For those of you with gluten sensitivity, please do not feel abandoned by the celiac research community. I understand it is frustrating when friends and family think you are lying and when popular media continually leaves you out of the "must eat gluten free" group.
There are a lot of top name researchers who are making real progress in identifying what is triggering these reactions. Four years the word at the International Celiac Symposium was "it is real". Two years ago, it was "we are trying really hard to find a bio-marker and we can't find it yet" and "we think there may be several types of gluten sensitivity".
Today there is some
pretty good evidence that some people may be dealing with FODMAP issues
and others may be reacting to another component of wheat
(amylase/trypsin inhibitors). This was in the theoretical discussion
stage two years ago at the Prague conference. There is even some
progress on bio-markers to allow a positive diagnosis rather than a
"rule out" diagnosis.
The next conference is in September in New Delhi India and I am sure we will learn more about current research.
The CCA changed its mission to focus on "any one adversely affected by gluten" despite the concern expressed by long term members who were afraid we were going to forget about people with celiac disease. We recognize that we all face the same challenges eating safely.
The next conference is in September in New Delhi India and I am sure we will learn more about current research.
The CCA changed its mission to focus on "any one adversely affected by gluten" despite the concern expressed by long term members who were afraid we were going to forget about people with celiac disease. We recognize that we all face the same challenges eating safely.
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