Wheat makes your gut leak. Much of the toxins from your leaking gut get encapsulated in abdominal fat as a defense mechanism. The toxins not captured also contribute to systemic inflammation which damages just about every critical system in your body.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25734566/
Wheat would be banned for human consumption in any rational civilization.
Wheat today is not the same as the wheat of yesteryear.
I’ve read up on it and the changes in it through breeding have ruined it.
If we ate the wheat of long ago, I doubt it would be as much a problem.