Earlier this week we covered what happened to the wheat plant itself. The hybridization, the protein composition shift, the milling losses, the methylation problems from synthetic folic acid. That's the story of what the grain became between 1965 and today.

This post is about what happens to it in the field and after it leaves the field.

By the time that wheat arrives in your bread, your pasta, your crackers, your cereal, it has been through a set of interventions that would be unrecognizable to anyone farming ...

I'll be honest with you. I've eaten like a drunk, angry toddler for the past few months. My waistline shows it. My joints show it. My skin shows it. So this series is partly clinical and partly cathartic, because I know better and I've been ignoring what I know.

Writing is therapeutic sometimes.

I grew up loving bread. One of the fondest memories I have is weekend mornings when my parents had a bread maker going, waking up to cinnamon raisin bread with the crispy outside and that warm, gooey inside. Slather tha...

There are numerous studies linking ADD/ADHD and gluten. There's even one study linking celiac disease directly to ADHD. So it may be that avoiding all grains containing gluten is essential for the natural management of ADHD.

In my experience, removing all grains matters because there are no truly "safe" grains in this country. Two reasons.

First, I don't trust the cross-contamination potential of non-gluten and gluten-free grains. They're normally transported, processed, and stored in the same plants and contai...

Often when a patient comes in, I adjust and change their diet by instructing them to eliminate grains and gluten. The next visit, usually within a week or two, they bounce into the office listing all the surprising symptoms that brought them in initially have gone away.

These symptoms can range as broadly as a skin rash or eczema all the way to severe and life-threatening autoimmune disorders like Multiple Sclerosis. There's a fascinating case where a man had severe neurological symptoms that mimicked ALS (Lou G...

I was reading a post in a Crohn's disease forum and I couldn't believe it when I saw someone get excited because they discovered Cocoa Puffs cereal was gluten-free. I wanted to scream.

There's been a lot of noise in the media about the benefits of a gluten-free lifestyle, and that's caused the food industry to produce a mind-numbing array of gluten-free labeled "foods." We've talked about wheat and grain before, but let's dive a little deeper into gluten and why going gluten-free is gaining popularity.

Gluten i...