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...

A few months back I got inundated with questions about a study claiming that gluten sensitivity wasn't real. Researchers could find no credence to non-celiac gluten sensitivity. The part that was perplexing to me: this same group had previously published research that wheat was a primary cause of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).

Their most recent study attempted to refine the earlier experiment by isolating the gluten protein and giving that isolation to patients, creating an artificially high-gluten diet. The st...

If you have had, or currently have, babies, one of the hardest most heart-wrenchingly painful things you can hear is your baby crying uncontrollably.

Especially when they wake up and you're stumbling blearily around the house trying to get them fed, hoping it's simply because they're hungry and not because they're constipated or colicky.

Colic is one of the biggest complaints I hear from new moms. Some patients say their pediatrician has recommended over-the-counter antacid medication for their colic-stricken b...

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...

A to Z Guide to the Foods That Contain Your Food Allergies

You've identified your food sensitivities. You're avoiding wheat, corn, dairy, soy, or eggs.

Then symptoms return, and you have no idea why.

The problem: these ingredients hide in packaged foods under different names. Modified food starch. Maltodextrin. Lecithin. Hydrolyzed vegetable protein. Natural flavoring.

You're eating your allergens without realizing it.

Here's a comprehensive reference guide to every place your trigger foods show up, includin...

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...