The Celiac community is pissed, but generally, I think we would agree with him...
http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2013/02/c ... a-disease/
Wheat Belly author claims Celiac is not a disease
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Zizzle,
I'm guessing that you only skimmed parts of my book and missed this, because I said basically the same thing in chapter 9 of my book, except that I offered a much more detailed explanation, and supported my contention with references to no less than 16 medical research articles. On page 111, as a section heading, I ask the question:
Tex
I'm guessing that you only skimmed parts of my book and missed this, because I said basically the same thing in chapter 9 of my book, except that I offered a much more detailed explanation, and supported my contention with references to no less than 16 medical research articles. On page 111, as a section heading, I ask the question:
Followed by approximately 6 pages of discussion, and on page 116 I concluded with:Are celiac disease and microscopic colitis actually symptoms of another disease?
My book was published over 5 months before he wrote that blog. It's probably just a coincidence that we were thinking along the same lines, but reading his blog, I can't help but wonder if he might have read my book, and then he chose to present this as if it were his own idea.On the surface, with so much supporting evidence, the facts suggest that both celiac disease and microscopic colitis could possibly be the same disease, and the use of inappropriate diagnostic criteria may have prevented them from being recognized as the same disease. Or, alternatively, and perhaps more logically, maybe they are not diseases at all. Maybe they are simply symptoms of another disease — namely, “gluten sensitivity”.
If celiac disease is actually not a disease at all, then this might explain why the syndrome is so difficult to properly diagnose. And if microscopic colitis is not a unique disease either, then this could explain why there are so many possible variations of the syndrome. And all the similarities between them point to the possibility that they are both symptoms of another disease.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.