On June 10th 2005 my mom died from Cancer at the age of 52… and I miss her every single day. I was devastated. It tore me apart. It didn’t make sense. It wasn’t fair. How could this happen? But looking back, the signs leading up to her cancer revealed a pattern: Lifelong “nervous stomach” (diarrhea, gas, and bloating) Fertility problems Graves’ disease Endometriosis Migraines Fatigue Anxiety Depression Frequent illness Gallbladder cancer Bile duct cancer Liver cancer And my own Celiac Disease diagnosis in 2007 affirmed my suspicions. Lifelong untreated Celiac Disease killed my mom… Celiac Disease is an exploding epidemic The latest research estimates 1% of the western population has Celiac Disease (1 in every 133 people)[1] with nearly 3 million people suffering in the United States. That’s A LOT of people… but what’s worse is the University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center estimates 97% of those with Celiac Disease remain undiagnosed. So why are so many people unaware they have Celiac Disease? The diagnosis itself can be expensive, time-consuming, and misunderstood.    The “gold standard” Celiac diagnosis looks for a positive antibody blood test confirmed by an intestinal biopsy.  The biopsy is typically ordered by a Gastroenterologist and gathered in a hospital setting during a procedure called an Endoscopy, costing anywhere from $2,000 – $5,000.  For some people, that’s just not an option. It isn’t necessarily a lack of tests that’s the problem… it’s the lack of doing tests in the first place. But I’ll get to that in a moment… I used to think the Celiac Disease epidemic was there all along… that this meteoric rise in the disease was the result of [...]