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Title: Wheat Causes Brain Damage(Not).
Post by: suckmymuscle on June 17, 2011, 06:02:14 PM: This is a classic example of hyperbole filled pseudo-scientific garbage that circulates on the internet. Opioids from wheat are not released by normal digestion in any significant amounts, nor do they cross the blood-brain barrier, and even if they did, no brain damage from it would result. Opioid receptors, unlike glutamate and gabaergic receptors, are not implicated in apoptosis(induced cell death). hence = no brain damage.

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SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: Wheat Causes Brain Damage(Not).
Post by: The_Iron_Disciple on June 17, 2011, 06:07:44 PM: Enough of this shit, Lieutenant. Tell me somethin' about gorillas, damn you !
Title: Re: Wheat Causes Brain Damage(Not).
Post by: suckmymuscle on June 17, 2011, 06:09:55 PM: Quote from: The_Iron_Disciple on June 17, 2011, 06:07:44 PM
Enough of this shit, Lieutenant. Tell me somethin' about gorillas, damn you !

Gorillas could eat wheat and suffer no brain damage from it! >:(

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: Wheat Causes Brain Damage(Not).
Post by: 2ND COMING on June 17, 2011, 06:17:29 PM: Quote from: The_Iron_Disciple on June 17, 2011, 06:07:44 PM
Enough of this shit, Lieutenant. Tell me somethin' about gorillas, damn you !

an adolescent male gorilla can deadlift 6000 pounds.
Title: Re: Wheat Causes Brain Damage(Not).
Post by: The_Iron_Disciple on June 17, 2011, 06:23:35 PM: Quote from: 2ND COMING on June 17, 2011, 06:17:29 PM
an adolescent male gorilla can deadlift 6000 pounds.

Now I'm thoroughly impressed ! What kind of powerlifting ( Sq. / Ben. / DL ) totals are we lookin' at here, guys ?
Title: Re: Wheat Causes Brain Damage(Not).
Post by: dyslexic on June 18, 2011, 01:39:14 AM: Quote from: 2ND COMING on June 17, 2011, 06:17:29 PM
an adolescent male gorilla can deadlift 6000 pounds.

and eats 50,000 calories a day...
Title: Re: Wheat Causes Brain Damage(Not).
Post by: suckmymuscle on March 07, 2012, 09:45:57 PM: Quote from: dyslexic on June 18, 2011, 01:39:14 AM

and eats 50,000 calories a day...

They eat enormous volumes of food, but the amount of calories they eat is only about 4 times greater than what humans eat. The reason for this is that they get most of their calories from fermentation of cellulose in their small intestines, and cellulose has very low caloric density. They eat up to 100 pounds of plants a day, but that yields only a few times more calories than humans eat each day.

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