Gluten is Not the Problem: The Science of Wheat 

Celiac and gluten sensitivity is NOT TRIVIAL. Both of them are mis-diagnosed and not easily identified or treated. The symptoms are similar to other diseases and a lot of physicians are not trained to diagnose them. How do I know this? - It took me 25 years of visiting multiple specialists and mis-diagnoses to figure out my sympoms are related to gluten sensitivity. Finally a doctor in the US was able to figure it out. I agree with you that wheat/gluten is fine for most people but its not that simple. Modern wheat is hexaploid which is one of the causes of gluten issues. Heritage diploid wheat is much easy to digest, but it is not very shelf stable and doesn't make good bread / pastries etc. Also modern farming harvests immature wheat, which is also an issue. The gluten in immature wheat is like a toxin, hence even insects and birds avoid it. They like mature wheat which the plant (technically a grass) is ready to give up for further propagation. Since insects and birds eat the mature wheat, moderns farmers like to harvest early. In the olden days, mature wheat was winnowed by hand, not any more. And lets not get started with the issues caused by fertilizers, insecticides, fungicides etc like glyphosates. They bioaccumulate in the body over time and also cause issues. Thus a combination of modern hexaploid wheat and modern farming practices combined have ruined wheat for us. I really like your videos but please stick to science and history and avoid giving medical advise en-masse. - A concerned scientist

i find so much pleasure in watching your videos. every video has a goal and you go as deep as you can for a 5 - 10 min video. this is how education shoukd be - top to bottom and not bottom to top as done in schools.

Ashokji I think civilisations' preference of staple grain was more to with climate. Rice needs a lot of water to grow. It can only been grown sustainably in tropical monsoon climates. Meanwhile wheat is more hardy and can grow in temperate climates with lower rainfall. Tropical countries can also grow wheat in winters, but the opposite is rarely possible. Even in China, the south had rice but the north had wheat as well. There are ways to cook rice that give it a good shelf life. We have puffed rice and poha which last can for months. And rice grains themselves are very good for storing.

unfortunately the original wheat grain is no longer grown. We now have hybridised wheat which causes many digestive problems. Adding to this is the sprays used. Glyphosate is sprayed on the drying wheat to enhance drying. Millions world wide can no longer tolerate or digest any form of this hybrid wheat.

Very informative video. But is it true that 95% of the wheat we get nowadays is of the hybrid variety which is not as healthy as the indigenous variety, & might be the cause of the various health issues related with wheat consumption reported by some doctors, particularly in the West?

Really enjoyed the mixture of history and hard science - and the explanation of some Indian terms that I see in recipe books but not on the supermarket shelves here in Europe. Thanks!

Very good information ! Can you please tell why the ancient varieties like Einkorn or Khapli (India) are considered healthier, I heard that the varieties being grown today after the green revolution in India are genetically modified and are risky.

I have difficulty believing that chakkis are still used to make atta on a large scale as it is done now.

Good informative video. Wasnt aware that Rava is just different form of maida .

Love the nerdy trivia in your introduction ❤

Great content with fantastic take aways!! Thanks for all that you do.

Please keep doing these videos! It's so useful and informative especially during the time when people are listening to everyone on IG😅

Please make a video on autoimmune and gluten too

The Aryan invasion theory has been debunked by many scholars… chariots have been found in sanauli dating from 2000 BCE , horses have been revered and mentioned in rig ved more number of times than cows have been mentioned…. Rig ved is estimated to be more than 14000 yrs old ! If you consider the epic of Mahabharata as Indias itihasa which is at least 7000 years old according to astronomical calculations of recorded constellations in the epic, horses have been mentioned in the battle of Mahabharata as well! Looking at this data you will come to conclude that horses have been a part of Indian fauna from ancient times. The prehistoric site of bhimbetka in MP also has cave paintings portraying horse riders proving the existence of horses in India. Apart from that, I enjoy your podcasts and feel that they are very informative thank you 😊

Very interesting video.till now i don't know how semolina is prepared.another variety called wheat ravva we get.is it good

Again A Great Video, Fact based and Pocket Friendly recommendations.

