Ask most doctors, “Can arthritis be prevented or reversed?” Most will say no, or say that it’s genetic and therefore unstoppable. The better informed will say “Lose 10 pounds.” But that’s about as far as it goes and they tell you that, when the pain starts, take ibuprofen or naproxen, submit to steroid or hyaluronic acid injections, then undergo joint replacement surgery. Prevent the disease in the first place? No way. But there are indeed strategies that are natural, available, and effective th...
May 03, 2023•27 min
Do you have the sense that people are acting more selfishly, less considerately, less empathetically, less affectionately as time passes? How often can we blame incidents such as someone cutting you off in traffic, or the break up of a relationship, or the abandonment or neglect of children on narcissistic tendencies? Narcissistic behavior has been around for as long as humans have walked this planet. But, remarkably, psychologists have been charting the prevalence of narcissistic behavior since...
Apr 25, 2023•18 min
The science supporting our ability to shape our bodies, to control how much muscle we have, where fat is deposited, which fat stores are mobilized when you lose weight, in other words what we call “body composition” has recently made some important leaps forward. This becomes especially important during any effort to lose weight. If you have been following my Defiant Health conversations, you know that reducing calories virtually guarantees disaster, as it causes loss of lean muscle mass, the pr...
Apr 15, 2023•41 min
For over 50 years, people in conventional healthcare have urged Americans to reduce their intake of saturated fat, eat more “healthy whole “grains,” and take statin cholesterol drugs to further reduce cholesterol. Has it worked? No, it absolutely has not worked. As I’ve discussed previously, both in my Defiant Health podcast as well as my DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com blog, and of course my books, conventional strategies have little, if any, impact on the incidence of heart disease. And, in some ins...
Mar 30, 2023•36 min
I’ve previously discussed this widespread epidemic we are experiencing called SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. For those of you unfamiliar with this condition, it is the situation that has developed in millions of people not from a virus or exposures to other people, but from numerous factors in modern life, but especially overexposure to antibiotics, food additives, herbicides, and prescription drugs. Exposure to these factors has resulted in the loss of literally hundreds of microb...
Mar 22, 2023•34 min
Many of you are already familiar with my Lactobacillus reuteri yogurt, the yogurt that causes a boost in the release of the hormone oxytocin. Well, I’ve improved on my L. reuteri yogurt for even greater age-reversing effects. So, in this episode of Defiant Health, I show you how to take your youth-restoring effects even further by addressing factors lacking or entirely absent from modern life. If you are not familiar with these concepts, I urge you to go to my DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com blog or m...
Mar 15, 2023•29 min
In this episode of Defiant Health, let’s discuss Why cholesterol testing, despite being promoted by nearly all practicing physicians, achieves almost nothing in reducing risk for heart disease. Early research, much of it conducted at the National Institutes of Health, NIH, in the 1950s and 1960s intended the measurement of cholesterol in the bloodstream to be a crude and indirect marker for the real causes of heart disease, i.e., the lipoproteins, lipid- or fat-carrying proteins, in the bloodstr...
Mar 05, 2023•27 min
In this episode of Defiant Health, let’s discuss this nutrient that has essentially disappeared from the diets of most modern people: hyaluronic acid. Many ladies are already familiar with hyaluronic acid as a topical cosmetic, often sold as “serums,” that makes the skin temporarily smoother and moister, a purely topical effect. Maybe some of you have heard that hyaluronic acid can also be injected into skin as a filler to reduce wrinkles or improve contours, or injected into joints such as knee...
Feb 22, 2023•16 min
In this episode of Defiant Health, let’s talk about why cutting calories in your diet to lose weight is a really bad idea, a practice that yields substantial health problems and even reduces, even eliminates, your ability to lose weight in the future. All the forms that this can take—-reduced portion size, using smaller plates or bowls, pushing the plate away, even pharmaceuticals and bariatric procedures, i.e., all forms of reducing calorie intake, result in significant health problems. It can ...
Feb 14, 2023•20 min
In this episode of Defiant Health, functional dentist Dr. Debbie Ozment shares her unique wisdom and experience in managing the oral microbiome with some surprising observations. Did you know that: Risk for colon cancer can begin with oral health and a specific microbial species? Bleeding gums are a red flag for health problems outside the mouth? Cognitive decline and dementia may also get their start in the oral microbiome? The key to oral health is to disrupt the biofilm of teeth? Most mouthwa...
