Your diet & Microbiome have a profound effect on your mental & physical health. The gut & brain are linked & in fact send messages to each other. The gut is considered to be the second brain!
Gluten can damage the intestinal lining and cause symptoms like those experienced in irritable bowel, pain, bloating, tiredness, anaemia, pain etc...
Gluten can damage the gut lining allowing substances to pass through to the blood. This causes inflammation which accompanies all disease. This inflammation travels to the brain & other parts of the body.
Wheat causes a rapid rise in blood sugar. Most wheat has been ground into fine flour which is digested speedily causing a spike in blood sugar. Wheat contains phytic acid which binds to minerals such as zinc, iron & calcium etc...
Wheat lectin can damage the intestinal wall causing a leaky gut & may also influence the immune response of the body.
Wheat contains the gliadin protein which creates a craving so the desire to eat wheat rises.
What can you eat instead of wheat?
I make pancakes using chick pea flour, chestnut & buckwheat flour.
Wheat lectin damage to gut lining
Improvement of symptoms after gluten is given up
Gluten in wheat & damage to the brain
Gluten damage to gut lining
Gut lining & effect of Gluten
Permeability of gut lining affected by gluten
The information contained in the post is for educational
purpose only and should not be considered as a medical advice or as an
alternative to medical advice. I have done my utmost to provide accurate
information, nevertheless cannot guarantee that all the information provided will act equally on everyone's body.
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