How Does Untreated Celiac Effect Your Body?

It is believed that 1 in 133 Americans have Celiac disease, but a very small percentage realize it. Unfortunately, lack of proper treatment can cause some very big problems, and Mentoring-UK has written a post detailing Celiacs effect on your body when untreated.

Here is an excerpt:

There is growing evidence that celiac disease affects more than your digestive system. Through nutritional deficiencies it can impact your entire body. Even more serious, though, is the toxic effect that gluten can have on your brain.

In one study, researchers found that many epileptic patients had strange calcifications in the brain. Upon further investigation, the researchers found that it was present in many of these strange cases. They also found that sometimes this disease was actually mistaken for epilepsy. Often these patients showed the classic symptoms of epilepsy, but did not respond to normal treatment. If their celiac disease was diagnosed and treated soon enough after the diagnosis of epilepsy, the epileptic symptoms were eliminated.

Celiac disease can create many different neurological complications, usually by damaging nerves. It can damage the optic nerve, it can damage the casing of the spinal cord, it can cause weakness and numbness in the extremities and it can cause dementia.

In fact, researchers have found that more than half of people with undetermined neurological conditions have celiac disease.

If it sounds interesting to you, I recommend you check it out.