Greetings.
Eric Bakker naturopath from New Zealand.
Thanks for checking out my video.
I have a question from a subscriber here, "Eric can you give us at least 10 leaky gut
guide and treatment mistakes for me to avoid?"
I can certainly do that.
I made a list of 10 things here and I'm just going to talk about those in brief and explain
a few concepts to you about leaky gut and about how to avoid it.
Well how to avoid things going pear shaped when you have got leaky gut.
The first one is alcohol which I really always talk about when it comes to digestive health.
You're really in fantasy land if you think you can even go from mild alcohol consumption
if you want to recover from leaky gut.
Once your digestive system is in great shape, you got good energy, you've got good sleep,
you're feeling really good emotionally and you've got just an awesome sense of wellbeing
about you, I've got no problem with alcohol especially if you're a mild drinker.
But as soon as you start going into two glasses a day or several times a week alcohol consumption
and you've got leaky gut, and you've got a perfect diet and everything else is good and
you're exercising and everything's good, forget it.
You're not going to recover from leaky gut.
That's mistake number one is thinking you can drink even small amounts of alcohol regularly
longterm if you've got a gut problem.
You've got to fix the gut first.
Get that in great shape and then work out how much alcohol you can consume over time.
Common sense.
So as not to go down that route of leaky gut again.
Number two is stress.
Alcohol consumption sometimes goes hand in hand with stress.
Sometimes people drink more 'cause they're under stress.
So unfulfilled lives.
Unsatisfied with your occupation or your career.
Living in a relationship that's highly stressful or that's not very, giving you what you want.
Living in a poor marriage or in a relationship sense it's just not going anywhere.
This can create high stress.
Having conflict or discord with neighbors or family members.
Personal conflict is not good when it comes to wanting to get a good leaky gut.
Not good at all.
So you need to work out what the stressors are in your life and you need to deal with
these stressors.
This is very much not spoken about when it comes to leaky gut 'cause it very much undermines
your autonomic nervous system.
And if you can't get your handle on stress and it keeps working on you and impacting
on you, your gut will only go further backwards not forwards.
The third one is junk food.
So eating takeaway or junk food once a week for example.
Many people think that that's quite kosher.
That's quite okay to day.
Six days of the week I eat great, the one day of the week I eat not so great.
If you want to recover from the leaky gut, don't the make the mistake of thinking junk
food every now and then is okay 'cause it's not okay.
If you want to get your gut in great shape, eat good food all the time.
Good dietary choices every day.
Four, regular drug taking.
Taking paracetamol, taking ibuprofen, taking Advil, taking birth control, taking antidepressants,
taking acid blocking medication.
If you're on a drug every day or longterm medication, this is a mistake.
You need to try and do something about it.
With the birth control pill there are other methods or you need to think how can you give
your body a break from this pharmaceutical medication because it will undermine your
gut function and your hormone system long term.
But many of the the drugs often are taken daily for basically stopping symptoms for
digestive problems.
You can't get a handle on leaky gut if you keep on a drug.
Number five, not testing.
If you've had a gut problem for many years especially leaky gut, you may need to do an
intestinal permeability test or you may need to do a comprehensive stool test.
So not testing at all and the problem is staying the same.
It's crazy.
To me it's like going on the ocean without a map or a compass.
You've got no idea of where you're going and then you end up on the rocks somewhere.
So you need to really carefully plan where you're going to and what you're going to do.
So testing will be smart if you've got a chronic longterm gut problem.
Number six, too busy with diet.
Leading a hectic lifestyle.
Not thinking really about stress in your life and too diet focused.
Many people I see all they talk about is what they eat.
Paleo this and gaps diet that but they don't look at their lifestyle.
They don't look at the quality of their sleep.
They don't look at how they breathe.
They don't look at like regular relaxation.
All they care about is what grain can I eat?
Can I eat quinoa?
Can I eat oats?
Meanwhile they're on this bloody cellphone all the time talking to somebody.
They're stressed out.
Learn that stress affects the gut more than you would believe.
So a hectic lifestyle needs to be backed off.
So to me it's very important that you understand the balance between lifestyle and diet.
Quality lifestyle, relaxed lifestyle, easygoing lifestyle.
Good quality diet, good quality lifestyle will certainly make your gut heal a lot faster.
Number seven, only treating for one particular aspect.
For example only taking L-glutamine because you think you've got a leaky gut.
Or only taking a candida supplement because you think you got candida.
This kicks back again to number five, not testing.
Understanding the gravity of your situation and what needs to be treated.
Testing will uncover what needs to be treated and will prioritize what you need to be doing.
So be careful of supplementation.
Number eight, not enough relaxation.
Big, big thing I see with a lot of people.
Not breathing properly.
Look at some of my videos I've completed on relaxation for example.
I've done a few of them.
I like people everyday to have at least a 20 to 30 minute relaxation session.
I think it's very important.
For me it's relaxing in my room here everyday in the afternoon.
For me it's gardening and for me it's playing guitar and it's doing different things like
that.
Going for a walk every day.
These things are part of my relaxation cycle.
It really helps to improve your sleep.
And that's what we're talking about point number nine.
Poor crappy sleep.
If you've got poor sleep, forget about it.
You'll never heal a leaky gut.
You'll have poor immune function, you'll end up with adrenal problems and thyroid dysfunction
and a whole bunch of other stuff you don't know about.
So you need to work on improving your sleep.
You need to have very good sleep pattern.
Great sleep pattern will mean good digestive health.
Good digestive health will further impact on all your life and give you a very, very
good health and particularly as you get older.
So try and cultivate your sleep like you cultivate a garden.
You've got to be working on it regularly.
And eventually you'll have beautiful sleep cycles.
There's nothing better than waking up really refreshed in the morning.
Number 10, don't worry about your health so much.
All right?
Too many people worry incessantly about their health.
Every tiny little thing.
My father was like it.
Every time he had a sensation he'd be off to the doctor for an oscopy or he wanted an
ECG because he felt palpitations.
My dad was very anxiety prone.
He was a hypochondriac.
So don't be a hypochondriac.
Don't imagine every tiny little thing in your body is brain cancer or something like that.
If you stop worrying about your health and let it do its own thing, you're going to relax
a lot more and let the body take over instead of having the brain engaged on an anxiety
prone level which will undermine your health, increase your stress in start creating a lot
of imbalances.
Anxiety leads to ill health, poor sleep, low energy, adrenal fatigue.
So just be careful with point number 10 particularly.
Don't worry too much about your health.
And as Mark Twain said, if you read too many health books or too many blog sites, be careful
'cause you could die of a misprint.
You might see something there that's written wrong or you might get a wrong piece of information.
It could cost you a lot of problems.
So just be careful.
So hope that gives you a bit of an insight into 10 things which I see are obstacles when
it comes to healing yourself from leaky gut.
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Thanks for catching up with me.
All the best.