I'm surprised the author didn't talk about the 'supercarbohydrate'
properties of wheat - the fact that it contains 75% Amylopectin A which
converts in the body RAPIDLY to pure glucose = inflammation, fat
storage, diabetes, arthritis, cancer, alzheimer's, etc.

We need "complex" carbohydrates (fruits / vegetables) NOT 'simple' carbohydrates (what a commenter simplistically referred to as 'white' carbs). Simple carbs move quickly through the body, spiking blood sugar, spiking insulin = weight gain (fat storage), diabetes, heart disease, cancer, etc. Complex carbs move much slower through the digestive processes, maintaining balanced blood sugar, and contain rich-nutrients. Wheat is a SUPER-simple-carbohydrate - even worse than plain sugar! Because it enters the body as pure glucose (75%).

Today's wheat is not the same as ancient grains once were.

I need to comment because you may not see my up-click. Nice and informative comment. I always wondered how wheat bread (whole or otherwise) could have a worse glycemic load than sugar itself.

Trying to tell psychologist and other mental health professions that diet can and does affect mental health is like trying to tell mainstream nuclear physicists that cold fusion is real.

Money, power, incompetence, ego. Too many experts and professionals in life to suit me. It's all a con game full of quackery with licence to steal for the most part.

I share your resentment, but they are unaware of their stupidity. Otherwise they would be secretly not eating bread and pasta. That secret would be noticed really quickly. "How come we never get any medical or psychological professionals here in our Italian restaurant." They live in their psychology or medical echo chamber, there is no money to be gained to promote these ideas, and the scientific ideal is objective not subjective reports. So they never try it on themselves, and everyone else suffers. The trick is to eschew these ph'cking experts and try things on ourselves. They can't make that illegal.

Psychologist are at war with all other competition. Even though their talk therapy has been proven to be useless in all areas of mental health except for perhaps phobias, they resist the truth mightily because it is so cool to collect $90 per hour or some other ridiculously high wage while just sitting around feeling superior to some poor person pouring out their problems.

And EFT can easily get rid of those phobias; I have seen a phobia disappear in 20 minutes using EFT. EFT along with diet as described in this article along with essential fatty acids (not described in this article for some strange reason) could easily improve or disappear 90% of these problems. But psychologists prefer their little theories and their great cash flow to actually stepping up and healing people.

One great psychology theory is that there is always some deep, hidden, buried trauma behind every phobia. Never mind that this has never been proven or even indicated.

Being a talk therapist is no better than being a paid friend. The only difference between a psychologist and a prostitute is that shrinks keep their clothes on.

I agree on every point and I do not agree with the basic points of this article at all for many reasons. This comment from another article explains my reasons well !

"I agree that grains and or some white carbs are not the horror they have been claimed to be at all. We need some white carbs especially if we are actually working our bodies, as in regular physical workouts. Not just power walking or golf or some other weak endeavor, but serious workouts to get the blood flowing ! I do agree that we need to have limits on the white carbs and grains, but that is very easy to do. I
found all of this out by simple trial and error over many years of effort and serious workouts and healing modalities. I eat bread that I make , pasta and other carbs and I am very strong and healthy with tremendous endurance and stamina. It is all about "balance" as everything else is.The problem with white carbs is that most people are
very sedentary and cannot process the foods they eat properly for a lack of exercise to burn the additional fuel. Very simple stuff !

I do not agree that we cannot digest eggs well ? I eat eggs regularly and in
abundance and all of my bodily functions are as good as it can get !

I am convinced that without a regular serious workout regimen you cannot achieve long term overall good health at an optimum level ! I came to this conclusion after almost 6 years of being crippled and healing myself . So it is all based on first hand experience in a serious manner of healing endeavors. Much of what is put out there regarding health and or healing yourself is simply wrong ! And there is no question we all live in many illusions regarding our health and well being as well as every other aspect of our lives. Body, mind, spirit, soul are all interconnected and that is the secret if there is one ?"

I am all about results and little else.

Life is work. Work is life. :)

Yes any workout or physical regimen is whatever you make it !

I completely agree chores or work can be part of a workout regimen. It is all about how you think about it and approach it. I was crippled from a serious near death accident for almost 6 years and was able to heal myself using my own techniques and realized we all have "Inner Powers" we can tap into. I am stronger , healthier and more fit than I was in 1968 in RVN and I will soon be 68 ! So I know I am doing something very right. Anybody can do the exact same thing, just gotta know how ? And that is what I teach, how to heal yourself from the inside , out ! Good in Ya..

The issue isn't grains. It's the GMO damage to the gut which impedes digestive ability.

It is the grains. The rise in autism started long before GMOs were even a glint in a scientist's greedy eyes.

And how long have the grains been around? Something must have changed in recent decades.

