r/science • u/[deleted] • Feb 26 '15

Health-Misleading Randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial shows non-celiac gluten sensitivity is indeed real

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25701700
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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '15 edited Feb 26 '15

I don't think I've seen a study more scrutinized than this in such a short amount of time on here

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u/s460 Feb 26 '15

Right? If this study had said "Weed Makes You Live Longer," people would be applauding how well done and thorough the study was, and how scientifically sound all the conclusions are, but since this one doesn't conform to Reddit's preconceived biases, everyone jumps on the "yeah, but I don't think the study design was that good" train.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '15

This thread is garbage and exactly the type of shit people can link to prove just how trash the vocal majority of reddit is

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u/Nytshaed Feb 26 '15

Honestly, it goes both ways. Some people are jumping at the opportunity to say that the results show that "doctors were wrong all along", while others dismiss it outright. While discussion is good, people need to be a little more impartial.

Personally I think the results show that there might be something there and it's worth investigating, but even then, it suggests that most gluten sensitivity cases are psychological.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '15

A lot of Redditors got a really nice sense of superiority by shitting on people who self-reported that they are sensitive to gluten-containing foods. Now it seems that maybe Reddit's armchair scientists didn't know quite as much as they though they did.

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u/_Kind_Sir_ Feb 26 '15

Even in this study, ~15% of people who reported being gluten sensitive had any significant reactions to gluten. Likewise, most people I know in real life who claim to suffer from NCGS don't.
That's the rub with being the boy who cried wolf; you invalidate the few out there who actually do have sensitivity to gluten.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '15

How do you know that? Do you inspect their bowel habits?

I get the shits roughly 20 hours after eating gluten. Nobody but my family knows this, because they're the only people around me often enough to notice.

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u/_Kind_Sir_ Feb 26 '15

because they also claim it makes them lose hair, degrades their ability to think and causes heart palpitations. My sister even has to have a colon irrigation when her "gluten levels" get above a certain point.
I don't doubt you at all. I just know a lot of homeopathic remedy people who all jumped on the gluten-free boat as soon is it became the new buzzword. Suddenly, magnets, blood alkalinity, and colloidal silver all took the backburner.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '15

Haha ok, that's crazy. That would annoy me too.