Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivities Are a Disease of the Mind or the Gut

In 2012 researchers in Italy took 920 patients that had been diagnosed with non-celiac gluten sensitivity and put them to the test by giving them not bread muffins but capsules filled with wheat flour or filled with placebo flour. And more than two-thirds failed the test. That they got worse on the placebo or better on the wheat. Of those that passed there was a clear benefit to staying on the wheat-free diet confirming the existence of a non-ceLIAC wheat sensitivity. Gluten itself may not be causing gut symptoms at all. See most people with wheat sensitivity have a variety of other food sensitivities. Two-thirds are sensitive to cow's milk protein as well. Then