Gluten Intolerance Compared To Tolerance for Alcohol
In most households, various grains such as wheat and barley are commonly consumed daily in various forms. One of the major meals that contain these substances is the bread that people tend to take either as a meal morning or during the day. However, this increased appetitive could lead to increased dangers or prevalence to various health issues as people consume consuming without considering how the tolerance could trigger various issues. The common substance in these serials is gluten, which is known to cause some health discomforts such as bloating, and pain after consumption (Brazier, 2020). With time, the affected people may develop gluten intolerance that can be noted through symptoms such as depression, anxiety, and fatigue among others.
On the other hand, various psychoactive drugs tend to alter the consciousness, mood, and thoughts of the consumers. People suffering from depression and anxiety are likely to use psychoactive drugs to overcome the problem led by the continued consumption of products with gluten contents. Psychoactive drugs can be legal, whereas some are illicit in some states and countries. Examples of the legal psychoactive drugs that depressed people are likely to use include tobacco, and alcohol (Shen, Yuan, & Ou, 2020). On the other hand, these people are exposed to illicit drugs that include marijuana, cocaine, and heroin. In this study, the focus will be on how gluten intolerance can be compared to tolerance for psychoactive drugs.
Most people undergoing gluten intolerance may not be aware of the happenings but some various signs and symptoms can be detected before it gets worse. These people are susceptible to a wheat allergy that affect some people as they continue using products made from wheat such as bread. The symptoms and conditions resemble the celiac disease that relates to the autoimmune system. In some cases, gluten intolerance is also referred to as nonceliac gluten sensitivity (Gažarová, Lenártová, Kopčeková, Mrázová, Holovičová, Chlebová & Wyka, 2018). The symptoms become clear among the consumers whenever they reintroduce gluten into their system after the recovery. Therefore, the affected people may not be well versed in what they are undergoing when they are not consuming products with wheat contents. As a result, there could be a correlation between the increased tolerances for psychoactive drugs to overcome the effects of gluten.
In the wider perspective, bread making process starts when the dough is kneaded, which leads to activation of the gluten substance that creates the elastic network. The elasticity in the dough opens possibilities of trapping gases in the fermentation stage due to yeast. As a result, the rise and expansion in the baking stage. Notably, wheat is preferred over barley and rye despite being similar. Wheat is preferred because it light, porous, and the consumer can chew easily. Therefore, the increased appetite to buy bread exposes them to gluten intolerance. The same gluten can be found in cakes, pizza, and beer (Foschia, Horstmann, Arendt & Zannini, 2016). This link could explain how consumption of alcohol could be witnessed among people who love it.
However, over the years it has become clear that heavy use of products made of wheat keeps the consumers from using alcohol. The consumption of both gluten in food and consumption of alcohol leads to health issues such as bloating, and abdominal pain. This can now be confirmed to have developed from the gluten in both the bread and cake when interacting with gluten in the alcohol (Shen et al., 2020). Barley is a major ingredient in alcohol, which makes the gluten elasticity to be harder compared to the gluten in bread. In such a case, an increase in tolerance for psychoactive drugs will lead to a decrease in the consumption of foods with gluten (Bressan & Kramer, 2016). The consumer has to choose between taking foods with gluten or take psychoactive drugs that would be mostly used to overcome depression and anxiety.
It can be concluded that an increase in tolerance for psychoactive drugs compared to consumption of foods with gluten could have been led to the current lifestyles. People are undergoing frustrations, marriage issues, and work issues that lead to an increase in tolerance for psychoactive drugs. As a result, it causes possible health issues when the gluten affects their systems when various forms meet in their belly. Therefore, it is not advisable to consume food that contains gluten and later take alcohol that has a different form of gluten. This explains why some people bloat or report abdominal issues when they mix the two substances.
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