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by mescaline 1498 days ago
Eating habits can change with stress. If I eat certain types of wheat, my back hurts. I had an endoscopy and colonoscopy that came back normal, but I had some inflammation spots in my stomach, likely due to consuming some bad wheat or something else. These changes can come about from the state of gut biomes.

Cleaning up my eating habits and consuming probiotics seems to have helped a lot. I can eat limited amounts of gluten now without my back hurting, or my stomach complaining about it. I still struggle with cravings of sugar and cream at times, especially when I'm fighting depressive events. Eating things the body craves is an easy out. It's limiting those actions with mind, when it is not so healthy, that challenge many of us.

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Nowadays many plants, including barley and soybeans, are sprayed with round-up two weeks before harvest so they will dry in the field. Of course the round-up is not rinsed off, because that would defeat the purpose. It is unknown what effect consuming that much round-up has on people, but the effects we know about are not good.
ncmncm, do you have a citation for the harvest claims?
Farmer relatives.
Not sure what its called, but there is a test you can get your doctor to do that checks what foods you shouldn't eat. Sister-in-law took it and discovered soy was not good for her along with some other products she ate. Really helped with avoid food related problems.