Why can you eat, say, a big bowl of pasta, fill
yourself up until you experience a painfully
full stomach fit to burst, yet you remain
hungry?
What creates this unnatural situation and what
can you do about it to reclaim control over
appetite, weight, and health?
Transcript:
Hi everyone, Doctor William Davis, author of
the Wheat Belly and
Undoctored books. Have you
ever heard this from somebody: “I’m
full, but I’m still hungry”? Well,
I’ve heard it many times, in people
prior to engaging in the Wheat Belly
lifestyle, of banishing all wheat and grains from the diet.
Why would that be? Why would it be that you
had a big plate of pasta, and your stomach is
so full it’s almost bursting, and it hurts,
but you’re still hungry? Or why
are you emptying the kids plates into the garbage,
and then sneak a few bites more of the pasta? Why
is that?It’s unnatural, right? If your
stomach is full, all the hormones are telling
you quit eating, shut it down, right?
Why are you hungry? It’s because of the
protein gliadin in wheat, and related proteins
in other grains like the secalin in rye, or zein
in corn. Recall that these proteins are very poorly
digested by humans. If you eat an egg, or a piece
of hamburger, you break those proteins down into
single amino acids. When you consume the seeds of
grasses you don’t have the enzymes to break
it down to single amino acids.
There are sequences in there you can’t break
down with the digestive enzymes you have. So you
break them down only into pieces, or peptides. Most
of them are four or five amino acids long. These
peptides, while they’re bigger than single
amino acids, are small enough to cross into the
brain, and bind to the opiate or opioid receptors.
Now, they don’t make you high. They stimulate
appetite. They’re very potent appetite
stimulants, such that people consuming grains
typically take in 400 to 800 more calories — often
as much as 1500 more calories per day — not because
you’re weak, not because you lack resolve, but
because you’re exposed to an appetite stimulant,
in the form of gliadin-derived opioid peptides.
How else would you have hunger when your stomach is
bursting full? The key here is, don’t eat wheat
and related grains, and you’ve thereby banished
the gliadin-derived opioid peptides. You are
miraculously freed of that kind of unnatural hunger.
It’s a very powerful phenomenon.