Rockbottum University has been studying Wheat Belly for months now and we are prepared to release our premature findings.  The primary researcher/test subject, (me) is a gifted dietary adjustment genius with heavy experience in food crazes, exercise addiction and nutrition conspiracies. 

I inherited this disorder from my dad, Norm, a former paratrooper/golf pro/CGCS with a maniacal fixation on diets, vitamins and health supplements dating back to 1964.  Our family regimen involved ingestion of bone meal, protein powder flavored with portland cement, yeast, wheat germ oil and psyllium husks, all while performing a program of isometric exercises, pushups, running and enough situps to kill Jack LaLanne and his dog.

During my football phase, I was a devout gym rat living on what is now known as the "Paleo Diet", nothing but meat, vegetables, fruit and anger.

Guided by a high ranking Vegan Supremacist girl named 'Rainbow' my vegetarian era ended suddenly at four months when I awoke from a trance and found myself shopping for shoes and matching handbags.

Next came the US Army diet, where I learned to eat anything, up to and including bugs, grubs and a hideous concoction called 'Chili-Mac' that revealed the hidden meaning of the Johnny Cash song, "Ring of Fire".  My favorite military cuisine was the 'LURP Ration', a wonderful 6000 calorie bag of freeze-dried, MSG soaked Chicken Stew.  It tasted like chicken and triggered an unquenchable thirst.  I lost a lot of weight on that program.

The Pasta and Rice phase was next, due to an obsession with road bike racing.  I wasn't into bike racing for health, it was more about burning off the stress of bentgrass management in the Deep South and trying to avoid prison for killing Bubba the green chairman.

In '94, the rise of the Walmartians began, with the increase of corn syrupized, hydrogenated "food" in boxes offered at great prices in giant stores.  They made the stores big and the aisles wide because they knew Americans in the future would need more room.

The high school kids I coached in football became noticeably larger during those years.  They had a high level of fat and no aerobic endurance.  I suspected modern food was at fault, but their parents assured me it was only video games, globular warming and not being able to allow the child outside without an armed guard.

In September of '13, I noticed a post by Larry Pakkala in the TurfNet Forum on "Wheat Belly", by Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist.  I was intrigued, but held back to see what happened to others on the program.  (This is a practice I learned when new fungicides and herbicides came out.)

I will not go into specifics here, but if you check out Peter McCormick's Wheat Belly thread on the TN Forum, you will find a very concise and insightful explanation of the basics.  I strongly suggest you read it.

For me, Wheat Belly has not been about weight loss.  Yes, the fat has dropped easily and consistently, without the raging levels of exercise and monk-like deprivation required to achieve that goal in the past.

The weight loss is not important to me, it's about the inflammation.

Wheat Belly has reduced inflammation in places I can see and feel.  My hands have been swollen and stiff for years, probably due to a lot of boxing, too much time on the heavy bag, and various martial arts.  I always accepted the swelling and pain as the price you pay, but several weeks into Wheat Belly, the inflammation all but vanished.

That's just the inflammation I can see.  What about the inflammation I can't see, the stuff in my arteries and hydraulic tubes and the logic controller?

There you have it, the Rockbottum U. premature findings on Wheat Belly.  I hope you have learned the two important lessons here, first being that inflammation is what is killing us.

Second?  You should probably be reading the TN Forum and spending less time posting selfies on snipchat.