Celiac disease is on the rise in the US and researchers are scrambling to find out why!
Doctors believe that it is not only increased awareness and diagnoses which are leading to the rise of the disease, but also a variety of other factors.
Theories include that the cleanliness of industrialized society has caused a fundamental change in the composition of the digestive bacteria contained within the gut, grains that are much richer in gluten, children being exposed to gluten at an earlier age, and the decline in breast feeding of babies.
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