Feb 07, 2023•42 min
In this episode of Defiant Health, I ask the question: Is your skin aging faster than it should? If you are engaging in conventional ideas about diet, it probably is. But there are indeed strategies you can adopt that slow or even reverse signs of skin aging. Those of you who are concerned about skin health and appearance likely engage in applying products externally, products such as retinol or hyaluronic acid serums for smoother, moister skin. But wouldn’t it be better to view skin as the outw...
Jan 30, 2023•24 min
You have likely observed that humans, especially overweight humans, come in a variety of shapes and sizes. We all know that excess body fat is not a good thing for health, nor for self esteem. But where fat is distributed on the body plays a big role in whether excess fat increases risk for conditions such as type 2 diabetes, coronary disease, stroke, cancer, cognitive decline, dementia, and premature death—or whether it is only a cosmetic issue and a challenge to weight-bearing joints but not f...
Jan 24, 2023•29 min
In this episode of the Defiant Health podcast, let’s talk about this destructive thing in the human diet called wheat. Those of you familiar with my Wheat Belly books may know a lot of this already and this will just serve as a reminder to help you stay on course and preserve the health and slenderness you achieved. I’m always impressed that, because TV ads, misinformed dietitians, and other dietary conversations all urge you to consume grains, it’s easy to become complacent, often forgetting ho...
Jan 16, 2023•35 min
In this episode of the Defiant Health podcast, let me tell you about five things cardiologists will not tell you about heart health. Having practiced cardiology for 25 years, I learned what works and what does not work to prevent heart disease. Sadly, follow conventional health and diet advice from cardiologists and other doctors and you are following a recipe for developing heart disease, as well as type 2 diabetes, weight gain, fatty liver, and numerous other health conditions. Did you catch t...
Dec 21, 2022•44 min
In this episode of Defiant Health, I’d like to talk about the unique oral skin health product I formulated called Gut to Glow. Some of you may know that, in addition to writing books, speaking, and supporting my programs, I have also taken on the role of Chief Medical Officer for a company called Realize Therapeutics that I co-founded, created to commercialize some of the concepts that I have developed. Those of you following my Lactobacillus reuteri yogurt discussions know that we are witnessin...
Dec 11, 2022•25 min
There are a number of factors that drive aging. Among the most important are inflammation, insulin resistance, glycation, endotoxemia, and hormonal senescence, in addition to genetically programmed factors. We cannot, of course, influence genetically determined factors. But we have enormous control over the other factors. The sad truth is that a conventional diet and modern healthcare advice accelerate aging via these mechanisms. Just look around you the next time you’re in a supermarket or mall...
Dec 02, 2022•31 min
In this episode of Defiant Health, I’ve brought empowerment strategist JJ Flizanes back for a second interview. Because JJ brings such high energy and unique wisdom to emotional issues—issues that I do not discuss much at all—that I thought it would be helpful to everyone to bring her back on. JJ has a varied background as an actress, personal trainer, and now as a coach on behavior, helping people find their weak spots, behaviors or beliefs that block their success in health, weight loss, relat...
Nov 16, 2022•56 min
There is no shortage of silly advice on how to reduce sugar cravings, the seemingly irresistible desire for something sweet. “Eat just a little,” “Combine sweets with other foods,” “Get more protein” or other advice dominates this conversation. This advice is ineffective and makes no physiological sense. Yet it is possible to completely ablate this impulse, turn it off entirely and put you back in the driver’s seat of appetite. But it requires some unconventional thinking that, I hope, you have ...
Nov 06, 2022•22 min
I’ve previously discussed this important micronutrient, iodine, but I fear the message has not gotten through to many people. So let’s tackle it again, highlighting just what a huge public health problem iodine deficiency was for most of human history until recently. Now, due to misguided modern dietary advice, deficiency of this important micronutrient is making a comeback and, with it, thyroid problems and all the associated challenges that accompany a failing thyroid gland. To view some image...
