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We at Custom Choice Cereal love our new Saturdays at the Hillsborough Farmers Market. It is not only an outstanding incentive to get up early and enjoy the beauty of the waking day, it also provides us with a great opportunity to hear your concerns and feedback. During one of these conversations we learned about a very interesting article that we wanted to share with you.
Men’s Journal wrote about how the gluten-free diet powers one of the best cycling teams in the world and how it can help anyone perform better and recover faster. The athletes of the Garmin-Transitions pro cycling team were at first highly opposed to changing their diet away from pasta just because it’s been such a habit to load up on carbs this way. But team leader Christian Vande Velde and his teammate Tom Danielson embarked on a gluten-free diet, and both were pleasantly surprised. Tom said:
“My performance really improved a lot — there was definitely a correlation. I think that my digestion is better, and because of that my sleep is better and my recovery is better.”
We at Custom Choice Cereal learned once again that humans are very different from cows, definitely when it comes to our digestive system 
That’s because we have only a single stomach and lack the enzymes in our saliva and stomach to fully break down and absorb gluten for nutritional use. As a result, parts of the gluten just get smashed up before exiting to the small bowel in large pieces. And here comes the crucial part. According to Michelle M. Pietzak from the University of Southern California Keck’s School of Medicine
“More than 50 different types of those fragments have been shown to cause adverse reactions. So depending on your genetic makeup, you can have an allergy, you can have celiac disease, or it could be that you’re just not digesting it well.“
Point proven. Gluten-free diet is great for everyone! Start with a delicious custom gluten-free cereal now!
