29 Replies to “How to Become Gluten Intolerant”

  1. Precious!-The best result from a Glue-ton is when driving in your Toyoto Prieus (whatever) to your Healthier more expensive food outlets to comingle with your own kind. This naturally will reinforce your “upmanshitz” to tread forcefully on the ordinary, extremely uninformed humankind.

  2. Delightful parody…of the ‘ultra spiritual’ life.
    Of course a ‘balanced diet’ requires nuts and fruits which
    leads to the following:
    God wants ‘spiritual fruit’ not ‘religious nuts’!
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group ‘True North’

  3. Funny vid. However…
    My daughter does actually have an issue with dairy (lactose). Trust me, before we identified dairy as her problem,it sucked to see your daughter struggle with nausea, diarrhea, and stomach pain. For a year we figured it might be a menstrual thing and also got her checked for celiac and other conditions. The doc suggested we keep a food diary and start exempting certain foods. Once we took lactose out she got better. When her symptoms return, we can always look back at what she ate in the last day or so and find products that have milk (like salami; why put milk in salami?).
    The big thing that we preach to our daughter is to not be a dick about it. Sometimes you are not going to have safe food or not know if it is safe so you’re just not eating right then. You eat when you get back home. We’ve tried an experiment with lactaid (take a dose and then eat dairy product) and the result was explosive bodily functions. She just has to be careful but she knows not to be a pain in the butt.

  4. “The big thing that we preach to our daughter is to not be a dick about it.”
    As a chef, and on behalf of my entire industry, I would like to heartily thank you for this.

  5. First it was sugar then colesterol,corn syrup carbs then gluten and the food scolds wanting stupid taxes on softdrinks whats needed is Big Brother out of the kitchen and Michealle Obama as well

  6. Is that the 21st century fad like peanut allergies… sounds like it…. Next there’ll be instructions on what not to pack in school lunches like bread, cake etc…

  7. Lactose is added to cured meats to provide food for lactic acid bacteria. This provides some of the nice flavours in cured meats and lowers the pH (due to the lactic acid produced) to help preserve the product. This is a quicker way of achieving similar tastes as traditional meat curing.

  8. MikeSr and Shaku, I agree this is extremely funny and pokes fun at the latest fad of the earth muffin, granola crunching Prius crowd, but somewhat like Shaku, I have a daughter that is confirmed diagnosed Celiac and gluten does play havoc with her digestive system. And we do our best to accommodate her dietary needs, as my wife bakes doubles of as many baked goods as possible. Sometimes for family gatherings my daughter brings some of her own baked foods. Her husband and children tolerate gluten, so she has a complicated life in the form of baking for herself and her family.
    Like Shaku said about his daughter, our daughter is not a poop about it and is very careful.

  9. The video is priceless. Thanks.
    My wife has celiac disease and was diagnosed in 1986 when she weighed a mere 115 pounds….she is five ten. She has benefited from this food craze because there are so many GF products available now.
    But gluten intolerance is the new (getting old now) food rage and frankly annoying….
    BTW a recent double-blind medical study of people with alleged gluten intolerance could find NO adverse medial reaction from assorted regimes of gluten and non gluten diets.
    Hilarious video. Thanks.
    CAS

  10. This vid would be funnier if it didn’t know people who do all the things described. The repeated sharing of disgusting bodily functions during dinner is something I am familiar with, and could do nicely without.
    There’s no point in telling them to shut up, they will clamor on regardless of how fiercely you object. It’s a mental illness, causing a fuss is the whole purpose of the behavior. The bigger the fuss the better the payoff.
    On a brighter note, “gluten intolerance” as a fad is loosing steam, so in the next couple of years it will be back to just the very few people who really are gluten intolerant. The poseurs will have moved on to being vegans or some other such cognitively deficient thing.
    May their bowels wither.

  11. Tvoyumat. Nice moniker. I too know a bit of Russian, at least enough to translate your name. Shame on you!

  12. What’s wrong with wheat isn’t merely gluten. That is advertising propaganda to sell product. There is a whole array of things wrong with modern wheat and other grains also. If people want to eat the stuff I say know yourself out and I won’t try to inform anyone. There are oceans of information out there on the subject.
    However some people are made desperately ill by the very gluten you laugh at. It isn’t very funny.

  13. I agree with that. There is a lot of manipulation going into the foods we eat and not all of it is helpful. For example, in the effort to ensure that tomatoes do not get damaged en route to the stores up north, they are bread to be colourful, tough and tasteless. I also wish they would take fluoride out of the water. There simply is no need for it. Recent research suggests it may be a factor in thyroid issues that seem to be on the rise. It also can result in brittle teeth — ever had a tooth break?

  14. Facts are not a good fit with the small dead narrative. You really must get with the program.

  15. I ate a cracker with gluten in it … not only will I die, but everyone I knew, and know now … are going to die.
    PANIC FOLKS.

  16. tvoyumat, more than anything, stupid isn’t part of the SDA narrative. Put on a dunce hat and sit in your Momma’s basement … we’ll let you know when to come out.

