What Is the Difference Between Celiac Disease and Gluten Intolerance?

What Is the Difference Between Celiac Disease and Gluten Intolerance? (0:39)

Celiac disease is an actual autoimmune disease, while gluten sensitivity is an immune reaction, which is more of an allergic reaction. Watch as functional medicine specialist Amy Myers, MD, explains how gluten sensitivity is a wide spectrum.

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So celiac disease is an actual auto immune disease where your villi which are the part of your intestines that are actually digest and absorb your nutrients are blunted down and damaged and it's an autoimmune disease. Gluten sensitivity on the other hand is an immune reaction that is not autoimmune in nature so your body is not attacking itself, I would like to say that there is a spectrum of gluten sensitivity, one end there is no issue with gluten and on the other end, there is celiac disease and everything in the middle is gluten sensitivity, you could be one step away from no problems with gluten to one step towards having celiac disease.