"The remains of Equus ferus caballus, or true horses, have been found at the Harappan site of Surkotada, which dates back to 2400-1700 BC." "The oldest horse bone found outside of the Indus-Saraswati region is from Bagor in Rajasthan, and dates back to 4500 BCE. "

I think saciobatrus mold causes the peanut allergy

'Familiar or unfamiliar' very true sir... But people behave like I am speaking some alien language when I say this

Please make video on oral hygiene, pan leaf and the mouth ulcers..

Washed,dried and chakki fresh is absolutely safe as we have been having for centuries.

That Antarctica comment was quite deliberate 😂😂😂

Sir, Your microbiome subject first get to know from DrPal then you. After improving my gut bacteria strength by avoiding carbs and sugar , I have literally seen health is getting well day by day. Also taken adequate boiled egg showed the difference.

What do you want to say... Eat maida parota or bread with more vegetables is as good as eating chapati with little less vegetables.. Eating white rice with little more vegetables as good as brown rice with a little less veggies

Gabbar singh..😅 U are toooo good sir..thank you very much..

Fact packed! Finally I can continue defending wheat with lots of more facts. Thanks bro!

Ashok bhai. If you would have posted how much protiens and carbs maida has as compared to whole wheat aata, that would have been extremely helpful. Also, do the aata packets we get now a days have only aata since they have longer shelf life? I doubt.. how healthy is that..warrants a video, what say ?

In your book, you have mentioned that Indian atta does not include some portion of the bran. How is this true if atta is made in a chakki?

That was educative indeed. So South ending up eating rice is a function of what the farmers cultivated? nothing to do with climate/eating different from our Northern counterparts / W(heat) is / R(ice) is and all miscellaneous rumours....

You are great doing amazing job with these videos But somewhat wrong Potassium bromate is a possible human carcinogen they treat wheat with that so its last 1 year vs 14 days Also everything is bad or nothing is bad if do it in moderation

Horses have been there from mahabharat period.

What is the song at the end of every video??

A chapati / roti is not a bread. Just as bread is not a english Chapati

even in the vedas the word ashwa means horse

*Correction* : it's great way to start video with "Did you know" stuff to get attention of viewers but, only thing is you need to do a little research not just copy paste from or rely on Wiki, Quora etc. Horses are mentioned in Rig veda the oldest text 1000s of years before indus valley civilization. Ever heard of *ASHWAmedha yaagam* , which is ancient ritual where Horses are used this dates to more than *7000 years* . ancient Indian texts make several references to horses. *Horses have played an important role in Indian culture and history since ancient times*

European flour is much better than American flour. Many people have regained the ability to eat wheat products while vacationing. Different varieties and less chemical contaminants likely contribute.

Food is rarely good or bad. It is mostly 'familiar'or 'unfamiliar'. Waah!! That's a noteworthy observation, Sir. ❤

Lovely presentation - excellent information. However, the massive increase in "gluten intolerance" in America identically mimics the adoption of three practices. (1) Unless it is specifically labeled "organic" all (100%) of flour sold commercially and to home cooks is preserved with calcium propionate. Calcium propionate causes bloating, alternating diarrhea and constipation, gut irritation up to and including Celiac-like ulcerations. (2) In America, the wheat is killed with glyphosate (Round Up) and then harvested when dead and dry, which facilitates the processing of the wheat, while ensuring that the consumer gets a full dose of glyphosate in all wheat products. (3) In the 1970s American farmers switched to "shorty wheat." The hybridized short-stalked wheat produces a lot less fibre and silage, which we no longer use for fertiliser and is uneconomic to process for animal feed. That's fine for wheat farmers. But the hybrid has 42 pairs of chromosomes (as compared with traditional wheat varieties that have a total of 28 pairs). Chromosomes encode for protein production. Shorty wheat produces gliadin and glutenin just like traditional varieties, along with several novel proteins that have never been consumed before. Since proteins trigger allergies, it seems intuitively obvious to me that adding novel proteins to a staple food without any safety testing was a bad choice. If the calcium propionate doesn't trigger gut inflammation, the glyphosate or novel proteins will. There have been several small-scale studies showing that Celiac patients, when visiting the Middle East or Italy (both countries who grow and harvest traditional wheat without any glyphosate contamination) gluten is well-tolerated by Celiac patients. It's NOT THE GLUTEN! It's the heavily glyphosate contaminated, calcium propionate preserved, overly hybridized novel wheat proteins that make modern wheat products problematic.

