temporarily knock out the bouncer outside
your club, allowing unsavory characters to
sneak inside your (formerly secure) interior.
Those same components, once inside, have to
be chased down and dealt with by the security
guards inside (your immune cells), since they
don’t belong anywhere inside your body. One
such class of profoundly problematic proteins
belongs to a group called prolamins. These
prolamins can damage your gut and other
parts of your body through systemic
inflammation.
YOU KNOW GLUTEN
While the word “prolamin” might
not ring any bells, the word
“gluten” should. Gluten is a
protein found in the endosperm of
wheat, rye, and barley, and is
partly made up of prolamins.
Gluten is the most infamous