Dr. Amy Myers always has so much information on her website and blog posts that I wanted to share what I have learned from her as well as other practitioners over the years about LEAKY GUT.
We have been hearing the last few years the term “LEAKY GUT” in the health and wellness industry. What is a “leak” in our gut do to us and how do we fix the leak in our gut? Well, your gut wall lining is like the wall surrounding the castle – the barrier between what is in your gut and what is in the bloodstream outside of the gut. If the thin, delicate gut wall gets irritated, inflamed and destructed in anyways – it results in little escape “holes” for undigested food particles that are supposed to stay in the digestive tract to sneak off into the unknown world outside of its “castle”. The result of undigested food particles entering the bloodstream gets tagged as foreigners and enemies…leading to a host of health symptoms including food sensitivities and inflammation.
The main function of the cells in the gut wall lining is to protect the gut – the army lines up the gut wall lining creating tight junctions – finger-like projections. The “army” can get broken up by irritants as the protein in gluten called zonulin but also other factors as infections, toxins, and of course STRESS can cause the protective barriers of the gut wall lining to become irritated and break apart. This results in creating a “leak” in your gut wall lining allowing “items” to leak out of the digestive system into the outside “world” -the bloodstream. Now common foods that are maldigested and escaped into the bloodstream in the “outside world” now are tagged as enemies. The immune system responds to these “invaders” by creating a “war”.
The main causes of leaky gut include:
- Inflammatory foods like gluten, commercial dairy, soy, eggs, and toxic processed foods.
- excess sugar and alcohol
- infections as candida, parasites and small intestinal overgrowth (SIBO) in the intestines
- toxins from medications as steroids, anti-inflammatory, antibiotics, acid-reducing drugs, medications as Advil and Motrin
- exposure to environmental toxins as mercury, pesticides, and BPA from plastics
- excessive chronic stress
What are signs and symptoms that you may have leaky gut? Dr. Amy Myers top symptoms include:
- Digestive issues: gas, bloating, diarrhea, IBS
- Hormonal imbalances as PMS or PCOS
- Seasonal allergies or asthma
- Auto-immune disease as arthritis, Hashimoto’s, lupus, psoriasis or celiac disease
- Chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia
- Mood swings, depression, anxiety, ADD or ADHD
- Skin issues like acne, rosacea or eczema
- Candida overgrowth
- Food allergies or food intolerances
How do you repair the leak in your gut wall lining?
Try our ‘The WHOLESTIC Method 30-Day Total Transformation” program to help heal and rebuild the digestive system as well as improving liver function, hormones, brain health and energy levels.
We remove the common food allergies/inflammatory foods for 30 days including gluten/grains, soy, peanuts, corn, commercial dairy and processed foods. We replace these inflammatory foods with real whole nutrient dense foods and gut healing nutrients as well as reduce stressors and other elements of ‘The WHOLESTIC Method’. We want to remove all sources of stressors, external and internal, including toxins, infections, and inflammatory foods.
To heal the gut, we not only need to remove the STRESSORS inside and out, but also improve the foods we ingest and how we digest our foods. We can eat a healthy, nutrient dense whole foods diet but if we can’t digest and absorb the nutrients then we still have a challenge and deficiencies. We will add digestive supplements and nutrients as apple cider vinegar, bone broth, organic green vegetable juice, digestive enzymes and probiotics to heal and repair the gut. We need to improve the stomach acid, digestive enzymes and bile to digest fats. Sometimes we need more gut healing nutrients as L’Glutamine, amino acids, and glutathione. We have been including the Axe Nutrition shakes in our program (by Dr. Josh Axe), Cauldron Bone Broth, Coconut Cult probiotics, Vibrant Blue energetic oils and digestive support if needed.
Most of us are living life as a race each day which overloads our “beaker of stress tipping point” of how much “stress” we can tolerate. Our addiction to busyness, social media updates, and multi-tasking overloads are tolerance to stress and sets us up for “sympathetic dominance” … continue to PART TWO for more.
Part Two
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