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celiac), but interesting.
So many people call celiac disease an "allergy" or an "intolerance" -- but it's really neither. It's an autoimmune disease triggered by diet, and it will destroy your body. It's more useful to think of it like diabetes, but unlike diabetes, there is no safe quantity of the forbidden ingredient. Your body needs sugars to function (though it may have enough), but it does not need gluten.
Images of healthy and diseased gastrointestinal tracts.
Oh, and after it's done attacking your villi, it'll go straight for the gastrointestinal walls, so you can imagine what kind of fun that is.
zellandyne (but not to celiac), but interesting.So many people call celiac disease an "allergy" or an "intolerance" -- but it's really neither. It's an autoimmune disease triggered by diet, and it will destroy your body. It's more useful to think of it like diabetes, but unlike diabetes, there is no safe quantity of the forbidden ingredient. Your body needs sugars to function (though it may have enough), but it does not need gluten.
Images of healthy and diseased gastrointestinal tracts.
Oh, and after it's done attacking your villi, it'll go straight for the gastrointestinal walls, so you can imagine what kind of fun that is.