Can you be addicted to wheat?

Opiates in wheat?

My partner happened to have a natural medicine book out, and in a moment of boredom I looked up gluten intolerance. Most of it I knew, but one sentence stuck out: that undigested proteins in wheat can have “opiate like qualities” and cause mental disorders, including schizophrenia.

Opiate like qualities? Like heroin???

Hidden gluten, cross-contamination, and celiac disease, oh my!

It’s been two weeks since I started this.

Two weeks since I realized that I was generally feeling ill and had a host of problems over my life that the doctors could not figure out the cause, and oh yeah!, maybe cutting out more than just bread and pasta versions of wheat might help, aka finding and eliminating hidden gluten (not that any doctor suggested this. Ever >.<).