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First a message from the author of Wheat Belly...
Doped
By William Davis, MD
I’ll bet you pride yourself on living a pretty clean life.
It’s doubtful that I’d stumble on you in some
alley, track marks up your arms, lying in a puddle of your own urine,
unconscious from a night of shooting up heroin, snorting coke, or
smoking crack. And you probably have all or most of your teeth, unlike
the toothless addicts on methamphetamine.
Perhaps you even avoid or minimize your use of
softer recreational drugs in cigarettes and alcoholic beverages. You
likely adhere to healthy practices and keep such indulgences to a
minimum.
The truth is that you’ve been doping it up for most
of your life. You’ve been doping it up with an opiate, not unlike
heroin, Oxycontin, or morphine. You’ve been doping it up for breakfast,
lunch, dinner, and snacks. No tracks, no toothlessness, no pee stains on
your trousers, no cardboard sign reading “I’m homeless and need help” .
. . but you’ve still been doping it up.
You’ve
been cleverly disguising your opiate of choice as muffins, bagels,
cookies, breakfast cereals, and sandwiches. Of the many dark and hidden
issues surrounding modern wheat, the addictive mind effects of the gliadin protein are among the most troublesome.
Have a couple of slices of whole wheat bread and
the gliadin protein within is digested via stomach acid and pancreatic
enzymes to a collection of polypeptides (small proteins) called exorphins, or exogenously-derived morphine-like compounds,
as they were first called by the National Institutes of Health
researchers who discovered them. Wheat-derived exorphins cross into the
brain and bind to opiate receptors (the delta class of opiate receptors,
for you neuroscience people). Different wheat exorphins, such as the A5
pentapeptide, differ in their binding potency, but as a whole, the
wheat exorphins exert opiate-like effects.
Unlike heroine or morphine, however, the
combination of receptors bound cause wheat exorphins to not provide
relief from pain, nor the “high” of other opiates. Wheat exorphins
“only” cause addictive behavior and appetite stimulation. People who
consume wheat increase calorie consumption by around 440 calories per
day, every day, feeding their habit and ensuring a constant flow of
wheat-derived products. And appetite is stimulated but not for salmon
and asparagus, but for junk carbohydrates like cookies, cupcakes, chips,
and soft drinks. (Conversely, remove wheat and calorie consumption goes
down by around 440 calories per day, every day.)
Stop the flow of wheat and a distinct opiate
withdrawal process results in 35-40% of people: nausea, headache,
anxiety or panic, fatigue, and depression, generally lasting 3-5 days,
occasionally longer. The same phenomena can be reproduced by
administering an opiate-blocking drug to the wheat-consuming individual.
Just as the tobacco industry doped their cigarettes
for years with added nicotine to increase addictive potential, so Big
Food has likewise been doping their foods by adding wheat to every
conceivable processed food. Wheat is in nearly all breakfast cereals,
candy, granola bars, canned tomato soup, powdered instant soups, taco
seasoning, and licorice. Show me a processed food product and I’ll show
you something that contains wheat.
Just as the sleazy drug dealer selling you your
next hit of crack or heroin profits from your continued addiction, so
Big Food acts as your opiate dealer in the wheat exorphin world of
addiction. And, just as the drug dealer knows you will be back, else you will suffer withdrawal, sweating, hallucinating, finally begging
for your next hit, so Big Food knows you will be back within hours as
you begin the exorphin withdrawal process—tremulous, cranky, and foggy .
. . until you get your next hit of a bite of pretzel or bread.
William Davis, MD
Author of #1 New York Times Bestseller Wheat Belly: Lose the wheat, lose the weight and find your path back to health published by Rodale, Inc.
www.wheatbellyblog.com
Author of #1 New York Times Bestseller Wheat Belly: Lose the wheat, lose the weight and find your path back to health published by Rodale, Inc.
www.wheatbellyblog.com
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