Flashback Friday: Is Gluten Sensitivity Real? & GF Diets - Separating the Wheat from the Chat
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2019-12-27

For more than 30 years, the medical profession has debated the existence of an intolerance to the wheat protein, gluten, unrelated to allergy or celiac disease. How common is gluten sensitivity? Are there benefits of gluten? Why does the medical profession explicitly advise against people who suspect they might be gluten intolerant from just going on a gluten-free diet?

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More than 10,000 articles have been published on gluten in medical journals—intimidating even for me! Combined with the multi-billion dollar financial interests on both sides, it makes for a difficult task. But I think I did it! This is 2 in 1 video, and the other video in this series is: How to Diagnose Gluten Intolerance (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-diagnose-gluten-intolerance), where I go step by step how someone may want to proceed who suspects they might be sensitive to gluten-containing grains.

Why this apparent increase in food sensitivities in recent decades? It could be because of pollutant exposure (see Alkylphenol Endocrine Disruptors: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/alkylphenol-endocrine-disruptors-and-allergies/ and Allergies and Dietary Sources of Alkylphenol Endocrine Disruptors: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/dietary-sources-of-alkylphenol-endocrine-disruptors/).

What can we do about preventing so-called atopic diseases (like allergies, asthma, and eczema)? See my videos Preventing Allergies in Adulthood (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-allergies-in-adulthood/) and Childhood (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-childhood-allergies/). 

The weirdest example of an emerging food sensitivity may be the tick-bite related meat allergy story I review in Alpha Gal and the Lone Star Tick (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/alpha-gal-and-the-lone-star-tick/) and Tick Bites, Meat Allergies, and Chronic Urticaria (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/tick-bites-meat-allergies-and-chronic-urticaria/).

More on the benefits of whole grains in general in Whole Grains May Work As Well As Drugs (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/whole-grains-may-work-as-well-as-drugs/), Alzheimer’s Disease: Grain Brain or Meathead? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/alzheimers-disease-grain-brain-or-meathead/), and Gut Microbiome – Strike It Rich with Whole Grains (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/gut-microbiome-strike-it-rich-with-whole-grains/).

For all of my videos on keeping gut flora happy, check out the microbiome playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5TLzNi5fYd9bVwe5wDtBA3miV7rsANY0.

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