Leaky Gut occurs when an increase in harmful bacteria and yeast (candida) within the intestine reaches a tipping point and the intestinal wall is breached. These bacteria can literally burrow between the cells of the intestinal lining. Most of the time, we have a symbiotic relationship with intestinal bacteria from birth and they help reduce harmful effects of toxins, breakdown food and aid in immune function. As a matter of fact that out number our own cells in our body 10:1. A plenty of water and different variety of food is a big help on your pregnancy because those are good food for pregnancy.
But harmful bacteria can do the opposite and often this is exactly what takes place after a round of antibiotics. It can also take occur after a severe cold or more typically Americans get it from their diets over longer periods of time. If you are eating a consistently poor diet with excessive sugar like most of the 300 Million people in America, you may well be on your way to having a Leaky Gut too.
Leaky Gut is commonly caused by:
1. Years of eating diets high in sugars, which increase candida populations.
2. Poor diet also increase bacteria colonies that are detrimental to good gut health.
3. Use of antibiotics without immediate good bacteria reintroduction.
4. Pesticides, GMOs and other harmful toxins that ravage the intestine walls and beneficial bacteria.
When our intestinal wall is breached, this allows food particles to pass through and over time the immune system becomes overwhelmed with invaders. As if this is not bad enough, your immune system may also attack its own cells near the intestinal wall openings as a sort of collateral damage. This heightened immune state can often is associated with chronic inflammation of other parts of the body like the back.
Over time, the increasing influx of food particles charging through is too much and they must be processed some other way. The liver, which receives 70% of its blood flow from the intestine, is then charged with capturing and detoxifying the blood at this point.
If the necessary chemicals (i.e. Glutathione, NAC, Tocotrienols) are in short supply, the liver simply shuttles the toxins into fat cells to keep them from invading the rest of the body. These fat cells are stored in the liver and elsewhere throughout the body. This leads to obesity; cripples liver function and can be seen in higher than normal blood sugar levels, as the liver is critical in regulating insulin.
This is really the only option available to the liver at this point as it would be more dangerous to have these toxins floating in the blood disrupting other processes around the body.
The best way to counter this cycle is finding ways to alleviate stress, change your diet and supplement with probiotics and strong liver anti-oxidants.
Supplements To Consider
Milk thistle is often used, but many people aren’t aware that the bioavailability is 10 times higher when taking the isolated active in milk thistle (slybin). People that have fatty liver should also be taking NAC, SAMe and Glutathione at the very least. Recently, there has also been a lot of research surrounding Red Palm Oil.
All these seem to act in a way that kick starts phase II detoxification in the liver, which changes fat-soluble toxins to water soluble to enable flushing them out of the body. More information about leaky gut issues.
A good way to test for Leaky Gut is if you detect constant digestive problems such as gas, bloating, constipation and other food allergies. It’s this sensitivity to intake that is the sign of a problem.
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