While celiac disease is obviously real, and gluten sensitivity affects some people, there are definitely those who think they have it due to placebo affect.
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For instance, one friend of mine who claims to be feeling much, much better since he stopped eating gluten a few months ago. He has a wide variety of detailed symptoms that have stopped happening to him. He was telling me all about it after work while drinking a few grasshoppers on a patio on Stephen Ave.
For those who might not be aware, grasshopper is a wheat beer.
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