Amazing as always! Didn’t know about the no -difference difference between sooji and maida! Keep posting such informative videos. Thanks!

Evidence of a chariot has been found in the Rakhigadhi excavations. Therefore, the archeologists such as Dr Vasant Shinde have concluded that this provides an indirect proof that Harappans were familiar with horses. There are lot more Harappan sites that are yet to be excavated. Earlier history mostly written by westerners was primarily based on conjectures. I am sure Bollywood is not a source of authentic history but there are a number of youtube videos on the latest excavations that do provide the latest findings.

I STOP EATING BREAD AND WHEAT FLOUR PRODUCTS ABOUT 5 YEARS AGO. NOW MY SINUSES ARE CLEAR, MY ARTRITIS IS GONE AND MY ACID STOMACH IS HEALED. I STILL CONSUME BREAD ONCE IN A WHILE, BUT NOT EVERY DAY, SHALOM!

Informative, articulate, interesting as always!! Apart from many other things you are good at, I must say you are a great in teaching.

"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life." John12:24,25

Gluten is found in wheat, barley, rye and oats. It is a gluey protein that most people have difficulty digesting because they don’t have sufficient stomach acid to break it down. Lack of stomach acid is because we listen to our doctors who tell us salt is bad and it must be reduced. Salt is needed by our body to produce strong stomach acid (HCL) In addition, our insistence on drinking carbonated drinks with our meals which neutralise the acid and further reduce our digestive ability.has created an epidemic of malnutrition as the undigested gluten actually damages the vill in the small intestine responsible for absorbing nutrition into our bloodstream. This is not caused by an immune response like those sensitive to wheat or any other type of protein like peanuts etc. This is a contact enteritis not unlike what poison ivy does when it comes in contact with your skin. The partially digested gluten protein builds up a negative charge as it travel through your intestine and then literally zaps the positively charged villi. You only have to perform autopsies to find countless completely destroyed villi in patients who died from a milieux of chronic diseases to see that the actual cause was malabsorption leading to chronic malnutrition. This presenter is missing the elephant in the room. Gluten is a contact enteritis with your nutrient absorption system. You are looking in the wrong place.

Your theory that Rice was only used by Chinese may not be completely true. Indians were also rice eaters like the Chinese. It's the Iranian/Iraqi Asuras' influence around 5-6,000 years ago introduced wheat as it was tastier then rice. Given, that cooked wheat longer shelf life. "Coming to Persia, they learned the use of wheat. It was tasty. When some function is held that we enjoy, we say the function was held with “dhum-dhám” (pomp and show). “Go” in Saḿskrta means “tongue”. And since there was great pleasure in the tongue upon taking wheat, it was known as “godhum”. This “godhum” got changed in the Prákrta language to “gohuma” which in Bihar became “gahum” or “gehuṋ.” " - See below.

A VERY important topic - Wheat vs Oats 😅 Because some people are so scared by the internet that they're stopping others from eating wheat, but at the same time promoting Oats without even checking their nutritional content side by side 🤣

Dear Krish, thank you for the video. If you research Carnivore diet, gluten is a lectin which is one of many toxic plant defense molecules found in food. If you ask any Europeans about gluten, theyll be scared the hell out of it, not because europeans have feeble body but the addition of knowledge of gluten makes the population SENSITIVE about it thus saving them from unnecessary diseases. Gluten is legit. And also i want to clarify that carnivore diet is not an extremist clueless diet, it doesnt mean no plants are allowed. Many low-toxin vegetables are allowed in carnivore diet. Carnivore diet is a diet that truly focuses on curing the root cause of diseases.

