Gluten Free

What Is Gluten?Gluten is a protein that is found in grains, grains such as wheat, rye, barley, spelt, triticale, kamut, and possible oat.  It is a protein that is hard to digest and therefore can irritate not only your digestive tract but also your organs.

How Gluten Causes DiseaseWhen ones digestive system is healthy undigested or partially digested proteins will be eliminated as faecal matter. However, if ones digestive system becomes weakened due to poor food choices, food intolerances, alcohol consumption, eating processed foods and sugars as well as from the normal day to day stresses of life the ability of the body to digest gluten proteins can become difficult. ... because of the undigested proteins floating through the bloodstream thus causing an autoimmune reaction. In addition the protective mucus lining of the intestinal track gets attacked as well. Like the skin on your body, this protective mucus lining is a first line of defence in protecting the body from illness and disease. When this lining breaks down it leads to leaky gut syndrome.

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What Is Gluten Intolerance?

People suffering this condition as a result of eating gluten-rich food have the lining of their small intestines damaged. The gluten in these cereals causes inflammation of the mucosa in the small intestines. The damage on the small intestines interferes with villaes capacity to absorb nutrients into the bloodstream. 

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And it’s not just a few who suffer, but millions. Far more people have gluten sensitivity than you think–especially those who are chronically ill. The most serious form of allergy to gluten, celiac disease, affects one in 100 people, or three million Americans, most of who don’t know they have it. But milder forms of gluten sensitivity are even more common and may affect up to one-third of the American population.

Why haven’t you heard much about this?

Well, actually you have, but you just don’t realise it. Celiac disease and gluten sensitivity masquerade as dozens and dozens of other diseases with different names.

Gluten Sensitivity: One Cause, Many Diseases

A review paper in The New England Journal of Medicine listed 55 “diseases” that can be caused by eating gluten. These include osteoporosis, irritable bowel disease, inflammatory bowel disease, anemia, cancer, fatigue, canker sores, and rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis, and almost all other autoimmune diseases. Gluten is also linked to many psychiatric and neurological diseases, including anxiety, depresion, schizophrenia, dementia, migraines, epilepsy, and neuropathy (nerve damage). It has also been linked to autism. 

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