Health:
“Listen -IMO, if they are asymptomatic, why refrain from eating gluten products at all in general? If their whole lives they were eating gluten and nothing ever happenned, why stop now? Even if Esther is correct about intestinal damage, continue eating the gluten until symptomatic”
Your opinion is not what most doctors would say about this. We’ve traveled this road and consulted multiple doctors about exactly this issue and were told that a gluten-free diet is a must for patients with a celiac diagnosis even if asymptomatic. Sometimes the gluten can cause damage without there being symptoms and by the time the symptoms start, the damage to the gut is very severe and hard to reverse. I have a friend who went undiagnosed until she was in her 30s so she ate gluten all her life, and her condition right now is very serious. Despite being gluten free, she is taking a very long time to get to baseline and is suffering very much because of it.