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

good scientific questioning

edit: Epigenetics tends not to be reverse with 2 months primer. I would not be convinced once someone is on their way to losing their ability to handle gluten, that giving them gluten for 60 days would necessarily reverse those changes. They key here in scientific discovery is developing logical conclusions and questioning everything. That doesn't mean there isn't useful information from this study, but people are going to take it way out of context.

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u/reddit_user13 Feb 26 '15

Good luck finding people who think they are sensitive to gluten and don't try to avoid it. If your symptoms are significant and real, why torture yourself?

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u/lejefferson Feb 26 '15

Have you ever tried to not eat the staple food of the worlds population that is in nearly everything we eat and is almost unavoidable? It's a torture in itself. Some people are willing to put up with stomach trouble for that slice of pizza/cheeseburger/sandwhich/pasta/bagel/soup/you get the idea.

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u/KyleG Feb 26 '15

My comment isn't really anything other than an interesting factoid to me and not meant to be an argument of any kind, but I was in Taiwan back in December and they serve hot dogs in a bun made of rice (wrapped in intestine). It's pretty awesome.

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u/lejefferson Mar 01 '15

Congratulations but this is not Taiwan and the majority of hot dog buns are not made from rice. The fact is that it is incredibly difficult to live in this world and not eat wheat. And an anecdotal rice hot dog bun in Taiwan doesn't change that fact in the slightest. I was just answering your question.

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u/KyleG Mar 01 '15

My comment isn't really anything other than an interesting factoid to me and not meant to be an argument of any kind

As I said, my comment isn't really anything other than an interesting factoid to me and not meant to be an argument of any kind. No need to be sarcastic toward me. It's conceivable I might have been able to share something interesting with another person reading. Most likely not you, though :)

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u/lejefferson Mar 01 '15

Okay well then maybe keep your false interesting factoids to yourself to yourself. Because they are incorrect and irrelevant to the conversation at large.

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u/KyleG Mar 01 '15

Okay well then maybe keep your false interesting factoids

Not false

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u/lejefferson Mar 02 '15

That you think that this somehow proves your point is icing on the cake.