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Doesn't it only affects like 1% of the general population ? It's an auto immune disease, not a "plants don't want use to eat that" disease. If anything it's the opposite of what you're saying, most people are perfectly evolved to eat seeds, a tiny minority have a genetic issue that makes them unable to.

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No, we didn't co-evolve with plants eating their seeds. We found out ways to process them to make them edible and domesticated them, much later and have been doing so for a very short time. Most of the ones we eat are still toxic to us. Some of us are affected more than others.

For a tiny portion of the population, a common food product is a low grade toxin.

10% have the genetics, 1% have Celiac - although that number is rising with awareness.

Not just with awareness, it is rising in general. It's not just that we are better at finding it, it's that it is actually increasing too.

I suspect the prevalence is also rising because people don't just sicken and die mysteriously, because they can't eat the food that makes up 75% of their calories, due to Celiac now.

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