Well, grains have been messing with us for a long time. Just look at art work from the writings of Chaucer and compare that with real live primitive folks even today. I've seen African bush folks who I want to look like: muscular definition, great teeth, perfect posture, running endurance, etc. The Chaucer pictures not so much. This has all been carefully documented by Dr. Weston A. Price, someone worth googling.

However, you are absolutely correct. Something changed around 1950 or so. The grains and/or something got worse. One culprit is a thing called epigenetics: generation after generation of ph'cked up diets with unnatural additives, pesticides, low omega-3, macro-nutrient imbalance, Twinkies, etc. The damage builds. That is my theory. I am willing to listen to other theories; I am not wedded to this one. The GMO theory would require a time machine, which I doubt.

Just read "Bread and Other Edible Agents of Mental Illness." Outrageously enlightening. I have ankylosing spondylitis. I had asthma as a kid, quite bad. And there certainly is a level of "mental illness" in our family, me included, although I've learned to handle it quite well. As a baby, I was told, I was very anemic and sickly. As a child I consumed humongous quantities of cereal with or with out lots of milk and could easily sit and watch TV after school and eat a half loaf of white bread. And of course sugar was big, mounded on Rice Krispies. Huge packed balls of white bread. Loved it. Made me stand on my head and watch TV. At around 50 I was diagnosed with AS after an accident and the doctor noted that it appeared that the fused verterbrae in my neck was all the way back from my childhood and that AS is set off by some significant incident or viral infection possibly. Something triggered it. Everyone with AS has a certain gene but not everyone with that gene develops the disease. After reading this article I have to believe that it is all related. Thanks so much for enlightenment. It is my intention to test out my new found belief in this matter. I tend to be very mindful of the things that affect me in life and try to make adjustments. Of course, it's not always easy to do what you feel is right. Financial considerations pay a significant role in life quite often, along with the "dependency" issues you talked about. It can be very subtle, almost invisible. Maybe it was the "aliens" or the "rulers" of the world that led us down the gluten path so we could build "them" something big and be better equipped slaves, regardless of what it did to us in the process. You certainly activated my mind this morning. Thanks again. Wish I could join your program, but alas, I'm virtually dead broke at this point in life.

The link for "page 2" is broken! Does the text really continues on that page?

VERY interesting, in-depth and important article; thank you! With two females in the family who have evolved to point of needing to avoid all opportunistic exposure to Gluten (and of course, previously loved bread, pizzas and rich lattes) I will definitely share in their direction.

Have another thought, though, since besides the essential fatty acids (Omega 3's) not being mentioned, I wonder why there was no comment about Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth or 'SIBO' since one of this condition's worst symptoms (due to hypersensitive reaction to carbs) is an extremely uncomfortable 'bloating' that begins not long after eating the offending food and to extent that it makes a person (usually happens in females) look as though they're seven to nine months pregnant. And less obviously, there are intermittent issues of diarrhea, as well.

Since one of the fore mentioned loved ones had never suffered from even slightest digestive issue, it wasn't until several months after she'd been prescribed (just) one week of the 'broad spectrum' fluoroquinolone antibiotic Ciprofloxin ('Cipro') for UTI...that I did my own investigation to learn how this fluorine-derived drug class HAS been found to incite the small intestinal compromise of SIBO.

Needless to say, with all of this running through my mind, it has been especially illuminating to learn further about the biological propensity in some for the Zonulin effect after already knowing the environmental exposure from most, if not all, antibiotics...and that, altogether, these factors can lead to permanently worsened gut permeability. Again, my abundant appreciation to the authors and their host greenmedinfo for this "exceptional" focus.

If this otherwise excellent article missed the importance of essential fatty acids, I have to wonder what else it might have missed.

Over the past perhaps 4 years my wife would get into these depressions. I would get her started on fish oil and everything would be OK for a while until we started to neglect the fish oil. When she didn't take it, after about 3 days she would be back in the dumps. It was sort of relative thinking verses absolute thinking. Everything seemed OK, so it must be OK, so we sort of forgot to give her her fish oil caps. The last depression that we had was so bad that I switched to absolute thinking, and I added cod liver oil to the mix: "You will take your cod liver oil and fish oil capsules." No matter how subtle or gentle and strident or obnoxious I had to be, she was going to ph'cking take her essential oils. She went from being a demon to a happy beauty queen mommy.

Understand, my fellow health advocates, that she was and is a health fanatic. She drinks healthy drinks in the morning that my dogs will not touch, that would make a pig puke. She is trim and athletic. She goes to the gym several times a week for 2 to 4 hours, having fun and working out. She is 50 years old yet looks like 25, and I kid you not. But the absence of this one little nutrient causes depression, low self-esteem, anxiety, demonic resentment, etc, etc, etc. Without DHA and EPA and perhaps other fats, she becomes a very miserable person.

There was a small book written in the early 1900s titled: Bread: The Staff of Death, by H S Anderson which delves into bread and mental diseases.

Yes, but what does it say? Yea or nay or maybe or other valuable insights and discoveries?