Wheat Dangers with William Davis

This is a 20 minute video where a heart surgeon describes the dangers of having wheat in our diets. This information could be very important for you. You don’t have to agree with what William says, but it’s a good idea to listen to it and then make up your mind. If only part of what he says is true, it’s astounding. You might consider never eating wheat again as you do now.

William Davis is another medical doctor (like Alejandro Junger) who was working as a conventional heart surgeon but got disillusioned and looked for a better way. Have a listen to what he says and make up your own mind. My notes are below the video.

My Notes from “The Paleo Way – Pete Evans interviews William Davis”

William Davis is the author of the book “Wheat Belly”
He was a conventional “interventional” cardiologist
He saw the same patients coming back over and over so he turned towards preventions
The standard advice “cut your fat and take statins” is silly
He began to learn lessons about nutrition and diet
If you have high blood sugar you’ve lost control over your heart disease risk
Wheat has one of the highest glycemic indexes and dominates western diets
His patients, after 3 months without wheat, showed that a whole range of disease problems disappeared
There was an astounding outpouring of transformations in people’s health
What is in wheat that’s causing this?
Gluten is one protein (but only one) that gives it viscoelasticity
Grains are the seeds of grasses
We don’t eat grass clippings because we can’t digest grass, we can’t digest grass seeds
The way gluten partially breaks down interacts with the brain and causes stimulation of appetite
It also breaks down the defences of the digestive system and opens the body up to foreign bodies
This is the first step in auto-immune diseases – being exposed to the gliadin protein
Gliadin has been modified by agribusiness
In modern wheat there are far more problems than just gluten
About 10,000 years ago (less than 0.5% of human existence) humans noticed livestock eating grass and tried it too. We can’t eat anything but the seed. They took the seed, pulverised it, heated it and turned it into porridge.
We eat modified grains from agribusiness
One of the really scary things is chemical mutagenesis
Wheat is the perfect obesigen! Perfectly crafted to make you fat.
At least 400 calories extra per day per person when wheat was introduced
Glutenin blocks leptin so we don’t feel full
Only the starch is digestible
Two slices of bread raise blood sugar more than 6 teaspoons of sugar
Leads to highs and lows in blood sugar
People should not be eating all the time
Food companies probably noticed massive increases in appetite when people were fed wheat and sugar, so they put it in everything.
Wheat is now in licorice, all candy bars, frozen dinners, breakfast cereals, soups, salad dressing – put there by clever food scientists??
Their aim was to commoditise the human diet?
To make money on an immense scale – need seeds of grasses. Long storage. Can sell millions of tons.
Agribusiness changed wheat to make it better for large scale crops, but changes made it worse for humans.
People know they won’t like the act of stopping eating bread, etc. – they know they’re addicted
People have withdrawal – about 40% of people
Small LDL particles are increased through grains, sugars and starchy legumes
Normal advice “cut your fat and eat more healthy whole grains” is completely wrong
Grains don’t belong in human diet.
Rice is more benign because it’s only about 1% protein (wheat is 14-18%)
If a farmer wants fat cattle… Feed them grains.
Fat humans eat less fat eat more grains
Dr Davis’ advice – “Eat no seeds of grasses!”
Eating them was a mistake

Wheat Dangers with William Davis