Here is a recipe from the Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox book.
Super easy, delicious and satisfying!
One of the reasons the program is so successful is that recipes like this Cream of Broccoli Soup include plentiful healthy fats, such as the coconut oil from full-fat coconut milk. In the Wheat Belly lifestyle, there is NO limiting calories, fat, or portion sizes, only a celebration of real, non-grain foods.
CREAM OF BROCCOLI SOUP
INGREDIENTS:
¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil or coconut oil
2 garlic cloves (minced)
1 medium yellow onion (chopped)
4 cups chicken stock
1 lbs. broccoli floret
1 cup coconut milk
1 tsp sea salt
¼ tsp ground black pepper
LET’S GET COOKING:
Into a pan, add olive oil, minced garlic, and chopped onion and sauté 3-5 minutes over medium-high heat. Add chicken stock, broccoli, coconut milk, salt, pepper, then cover for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Cool down 10 minutes and transfer to blender. Blend until liquefied, then serve.
Enjoy!
Yours in grainless health,
Dr. William Davis
This is very easy, especially, if you have an immersion blender. I have made something very similar with the “golden milk” spices, ginger and turmeric.
How did this get uploaded if Dr. Davis is in Tucson? I wonder how they’re making out over there. Probably eating plenty of fat.
“In the Wheat Belly lifestyle, there is NO limiting calories, fat, or portion sizes, only a celebration of real, non-grain foods”
And that’s the key reason why this lifestyle seems to work so incredibly well over every other diet.
DM wrote: «How did this get uploaded if Dr. Davis is in Tucson?»
It could have been done at any time in the past. Most blog engines, such as the WordPress apparently used here, can schedule posts.
As time goes on, it’s getting less and less likely that Dr. Davis is having to handle the detailed mechanics of blog posts all by himself, nor would we want him to. His time is most productively spent on content.
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How long do Gliadorphins and Casomorphins last in the body if I discontinue consuming wheat and dairy products? I’d really appreciate information on this process. I’m sorry that this is unrelated to the blog post, I don’t know where else to ask this question!
Conor wrote: «How long do Gliadorphins and Casomorphins last in the body if I discontinue consuming wheat and dairy products?»
I don’t have a direct answer for that (on gliadorphin), but we might be able to infer from what is known about wheat withdrawal symptoms, based largely on reports from people shifting their diets.
Although some people have no symptoms at all (I didn’t), if there is a noticeable withdrawal effect, it can last as few as 3 days. It’s more typically 5, and the period selected by Dr. Davis for his Detox book was 10 days, which presumably covers the vast majority of cases.
However, the 10-Day Detox book does caution that it can take “several weeks” (p53). Whether this is due to lingering gliadorphin or something else, I couldn’t say.
Now, on casomorphin, presumably bovine β-casomorphin 8 from beta casein A1, it’s only come up once before in a blog article, with no mention of severity. One reader did report a four week withdrawal: https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2014/06/whats-cow-got-aint-got/#comment-56665
«I’m sorry that this is unrelated to the blog post, I don’t know where else to ask this question!»
When no articles open for comments are related to your question, just post it on the newest article, as you did.
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“10-Day Detox book”
Detox….. the most overused buzzword in alternative health these days. I don’t mean to offend anyone here, but it seems to be used just as much as “leaky gut”. There are a lot of non-specific symptoms tied to the two terms and people self diagnose based on those. It just makes me wonder what exactly is being cleansed or detoxified or is it just some assumption of toxins that inhabit people? I guess I’m referring more to other people using these terms loosely and not Dr. Davis blog.
DM wrote: «Detox….. the most overused buzzword in alternative health these days.»
The choice of that term for the book title strikes me as being mostly about precision, and to a lesser extent about promotion.
As I conjectured in an earlier response on this page, 10 days suffices, for most people, to get free of the direct toxic effects of wheat (and other elements of modern diet that are either eliminated or seriously dialed down on Wheat Belly).
The book is pretty clear, on page xiii, that: “Once the toxic effects of wheat and grains have been removed, additional steps are necessary to undo the entire range of ill effects accumulated from their consumption.”
So the title sets an expectation. 10 days is going to reverse some important (sometimes acute) symptoms, but it can’t immediately clear all of the chronic consequential complications caused by modern diet. Someone might not get off their T2D meds in 10 days, but they’ll detect a welcome trend in 10 days. 10 days is short enough that anyone can manage it, and long enough to show results.
But marketing matters too. The branding used on the books so far has caused them to come to the attention of millions of people who might have overlooked drier titles and blander cover art. There were books cautioning on wheat and grains prior to Wheat Belly. I’ll be few readers here can name one.
