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Is Wheat Wrecking Your Gut?
Chatting with today’s guest, I never imagined celiac disease would come up.
But then he dropped a bombshell I had never heard before.
He told me that wheat used to have only 14 chromosomes, and that today’s wheat has 44 chromosomes.
First of all, what the heck is a chromosome? Plant chromosomes are like instruction manuals, guiding how a plant grows, develops, and reproduces. Here’s the twist: chromosomes shape plants, we eat those plants, and they end up shaping us too!
What I discovered from today’s guest, Farmer Tim, is that our bodies can easily digest wheat (ancient grains) with 14…
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