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Many people seem to contract celiac disease late in life, after thriving on
wheat based products for most of their early years.  This would seem to imply
that their body produced digestive juices capable of breaking down glutin but
then something happened.  What was it?

Has anyone examined the digestive juices of celiacs to see if it difers from
that of non-celiacs either by omission of some substance or by the
overabundance of another.  If someone has done this sort of analysis, then one
might look for the location and cause of this deficiency or overabundance.  It
then might be possible to develop a food suplement or drug to overcome it.
 Even if one were able to come up with a temporary fix, it would be of great
help to celiacs who cannot exert dietary control whilst travelling - sort of a
morning after dietary pill.

The above is undoubtedly naive but if there are any celiac researchers on the
list, I would like to tap into their knowledge.

Art Raiche