The Paleo Diet Cookbook

Multiple

sclerosis

Brain, nerves 140 per

100,000

Psoriasis Skin 2,020 per

100,000

Rheumatoid

arthritis

Joints 920 per

100,000

Scleroderma Skin, other organs

110 per

100,000

Ulcerative colitisColon

35-100 per

100,000

Uveitis Anterior eye 850 per

100,000

Vitiligo Skin 740 per

100,000

Amazingly, wheat—consumed by almost every person on
the planet—has been found to be one of the primary
culprits underlying leaky gut, not just in autoimmune
patients, but also in healthy people. Wheat contains a
protein called gliadin, which interacts with gut receptors to
set off a cascade of hormonal events ultimately allowing the
intestinal contents (food and bacteria) to interact with the
immune system. Withdrawal of wheat from celiac patients