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There has been a surge of Celiac disease awareness in recent years. This awareness has helped people become diagnosed, get the help they need, and, finally, understand why they’ve lived with pain and discomfort for years. It’s also left many people confuse. A lot of individuals have the symptoms associated with Celiac, leading them to self-diagnose, and sometimes cut out gluten for no reason whatsoever, while still failing to target their issue. Some people don’t believe that Celiac disease is even real (it is) simply because we rarely heard about it until the last decade or so. But there are a lot of conditions humans have suffered and even died from for centuries, that we really only came to understand in the 21st century. So here are facts about Celiac disease you should know, whether you have it or not.
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You’re born with it
You do not develop Celiac disease. It is an auto-immune disease, and you have it from the moment your little body enters this world. Some people think they develop it because symptoms can take decades to appear.
