Wheat: Would You Give Your Kids Crack?

aklap · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 10968 Location: WI, USA

Wheat: Would You Give Your Kids Crack?

An interesting blog about the opiate effects of wheat from a pharmacologist. No you know what it's hard to give up...

http://drbganimalpharm.blogspot.com/2008/05/wheat-would-you-give-your-kids-crack.html

Fifi · Joined: 01 Feb 2008 Posts: 288 Location: Wauconda, IL

WOW!! now I know why I couldn't get enough. I always wanted more.

celiacmaine-iac · Joined: 19 Dec 2007 Posts: 1487 Location: Maine

This is so interesting. I'm wondering if the getting the opiate effect with wheat also needs a "trigger" like CD does. What makes me wonder is this. I avoided bread/wheat pretty much all my life, because I didn't like the way I felt when I ate it. I injured my back quite badly 8 years ago, and have lived with chronic pain ever since. After I sustained the injury, all I wanted to eat was cereal. I ate huge bowls of cereal, sometimes for all 3 meals a day. It was the only thing I wanted to eat. I just laid it to the fact that it was too hard to stand and cook because of the injury, yet I craved them so badly that I often thought it felt like an addiction. Even when I did cook, I would often have cereal anyway while my family ate the meal I cooked. As we got the pain under control and I started getting my life put back together, I actually had to wean myself off the cereal just like you would a narcotic. If my DH wanted to go out to breakfast, I would feel panicky because I knew I wouldn't get my cereal. I would sometimes sneak a little bowl before we left, because if I didn't it would be all I'd think about.

Then when everything started up with my skin (DH) in late 2006, I was going through a phase where all I wanted to eat were sandwiches and subs. I ate them every day, and I felt drugged the whole time. When I went GF all the cravings ceased, and the "drugged" feeling went away.
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