Oct 27, 2022•26 min
In this episode of Defiant Health, I interview Oklahoma dentist, health and wellness coach, and advocate of managing the oral microbiome, Dr. Debbie Ozment. I met Dr. Ozment during one of my two-way weekly video meetups on my DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com where she provided a presentation on the oral microbiome. I was impressed with her tremendous command of this area that drives home the message that oral health and the oral microbiome are major determinants of overall health. She discusses, for in...
Oct 18, 2022•29 min
In this episode of Defiant Health, I’d like to talk about how the intensity of love, affection, and other emotions and social interactions have lost intensity. The love of today, I’m going to argue, is less involved, less intense, less soul-wrenching, involving more superficial commitment than it used. If we could compare the love and affection of, say, 50, 100, 1000 years ago, I am going to illustrate how our current version of these emotions is an anemic, watered-down version. And, along with ...
Oct 03, 2022•15 min
In this episode of Defiant Health, let’s discuss how the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans got a lot of things wrong. Of course, I have previously discussed on many occasions the hazards of a diet reduced in fat and rich in “healthy whole grains,” a style of eating that increases the likelihood of weight gain, fatty liver, type 2 diabetes, even increases cardiovascular risk, largely due to amylopectin A carbohydrate of wheat and grains, as well as gliadin protein-derived opioid peptides that...
Sep 24, 2022•20 min
In this episode of Defiant Health, let’s clear up some misconceptions about the common problem of constipation, an issue that plagues around 10-20% of people at any one time. While the official definition of constipation is having 3 or fewer bowel movements per week, I would say that the official definition is way off. 3 or fewer bowel movements per week is an awful standard, one that is likely to impact health in other ways, as well as being uncomfortable. And the standard remedies for constipa...
Sep 11, 2022•22 min
In this episode of Defiant Health, let’s talk about some new insights into a very serious issue that afflicts many females: repeated urinary tract infections, or UTIs. This can happen to a female at any age, but becomes an especially frequent problem as women get older. Of course, the conventional “solution” is to prescribe course after course of antibiotics that disrupt the entire body’s microbiome and not uncommonly leads to dysbiosis in the colon and other organs, SIBO, vaginal candida infect...
Aug 30, 2022•19 min
For years, unpleasant symptoms such as abdominal pain, headache, joint pain, and skin rashes experienced with consumption of wheat and grains were dismissed as just being in our imagination, the product of a neurotic mind. If celiac disease was not diagnosed, then these sorts of abnormal symptoms were dismissed as inconsequential. Recent evidence tells us that this absolutely not true and that the awkwardly named non-celiac gluten sensitivity is a real disease with very real, sometimes severe, h...
Aug 20, 2022•25 min
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 lactose, the primary sugar in dairy products. While there are indeed people who have lost the ability to digest lactose, numerous people who have adverse reactions to dairy are not truly lactose intolerant, but have disruptions of the gastrointestinal microbiome that are responsible for these reactions. Understanding and addressing the difference ...
Aug 04, 2022•18 min
In previous episodes of Defiant Health, I've discussed many of the spectacular potential health effects of boosting oxytocin. Let's now discuss the emotional, social, maternal, and sexual effects of oxytocin that essentially define the human experience. Because modern people have lost much of their capacity to boost oxytocin to high levels, we have lost many of these beneficial effects. Yes: you can regain this capacity and thereby regain the potential for more intense affection, love, trust, ge...
Jul 23, 2022•19 min
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, the result is the world's worst epidemics of obesity and overweight, type 2 diabetes, fatty liver, and Alzheimer's dementia in the history of humans on this planet. Yet there has been no attempt by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, USDA, or any other agency to retract this awful and disastrous message. Beyond the obvious consequences...
Jul 12, 2022•28 min
Compared to human populations following hunter-gatherer lifestyles, we have lost hundreds of microbial species in our gastrointestinal microbiomes. Many of these species performed useful functions in human health that we have therefore lost. Loss of these species has also allowed unhealthy, potentially pathogenic species, to proliferate and dominate, even ascending up the small intestine. This situation--small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, or SIBO--is now epidemic, affecting greater than 1 in...
Jun 30, 2022•33 min
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 of heart disease, causes that you can manage effectively on your own. It does NOT require prescription drugs or procedures to have a major impact on the factors that lead to heart attack, need for heart procedures, or sudden cardiac death. The number one killer of men and women worldwide can be managed YEARS before danger sets in but the answers wil...
Jun 21, 2022•39 min
