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Or just lived with minor discomfort, as plant strains were different and were consumed in much lower quantities anyway.



Celiac disease is far more severe than what's now called "gluten intolerance". But maybe they're related.

I get that "Celiac disease results from genetic abnormal immune response to gluten."[0] I'm not sure what that means, in detail. Perhaps there's a particular allele of one of the immunoglobulin genes. But whatever it is, perhaps other alleles cause "gluten intolerance" of varying severity.

0) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16095159


Per the article, mortality rates in children with celiac were extremely high until alternative diets were discovered.




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