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This is an article about how regularly eating bread and other grain products affects your health, specifically the functioning of your brain.
It could equally have been named, Is Your High Carbohydrate Diet Making You Stupid?, but that would’ve only been half of the story.
It appears that our dietary over-reliance on bread and other gluten-containing grains (think wheat, barley, rye and spelt) has been doing us a mischief.
And it’s not just that grains are a source of unnecessary carbohydrate – it appears that grain foods serve up a double-pronged inflammation attack on your intellect.
So how exactly is the humble loaf of bread, once thought to be a healthy addition to diet, damaging our most prized organ? And how can we eat and live in a way that reduces our chances of developing cognitive decline conditions, and keeps us increasingly sharp?
Documentary maker, Max Lugavere, who has been hanging out with the world’s top doctors and experts in neurological health, has a thing or two to say on the subject. I interview Max about his upcoming movie, Bread Head, below.
But before we get to that, some background on how and why grain has fallen from grace so epically.
When Carbs Became the New Fat
