How did gluten become such a pariah? With its presence blamed for common gut problems, gluten-free products have swept the marketplace. However, for better or worse, eliminating components or categories of foods from diets will impact health. Our task is to learn how microbes figure in the equation. But first, listen to a simplified story […]
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Probiotics Show Guts in Gluten-Free Diet
Sticking to a gluten-free diet is difficult, if not impossible, even given the thousands of new products expunged of the problem protein. Many people with celiac disease and many others not diagnosed with the autoimmune disorder cannot process wheat (gliadin—part of the gluten), or rye (secalin) or barley (hordein), leading to small bowel damage. The main […]