Very informative video on the topic of Wheat and health...

[Essen1]

Turn on Closed Captioning (CC), click on the gear icon, set your language and enjoy...

Keep in mind that there are two guys, a doctor and a professor from Stuttgart, a Master baker from Munich and the main Master baker, who's from Switzerland....all have different accents and I noticed that, when reading the CC translations, they weren't always a 100% exact. So fill in the gaps.

Really, really informative, though.

https://youtu.be/dlOnSEIF93E?feature=shared

[KnightOp]

Funny, my German skills are paying off on pizzamaking.com of all places. Vielen Dank fürs Teilen!

[TXCraig1]

I thought I was gluten intolerant, then I started exercising and no more problems. 

[ARenko]

I thought I was gluten intolerant, then I started exercising and no more problems.

My ex is an avid runner (has won marathons in her age group). She started having  problems after running (rashes, stomach issues) and was diagnosed with exercising too much (stupid doctors). She cut gluten. Problem solved.  That's not meant to be a comment on your situation.

I think the gluten thing is overblown, but sometimes I wonder about the quality of the products we consume. How is the wheat treated/ handled before it comes to the consumer. And also, like you suggest, being overall more healthy might mitigate a lot of the claims against gluten.

[TXCraig1]

I don't understand it. I definitely felt crappy and bloated after I ate gluten, but after I started exercising 2-3 hours/day, it doesn't bother me at all.

[Timpanogos Slim]

I'm not sure i have the patience to watch it through.

Celiac sprue is a serious disease resulting from a genetic defect. If you don't have the gene for it you don't have celiac. If you do have the gene, it may or may not express at some point in your life, and there is no cure.

Most large studies on the subject of non-celiac gluten sensitivity find that the strongest correlation in subjects pre-diagnosed with a gluten sensitivity is whether they *believe they ate gluten.  So to some extent it is obviously a fad.

That doesn't mean that nobody really has an issue but it does muddy it for people who have severe celiac and have to live with the reality that restaurants may not believe them because so many people have insisted on gluten-free and then ordered a beer, or followed their gluten-free meal with a brownie or slice of cake because "they can cheat a little".

I know a guy who doesn't even bother anymore. he just doesn't eat if he doesn't know the restaurant has good practices. Brings his own food along on trips.

[Pizza_Not_War]

I don't understand it. I definitely felt crappy and bloated after I ate gluten, but after I started exercising 2-3 hours/day, it doesn't bother me at all.

Exercise is magic, especially for previously sedentary people. I walk 4,000 miles per year now and it's cured or lessened many things. No more daily allergy nose sprays, etc.

[TXCraig1]

Exercise is magic, especially for previously sedentary people. I walk 4,000 miles per year now and it's cured or lessened many things. No more daily allergy nose sprays, etc.

I think you're right. I'm up to 18K/day cardio wearing a 20# weight vest then I do 1-2 hours of lifting.

[Timpanogos Slim]

Exercise is magic, especially for previously sedentary people. I walk 4,000 miles per year now and it's cured or lessened many things. No more daily allergy nose sprays, etc.

Probably something about efficiency of various processes in a different situation than where they evolved.

A friend of mine once opined that for most of the times humans have existed, getting enough calories was a leading problem for most of us.

There are exceptions in primitive cultures -- like in the pacific north-west where they had so much salmon that they carved dried salmon into art. Anthropologists say there is no such thing as culture without surplus calories.

One of the problems we have in western society is that we solved the calorie problem too well.