My bread obsession: Making the transition to be gluten-free wasn't easy for me. Bread was my weakness. For the first 2 or 3 days I could not stop thinking about BREAD. Bread.. The warm, fluffy goodness. The toasted buttery outter layer. The smell fresh out of the oven. It was bad. REALLY BAD. I mean, who lays in bed at night dreaming of bread? Me. Addicted to Bread. Is it real? Absolutely! Turns out gluten can stimulate opioid receptors. 1 Plainly, eating bread stimulated my

Why are gluten problems on the rise? Two main reasons: hybridization & deamination of gluten It is not that gluten is genetically modified (the process of inserting or deleting genes). The hybridization (combining different strains of wheat together to create a new protein) is believed to be the culprit of a new type of wheat that is rather immunoreactive to brain and the nervous system tissue.1-3 Gluten is often added to foods for flavoring or thickening/texturizing of foods