What’s the difference between celiac disease and gluten sensitivity?
In my opinion, nothing. The problem we have encountered is that celiac disease is the only manifestation of gluten sensitivity that medicine has been able to diagnose. And not very well at that considering it takes the average celiac patient 11 years before they’re given the proper diagnosis. So what is the problem? That something that is “rare” is not often looked for? Partially. The fact that there’s no drug to treat it, so there’s no “easy” fix? Partially. The fact that the only treatment is a dietary change and no one really wants to “condemn” a patient to never eating wheat, rye or barley again? Definitely! • Celiac disease is just a subset of gluten sensitivity. Celiac is just the tip of the iceberg of the greater issue called gluten sensitivity. In this case the tip is 1/40 of the whole iceberg because current research tells us that while celiac disease affects 1% of the population, gluten sensitivity’s incidence is about 40%. And that takes it right out of the “rare” category a
