Hans Eisenman

“The noncaloric artificial sweeteners aspartame, saccharine, and sucralose are no safer, having been shown to trigger changes in bacterial species that exaggerate insulin resistance and lead to type 2 diabetes and obesity.”
― William Davis, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

“Although few Americans have heard of SIBO and SIFO, tens of millions of us are affected by them. We now know that 35–84 percent of the thirty-five million Americans diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome, as well as the equal number who remain undiagnosed but grin and bear bowel urgency and bloating, have SIBO.6 We also know that of the twelve million Americans with the pain and disability of fibromyalgia, up to 100 percent have the bacterial overgrowth of SIBO, as do the majority of people with restless leg syndrome, fatty liver, diverticular disease, various food intolerances, gallstones, autoimmune and neurodegenerative conditions, and type 2 diabetes.6–12 The bacterial overgrowth of SIBO is also present in about 50 percent of the 150 million American adults who are overweight or obese.13 We also know that about a third of people with SIBO also have SIFO.14 It may not pillage the countryside or terrorize people in their cottages, but it is a monster that modern life has created, and it dwells in the thirty feet of your GI tract.”
― William Davis, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

“An important insight has emerged from a series of simple studies that did nothing more than obtain ultrasound images of the gallbladder of people who had no gallstones at the start and who then initiated a diet of reduced calories, reduced fat, or reduced calories and fat. The ages of participants, proportion of females to males, strictness of the diets, and other characteristics differed across these various gallbladder ultrasound studies, but one thing they had in common was that as many as 55–62 percent of participants engaging in such diets developed gallstones; many of them had to go on to surgery to have their gallbladder removed. In short, cutting calories, cutting fat, or—worst of all—cutting both calories and fat sets you up for gallstones within a few weeks.11–14 The concept is simple: Consume foods with fats, and the gallbladder is prompted by the hormone cholecystokinin (CCK) to squeeze out the bile required to digest dietary fats. Reduce calories, fat, or both, and the gallbladder is left idle, having no opportunity to squeeze out its stored bile. Over time, bile crystallizes (bile stasis), the process that leads to gallstone formation. It is therefore well established that cutting calories and/or fat leads to high likelihood of gallstone formation.”
― William Davis, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

“Of course, we must have a school, but the building is less important than the teacher. It is the teacher who makes the school, no matter how magnificent the building. “A school is wherever a man can learn, Mr. Shafter, do not forget that. A man can learn from these mountains and the trees, he can learn by listening, by seeing, and by hearing the talk of other men and thinking about what they say.”
― Louis L'Amour, Bendigo Shafter