Leaky gut is a very popular syndrome that
said to be the cause of your digestive issues
your other health issues, depending who you
ask, you know, your other diseases and you know
some people probably even say it's the reason
the sun rises on the East. It’s really getting
a little bit out of hand. So in this video, I want
to clarify a couple things and talk about the
number one problem with your leaky gut. My name is Joe,
I'm a gut health dietitian myself and my team
we help you with your chronic gut issues to
resolve them properly. By the way, in the end of this
video if you want to learn more about managing
leaky gut, we've created a special guide for you.
So hang around for that. Okay, first things
first leaky gut syndrome not an actual medical condition.
It's a marketing term, and when I have my market
has had on I admit it is far more sexier than increased
intestinal permeability, which is actually
what it refers to. Okay, so what that means is
like your intestines that is how we get like
food gets digested in the stomach. It goes into
your intestines that is where the nutrients
are absorbed into your bloodstream from the
food, now for it to move from your intestine into the blood.
It has to be able to go through the wall of
your intestine, your small intestine has to
go through that into the bloodstream. It has
to permeate through hence increased intestinal permeability.
So the permeability of the intestinal wall
has increased to a magnitude that is said to
be now not beneficial. So if you think about
like it's supposed to allow some small nutrients
through these, you know holes to permeate through
and they say the holes are have gotten
too large and therefore particles and toxins
things that shouldn't be passing through now
passing through that is what leaky gut is referred.
Now researchers like Gastrointestinal researchers
don't actually know what the repercussions
of increased permeability are. We just know
that it exists and we see it with many conditions.
For example with bowel diseases a lot about
is they have increased intestinal permeability.
That doesn't mean they have leaky gut
that doesn't mean leaky gut cause their bowel
disease and it's the same with other conditions.
We have a lot of practitioners and things you'll read online.
Telling you well leaky gut is the root
cause and that's why you have headaches and
that's why you know the sun sets on the West.
So, it's leaky gut is not the the cause it's the symptom.
So it's like if you had if you got a bowel disease
and we see leaky gut, it was bowel disease
first and it seems to have caused that increased
permeability, but then we're not sure of the repercussions.
That's likely not great. So the good thing is
it's not the cause so you don't need to treat
the leaky gut as the cause. You don't need to
take the glutamate supplement that someone's
trying to sell you or whatever other mineral
nutrition compound they say heels that it's the symptom.
It's you're treating, you're treating the
wrong thing and I just want to reiterate like
people are doing like people are taking glutamate
supplements they are drinking green smoothies.
It's the wrong, your focusing on the wrong thing.
It's the wrong tools. It's like it's like if
you want to dig a hole and you have a toothbrush.
It's like the goal is to dig a hole you're
trying to do the right thing. You have the wrong tools.
So you're never going to get anywhere because
you're digging with the toothbrush instead
of a shovel. So what's the shovel then? First
of all you want to make sure you don't have a
autoimmune issue for example celiac disease.
This should be tested for with your doctor.
If you already eat gluten-free, then you need
to you need to be eating some gluten to actually do that
test accurately by the way, but ruling those
things out we want to look at your food tolerance
what foods are you actually reacting to because
it may feel like all foods or really inconsistent
like this food was fine one time and not another
there's actually certain compounds in the
food that you are sensitive to so you need to
start with that because that will dictate then
what the protocol should be because rowdies
you probably might have done test. You might
have done colonoscopy, endoscopy whatever
and they didn't find anything physiologically
wrong and have kind of left you on your own right?
So what we're doing with clients is really looking
at well, let's be methodical about this. This
is the shovel for digging the hole. Let's look
at your what you actually reacting to and then
we can we can reverse engineer and see what compounds
is that actually and then actually give you
a course of action that will resolve your issue.
That's why you've got to be intentional about it.
And methodical with your process and do it with guidance.
Otherwise, you're just like flapping around
in the dark. Stop doing that. Anywho this video
is going to long. You're probably finished
on the toilet now, so if you want to learn more
about leaky gut and the kind of process that
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