Why is Gluten Hard to Digest?

Why is it that, after all these years of eating it, gluten is suddenly so bad for us? Well, because we haven’t been eating it for “all the years.” Relative to the development of the human genome, gluten is a fairly recent addition to our diet. It’s introduction into our diet, and our body, causes a chemical reaction that leads not only to a leaky gut, but a leaky brain.