Dr. Stephen Wangen is not only the co-founder of the IBS Treatment Center in Seattle, WA, and author of the book “Healthier Without Wheat”, he also blogs as The Gluten Free Doctor. Of course Custom Choice Cereal is very happy that Dr. Wangen agreed to answer your questions on anything celiac or gluten-free every first Wednesday of the month. Please continue to take advantage of these sessions entitled Q&A with Dr. Stephen Wangen as an opportunity to pose your questions to an expert in the field.

Dr. Wangen recently wrote on his blog about an interesting study covering the relationship between IBS and celiac disease. To some it might be “just another statistic” but we thought it was interesting to read that a recent study of 742 IBS patients found that only 3% of them also suffer from celiac disease. This does however not take into account the roughly 20% of IBS patients that are gluten intolerant.

In this context it is important to point out that IBS can be triggered by hundreds of causes, and gluten intolerance is only one of them.