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In 2000, a naturopathic doctor named Rossana Matrella stopped by our Kamut booth at a natural food show in Italy. A compact woman with gestures that rivaled the size of her body, Rossana spoke passionately about her frustration with the pill-pushing approach of mainstream medicine and her determination to get to the bottom of her patients’ health issues. She’d been studying a problem she didn’t fully understand, and she wondered if we knew of any research on the matter.
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Quinn, B., Carlisle, L. (2019). The Gluten Mystery. In: Grain by Grain. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-996-8_14
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