Celiac disease affects about 1 in 40 to 100 people, not the 1 in 800 that doctors were taught. The condition is ten times more common than medical schools still claim, and many cases go undiagnosed because doctors think it's rare.
Doctors say, well, you know, celiac disease is pretty rare. You know, I don't think that's what you have. Sometimes that's an artifact of when they were educated. As for example, when I was educated in medical school, we believed that celiac disease was in about 1 in 800 to 900 people. And that was not just like we made the number up and we were just super wrong. It was because celiac disease and gluten enteropathy is on a spectrum. But now the statistics, if you go to pathology books, are 1 in 40 to 100 people. So like tenfold more people have gluten-sensitive enteropathy than we used to believe.
