Celiac musings
This study shows that, surprise surprise, there is a distribution of sensitivity to gluten amongst celiacs.
If there wasn’t one I’d be astonished.
I guess the only practical outcomes from this study are these unanswered questions:
- Is there a threshold of immune response at which someone is classified as having celiac disease, or is the diagnosis based on a broader combination of genetics, antibodies, intestinal damage and clinical history? If it is based on a threshold, where should that threshold sit?
- Are all humans sensitive to gluten if the dose is high enough, with celiac disease simply representing the extreme end of the distribution? That is, is celiac disease fundamentally a general consequence of consuming a sufficiently large amount of gluten? Eventually even the fatman gets a immune response?
