In a response to another thread,
Jessica obviously hit the nail right on the head there, because the fact of the matter is that absolutely no human can digest gluten. This is such an important point, and most people (especially most medical professionals) don't appear to even be aware of it, so I thought that I would start a new topic to discuss it in more detail.Jessica wrote:"a disorder which makes it difficult to digest gluten" .... not too accurate!
For most people, the undigested peptides in wheat gluten (gliadin peptides and glutelins) just pass right on through their digestive systems, without causing any clinical symptoms. For folks such as us, though, our immune system recognizes those peptides as toxic (which they are — they're lectins), and it launches an attack on them, which causes collateral damage to our intestines.
The weird part of all this is that we're not the ones who have compromised/corrupt immune systems — it's so-called "normal" people who have the compromised immune systems, because their immune systems fail to identify a toxin. Ours correctly recognizes it. They are called normal, because they can tolerate gluten, and we are labeled as having a corrupt immune system, because we cannot tolerate gluten. But this is incorrect and it misses the whole point — humans were not designed to eat gluten. Gluten didn't even exist during the first million years or so of human evolution. Our immune system is simply telling us that we shouldn't eat that stuff, and as long as we don't eat any, we are fine.
So-called "normal" people are in an unfortunate position, due to their compromised immune system, because they have no reason to even suspect that the gluten they are consuming is slowly deteriorating their health, and allowing them to be susceptible to the development of cancer, diabetes, and other major diseases. We are the lucky ones, because our immune system is telling us to stop eating that stuff before it kills us.
The average medical professional would probably rate this line of thinking as inaccurate and downright goofy, but I have no doubt that the day will come when they will have to admit that I am right on target, because others (who are willing to think out of the box) are beginning to come to the same conclusion, and I believe that we may be on the brink of an epiphany/revolution, or whatever you want to call it, in the way that we think about the food that we eat. IMO, the human race has been committing autogenocide, ever since the advent of the neolithic period of history, roughly 10,000 years ago, when we first created wheat, and made it a staple in our diet.
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but I know you are absolutely right.