Bread, paper, and other indigestible objects

Olivia posted this incredible story of wheat-free release in the comments on this blog some time back. Her story so powerfully encapsulates how far off course health can go by consuming this thing called “wheat,” that I thought it was worth sharing with everybody again. During her wheat-consuming days, Olivia was clearly suffering body-wide inflammation and other effects that were being ineffectively “treated” by her doctor, effects largely due to the indigestible or only partially-digestible proteins from the seeds of grasses AKA wheat. As often happens, she managed to reverse the entire collection of health conditions by simply eliminating the cause–wheat. I am a 41-year old busy mom and I have been wheat-free for 12 weeks. My results are dramatic. I found out about Wheat Belly from a friend. I looked it up on Amazon and started going wheat/gluten free the second I pressed the ‘buy’ button! That was 12 weeks ago.
 My history is a lifetime of typical outdoor allergies as well as many mild food allergies, IBS [irritable bowel syndrome], diarrhea, severe abdominal cramping, gas-bloating, water retention, swollen calves, mild depression, anxiety, high blood pressure, heart palpitations, acne and rosacea, asthma, body aches and joint pain, plantar fasciitis, and bursitis . . . all of which I thought were unrelated and just part of who I was. Three months ago I was taking the following medications:
 hydrochlorothiazide,
 amoxicilli...
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