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 you.
What's up, guys?
Jeff Cavaliere, ATHLEANX.COM.
Today we have to talk about one of the biggest buzz words 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's 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.
Ok.
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 non-fat dressings and 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.
Ok.
Celiac disease is actually an autoimmune disease, so think about the difference here.
Where gluten is actually seen as an antigen, something your body and your immune system
needs to attack.
Just as a virus would need to attack.
It's going to attack the gluten antigen thus it's going to create an inflammatory reaction
throughout your intestines which creates a permeability
or an increase in 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 eating disorder.
This is a serious disorder, but the good news is that it's only prevalent in less than 1%
of society.
So, people might say, "Well, if this is all overblown than it's really not a big deal.
Gluten intolerance and gluten-free diets are all sort of being blown up 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 underdiagnosed, potentially underdiagnosed, areas because
there is no great diagnosis for it.
There's no blood test.
There's no specific antigen that shows up for this because you are not necessarily having
the same reaction as you are here.
You are 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 the gluten-rich foods out of our diet, and then see what our health
is like.
Did we lose more weight, if that was our goal?
Do we feel better?
Do we have less stomach discomfort after eating?
This could be as high as 30% of society.
Again, guys are walking around all day not knowing.
And we've heard from guys, even members of Team ATHLEAN that have said that when they
have taken gluten out of their diet they've had amazing reactions
and seen that they've actually 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 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 we find these in, the
refined carbohydrates that I've discussed already,
cakes, sweets, you know, donuts, and again, some of these carbohydrates like pastas and
breads.
Remember, guys, it's very hard to control serving sizes and portions of carbohydrates.
You know, a chicken breast comes in a certain size, right?
Different carbohydrates, you know, there's no defined portion size.
What do you do with your pasta?
You pile on a plate of pasta.
So, if you were to eliminate your gluten-rich foods,
you could be eliminating a whole lot of calories on top of a whole lot of carbohydrates and
hydrophilic carbohydrates which are going to 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 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's going to be a good thing anyway.
When we talk about nutrition here at ATHLEANX and the XFactor Meal Plan, we are focusing
on whole foods.
Good nutrition.
Solid nutrient-based and 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 glutens
from your diet.
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 were diagnosed as a celiac candidate, then you
got to get rid of it
because it's going to cause you some serious auto-immune issues that you are not going
to be overcome any other way.
Now, that being said, guys, we approach everything we do here holistically, right.
Everything is 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 I'm saying right now that, yes.
There is a large contingent of people that are gluten sensitive.
With that known, with our ATHLEANRX Supplement lines, guys, our whey protein.
Whey protein sometimes can be a big harborer of gluten.
Not ATHLEANRX.
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.
We've never really publicly covered the issue.
All the ATHLEANRX Supplements that you can find at ATHLEANX.COM are gluten-free.
Again, supplementation is a large part of our nutrition.
Guys trying to work out and get a better body know that with ours, you're getting a gluten-free
product
and one that can help to support you in your 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 friggin thing up here so I don't even have it there, but I'll pretend.
But if you were on this side over here, the guys with celiac, you know, let us know.
I'd like to see how many.
When they say 1%, less than 1%, we got a lot of viewers here, and I'd like to see who has
celiac 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 there might have had an impact on your ultimate results that you
are seeing because I think, based on research, that could quite possibly be true.
Alright, guys, we'll be back here again in just a few days.
In the meantime, let me know what else you'd like to see.
This again, this video came as a request because guys wanted to know more about gluten-free
and what it all means for them.
So, more requests and you'll get more videos.
See you guys soon!