbirth. But that is only the tip of th...
How a Low-Carb Lifestyle Can Lead To Trouble
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Low-carb diets work. They are more effective at weight loss and reducing health conditions such as high blood sugar, high blood pressure, even fatty l...
Interview with Paleovalley co-founder, Autumn Smith and her journey back to health
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
My guest in this episode of Defiant Health is co-founder of Paleovalley, Autumn Smith. Autumn describes the emotional and physical struggles she had ...
Interview With Microbiome Guru Brenda Watson
04 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Brenda Watson's name may already be familiar to you, having been featured on Dr. Oz, Good Morning America, and six PBS specials. She is also a pr...
This Is Your Brain On Wheat
26 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Of the many effects of wheat consumption on the human body, it's the brain effects that stand out, effects that include:Appetite stimulationDepre...
Iodine Deficiency: The Forgotten Public Health Crisis
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
All throughout human history and up until approximately 100 years ago, iodine deficiency, goiters (enlarged thyroid glands), hypothyroidism, and death...
The Loss of Empathy (and how you can bring it back)
01 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
People of the 21st century have lost empathy, as well as experiencing more social isolation, divorce, and suicide than prior decades--but why? Psychol...
All You Need to Know About CT Heart Scans and Coronary Calcium Scores
19 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
CT heart scans to generate a coronary calcium score is, by a long stretch, the best and most precise way to gauge risk for heart disease, certainly fa...
You don't have to be a (T2) diabetic
12 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For the majority of people with type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes, the condition is completely reversible within weeks to a few months--but you cannot a...
The Mysterious Case of the Missing Microbes
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It is estimated that we, as modern people, have lost about half of the microbial species occupying our gastrointestinal (GI) tracts compared to indige...
How Big Pharma Bought Big Media
03 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Watch TV morning news in years past and you would see authors on health and nutrition topics interviewed regularly. TV news exposés would likewise ai...
Why I Dumped Conventional Healthcare
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Here is the very first episode of Defiant Health Radio with host Dr. William Davis, cardiologist and author of the New York Times bestselling Wheat Be...