Carlo Catassi

Be what it is, the prevalence again is increasing.

Uh, in Italy, for instance, my friend, uh, Carlo Catassi, who is an epidemiologist of celiac disease and has been looking at this issue for many years, uh, re-recently, well, yeah, a couple of years ago, uh, published, uh, eh, the result of a large number of children of school age being tested in Italy and found that the prevalence combining those who already knew that had celiac and those who did not, uh, raised to about 1.6%.

So that's one in, in 60, uh, children have celiac disease.

Uh, and again, there are areas in which this is more, uh, more common.

And for our listeners here, if you are getting tested for IBS or getting any tests done, you know, we want to really emphasize, don't cut out food before you get testing done.

Not gluten-free diets, not even the low FODMAP diet, because oftentimes when people go low FODMAP, they're already cutting out too much gluten for the celiac test.

We were just at DDW, and one of the consensus I hear from one of the very seasoned, um, dietician at Columbia Celiac Disease Center, my dear friend, her recommendation is four servings of gluten per day.

And then at DDW, there was a presenter, I can't remember who, that talked about maybe we need to extend eating enough gluten for, from six to eight weeks to 10 to 12 weeks, which can be really hard.