10/09/2026
“How severe is your reaction to gluten?” Someone asked me this at dinner, and I understood why. Most people are trying to figure out whether eating gluten will make my stomach hurt.
But celiac disease is an autoimmune condition, not just a stomach reaction. Someone can have few or no noticeable symptoms and still have damage to their small intestine.
So when I’m careful about gluten, I’m not measuring how sick I might feel afterward. The part you can’t see matters too.