Robby Hoffman: Hot Takes & Falling in Love

This is the exact reason people need qualifications before they’re allowed to have a podcast. Coeliac disease is very much real and is an autoimmune condition that very much CANNOT be helped. Not cute to put this up in the middle of Coeliac Awareness month. It remains severely under-diagnosed. Continuing to eat gluten can result in people getting cancer, dementia, diabetes etc. An extremely dense take to be honest, educate yourselves before you make ableist comments against an entire group of people.

Wow. To even joke about people faking an autoimmune disease is one thing but to flat out call us fakers?? WE COULD GET CANCER FROM EATING GLUTEN. WE EXPERIENCE FERTILITY ISSUES. not to mention the higher risk for falling ill to other immune diseases, malnutrition, anemia, mental health disorders, and so much more. Really ashamed that I have to share the label women with you two .

celiac isn’t an allergy, it’s commonly referred to as that because it’s easier to understand than saying it’s an autoimmune reaction to gluten that attacks your intestines. most people aren’t anaphylactic when eating gluten, but they experience various different symptoms that with long term consumption will damage and can cause cancer. it’s becoming more “popular” because there’s more research about it and it’s becoming easier to diagnose. people are born with a certain gene for it and it can be dormant, then be triggered by something. so me eating gluten when i was younger, i wasn’t damaging my intestines, but once that gene was activated or triggered, eating gluten gave me a bad reaction and started to damage

it is so disappointing to hear celiac talked about like this - especially during celiac awareness month. plz do your research and apologize alex

Making fun of celiac disease. Ok. Please take some time out of both of your lives to educate yourselves on what celiac disease and gluten intolerance actually are. As someone who has celiac and had to have a liver transplant at the age of 28, it’s not a joke and it’s not a trend.

Coeliac is real. Doctors couldn’t tell before but now yes. ITS NOT A CHOICE.

my sister has had celiac for over ten years and i have had it for four. I was a freshman in high school and literally wouldn’t be able to stand up straight or walk around school because my stomach hurt so bad. I was scared to eat and barely did. I quit my sport because the pain was so bad. I saw who knows how many doctors to try and find out why and they dismissed food intolerances until i finally got a biopsy done during an endoscopy to which they realized it was because of gluten. just because you’ve never experienced something like that doesn’t mean you can’t show empathy to those who have and not belittle things you don’t understand.

Gluten destroys my life.

Alex, please take these comments seriously. It actually is that deep. Saying a disease is recent does not discredit it. People forget about advancing science. Of course there are new names for diseases that didn't have a name before and this will continue with time. Celiac Disease is a genetic autoimmune disease where antibodies in the body permanently attack the small intestine. This can lead to cancer and other life threatening issues and it is systemic. It is not an allergy and also, peanut allergies are still very much a thing. I was very disappointed because I like Robby and I have liked your podcast since the beginning. I literally have the "FATHER" sweatshirt from back in the day. I do not have celiac disease but, I have had to learn a lot about the disease and the community. It is really harmful to a lot of people to talk like this because they already have a hard enough time with daily life and to say you don't care is sad to see. It is just not something you joke about. Also, you or Robby have nooooooo idea, unless you have been genetically tested, if you have the gene for celiac disease, whether you will develop it or your kids or their kids because it is genetic. So many people carry the gene and something happens like sickness, an injury, a pregnancy, etc when the gene is activated basically and boom, life is changed. Recently finding the Celiac gene is more recent but this has been going on for a long long time. In 2008, during an archeological dig, they even found the remains of a woman in Italy dating back somewhere around 1-100 AD who carried the gene. There is a lot more history to this disease. It just takes being open to learn, to understand and empathize. https://www.beyondceliac.org/celiac-disease/celiac-history/

If I hadn’t brought up that I suspected Celiac disease to my doctor when I did I likely would’ve become a lot sicker! By the time I got my scope around 5 months later I had basically no villi left in the first part of my small intestine along with severe inflammation and ulcers in my small intestine and stomach.