Modern wheat contains opiate protein

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(CBS News) Modern wheat is a "perfect, chronic poison," according to Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist who has published a book all about the world's most popular grain.


Davis said that the wheat we eat these days isn't the wheat your grandma had: "It's an 18-inch tall plant created by genetic research in the '60s and '70s," he said on "CBS This Morning."

"This thing has many new features nobody told you about, such as there's a new protein in this thing called gliadin. It's not gluten. I'm not addressing people with gluten sensitivities and celiac disease. I'm talking about everybody else because everybody else is susceptible to the gliadin protein that is an opiate. This thing binds into the opiate receptors in your brain and in most people stimulates appetite, such that we consume 440 more calories per day, 365 days per year."

Asked if the farming industry could change back to the grain it formerly produced, Davis said it could, but it would not be economically feasible because it yields less per acre. However, Davis said a movement has begun with people turning away from wheat - and dropping substantial weight.

"If three people lost eight pounds, big deal," he said. "But we're seeing hundreds of thousands of people losing 30, 80, 150 pounds. Diabetics become no longer diabetic; people with arthritis having dramatic relief. People losing leg swelling, acid reflux, irritable bowel syndrome, depression, and on and on every day."

More at: http://www.wltx.com/news/onyourside...rn-Wheat-A-Perfect-Chronic-Poison-Says-Doctor
 
a big protein is probably not gonna be psychoactive if ingested, right? I mean, it'll affect the opioid receptors in the gut, but it won't cross the BBB, right?
 
Gliadin is degraded to a collection of polypeptides called exorphins in the gastrointestinal tract. Exorphins cross the blood-brain barrier and bind to opiate-receptors to induce appetite.


http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2012/01/the-gliadin-effect/



I was further reading in other articles that glidian is a psychoactive chemical very chemically similar to morphine and other opiates.
 
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Meat and cheese are also degraded to opiodergic peptides.

Gliadin is a glycoprotein present in wheat and several other cereals within the grass genus Triticum.

I don't think this is really a child of "genetic engineering" so much as just a natural part of wheat. This just in: wheat contains protein that actiuvates mu-opioid receptyors in cell culture. When's the last time you gave someone white bread in lieu of morphine?
 
We should let ergot fungus grow on wheat, like it sometimes did in the good ol' days.
Then, every bowl of pasta would be an LSA+opiate experience!

But seriously, grains are a recent introduction into the human diet.
Eating meat, nuts, veggies, and fruits are traditions that are a million years old, or older - going back until pre-human days.
But grains became commonplace less than 10,000 years ago.
They helped created larger communities, as winter food was assured.
But they are not something that we are as "used to" eating, and often cause allergies ,etc.
Has anyone here tried a "caveman" (p.c. version "caveperson") diet? (No grains - just meat,veggies, fruits, nuts)
I have tried it several times, for a day or two each, and felt good, but I would like to hear more.
 
Its interesting but I think its harmless. Meat and cheese produces a noticeable opiate-like effect if eaten in significant quantities (and after abstinence), never wheat for me. The weight thing is also intriguing. Opiates aren't supposed to stimulate the appetite traditionally.
 
Has this got anything to do with why eating enough food leaves you feeling relaxed and content?
 
Bread, pasta, meat and cheese are the most eaten food's on this island (Malta), with the highest rate of obesity in Europe. Around 90% of the people here over 30 have a fairly large gut, its disgusting.

I knew their 'traditional' food's were terrible for the gut (google "Maltese Ftira", HIGH gluten bread), but this help's to explain why they can't help themselves.
 
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