{"id":250682,"date":"2025-10-30T10:23:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T10:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/250682\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T10:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T10:23:27","slug":"gluten-rarely-to-blame-for-gluten-sensitivity-lancet-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/250682\/","title":{"rendered":"Gluten rarely to blame for \u2018gluten sensitivity\u2019: Lancet study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patients who self-diagnose gluten intolerance and self-impose restricted diets are almost certainly targeting the wrong culprit, an Australian-led review suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Published in\u00a0The Lancet,\u00a0the review found that gluten was rarely the trigger for the telltale bloating and gut discomfort, which mainly afflicted women.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the culprit was more likely to be FODMAPs \u2014 particularly fructans found in onions, garlic and wheat \u2014 or a powerful nocebo effect, with the brain\u2019s expectations amplifying gut sensations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe symptoms are not imagined,\u201d lead author Associate Professor Jessica Biesiekierski, from the University of Melbourne, told\u00a0AusDoc.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patients who self-diagnose gluten intolerance and self-impose restricted diets are almost certainly targeting the wrong culprit, an Australian-led&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,1298,27396,137,44,532,11428],"class_list":{"0":"post-250682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-diet","11":"tag-gastroenterology","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-nutrition","15":"tag-psychology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}