Celiac Disease Awareness Month: It’s Not the Glyphosate
May is Celiac Disease Awareness Month. I’m sharing posts related to Celiac Disease this month, a chronic autoimmune disease which impacts 1 of 100 people. There is no cure and no medication. The treatment is complete avoidance of gluten.
I wanted to kick off this year’s posts by discussing glyphosate and other herbicides used as pre-harvest dessicants (drying agents). It is nearly impossible to read any posts on social media related to eating gluten free or having a gluten-related illness without someone chiming in that it isn’t actually the gluten, but instead the use of glyphosate in farming that is causing gluten-related health issues.
When it comes to Celiac disease, this is not true.
Celiac disease existed and was identified long before glyphosate was invented. It is a genetic autoimmune disease, not a condition created by the use of chemicals in agriculture. There is no proven causal link between glyphosate and celiac disease.
It would be helpful for those who have gluten-related medical conditions if we could stop spreading misinformation and focus instead on solid science.
If you would like to read more on this issue, here is an article from Beyond Celiac.
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