Dietary changes

In the United States, a new case of diabetes is diagnosed every 30 seconds. And many of those people will be given drugs to treat the disease. You can control high blood sugar with medications, but they are not a cure and they can have side effects. They are also expensive, costing $400 or more a month for many patients.

Three protein fragments are looking like the guilty parties in celiac disease, an intestinal ailment that affects as many as one in 133 people in the United States. These partial proteins, or peptides, are the components of gluten in wheat, rye and barley that trigger the immune systems of celiac patients, damaging the small intestine.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is the most common functional bowel disorder diagnosed by primary care physicians and gastroenterologists. It is hard to estimate the exact prevalence of IBS because up to 70% of people with IBS symptoms do not go for medical treatment.

The ratio of female-to-male sufferers is approximately 2:1.

IBS affects up to one in five Americans and is second only to the common cold as a leading cause of missing work in the U.S.

IBS costs the U.S. healthcare system is estimates as $20 to 25 billion annually in direct and indirect costs.