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In reply to the discussion: Modern wheat a "perfect, chronic poison," doctor says [View all]yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)on my understanding of plant genetics and plant physiology. "Something pervasive in the environment" could be just about anything. It is not necessarily anything in wheat. It could even be a pathogen. Not likely but for a long time stomach ulcers was attributed to all kinds of things until someone directly linked a bacterial pathogen as the cause. Autoimmune diseases are some of the most difficult to identify causes for. The evidence for a direct cause from some kind of change in wheat genetics just isn't there imo - and in the opinion of the scientific community. The doctor attributing it to wheat has done no studies and does not correctly cite any studies. Virtually no one in the scientific community agrees with him. That is why I am dismissive. To be clear, I am dismissive of the explanation, not the fact that gluten sensitivity exists.