Gluten can do funny things to your brain

June 25, 2:49 PMGluten-Free Food ExaminerJen Cafferty

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Birmingham Family Health Examiner, Carl Lowe, recently wrote a fascinating article on how ingesting gluten altered his dream state.  Many people are on a gluten-free diet for other reasons than celiac disease.

Although many people do not have problems eating gluten, as Mr. Lowe states, gluten can wreak havoc in your body in more ways than one.   Here is an excerpt from his article. 

For me, waking up from a deep sleep used to be supremely disquieting. As I began the initial climb back to consciousness, I would be immersed in a dream, surrounded by a nighttime fantasy. But as I awoke further, and became more fully conscious, the memory of that dream would drain away– sometimes in torturous slow motion. Something circulating in my brain, or some warped circuit in my skull, would grab my dream memory and pull it slowly from my grasp no matter how hard I tried to keep it in mind. By the time the process was done, and I was fully awake, I was only left with the thin knowledge that I had had a dream. I couldn’t recall where I had been or what I had done.

At around the same time that my dream life was suffering, I began to have severe memory problems that made me think I was entering early Alzheimer’s (see Brain Trouble). In a desperate attempt to save my brain from dementia, one of the things I tried was to give up gluten figuring I had little to lose. To my delight, going gluten free saved my brain and nerves (see Nerve Destruction). Within two weeks of giving up gluten, friends and family noticed a significant improvement in how I functioned. (My mood improved too!) Click here to read the entire article.