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The Jesse Chappus Show

682: 1/2 Cup per Day to Fix Insulin Resistance & Shrink Belly Fat | Dr. William Davis

The Jesse Chappus Show

Jesse Chappus

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Dr. William Davis is a cardiologist and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling book, Wheat Belly.

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0:00.0

Coming up on today's show.

0:02.0

When you lose weight by cutting calories, your basometabolic rate drops by about 25%.

0:08.4

And for all practical purposes, it's permanent.

0:11.8

Study after study has shown if you cut calories, you lose weight, you lose muscle, which in turn reduces BMR, and you will regain the weight as fat.

0:22.2

And I estimate that 50% of the population of North America has this small intestinal bacterial

0:29.6

overrule.

0:30.1

We say CBO.

0:30.9

It could have been blundering dietary guidelines.

0:33.4

It could be the misguided efforts of agribususus, but they've all led us down this path of distortions of human physiology.

0:40.1

So a major driver of abdominal fat is insulin resistance.

0:44.1

So we restore vitamin D and basic stuff.

0:47.5

Omega-3 fatty acids.

0:49.9

Those four nutrients, when restored, synergize to minimize insulin resistance.

0:55.0

Getting rid of SIBO, huge reduction in insulin resistance.

1:00.0

But there's also something called myokines.

1:02.0

Less muscle you have, less myokines you have.

1:05.0

The more myosteotosis you have, the lower myokines you have.

1:08.0

And we know people with lower myokines have more insulin

1:11.0

resistance, more likely to have osteoporosis, early death, but the microdissolution to myokines

1:16.7

begins with eradication of SIBO.

1:21.1

Dr. Davis, somebody tuning in today saying to themselves, I've tried all the diets, I've

1:27.3

tried losing weight countless times.

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