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I have a piece today in the NYT Sunday Review on the microbiome in celiac disease. A lot of interesting material ended up on the cutting room floor. I’ll post some below. And I’ll try to preemptively answer questions that, if I were reading the piece for the first time, would occur to me. When exactly am I supposed to introduce gluten to my baby?  The NYT fact-checker and I had a long discussion about thi

WE know that the proteins called gluten, found in wheat and other grains, provoke celiac disease. And we know how to treat the illness: a gluten-free diet. But the rapidly increasing prevalence of celiac disease, which has quadrupled in the United States in just 50 years, is still mystifying. Scientists are pursuing some intriguing possibilities. One is that breast-feeding may protect against the disease. Another is