«…what exactly is being cleansed or detoxified or is it just some assumption of toxins that inhabit people?»
Chapter 1 of the 10-Day book goes into that, and many of its pages are visible in the Amazon Look-Inside feature for the book.
«I guess I’m referring more to other people using these terms loosely…»
The muddled and the mendacious are legion. There’s little return in studying them.
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I am thin, have mild IBS symptoms, recurrent mild rashes, and have difficulty gaining weight. I do not test positive for gluten intolerance. Fitness trainers often recommend increased carb intake for my body type I would like to be free of the IBS, while gaining weight. Is it possible to gain weight on the Wheat Belly diet? Do you suggest any modifications?
Emily wrote: «I am thin, have mild IBS symptoms, recurrent mild rashes, and have difficulty gaining weight.»
These things are all connected. You can use the blog Search feature on IBS and rash for numerous discussions and personal reports.
Get the gluten-bearing grains out of your diet, along with other grains, many of which have adverse proteins analogous to those in wheat. The IBS, rashes and deficient nutrient utilization are likely to vanish. People often get noticeable relief from IBS symptoms in five days.
«I do not test positive for gluten intolerance.»
Based on what test? Cyrex Array 3, or just anti-gliadin antibodies?
A phrase I coined some years ago is: we are all celiac; it’s just a matter of degree and decades.
Wheat consumption triggers zonulin in everyone, not just those with positive reactivity test results. Most seeds of grasses also contain WGA (wheat germ agglutinin). This lectin is a direct bowel toxin, so just cutting out wheat may not promote intestinal healing.
«Fitness trainers often recommend increased carb intake…»
View with suspicion any fitness trainer that recommends carb consumption for anything other than feeding slow carbs into glycogen depletion in the late stages of an endurance event. See also: https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2015/04/wheat-belly-for-athletes/
«…for my body type»
What body type does your trainer think you have? Did the trainer have any insights on the IBS and rash?
What I’m sensing is that you are probably an otherwise normal person burdened with several optional ailments (IBS, rash, and poor nutrient utilization).
«Is it possible to gain weight on the Wheat Belly diet?»
Yes, but. There’s a solid chance that if you free yourself of the optional ailments, some weight gain will happen spontaneously. If not, strength training usually does the trick.
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Thank You!
We are attempting “grain free“ so looking for an alternative, IP 6™ often taken to ward off cancers and those who need to go so often to the bathroom. We found it helpful, reading the
on line research on the IP 6™ website….
See it could be made ( or derived from “nut base.“ The types were both taking are from “rice“’
they say are not harmful. To escape grains could you find the IP 6™ made or derived from “nuts“.
Appreciate if you could help us in this quest to remain grain free!
Bud and Pauline wrote: «…so looking for an alternative, IP 6™…»
IP6 has not to my recollection been discussed on the blog previously. The core ingredient is inositol hexaphosphate, a form of phytic acid. Entirely apart from the fact that the FDA has listed it as a “fake cancer cure”, I see some concerns with IP6 and the products that include it:
☣ The Wheat Belly program avoids excess phytates, as they block mineral absorption. Limit your phytate intake to that in recommended whole foods.
☣ Typical IP-6 supplements provide the IP-6 as calcium magnesium phytate, with the calcium often being around 150mg/day. Calcium supplementation is almost always a mistake. Get your calcium from whole foods (small fish bones are fine too).
☯ The magnesium and phosphorous content of typical IP-6 supplements is modest, and only 10% of WB target (Mg) or 20% of DV (K). There are more economical ways to get useful doses of these that are assured to be well absorbed.
☞ Any specific formulation of IP-6 would need to be examined for adverse filler, binder and encapsulation ingredients.
What benefits were you seeking with this supplement?
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Can I use cream in place of the coconut milk?
Barb J wrote: «Can I use cream in place of the coconut milk?»
For anyone not trying to lose weight, and already using dairy without issues, that substitution is probably fine.
I suspect cream was not used because a non-trivial fraction of the readership might need to avoid it, temporarily or indefinitely.
The concerns with (bovine, aka cow) dairy are roughly:
• insulinotrophic effect of the whey fraction
• mere blood glucose provocation from the lactose
• reactivity to the beta casein A1 common in N. American herds
• auto-immune reactions to almost anything in dairy, resulting from leaky gut due to grains
• second-hand antibiotics and hormones from non-organic/CAFO dairy
• additives in some commercial creams
• excess Omega 6 and diminished Omega 3 in grain-fed herd products
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