Sunday, February 24, 2013

Celiac Disease As A System: Gluten, Genes, Environment, Microbes, Breast Feeding

Who Has The Guts For Gluten by Moises Velasquez-Manoff.  The New York Times.  February 23, 2013.

While the article does not mention "systems perspective," this is, in fact what is presented as the evolving perspective on the disease.  The gluten protein plays a part mediated by genetics, gut microbes, environmental conditions, and breast feeding.  A key concept:  "Such complexity both confounds notions of one-way causality and suggests different paths to the same disease," a disease which has quadrupled in the last 50 years in the United States.

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