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>  Leslie Beachwood wrote:
>  Why Gluten Intolerance?
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> I am just beginning to gather clinical experience with gluten sensitivity in musculoskeletal and nervous disorders, and I'm getting a
strong indication that gluten sensitivity is not rare.

Don and Ron are up on this, but I stumbled upon some information in Al
Gore's book, Earth in the Balance that I haven't heard them mention. He
writes about Vavilovian Centers, the genetic homelands of the original
agricultural crops. Wheat comes from centers in northern Iraq, southern
Turkey, and eastern Syria. According to some, the wheat we consume today
does not vaguely resemble the original wheat germ. It is possible that
the thousands of years of genetic engineering has been too much and too
fast for our human adaptive capabilities.

DT