QUIZ: What is gluten?
Answer: D.
According to Dr. Alessio Fasano, director of the Center for Celiac Research, “until three or four years ago, the general dogma was that gluten was an issue for celiac disease only. Now a flood of people with celiac awareness but without celiac disease go off gluten with nothing to lose, and their chronic symptoms disappear. When this became a non-negligible number, it got the medical community’s attention.
"Now there is general agreement that there are other levels of gluten sensitivity, but without biomarkers.”
By Dr. Fasano’s estimate, there are six times more people with NCGS than with celiac disease.
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