Gluten Sensitivity Debate

Inaccurate title. Should be non-celiac gluten sensitivity.

Celiacs are not the only ones who react badly to gluten. There's non-celiac gluten sensitivity.See, for example:http://celiacdisease.about.com/od/glutenintolerance/a/Gluten...http://www.scientificamerican.com/

My wife doesn't have celiac disease. Her knee suffered some damage some years ago. If she adds gluten to her diet, it swells up like crazy and hurts. If she removes gluten from her diet, within two days it shrinks back down and looks like a normal knee again and feels (mostly) fine. I won't pretend to understand how gluten affects everyone's body, but I know something about what it does to hers.It's odd to use the word "myth" in the title, but then leave the door

Respectfully, you’re wrong. Celiac is not the only kind of gluten intolerance, and I’m speaking from personal experience. I eat gluten, and I get severe issues with digestion. I stop eating gluten, the issues magically disappear. I thought my issues were just “normal” until a couple of years ago, and that gluten intolerance was a BS made-up thing. I was wrong on both counts.

Misread the title as "..linked to gluten intolerance". Was hoping it would shine a light on that increasing.

The one problem is that these people are constantly eating gluten. The gut needs time to heal from things that bother it, and while inflamed anything will bother it. I have a gluten intolerance. If I am eating gluten constantly, I will get sick on many foods for a while; gluten free or not.I think overall this headline is just click bait. We shouldn't be looking to prove that "x thing does not exist" because people in real life do experience x and saying a test proves otherwise

I have Celiac too. With respect to the GF fad, one thing to note is that everyone with an HLA-DQ2.5 or HLA-DQ8 (less so) gene variant (homozygote or heterozygote) responds to gliadin (wheat protein) with an autoimmune inflammatory response. ~5% of people have the gene variants even though only 1% have the diagnoses - for those 5% the GF diet makes an immense difference. Celaic is basically the most severe symptom set one can experience with the genetic predisposition. So not entirely misguided..

Gluten Free? Big deal.Also worth a read: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...

Have you tried remove gluten from your diet? It worked for me

People who go gluten-free typically do not have any form of celiac -- the fad largely started with claims of non-celiac gluten sensitivity, and even the researchers who originally identified that have now retracted their claims and stated they can find no evidence that such sensitivity exists.