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If you've ever felt a thrill of euphoric pleasure after eating a pretzel, donut or croissant, it wasn't just your imagination and you're not the only one. It is already known, from ’70s, as gluten breaks down in the stomach to become a mixture of polypeptides, which can cross the blood-brain barrier.

Once they penetrate, they can bind to the brain's morphine receptor to produce a sensation of sensory euphoria. This is the same receptor to which opiate drugs are linked, creating the pleasure effect, which in turn develops addiction.
Reading a researcher in his book: “therefore, this is your wheat-fed brain: digestion releases morphine-like compounds that bind to opium receptors in the brain. It induces a form of reward, a slight euphoria. When the effect is blocked or foods are not consumed that release exorphins (exorphins being the polypeptides formed in the stomach during gluten digestion) some people feel an unpleasant, specific, feeling of withdrawal. "