Will a New Enzyme Mean No More Gluten-Free Diet for Celiac Disease?

[Scott Adams]

Will a new treatment enable people with celiac disease to ditch a gluten-free diet?

About one in a hundred people in the United States is affected by celiac disease. If you're one of them, you know how hard it can be to maintain a strict gluten-free diet.

Everyone's got their horror stories about trying to simply eat a meal, only to have a tiny amount of gluten wreck havoc on their digestive system.

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[Jmg]

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If the therapy proves successful, many celiac patients "won't have to worry about following a gluten-free diet. Just for your own convenience, for your own taste, that's way better," Gordon said.

Hmm... Of course if it works fantastic, but it would take some serious evidence. I'm far more likely to take something like this to counter cross contamination than to go full gluten diet. 

I think the gluten free / gluten reduced beer controversy would put me off. Having experienced a reaction to beer treated with an enzyme I'd always be worried about fragments of protein surviving the enzyme breakdown process.  

[Ennis-TX]

Stuff is always hit and miss, will help with reactions, and be great for treating CC issues but not a cure for the disease, or even remotely allow you to consume normal gluten.....like taking poison and then downing a half assed antidote....your still going to get sick just not as bad. Might as well not eat the poison in the first place.