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?