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“Problems with the gut, such as yeast or bacterial overgrowth, often present themselves in the form of mood swings, anxiety, and persistent food cravings. When a patient comes in with any of these brain issues, the gut is the first thing I look at.”
― Will Cole, Gut Feelings: Healing the Shame-Fueled Relationship Between What You Eat and How You Feel

“the Western world, we like to separate mental health from physical health, but the truth is that mental health is physical health. Our brain is part of our body—and there isn’t a single health condition out there that doesn’t require us to heal both.”
― Will Cole, Gut Feelings: Healing the Shame-Fueled Relationship Between What You Eat and How You Feel

“Think of this book as a call to action to slow down, breathe, and allow your body to do what it does best—heal.”
― Will Cole, Gut Feelings: Healing the Shame-Fueled Relationship Between What You Eat and How You Feel

“The most common source of the chronic inflammation we see today is the foods we eat, namely sugar, and foods that turn into sugar, namely processed, refined carbohydrates.”
― Will Cole, Ketotarian: The (Mostly) Plant-Based Plan to Burn Fat, Boost Your Energy, Crush Your Cravings, and Calm Inflammation: A Cookbook

“let food be thy medicine, and medicine thy food,”
― Will Cole, Ketotarian: The (Mostly) Plant-based Plan to Burn Fat, Boost Energy, Crush Cravings and Calm Inflammation

“Researchers are now finding evidence for what we’ve been saying for decades in functional medicine: Mild food reactivities like gluten sensitivity with only occasional, mostly tolerable symptoms are on one end of the larger inflammation spectrum, with autoimmune diseases like celiac disease (CD) on the opposite side.2 I believe that just as there is an autoimmune-inflammation spectrum, there is a spectrum from mild gluten sensitivity to true celiac disease.3 I call this the celiac spectrum. Conventional doctors can diagnose”
― Will Cole, The Inflammation Spectrum: Find Your Food Triggers and Reset Your System

“HOW TO GIVE THEM UP: Stop eating all foods made with wheat, barley, rye, spelt, oats, rice, corn, quinoa, and any other grain. That means no bread, pasta, cereal, or baked goods like muffins and cookies. This may seem impossible at first, especially if your diet is currently grain-heavy, but don’t worry—there are still lots of delicious anti-inflammatory foods for you to eat!”
― Will Cole, The Inflammation Spectrum: Find Your Food Triggers and Reset Your System

“Quit watering people who don't want to grow”
― Will Cole, Gut Feelings: Healing the Shame-Fueled Relationship Between What You Eat and How You Feel

“Self-compassion and a sense of being your biggest cheerleader should always be the underlying cause of anything you do for your health and wellness. Why? You can’t heal a body you hate.”
― Will Cole, Gut Feelings: Healing the Shame-Fueled Relationship Between What You Eat and How You Feel

“INFLAMMATORY OILS TO ELIMINATE Corn oil Canola oil Sunflower oil Soybean oil Cottonseed oil”
― Will Cole, The Inflammation Spectrum: Find Your Food Triggers and Reset Your System

“Elimin8 Track Step-Down Schedule DAY FOOD TO ELIMINATE 1 All grains: Wheat, barley, rye, rice, quinoa, corn, etc. 2 Dairy products: Milk, yogurt, cheese, cream, etc., from cows, goats, or sheep 3 All added sweeteners: White and brown sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, maple syrup, honey, coconut sugar, agave nectar, etc. 4 Inflammatory oils: Corn, soybean, canola, sunflower, grapeseed, vegetable oil, etc. 5 Legumes: Lentils, black beans, pinto beans, white beans, soybeans, tofu, lima beans, chickpeas, peanuts, peanut butter, etc. 6 Nuts and seeds: Almonds, walnuts, pecans, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, chia seeds, nut and seed butters, etc. 7 Eggs, whites and yolks 8 Nightshades: Tomatoes, white and yellow potatoes, eggplant, all peppers, etc.”
― Will Cole, The Inflammation Spectrum: Find Your Food Triggers and Reset Your System

“Carne de vísceras de animales alimentados con hierba o en pastoreo. Las vísceras, que una vez formaron parte habitual de la dieta humana, ahora son mucho menos comunes, especialmente en Estados Unidos; sin embargo, contienen algunas de las cantidades más altas de verdadera vitamina A, vitaminas B biodisponibles y minerales como el hierro. Las deficiencias de vitamina A están relacionadas con afecciones autoinmunes, y la carne de vísceras puede reponer estas deficiencias rápidamente. Aceite de hígado de bacalao virgen extra. Esta grasa extraordinariamente saludable es rica en vitaminas solubles en grasa, que el sistema inmunitario requiere para mantenerse sano y funcionar de forma adecuada. Aceite de emú. Obtenido del emú, un ave parecida al avestruz, es rico en vitamina K2, que ayuda a equilibrar la importante familia de enzimas llamadas sintasas de óxido nítrico inducibles (iNOS) para modular las vías inflamatorias. Brotes de brócoli. Estos brotes tienen algunos de los niveles más altos de sulforafano, que apoya la metilación y puede reducir radicalmente la inflamación y mantener la función adecuada de las células T.50 Saúco. Esta fruta ayuda a equilibrar el sistema inmunitario.51 La baya del saúco se encuentra normalmente en forma de suplemento líquido. Aceite de comino negro. Este suplemento aumenta las células T reguladoras para reequilibrar un sistema inmunitario fuera de control y reducir la inflamación.52 Suplementos de pterostilbeno. Este compuesto, que es parecido al resveratrol, disminuye las proteínas inflamatorias NF-ĸB y aumenta la vía antiinflamatoria Nrf2.53 Kéfir de agua o de coco. Estas bebidas fermentadas contienen de manera natural vitamina K2 como producto derivado del proceso de fermentación. También contienen kefiran, un azúcar único producido por los granos de kéfir que tiene la capacidad de disminuir la inflamación y calmar el sistema inmunitario.”
― Dr. Will Cole, El espectro de la inflamación