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In reply to the discussion: Modern wheat a "perfect, chronic poison," doctor says [View all]Chemisse
(30,804 posts)BUT - this all makes sense to me anyway. I know I have always felt better when I ate a low-carb diet.
And I did find one piece of evidence:
Demonstration of high opioid-like activity in isolated peptides from wheat gluten hydrolysates.
0.5 mg of the most active peptides were equivalent to 1 nM of morphine in the binding assay. The most active peptides were derived from the gliadin fraction of the gluten complex.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6099562
Oh, and another:
Peptic digestion of gluten results in the production of substances having opiatelike activity in bio- and receptor assays.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6840480
Ahh, one more that connects appetite with an opiate receptor blocking drug:
Naloxone reduces the food intake of normal human
volunteershttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666383800452