ABSTRACT
The opioid-excess theory proposes that gluten and casein break down into products similar to morphine whilst the ideas that chapter have our own opioid system, and disruption to that opioid system might manifest as autistic behaviours might seem a little far-fetched, there was some good reason to talk about this possibility. Our own brain opioid system, which includes several naturally occurring opioid-like compounds such as the endorphins and enkephalins, represents an important part of the human reward system; said compounds linked to feelings of wellbeing as well as analgesia. Christine Zioudrou and colleagues set the ball rolling with their initial sequencing of the exorphins derived from dietary sources. Followed by further confirmatory work on how both gluten and casein could be metabolised into opioid peptides it's fairly well accepted these days that under the right conditions, gluten and casein can break down to opioid peptides as a consequence of digestion.
