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Hostile Elements in Your Gut Starting in your mouth, your gut travels through your stomach, small intestine, large intestine, and ends in your rectum. Your stomach and intestines are filled with hostile elements: digestive enzymes, undigested food material and trillions of microorganisms. The surface of the small intestinal lining is only one cell layer thick.  When this delicate surface is damaged, we suddenly have hostile elements “leaking” into our bloodstream and spreading inflammation throughout the…

Helpful Facts About Diagnosing and Healing Leaky Gut Leaky gut is an incredibly common health condition. However, it remains well hidden from mainstream media. In fact, many people who suffer from this condition have never even heard of it. What is leaky gut syndrome and how is it diagnosed? What are the available treatment options for healing a leaky gut? How long does it take to heal leaky gut? These are all likely questions that…

What is leaky gut syndrome? A “leaky” gut is a permeable gut, meaning toxins are leaking out of the gut, or digestive tract. A leaky gut can be caused by a variety of factors linked to diet, such as eating too much gluten a diet overly rich in grains and wheat products eating unsprouted nuts and seeds and other inflammatory foods which might inflame, pierce, or weaken the lining of the gut over time, such as…

“All Disease Begins in the Gut” A gut which becomes inflamed will become very porous (much more than normal) and will allow large food proteins, bacteria, fungi, metal and toxic substances straight into our bloodstream. This is the basis of Leaky Gut. Hippocrates said, “All disease begins in the gut” meaning that a healthy diet can promote a healthy gastrointestinal (GI) tract and help prevent many disease conditions. Hippocrates lived more than 2400 years ago…