Celiac Gluten and Trypsin Inhibitor
---the other 200 posts--- Wheat Summary Forget the gluten. Celiac is caused by trypsin inhibitors (ATI) that were increased in wheat fifty years ago to combat pests. Immune response to ATI spreads to include gluten and transglutaminase that perpetuates the disease. Celiac is an unexpected consequence of traditional plant breeding that could be fixed with GMO approaches. Plants Protect Themselves with Antibiotics, Pesticides and Trypsin Inhibitors. Plants respond to pathogens and pests by making themselves toxic. Thus, plants produce natural antibiotics, phytoalexins, a.k.a. phytochemicals, polyphenolics or antioxidants, to kill bacteria and fungi. They also produce chemical pesticides and proteins, e.g. trypsin inhibitor, that block the digestion and utilization of plant proteins by insects. One of these trypsin inhibitors makes ground soybeans inedible until it is removed in water rinses during the production of tofu. Another of t...