More recently, a research team led by the Mayo Clinic's Dr. Joseph Murray looked at blood samples taken from Americans in the 1950s and compared them with samples taken from people today, and determined it wasn't just better diagnosis driving up the numbers. Celiac disease actually was increasing. Indeed, the research confirms estimates that about 1 percent of U.S. adults have it today, making it four times more common now than it was 50 years ago, Murray and his colleagues reported Tuesday in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.
They speculate there has been a change in bread. And that is true, there is more "whole grain bread" and more carbs in our diets contributing to metabolic dysfunction.
My theory is this is related to antibiotic use and the increasing levels of subclinical Group A streptococcal infection. Both strep infection and antibiotic use affect the gastrointestinal tract.
But I can't prove that.
