Can you explain what celiac disease actually is and maybe reference to what it is and or it sometimes gets confused?

Yeah, so celiac disease is an autoimmune condition that causes damage to the small intestine and then leads to malabsorption of different nutrients and that can cause body wide symptoms.

And so basically, if you are not yet diagnosed and you do have celiac disease, you consume gluten, the body reacts to that like a foreign invader.

And so gluten is a protein.

It's found in glutenin and gliadin.

And when that comes into the body, the body is like, okay, this is bad.

I want to attack this protein.

What would you say maybe is the link between these conditions and why, you know, both can occur rather than it just being celiac disease on its own?

What is my risk of kissing someone who has just had gluten?

Yeah.

Such a good one, and I'm so happy that this study was done because this is a very, very common question.

I think even before this we would say, okay, kissing is a really low risk of gluten exposure, but now we have more science to tell us that, yeah, this is probably a very correct assumption.

And so this study looked at couples.

So there was a small amount of couples.

The, the c- the study itself was very well designed and highly controlled, so it really gave us, like, some really good answers.

Okay