Name: Should you worry about gluten? | Dr Will Bulsiewicz（Should you worry about gluten? | Dr Will Bulsiewicz）
Uploaded: 2022-12-20T00:34:32.000Z
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Hello, and welcome to Zoe Shorts the Bite Size podcast where we discuss one topic around

I'm Jonathan Wolf, and I'm joined by my friend Dr. Bulsiewicz and today we're talking about

There's a lot of fear-mongering out there about gluten.

Gluten is bad, is the message we're getting everywhere from the supermarket to social

media and all this anxiety can make it hard to get to the truth,

Is gluten really as bad as everyone seems to think?

Well, Jonathan, there's now a good amount of science on gluten, and also there's a lot

of myths, so I think there's a clear answer, Jonathan, and we're gonna get into it.

We need to start Jonathan with what gluten is because there's so much misinformation.

Picture a chef stretching out a ball of dough at your favorite pizza joint, and they're

tossing it up into the air to make that perfect pizza base without gluten.

So it turns out that gluten is a protein that's naturally found in certain plants, such as

Cooks have loved it for millennia because it helps food keep its shape.

Gluten actually comes from the Latin word, meaning glue and humans have been using its

properties for long before even the Romans, it turns out Will.

So apparently the remains of a flatbread baked by hunter-gatherers fourteen thousand years

ago have been found by archeologists in Jordan, The gluten helped combine all the grains into

bread, which is presumably a lot easier to carry around on a hunting trip than a bunch

Yeah, especially since you didn't have any sort of bag to carry those seeds that easily

But anyway, it's quite difficult to separate gluten from wheat, barley, and rye.

So anything that contains these ingredients could potentially be problematic

And problematic because gluten is bad for you, right Will?

It causes gas and bloating and a whole host of other digestive issues.

What you're probably thinking of is Celiac disease.

As I understand it, Will, celiac disease is a very serious inflammatory condition that

affects a small intestine and its ability to absorb nutrients.

People with the condition can't consume gluten because it's going to trigger their immune

It was identified by a pediatrician during the Dutch famine of 1944 who noticed that

his celiac patients improved with the strict flower rations.

Untreated celiac disease can lead to severe diarrhea, abdominal pain, bloating Malabsorption,

infertility, weight loss, and even iron deficiency anemia.

It causes chronic inflammation inside the intestines.

So over time, it could potentially lead to cancer, even though that's very rare.

I remember my wife talked about it with patients that she's seen in the past and just sort

This is something that you can go to the doctor and get a blood test.

It's important for people to know, Jonathan, that the testing doesn't have to be invasive,

Many times the right place to start is with a blood test, and the blood test can provide

insights there is some additional confirmatory testing that may be required, but usually,

And what's the treatment if you are diagnosed with celiac?

It's very clear, and that is the strict elimination of gluten from your diet.

It's estimated that celiac disease affects at least one in a hundred people in both the

But interestingly, only about 30% of these people are currently clinically diagnosed.

I find that shocking Will that you're saying maybe 70% of people are not diagnosed, given

that it is such a serious disease and that you can change your diet to have such a profound

However, if it is only one person in a hundred has it.

Why do so many people think that gluten is bad for them?

Well, partly it's the general awareness and some of the fear that comes from the serious

But at the same time, there were some studies done that raised concerns about gluten going

back about 15 years ago, Jonathan, that concluded that gluten is inflammatory and it causes

bowel damage, which of course, fanned the flames of the gluten is bad narrative.

But the thing that people need to understand is that those studies were done in labs with

There's very little robust or high-quality evidence showing that gluten is bad when real

It's interesting because we talk often on this podcast about how you have to be very

careful before you assume that a study done on animals also applies to humans.

It sounds like we need to be very careful here when we're accepting those studies about

Some people do have an adverse reaction to gluten-containing foods that are not due to

celiac, and they might experience fatigue or bloating, abnormal bowel movements, or

So if it's not celiac disease, why the adverse reaction?

Well, there are three possibilities for a person who's having this type of adverse reaction.

, number one, you have side effects when you eat wheat, but importantly not when you eat

So the first thing that you need to do in this case is to make sure that you don't have

Any person who reacts to these foods should be tested for celiac.

But if there are symptoms only when eating wheat, that's more likely to be a wheat allergy.

And I guess you do have symptoms when you consume gluten that is similar to Celiac disease,

so you are feeling bloated and you're getting abdominal pain, but you're not seeing the

positive blood test or some other evidence from the doctor.

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