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Canon law and tradition require that the host have a percentage of wheat for a valid celebration of Eucharist....the host made by the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration contains gelatinized wheat starch. The sisters report the hosts test to a level of 0.01 percent gluten. The Secretariat for the Liturgy of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has stated that these hosts meet the requirements of the Code of Canon Law (924 §2) and may be used at the celebration of the Eucharist with permission of the person’s pastor.

“They are the only group of sisters (or Catholic group at that) that make valid low-gluten hosts. Any other company or group is not approved for use during the liturgy,” Johnston said.

In a related story at "This Is Lancashire", it is reported that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, changed the Catholic law to allow gluten-free wafers sometime around 1995, based on research sent to the Vatican by Dr Kieran Moriarty, an expert in digestive disorders at the Royal Bolton Hospital. This researcher will meet the Pope as a guest at the Queen’s reception for Benedict XVI in Edinburgh.

What had those with the medical condition taken for years prior to technology allowing the reduction of gluten in the wheat?

As a celiac and a Catholic, yet another reason to say God Bless His Holiness!

OTHERWISE it'd have to be a default doctrine that Jesus came for the Jews, and then the Gentiles, but not the people who live in the Arctic.

Which would be ridiculous in the extreme.

Good of the sisters to come up with an exceedingly low gluten wafer ~ so, are they available to Protestants?