The modern variety of wheat is many times higher in gluten than any other food and is therefore 'unfamiliar'. The problem is also the gliadin in wheat. No one does well with modern wheat. By the time you have damage to the intestine that is visible in a colonoscopy it is quite late stage damage. Observe whether wheat makes you feel sleepy, if so then avoid it.

celiac diseases are getting popular these days and now I think its not right to say that the percentage is very small....gluten sensitivity is a reality now

Thank you again, like the way you bring history sconce and cultural to explain, really interesting, the moment I see there is video from u on my feed, I try to watch immediately leaving other work. Please make video on stevia and Diet Coke or Pepsi why and if it is fiber if and how dangerous or not it is.

Congratulations, this is without doubt the most comprehensive, most concise and most common sense explanation of a foodstuff i have ever seen. The contextualisation for the Indian audience to make the information relatable is sublime ❤

In the US about 2% of the population who have celiac or gluten sensitivity. 50% of the population is diabetic or pre diabetic. Yet the high fiber low sugar foods the diabetic population should be eating have been forced off the store shelves by a plethora, of gluten free foods. This I find to be a disgusting state of affairs.

Man! You got your history wrong. Please read- Connextions between Harappan seals and the Vedic Literature by N S Rajaram. Rg Veda describes the (native) horse as having 34 ribs; which is diff from Central Asian that has 18 pairs. Archeological proofs for Indian horses are available. Please correct the video post- or I will report for being inaccurate.

forget horses,there is no separate indus valley civilisation.per se.in 2000BC its all a lie. we had horses in mahabharatha war. everyone agree now that ramayana is in 5000BC.rama is 81 st generation ikshwaku king. so 50 generations later is mahabharata as 126th generation ikswaku king participated in it. so around 4000 BC and we did have horses and vedas and all that

Interesting. How about arsenic in rice? Can you please explain?

Very interesting to me as a non-Indian who loves chapatis. One point though. "All Purpose Flour" is an American expression which isn't used in all of the Anglosphere let alone all of The West. It has moderate gluten content. In Britain we distinguish Strong Flour which has more gluten than APF and Plain Flour which has less. We also have wholemeal flour - though I have never had any success making chapati with it.

How could you forget to mention green revolution in India and hybridization of wheat and mass availability of substandard version of wheat!

Yes you are absolutely bang on about wheat and the progress of ancient civilizations. But what have we done to wheat in modern century?? We have genetically modified in the name of abundance of production. Till mid 20th century human work culture was mostly based on physical involvement and naturally grown wheat was consumed to provide the required energy. Today we are sitting infront of a desk, traveling by artificial legs thus having no physical involvement to buy the genetically modified wheat. This makes it to hard digest. What was the percentage of diabetes and hypertension patients found before mid 20th century? Why after hybridization of grains and vegetables there is gradual increase in such diseases? What does amylopectin do the wheat and your body??

The link below is a very interesting video from Harvard that talks about how gluten affects bread making . One of the examples they use is Vital Wheat Gluten used in the food industry to decrease the time required to proof dough. The question is raised as to the possibility of it's be a contributor to gluten intolerance. It would be interesting to see some follow up studies. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IIomZb_ex_U.htmlsi=IaJeHVuBGI6ApTHv

Historical accuracy is apparently not your strength either 😂

Great introduction and ending 🎉 Thanks for information it coverd everything ❤

One other piece of information about wheat (especially in the US) is that it is often sprayed with herbicide before harvest and one can speculate that there may be residual herbicide in the final product. There could be some ill effect from consuming residual herbicide which gets misattributed to gluten.

0:08 you are wrong. As per S.R Rao the former Director of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) mentioned the findings of Horse bones at Lothal, Kalibangan, Surkotada, Ropar and Mohenjodaro. Also there is clear mention of horse in Veda (aswamedh yagna).

Abey yaar plan changed... I'm going to prepare roti sabji tomorrow.

6:21 Gastronomical quote of the century!

Monsanto Wheat is the Problem GMO an American wheat scourge

Great topic for the general audience to understand how wheat is important to common people.😊

The Bhimbetka cave paintings estimated closer to BC12000 to 10000 do depict horse riders. How is it that MJD/Harappans never saw horses ? Could it be that an indegenous breed of horses existed during pre-bronze age and got extinct somehow ?