  17. The intestine is supposed to keep large food particles and proteins from reaching your blood stream. This study shows that gaps appear between cells of your intestine (“leaky gut”)on exposure to gliadin-a wheat protein that is part of gluten, and it affects all people to varying degrees by triggering a zonulin response. Non-celiacs with the DQ2/DQ8 gene are especially vulnerable.
    Effect of gliadin on permeability of intestinal biopsy explants from celiac disease patients and patients with non-celiac gluten sensitivity. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/25734566/ “CONCLUSIONS: Increased intestinal permeability after gliadin exposure occurs in all individuals.”
    The side effects of gluten will vary by the degree of response, the amount of gluten and the proteins in the gut at the same time as the gluten. Typically proteins get in that trigger an immune response and if the protein is similar to a native protein there is an auto-immune attack on the body. My wife, for example, is not celiac at all and gets headaches and severe migraines when she eats a gluten grain.
    What I find interesting is the refusal of so many to even consider the science. I’ve seen countless hack articles that blithely proclaim only celiacs need to avoid gluten without even mentioning the work of Fasano et al which has identified the molecular and hormonal mechanisms and confirmed the effect on gluten in non-celiacs through intestinal biopsies. A friend tried to post just a reference to the above research (from February 2015) on a Globe comment site and the Globe editors would not allow it. I guess the Globe derives too much advertising revenue from businesses that profit from gluten grains.

  18. And yet Murray, bread has been -the- staple food of Europe and the Middle East since ancient Sumer, over ten thousand years ago. Indeed, the archaeological record indicates bread has been around for more than 100,000 years.
    Against that you’ve got one study.
    I’m more inclined to question the veracity of your one study than to assume ever human for the last hundred thousand years was a moron who unknowingly poisoned themselves every time they ate bread.
    Radical of me, I know.

  19. I’ve only cited one study. You’ve cited none.
    One has to consider the quality of the work. Fasano’s work over the years has zeroed in on zonulin as the active hormone causing leaky gut, which is unique to humans. They have mapped the biochemical and hormonal pathways. They have confirmed the activity of the pathway through biopsy in everyone tested. Harvard went after and hired Fasano for a reason: his work is first-rate science and he will win a Nobel prize for it. He was already recognized as the world expert on celiac disease. He recounts that his clinic was getting all sorts of people without celiac disease complaining of gluten-induced problems that they had discovered through elimination diet. Fasano reasoned that there was too much clinical experience to ignore and that that many people could not be deluded. This lead them to discover zonulin and the chemical and hormone interactions and even gene markers of relative vulnerability to the effect of gluten. This latest work confirms the presence in everyone. That is called science.
    I am not aware of any study indicating bread making for over 100,000 years. Please provide a cite, if there is one. Perhaps you meant grain was first cultivated 10,000 years ago, which is consistent with what I have seen. Anthropologists fairly universally conclude that domestication of grain was a problem for human health, creating all sorts of new health problems and decreasing height by about four inches. (Jared Diamond calls it humankind’s greatest mistake. Yuval Harari makes a similar case in Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.) Similar patterns of health problems are seen wherever gluten grains are introduced to a traditional culture previously without grains. We also see a pattern of increasing health issues with gluten grains with the hardness of the grain, with regions that grow older soft wheat having lower celiac rates for example than areas with hard wheats.
    Gluten itself is not a poison, as you suggest. It opens the gut and allows proteins and pathogens in, so the effect of the gluten is as variable as the content of the gut at the time and the state of the bacteria and yeast biome in the gut.
    The advantage of grains has been it allowed people to live together in large numbers, as grain keeps longer than fresh foods and enables more continuous food supply. So there was a social advantage to grain in early civilization but at health cost. Life expectancy of hunter-gatherers was longer than grain-eaters until health science advanced in the past hundred years or so. However, with the food pyramid (recommending 6-11 servings of grain per day), grain-induced health issues have outpaced the advances in medicine. Fasano’s work will be instrumental in mitigating the crisis, which is why he will win a Nobel prize.

  20. Stupid isn’t part of the SDA narrative….”
    No, Ural, it’s part of the DNA.
    Bread has been around for 100,000 years? So if farmers have been sponging for that long, they must have developed a genetic predisposition to the mentality of entitlement that accompanies their culture of dependence.

  21. First of all, bread has been around for only 10,000 years, not 100,000 Phantom. it’s a very short time relative to human’s existence on Earth which makes gluten grains a relatively new addition in our diet.
    I am self diagnosed with severe gluten intolerance. I grew up in the 60~70’s generation where bowl after bowl of cereal was ingested if not with some toast on top of that, for breakfast. Then for lunch it was most often with more than 50% being wheat (pizza, burgers, hot dogs, KD) then for dinner it might have been spaghetti or if not, there was always bread on the table anyway.
    Around age 40 increasingly more severe and weird things strated to happen: Rashes, sneezing, severe nose congestion, always hungry, always tired. I also had the big gut. My doctor never had a clue, prescribing Flonase for my sinuses and acid reflux pills. He never associated that there might be a food link. It is to note that doctor’s training in modern medicine covers mere hours on human diet during their long years at school. Doctors are trained to fix much more than to prevent illness and it’s a big problem. It took me 10 years to find my problem only because I stumbled upon a celiac article but I loved wheat and I refused to think it might be it because Wheat is super promoted as good for you, it’s been like that for years.
    I sincerely believe gluten/grain is not good for anyone. Humans should be consuming only meat, vegetables, nuts and fruit with dairy if you can.
    The obesity epidemic we are witnessing is caused primarily by gluten. Cheap food is made primarily of it and it is why the poorer the people, the fatter they are now. Try to eat anywhere in a fast food joint or any pub or sports bar or other chain like Boston Pizza and it will be very difficult for you to order anything that has not gluten on the plate.
    I recommend with certainty that anyone reading this that wants to loose weight without increase in exercise and reduction of food intake, just drop the bread, cakes, pasta and any other food made with gluten and your life will drastically change. Make sure you compensate with more fiber as you could get constipated. Lot’s of meat fat ingested tells your body to eliminate fat. Cutting fat out of a diet is wrong.

  22. I’m having a hard time figuring this guy out. Some of his videos are clearly parodies of the New Agey types he’s portraying, but others appear deadly earnest — long, mostly very boring, banal, life-coaching videos, where’s he’s basically the guy he’s parodying.

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