I’ve been thinking about celiac disease clinical trials a lot. I’d even say I’ve been obsessed. I’m talking to everyone I know about it, so this will be the topic for the next few days.

Maintaining a gluten free diet is challenging. We all know how hard it is so, I’m not going to rant and rave about that today.

Many of us are content with our gluten free diet, even grateful that our disease does not require pharmaceutical intervention. We handle the gluten free diet like water off a duck’s back. We make the changes to our diets, understand and accept the complications, and continue on about our lives. We work around the challenges.

Others want a pharmaceutical intervention to make the heavy burden of celiac disease lighter. We want return to a more carefree life before diagnosis without the worry of whether this or that is gluten free. We want some help.

I’ll be honest. I fluctuate between the two camps depending on the challenges of the day. Some days I’m perfectly content with my gluten free diet and other days I just want to order Chinese food from a local restaurant without a thought.

I think there is a large research community that understands our needs and concerns. They understand our challenges and are doing their darn best to help create a deeper understanding of celiac disease.

Over the next few days, I’m going talk a lot about celiac disease research. I’m going to focus on the role of the gluten challenge in clincial trials and how it may change as more research evolves.

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