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…