Wheat Belly by MD William Davis

Author:MD William Davis [William Davis, MD]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Rodale Inc.
Published: 2011-11-16T06:00:00+00:00

WHEAT-FREE IS ANTI-AGING

You’ll recall that foods made from wheat increase blood sugar more than nearly all other foods, including table sugar. Pitting wheat against most other foods would be like putting Mike Tyson in the ring against Truman Capote: no contest, a blood sugar KO in no time. Unless you’re a premenopausal, size 2, twenty-three-year-old female long-distance runner who, by virtue of minimal visceral fat, vigorous insulin sensitivity, and the advantages of abundant estrogen, enjoys little increase in blood sugar, two slices of whole wheat bread will likely launch your blood sugar into the 150 mg/dl range or higher—more than enough to set the AGE-forming cascade in motion.

If glycation accelerates aging, can not glycating slow aging?

Such a study has been performed in an experimental mouse model, with an AGE-rich diet yielding more atherosclerosis, cataracts, kidney disease, diabetes, and shorter life spans compared to longer-lived and healthier mice consuming an AGE-poor diet.33

The clinical trial required for final proof of this concept in humans has not yet been performed, i.e., AGE-rich versus AGE-poor diet followed by examination of organs for the damage of aging. This is a practical stumbling block to virtually all anti-aging research. Imagine the pitch: “Sir, we will enroll you in one of two ‘arms’ of the study: You will either follow a high-AGE diet or a low-AGE diet. After five years, we are going to assess your biological age.” Would you accept potential enrollment in the high-AGE group? And how do we assess biological age?

It seems plausible that, if glycation and AGE formation underlie many of the phenomena of aging, and if some foods trigger AGE formation more vigorously than others, a diet low in those foods should slow the aging process, or at least the facets of aging that advance through the process of glycation. A low HbAlc value signifies that less age-promoting endogenous glycation is ongoing. You will be less prone to cataracts, kidney disease, wrinkles, arthritis, atherosclerosis, and all the other expressions of glycation that plague humans, especially those of the wheat-consuming kind.

Perhaps it will even allow you to be honest about your age.

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