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Celiac disease is NOT the only condition that means gluten should be avoided.
There are links to autoimmune disease, but understanding causes of autoimmune diseases is in its infancy in western medicine, and will likely take decades to shake out. In the meantime, wheat is a well known allergen along with several other common foods/ingredients.
Great if you personally are not dealing with autoimmune disease, but please don’t be so quick to judge others who are dealing with it.
When I read "According to what I've read, there are no tangible digestive or physiological benefits to avoiding gluten for those who don't have an actual condition like celiac." I figure it's got to be someone who doesn't realize how poor Western medicine understands autoimmune issues. Their answer is usually to suppress the immune system overall, and that causes a whole host of life shortening issues and is also hugely expensive. And, oh, often just takes the edge off the symptoms, doesn't eliminate them.
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