Book Summary: Wheat Belly, by William Davis, MD

Courtesy: The Healing Project

Wheat Belly is a provocative look at how eliminating wheat - even so-called healthy whole grain wheat - from our diets is the key to permanent weight loss and can offer relief from a broad spectrum of health and digestive problems.

Drawing on decades of clinical studies and the extraordinary results he has observed after putting thousands of his patients on wheat-free regimens, Dr. William Davis makes a compelling case against this ubiquitous ingredient.

Chapter 1: What Belly?

* Wheat has unique attributes those other grains do not, attributes that make it especially destructive to our health.
* Whole wheat bread increases blood sugar as much as or more than table sugar, or sucrose.
* After removing grain for 3 months from my diabetic/overweight patients, the diabetics became non-diabetic and many of them had lost twenty, thirty, even forty pounds.
* Other cures: acid reflux disappeared, cramping and diarrhea gone, energy improved, greater focus, sleep was deeper, rashes disappeared, rheumatoid arthritis pain improved, asthma symptoms improved. Read More . . .

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Physical Therapy Aide Ari "Salim" Baquet works in both the physical therapy and physiology capacities.

After attending a lecture by Phase IV Director of Science Aishea Maas, Ari "Salim" Baquet joined Phase IV as an intern to Aishea in 2010. His three years racing road and mountain bikes for the University of Southern California cycling team cultivated a fascination for the human body, and he went so far as to add a Human Performance major to his degree in Economics, graduating with a B.A. in both in 2012.

It was re-learning to walk after an ankle surgery that ignited Ari's desire to help other people in their own battles against injury by applying to study for his Doctorate in Physical Therapy. After a nine-month stint in Boulder, Colorado, reporting and editing for cycling publication VeloNews, he returned to Los Angeles in 2013 to gain experience and further inspiration as an aide to Ron Berry, PT, alongside whom he hopes to work as a colleague in the future.

In addition to keeping his long-cultivated auto racing skills fresh, Ari also trains as an avid swimmer, and swam as part of Phase IV's relay team in the 2013 Nautica Malibu Triathlon as part of his preparation for long-distance open-water swimming in 2014.