Gluten-Free Diet

In 1980, researchers in England reported a series of women who suffered from chronic diarrhea that resolved on a gluten-free diet yet did not have evidence of celiac disease. The medical profession was skeptical at the time and even 30 years later. So much like patients who had irritable bowel syndrome, patients claiming non-celiac gluten sensitivity were commonly referred to psychiatrists because they were believed to have an underlying mental illness. Psychological testing of such patients however found no evidence as they were suffering from some kind of psychosomatic hysteria.