'Gluten Brain': Wheat Cuts Off Blood Flow To Frontal Cortex

'Gluten Brain': Wheat Cuts Off Blood Flow To Frontal Cortex: As far back as 1954, reports of the full or partial resolution of schizophrenia following a gluten free diet began to surface in the medical literature. We covered this remarkable pattern of associations in a previous article titled, "60 Years of Research Links Gluten Grains to Schizophrenia." While the explanation for this intriguing connection has remained focused on the disruption of the gut-brain axis and the presence in wheat of a wide range of pharmacologically active and mostly opioid receptor modulating polypeptides, a new and possibly more disturbing explanation is beginning to surface: wheat consumption cuts off blood flow to the brain.

Is Wheat Making You Wait For Babies? The Gluten Infertility Link

Is Wheat Making You Wait For Babies? The Gluten Infertility Link: There are few anxiety triggers as provocative as the primal desire to conceive. To experience that drive, and to be thwarted by seemingly uncontrollable and unidentifiable factors is maddening. Many patients end up in my office because they feel they need help managing these feelings. Instead of medicating their anxiety, I help them to learn relaxation and mindfulness in the midst of stress, and then I help them get pregnant. How?

Schedule: The Gluten Summit

Schedule: The Gluten Summit