Just to correct Regarding the horses. It was not shown that horses were part of indus valley civilization but a group of traders brought them from central asia to sell them in mohenjodaro market for the first time. In fact it was shown that hritik roshan saw that animal for the first time and even asked what is the name of this animal

Domestication of wheat and the other grains forced humans to live in larger settlements. It also enabled the creation of social strata. Humans shrank in height and even brain size shrank. Hold a jawbone 5 feet away from any paleoarcheologist and he can tell you whether it is from a grain-based society or hunting society. Grain-eating Neolithic humans had 10X the number of tooth cavaties as hunters.

You may be right about your knowledge about wheat but please correct your knowledge about Indus Valley Civilisation.Aryan invasion theory has been long smashed and it’s been proved that chariots were in use in Bharat.So please do not misguide people on history

Thank Monsanto for the degraded wheat that is no longer palatable.

How about the research on people with autoimmunity that shows that they are gluten sensitive and have to avoid wheat ? Also please ket us know what tests are available in India to diagnose gluten sensitivity? thank you

Thank you for bringing knowledge in consumable format

0:36 also the Pineapple and Papaya, you missed them 😂

There are some forms of wheat that are not hybridized. It is mostly the glyphosate, but partially the modern factory milling techniques.

Very accurate video!!! You forgot to mention that Wheat most valuable propriety is that it can be stored for a a full year. Food storage was what permitted humanity to surpass the variations on food availability that plagued the hunter gather society's.

Wasn't the remains of horse obtained from Surkotada?

New findings show there were horses in Indus valley civilization.

There is nothing wrong with wheat just like other food. But the way, wheat is cultivated and processed make the difference. I have reduced the consumption of wheat and high oxalate food. The result is my gut health is much better, no more sinus and I feel more energetic than before. So how do you explain that? Eventually, we are what we eat.

I think most of the wheat available in the store is GMO and not the original variety.

When you can tell me how to solve the problem for celiacs I will be very happy to check it out.

You said a very nice thing. Food is not good or bad, it is familiar or unfamiliar. 😊

0:19 There is a cave painting of horse in bhopal which is appropriately 50k years old .

I have found that my food sensitivities decreased as I ate more nutrient rich food and got more sunlight.

Please put video on millets...how its is different from rice and replacing everything with millets make us healthy

When we eat rice, we need fewer tissues to clean up; when we eat maida-based food like bread and pastries, we require many more tissues to clean up. Is this common or varies with each person? Another issue I have with wheat is I get bloating when I eat GMO wheat but no bloating when I eat NON-GMO wheat.

Simplicity brings clarity brings truth brings love ❤! Thank you professor !

Ashok you are too talented..❤

Didn't the excavation of Sinauli prove that horses have existed in India for way looong back.

Sir make a video on science of jower ❤👍🏼

Great videos, infact eye opener many times. Only one recommendation, is there a way to add some reference or proofs in cases where when you bust a myth.

Fabulous insight into a simple topic with great scientific backing........and easily understood. Do make more such videos. Thanks.

0:25 Historical Accuracy has never been Bollywood's strength nor yours because you want us to convince with your outdated British era knowledge that the depiction of various wild animals tied to a upa for ahwamedha yagna across hundreds of Indus valley seals and also the mention of 34 ribbed horses in the Vedas that are found in Indian subcontinent and Arabian peninsula rather than the 36 ribbed horses of Central Asia are after the fall of Indus valley. Indus valley seals as a cryptogram m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ncDRDSKl8uk.html&pp=ygUkU2FuZ2FtIHRhbGtzIEluZHVzIHZhbGxleSBjcnlwdG9sb2d5 Disciphering the unicorn seals m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dqKOtc2gKTs.html&pp=ygUkU2FuZ2FtIHRhbGtzIEluZHVzIHZhbGxleSBjcnlwdG9sb2d5

Glyphosate! PERIOD!

Excellent video, thanks for sharing! 👍

Liked the video for educating in a scientific manner instead of scaring

My new food science teacher

Check out the paper The Horse and the Aryan Debate by Michel Danino.....by the way this man himself seems like and WhatsApp University scholar.....

Dear Krishashok ji, kindly get updated by latest findings from Rakhigarhi and Sinauli excavations : Sindhu-Saraswati Civilization. Fossilized Chariots driven by Horses have been found.