Fact: Tracing wheat’s introduction to North America, Chris Columbus not only “discovered America” but aboard the Mayflower was the seeds of triticum aestivum strain that first seeded Puerto Rico.
Genetically Modified Wheat
Today’s wheat is 1000’s of genes removed from origin. Starting in the 1960’s the International Maize & Wheat Improvement Center (backed by the Rockefellers) sought admirable aspirations of ending world hunger through the genetic modification of wheat, corn, and soy. Technology made it possible to edit genes in effort of desirable structure, function, and regulation, all optimizing yield and resiliency of crop.
The Path to Hell is Paved on Good Intentions….But Mostly Profit
An apt saying for the suspiciously ignored havoc not being hungry has created across the globe. Through the genetic alterations of wheat, scientists have created strains that are pest resistant, impervious to designer herbicides, faster to mature, increased food yields, and other tailored structural changes to accommodate adjustments. Genetic modifications result in a wheat grass that is no longer able to survive without the intervention of big agrochemical and biotech. Profitable plant life support necessary for farms to harvest wheat and feed the population in perpetuity.
The Law of Unintended Consequences
Proteins are arguably one of the most important organic compounds on earth; being strings of amino acids coding for structure, function and regulation of organic life. And with the genetic solves of world hunger, we may have inadvertently created problems of health that are suspiciously hard to trace, but undeniably affecting a majority of the human population. Just as GMO created new industry for farming, unintended and never safety tested consequences from chronic exposure to GMO wheat, opens additional revenue streams in the pharmaceutical industry in the name of solving new problems created.
Modern franken-wheat (genetically modified) contains 95% inherited proteins from parent strains….the other 5% unexpectedly novel and unique. The impact of increased chromosomes lead to higher variability in proteins coded; an unintended consequence resulting from genetic modifications that may be the smoking gun for the wide array of reactions suffered by the body when consuming wheat.
Red Flag Implications of GMO Wheat Safety
- Exposing rats to glyphosate resistant soybeans (genetically altered soy that is unaffected by Monsanto herbicides) concluded alterations of liver, pancreas, intestinal, and testicular tissues when compared to control groups fed unaltered versions of feed.
- During WW2, food shortages made bread less available and created dips in schizophrenic hospitalizations; post war and alleviating in food restrictions rebounded reports of schizo episodes. Unfavorable interactions perhaps innate in the cross breeding prior to exacerbation of genetic modifications.
- 65X increase incidences of schizophrenic in hunter & gather populations when modern wheat, barley, and corn are introduced.
- Potentially correlated to incidences of autism and ADHD as gluten elimination diets mitigate symptoms.
- Gluten is a storage protein for the germination of seed. Larger sets of chromosomes attribute to larger and novel expressions of gluten proteins. Remember that proteins are likely behind the various disease state reactions.
- The easily digested nature of modern wheat’s amylopectin also creates conditions where blood sugar is increased at unnatural levels; table sugar contains a glycemic index of 59, while wheat indexes at 72. Yes you read correctly, wheat raises your blood sugar higher than table sugar. Copious issues associated with uncontrolled blood sugar from diabetes to obesity.
- Wheat is the only plant product (other than oat) that generates acid byproducts in the body. This acid derived from digestion is also more potent in sulfuric acid per gram than any meat (also known for its acidic effects). Grains represent 38% of average American’s acid load; when not offset by legumes, green leafy vegetables, and nuts, overtime creating a litany of negative effects in the body.
Exorphins & the Blood Brain Barrier
The breakdown of gluten creates a version of polypeptides that strangely cross the blood brain barrier; affecting the brain similarly as morphine like substances. Their effect being significant enough in warranting nomenclature creation: exorphins and gluteomorphines were created to classify these strange wheat modulated neurotransmitters acting on potent reward centers.
Studies also support these functional classifications: participants treated with anti-narcotic drugs (naloxone) consumed 38% less wheat containing products than control groups. Suggesting that stymying the effects of narcotics (acting on the same systems exorphins do) also blunted reward center stimulation when consuming wheat containing products.
~Cave Implementation~
Do not consume GMO wheats. Wheat is not bad, but the version that inhabits all processed foods is clearly having adverse reaction with the sapien’s system. Anecdotes of wheat abstinence results are undeniably powerful, often with a complete shift back to health homeostasis. From weight loss, profound energy increments, reductions in auto-immune issues, to lessening the effects of mental illness. The once life changing, nourishing, and civilization starting tinder has rapidly devolved into perhaps a civilization ending firestorm. Be wheat-free.
Davis, W. (2011). Wheat Belly: Lose the wheat, lose the weight, and find your path back to health. Rodale Books.
