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High uric acid can make the body feel heavy, tired, and inflamed. Many people link it only with joint pain, but it also affects energy, sleep, and day-to-day comfort. The good news is that small, ...

While those with Celiac disease (an autoimmune disease where eating gluten triggers your immune system to attack the small intestine) need to forego gluten, over the years, cutting bread and other ...

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This article was made possible by the support of Yakult and produced independently by Scientific American’s board of editors. Recently a friend I’ll call Anne told me she had cut gluten out of her ...