The TRUTH About Gluten (DOES IT MAKE YOU FAT?)

Stop taking protein supplements loaded with gluten…

is it the latest nutrition craze or something you should seriously be considering in your efforts to drop weight and lose body fat guys today we’re going to talk all about gluten-free diets and whether or not that’s the right fit for [Music] you what’s up guys Jeff Cavalier athleanx. com today we have to talk about one of the biggest buzzwords in nutrition and one that you’ve had to have heard unless you’ve been living under a rock and that is gluten and gluten-free diets but what I want to do guys is cover a what is it B what does it mean for you and C what would it mean for you if you were trying to lose weight and whether or not you fall into a category where you might have to worry about gluten and gluten-free diets in the first place okay so first of all what is gluten gluten is a protein molecule that we find in three primary grains wheat barley and rye and also as a food additive in things like low and nonfat dressings and in deli meats and soy sauce so it’s not just something that we associate with grains or wheat but it’s something that is a lot more pervasive and therefore could be a much bigger challenge for those of us who have a problem secondly we have to figure out who has a problem so there’s two things going on here guys when someone talks about gluten we have to know that there is a gluten intolerance which means you can’t tolerate it this is what’s called celiac disease okay celiac disease is actually an autoimmune disease so think about the difference here where gluten is actually seen as as an antigen something your body and your immune system needs to attack just as a virus it would need to attack it’s going to attack the gluten antigen that’s going to create an inflammatory reaction throughout your intestines which creates a permeability or increases sort of the breakdown of your intestines so that there’s a malabsorption going on you’re not absorbing Foods as well you have a lot of stomach discomfort you have bloat but it’s an actual inflammatory autoimmune disorder this is a serious disorder but the good news is it’s only prevalent in less than 1% of society so people might say well there this is all overblown then there’s really not a big deal gluten intolerance and gluten-free diets are all sort of being blown up uh for commercial marketing it’s not true guys because you got to look at the other side of the coin here and that is gluten sensitivity this I feel is one of the under diagnosed potentially uh underdiagnosed areas because there is no great diagnosis for it there’s no blood test there’s no uh specific antigen that shows up for this because you’re not necessarily having the same reaction as you are here you’re just sensitive to the molecule it’s irritating to you and here again the only way we can really figure out if we fall into that category is with an Elimination Diet where we take all of the gluten uh rich foods out of our diet and then see what our health is like do we lose more weight uh if that was our goal uh do we feel better do we have less stomach discomfort after eating this could be as high as 30% of society again guys walking around every day not knowing and and we’ve heard from guys even members of team athleen that have said that when when they have taken gluten out of their diet they’ve had uh amazing reactions and seen that they’ve actually um improved body fat when they felt they were stuck at certain plateaus for a long period of time so how does that relate to weight loss that I think is the big thing guys is gluten something that’s causing you to gain weight and the answer is I don’t know I don’t think we can say that the gluten molecule is chemically causing you to lose weight I mean to gain weight or doing something hormonally that’s making you gain weight I don’t think there’s enough research to show that what is the easy observation though one of the things I think helps a lot is because of the types of foods that you find these in the refined carbohydrates I discussed already cakes sweets um you know Donuts uh you know and again some of these carbohydrates like pastas and and breads remember guys it’s very hard to control serving sizes and portions of carbohydrates you know a chicken breast comes in a a certain size right different carbohydrates are very you know there there’s no defined portion side what do you do with your pasta you pile on a plate of pasta so if you are going to eliminate your gluten rich foods you could be eliminating a a whole lot of calories on top of a whole lot of carbohydrates and hydrophilic carbohydrates which going to you know bring water in and retain water as well so weight can come off pretty easily pretty quickly so I don’t know if necessarily the improvements we see by getting rid of gluten if we’re insens if we’re sensitive to it are coming from actually getting rid of the gluten molecule or getting rid of a lot of the crappy foods and all those other things too I talked about the deli meats and all that guys getting that out of your diet is going to be a good thing anyway when we talk about nutrition here at athlan x with the xfactor meal plan we are focusing on Whole Foods good nutrition solid you know uh nutrient-based in dense foods not the shortcut Foods I like to call them like the deli meats like the processed foods like the refined carbohydrates so I’d say do a test if you find that you’re stuck at a certain body fat try to remove some of the gluten from your diet um and I think you might be surprised not some of the gluten try to remove all of the gluten from your diet and unless you’re Celiac guys if you are diagnosed as a Celiac um candidate then you got to get rid of it because it’s going to cause you some serious autoimmune issues that um are not going to be be overcome any other way now that being said guys we approach everything we do here holistically right everything’s supposed to be about considering the evidence the science and trying to support that and give you guys the best weapons to combat what science is arming us with and and I’m saying right now that yes there’s a there’s a large contingent of people that are Gluten Sensitive with that known with our athl RX supplement lines guys our weight protein whe protein sometimes can be a big harborer of gluten not athleen RX we made a big point to make sure that all of our products were gluten-free because we do know that there are guys out there that are diagnosed and even undiagnosed that are using supplements and they could not be seeing the results they want to see because again they have a sensitivity that they’re not aware of so if you guys are wondering I I we we’ve never really publicly covered the issue all the athlan RX supplements that you can find at athlan rx. com our gluten free again supplementation is a large part of our uh nutrition guys trying to work out and get a better body uh know that with ours you’re getting a gluten-free product and one that can help to support you in your uh continuing efforts to either lose weight or build muscle so guys I think let me know Below in the comments where do you sit I erased my freaking thing up here so I don’t even have it there but what I’ll pretend if you were on this side over here the guys at celiac you know let us know I I’d like to see how many they say 1% less than 1% we got a lot of viewers here I like to see who is celiac um and has celiac disease and these guys over here the guys that are mysteriously not on the board the sensitive guys tell me your experiences with carbs what are some of the things when you eat refined carbs that might be causing you to have some issues or do you think that they’re uh that there might have had an impact on your ultimate results that you’re seeing because I think based on Research that could possibly be true all right guys we’ll be back here again in just a few days in the meantime