Celiac Awareness Month fun fact #10

Many people with Celiac Disease are also lactose intolerant.

The villi that are damaged in your intestines from CD also help break down certain proteins, such as lactose. However there is hope. In time, with a strict gluten free diet, your villi will begin to heal and re-grow. Once you are healed, your lactose intolerance may go away. Beware though, one case of gluten ingestion may cause the lactose intolerance to reoccur.

Celiac Awareness Month fun fact # 1

Did you know that sauerkraut contains more good bacteria than yogurt?

Many people with Celiac Disease have an overgrowth of bad bacteria in their gut, due to the damage of the villi in our intestines.

This picture shows the hairs (villi) in a healthy intestine and the villi in a Celiac intestine. The villi die, which creates pockets in your intestine that the bad bacteria can get into, which can also cause "leaky gut syndrome"