Greetings.
New Zealand naturopath, Eric Bakker, author of Candida Crusher and formulator of the Canxida
range of dietary supplements.
Thanks for checking out my video today.
We're going to talk about leaky gut syndrome.
What it is.
What causes it.
What the signs and symptoms are and what the most effective natural treatment is.
I'm going to read you an excerpt out of my book, Candida Crusher, just to familiarize
you with what leaky gut syndrome is and then I'll expand on that a little bit.
Leaky gut syndrome describes a condition of altered or damaged small bowel lining caused
by antibiotics, toxins, poor diet, parasites, Candida yeast infection, stress, etc., which
can lead to increased permeability of the gut wall to toxins, microbes, undigested food
particles, wastes or larger than normal macromolecules.
These can be things like bits of pollen or basically dead bacteria or yeast, all sorts
of junk there.
It has been estimated by experts that around 60 percent of your whole immune system is
located in your small intestine, and incredibly, a high percentage of this activity is concentrated
in the first three inches of your duodenum.
In a normal healthy person, the small bowel behaves like a colander or a sieve allowing
only the breakdown of the very finest molecules of digestion into your bloodstream.
A healthy membrane of the small intestine allows only very small nutrients in fats,
proteins and starches, which are all broken down to extremely fine particle size to enter
into the bloodstream.
While the larger molecules and many different types of toxic compounds are kept out.
So you can see it's a selective membrane.
The last thing we want is for this membrane to be permeable and to allow junk coming through
that could adversely affect our immune system on the other side.
When the small intestine is affected by leaky gut syndrome, however, this process does not
occur.
Tiny food particles bypass the cells that normally absorb them and slip in between tiny
intercellular junctions, which are created by the leaky gut and challenge the immune
system on the other side.
Let's examine this in a little more detail.
And then I go on and on and I explain a little bit about yeast infection and leaky gut syndrome.
You can read a lot of these articles on yeastinfection.org if you want to have a look.
In your intestinal tract, there reside microscopic microvilli.
These are tiny finger like projections that come off the lining of the small intestine
with hair like small membrane extensions called the brush border.
The microvilli serve as a major point of absorption of all your nutrients in the body.
A thin layer of mucous forms on this brush border in which beneficial bacteria thrive.
And once this layer becomes compromised, the friendly bacteria reduce in number and the
bad guys, including many Candida species, parasites, and bad bacteria, will have an
easy time colonizing this brush border.
This brush border is also home to a circulatory IGA.
The major antibody in your digestive system.
I go into great detail on CIGA, in fact, in the book.
I think there are about three pages all about high or low circulatory IGA.
I think you get the picture what leaky gut syndrome really is.
It's a condition that many of us in the western world face.
It's not uncommon.
So if you're a person who is going to drink alcohol every now and then, if you're going
to take an antibiotic, or eat food containing antibiotics, if you have stress in your life,
or if you eat any kind of processed food, then you will certainly have leaky gut syndrome
to some degree.
I hope this video series I'm going to produce now will help you in your quest to overcome
leaky gut syndrome.
Be sure to check out my website, yeastinfection.org, also candidacrusher.com and be aware that
my Canxida.com line of supplements are going to be of enormous help to people with leaky
gut syndrome.
Thanks for tuning in.