Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

RFC: Bread - Is bread really bad for you?

30 Jan 2023 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD (speaker) opens a YouTube segment questioning common claims that bread and gluten are harmful. He lists possible mechanisms (gluten-related inflammation and neurological/autoimmune links; emulsifiers damaging the gut lining; preservatives impairing digestion; rancid/vegetable/seed oils; nutrient loss from refining) and contrasts processed breads with traditional "real food" bread that should have only flour, salt, culture, and water.

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Bread gets a bad rap for a lot of things, and it's really tricky. Like, what makes bread so bad for us? What makes gluten so inflammatory, associated with neurological issues, balance issues, autism, autoimmune issues, cancer? What is it in bread that actually makes it so bad? Is it the emulsifiers in bread that actually make it easier to go through machinery but also make bread emulsify your gut lining, which is associated with certain inflammatory diseases like inflammatory bowel disease and Crohn's? Is it the preservatives that are put in bread that actually preserve the bread so it's not actually digested appropriately? Is it the rancid orals? Is it the vegetable oils or the seed oils they put into the bread? Or is the actual refining process that removes the nutrition, removes the B, binds, removes the magnesium, removes the fiber? So we talk about a real food like bread. There should be four ingredients. Your flour, salt, your culture, and water. If there's more than that, it's probably processed and bad for you.