So, I tried asking it in askscience and my post got deleted, so I’m assuming this is a dumb question even though I’m just trying to understand a topic full of pseudoscience and it’s not a very uncommon assumption that gluten is just bad for health.
What I know is gluten can induce inflammatory response but for those who already have intolerance or allergy to it, but I’m not sure and nutrition is a very hard thing to get an answer for because there are a lot of misleading information. So, can anyone clarify this for me? I’ll gladly read some scientific articles too.
Thanks!
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Gluten isn’t a problem unless you have some specific gastrointestinal issues. We have a dedicated enzyme, glutenase, which digests it for us. For people with Celiac or (sometimes) IBS, that doesn’t help, but nobody else need be afraid of gluten.
The pseudoscience started from the following logic chain, near as I can tell:
1. Gluten is bad for people with bowel issues.
2. Therefore, gluten must be particularly hard to digest/bad for you.
3. Therefore, gluten is at least a little bad for everyone.
If biology were really that simple, we would be too simple to understand it. Suffice it to say that “health” isn’t an ordered list, there is no specific most or least healthy thing, what is healthy for one person might be lethal to another, and anyone claiming otherwise is mistaken or a fraud. Nothing is that simple in health.
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