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Fascinating. I was curious because I eat the three I mentioned kind of like rice (along with barley and oats). I’m behind on this science. A 50x increase in gl

Fascinating. I was curious because I eat the three I mentioned kind of like rice (along with barley and oats). I’m behind on this science. A 50x increase in gluten sounds crazy, but I don’t know how much gluten is known to be bad. For example, I sometimes eat things with wheat gluten powder as a primary ingredient. It doesn’t seem to cause harm, but maybe I’m missing something. I certainly don’t think of it as a health food (nothing so heavily processed is), but is it actually harmful?

suoduandao2 4y ago
The science on gluten is ongoing and controversial, but the position I believe will ultimately be vindicated is that some people seem to derive no ill effects while many others develop a mild allergy to it, which can fly under the radar and lead to all sorts of chronic inflammation issues if the person keeps eating it. As a result, there's no 'standard safe dosage' of gluten, some people become violently ill if they encounter a trace, others (myself included) find a lot of seemingly unconnected annoyances clear up if they avoid it for a few weeks. Excess weight gain seems to be one of those, though in my case the major symptom was actually an excessively fast metabolism.