A recent study in the UK surveyed 310 Celiac patients and another 477 control patients to find out if they were satisfied with a gluten-free diet as treatment. Not surprisingly, more than 40% were dissatisfied with having to eat gluten-free.
Sticking to a diet for health reasons is notoriously low among advice given to people by their doctors. This means that many people are looking for novel therapies to be developed such as a vaccine that would allow unlimited gluten to be digested or peptidases or zonulin antagonists that would enzymatically degrade gluten.
Even with new treatments in the works it is important to remember that people with Celiac are lucky in that following a gluten-free diet can eliminate and almost reverse all symptoms of the disease.
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