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Gluten causes depression anxiety. If you have depression anxiety, you should eliminate gluten from your diet, to achieve recovery. This article explains what is gluten and how gluten causes depression anxiety.

What Is Gluten?

Gluten is a composite protein, gliadin and glutenin, which is conjoined with starch in wheat related grasses. Gluten makes dough elastic, helps it rise, and gives breads and pastas their chewy texture. Gluten is found in all wheat related products, bread, cakes, cookies, bagels, cereal, pasta, beer, even soy sauce, ice cream, and ketchup have gluten added to them.

Corn and rice, although technically not gluten products, have similar proteins and should also be eliminated or restricted on the Depression Anxiety Diet.

How Gluten Causes Depression Anxiety

Although allergy to gluten, and allergies in general can cause depression anxiety, allergy to gluten is not how gluten causes depression anxiety, or the many other gluten related autoimmune conditions, for most individuals. An immediate and direct allergy to gluten is rare, affecting only 1% of the population, and usually found in individuals with celiac disease.

How gluten causes depression anxiety is by producing inflammation in the gastrointestinal tract, triggering an autoimmune response to the gluten protein which releases cytokines, which then enter the brain and produce inflammation in the brain, leading to depression anxiety.

Gluten causes gut inflammation in at least 80% of the population and another 30% of the population develops antibodies against gluten proteins in the gut. Furthermore, 99% of the population has the genetic potential to develop antibodies against gluten.

This gluten autoimmune cytokine response can affect other organs besides the brain, including joints, lungs, kidneys, pancreas, heart, and more. Which is why gluten is associated with a whole host of conditions including, asthma, arthritis, heart disease, diabetes, and brain related autism, alzheimers and depression anxiety.

Breads and pastas, which contain gluten, also contain a lot of sugar, which can cause inflammation and depression anxiety. Gluten wheat, rice and corn, also cause depression anxiety by feeding harmful bacteria such as H. Pylori, which crowds out good probiotic bacteria necessary for vitamin absorption and gut health.

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There is no scientific doubt that gluten can cause depression anxiety. A study done over 60 years ago, found that rates of schizophrenia during World War II went down, as wheat was rationed in the general population.

Report. A 1984 study found only 2 cases of schizophrenia, out of a population of 65,000 pre-Westernized South Pacific residents who did not consume wheat products, and once westernized with a wheat diet saw their rates climb to western levels.

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Gluten is not the only cause of depression anxiety, many different things from antibiotics, alcohol, stress, GMO food, sugar, pollution, and more can damage your gut and/or create cytokines which produce brain inflammation and depression anxiety.

However, once your gut is damaged from gluten or one of the other many causes of depression anxiety, gluten will continue to enter your bloodstream and invoke an autoimmune response producing depression anxiety.

How to Eliminate Gluten from Your Diet

Eliminating gluten from your diet is not easy. For the past 10,000 years, even before the ancient Egyptians, Mediterranean and Western civilization has depended on wheat containing gluten as a main source of food and cheap energy to fuel the body. Asian civilization has depended gluten related starchy rice, and American civilizations have depended on gluten related starchy corn and maize.

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The human body developed hundreds of thousands of years ago, was not designed to consume processed grains, such as wheat, corn and rice, cultivated and consumed starting only ten thousand years ago.

Since gluten is such an “ingrained” part of our diet, removing gluten related food products from your diet is a real challenge, but a challenge worth taking if you wish to recover from depression anxiety.

Beware of gluten free foods.

The gluten free food industry is booming due to the growing awareness of the harmful impact gluten can have on health. Tons of new gluten free foods are appearing on store shelves everyday. Avoid them. Gluten free packaged and processed foods can still be bad for your health and can cause depression anxiety.

In many of these processed foods, wheat gluten is replaced with corn or rice, which have gluten like proteins that have the same negative effect as wheat gluten. they also contain a lot of sugar, salt, inflammatory oils, and additives and preservatives which can cause depression anxiety.

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The Depression Anxiety Diet Plan eliminates wheat gluten completely from the diet, and uses brown rice only in our Breakfast Cereal and Vegetarian Stir Fry Recipe, and gluten free red Quinoa in our Sockeye Salmon Recipe.

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Some of the negative impacts of gluten related proteins found in rice and quinoa, especially the high sugar content, is mitigated by fiber found in brown rice and red quinoa, but does not eliminate the inflammatory properties of gluten. Although brown rice and red quinoa appears to be less harmful than wheat, brown rice and quinoa are eliminated in the Depression Anxiety Detox Diet Plan for individuals with gut conditions.

Summary:

Gluten is a protein found in wheat products such as bread, pastas, and beer. How gluten causes depression anxiety, and many other serious health conditions, is by producing inflammation in the body and brain. Gluten should be eliminated from the diet to achieve depression anxiety recovery. Gluten free foods are generally unhealthy and should be avoided.

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