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Best-selling Wheat Belly author Dr. William Davis will be featured speaker for Ocala-based IHMC

Evening Lecture Series May 16. ›

Cardiologist, author and health crusader William Davis, M.D., wants you to know better health is within your grasp. Not just a little better but significantly better health, and even more surprising, you don’t need a doctor to achieve it.

A preventive cardiologist, William Davis, M.D., is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health. Among his other books are Wheat Belly Total Health, Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain

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grains” as the culprit behind myriad health issues, from high blood sugar to joint pain and many more.

Davis says that when Wheat Belly first came out in 2011, most of his colleagues thought the concept was ridiculous. But when their own patients used Davis’ methods and achieved success with long-standing health issues, those same doctors started admitting there was real science and results behind his claims.

His latest book, Undoctored (blog.undoctored.com), which came out in April 2017, examines how people can manage many aspects of their own health safely, e ectively, inexpensively and with results superior to that obtained through conventional medicine, which include “big pharma” and “big health care.”

Davis explains that diet is a major component of health but emphasizes that we also have to take steps to correct deficiencies and problems caused by our modern lifestyles.

“Many hundreds of thousands of people who have followed these strategies are eager to learn more about how to feel younger, clear-minded, more vigorous and to be spared from such things as Alzheimer’s and dementia,” he notes.

Davis has found that health can be dramatically increased by manipulating our bowel flora using a homemade yogurt that contains specific ingredients. Studies show that anti-aging benefits include thicker skin, collagen deposits, weight loss, increased bone density, an increase in testosterone in males, increased muscle tone and improved recovery after exercise.

Davis will explain more about this and other strategies for health in his lecture, “Germs, Muscle and Pac-man: Exciting New Concepts in Youth Preservation and Anti-aging,” at IHMC on May 16.

“Your health is in your hands. Science has progressed to show that there are indeed things you can do to regain health and to achieve superior results,” says Davis. “What you’re trying to do is get healthy, and you can do it without the doctors. Given a little benign guidance, people can achieve astounding things on their own.”