Greetings, Eric Bakker from Naturopath, thanks for tuning in and checking out this video.
I've got quite a few topics to cover today, but let's start with IgA, Secretory IgA I
often get questions from people regarding stool tests.
What does this marker mean?
Can you explain more in detail what this marker means?
I've had my doctor on Naturopath do a test on me, I got the results back, and I don't
really understand exactly what these results mean.
Or they weren't explained to me properly.
So I've got a question here from somebody over in the States, and this question is,
what Secretory IgA deficiency of the immunoglobulin A?
What should I know about it?
What does it do?
So this persons quite inquisitive and really wants to understand what Secretory IgA is.
So let's talk a bit more about that in this video.
So what you may not know about is that, or you may well know, I'm not sure what your
level of medical knowledge is, that the bodies immune system makes up various antibodies.
So these are basically cells that help to counter unwanted responses in the body or
unwanted organisms.
They help to clean the body up and basically keep the body healthy and balanced.
So there are different types of antibodies, you've got several in your blood stream.
You've got certain types that are only found for example in breast milk.
Certain types found in tears or saliva, but the one we're going to talk about is called
Secretory IgA.
It's produced by the mucus membranes of the body.
So the mucous membranes, these are basically parts of the body exposed to where they secrete
a mucous into their environment.
For example if we think about the ear, nose, and the throat there's a lot of Secretory
IgA going on in that particular area.
The whole digestive tract, the intestines, the stomach, everywhere throughout this area
where there's mucous being secreted that you'll find Secretory IgA.
So the body starts making large amounts of this, up to two or three thousand grams per
day, I believe, was it milligrams of micrograms?
It's very, very tiny, I think it's grams.
It's actually grams.
So that's quite a bit.
So the body needs large amounts of this antibody basically to help defend itself from all kinds
of unwanted visitors and pathogens.
So don't confuse Secretory IgA with IgA that you normally would find in a blood test.
Unless it's the little S in front of it, it's not secretory, or secretary, or I think other
people might call it by different names.
So the other IgA that you find by way of a blood test, that will often be bundled with
for example, IGM, IGE, other antibodies will be bundled with that particular one.
This is often done as part of an allergy test or a specific immune test, your doctor will
do this, this will be a blood draw.
A blood test.
I'm talking more about a stool sample, with the SIgA, or a saliva test that was done to
determine the Secretory IgA.
Remember it's called Secretory, so it's coming from the mucous membranes.
So you need to know about this, this is very important because if you've got a very low
number then you need to look further afield at why the number is so low.
So the SIgA help basically to grab hold of things that don't like in the mucous membrane
and transport it out of the body.
Either through way of blowing the nose, or out through the bowel motions, it'll get basically
passed out and dealt with that way.
So you need to look further afield if you've got very, very low numbers.
That's quite a concern, because there's a drain on the immune system in that case.
You could have had an unknown, unwanted candida problem.
You could have had a bacterial problem.
It needs further checking out to see why the number is so low.
But the other thing it could be, it could be a food allergy.
This is quite common too, is when the IgA is very, very low it can be a significant
problem.
So the numbers I'm thinking of are nought to 200.
I think this is micrograms per 100 mill, or DC liter of blood.
So when the IgA level falls well under 200, if you've got levels say of 10 or 15 this
is very, very low indeed.
When the levels go really high that's a different story all together, but healthy people will
have a level of around about 130, 150, maybe 170 micrograms, which is the U/DL.
So depending on your scale that you're looking at.
But I've seen some Secretory IgA that was in stool tests as less, extremely low, like
0.5 in some people, so barely detectable.
Right to the other end of extreme I've seen them as high as 2500, when they've had a very,
very powerful inflammatory response in the body.
So when you've got a low number the great thing would have been to have a history of
IgA with perhaps tests performed every six or 12 months to track, to see what's going
on with your digestive tract, and your health in general.
It's not an expensive test, you should be able to get a saliva test done for about 100
bucks, from what I'm thinking.
If it's part of a stool test it shouldn't be that pricey, as just a standalone test
it's probably going to be cheaper.
'Cause if you bundle that again with the comprehensive stool test you could be looking at $200 or
$300.
So remember don't confuse this with the blood test, the blood test is entirely different,
they're not really what we're talking about.
We're talking about the saliva SIgA or the digestive Secretory IgA, that's what we're
talking about.
So there are different ways you can get the level up.
So let's talk a bit about that now.
You can get it up, it's a great thing to do to get this number up to good levels, because
it will definitely improve your defenses in your body and stop unwanted micro organisms
from forming bio films and whole colonies in your body.
So you really want to try and keep the numbers up, not too high, not ridiculously high but
in the ball park where I mentioned.
It's just going to keep your defenses right up.
Probiotics are very important to keep it up, and you'll find that the low Secretory IgA
often are found in conjunction with leaky gut syndrome anyway.
So remember if the numbers are low also check potentially for a food allergy because IgA's
also used a tag.
So the body will actually tag foods that are good, that it's known, like it will put a
sticker on their backs, yeah mate you're good to go through.
Every time they pat some guy on the back it's another sticker, it's another IgA down.
So your numbers could be low if they don't build up because of a good brushboarder.
So you need probiotics to build good numbers of IgA, because you do tend to use a lot of
these guys up.
Because remember your bodies making grams per day to tag good things that it likes,
but also to kick the bad things out.
So you need to keep the numbers up.
Probiotics are a good start, digestive enzymes are quite good to consider.
Of course eating probiotic foods.
I mentioned this in some of my other videos, so go and check out any other videos on the
Candida Crush YouTube channel on probiotic foods.
'Cause you'll need to incorporate these into your diet to give yourself a really good chance
to get those numbers up.
So remember people who have parasites, Candida, bad bacteria, food allergies, one or multi
food allergies these are people that are typically going to have lower Secretory IgA.
If you've got very high Secretory IgA again, this is where it pays to do more extensive
stool testing to determine if you've got any inflammatory markers.
Excuse me.
'Cause that could mean that you're looking more at Crohn's Disease, ulcerated colitis
or inflammatory bowel disease, or polyps, or things like that.
So then you look for blood and mucous, and other kinds of things as well.
So higher, we do tend to find as well, it's more common to find the lower one but we do
find the higher one.
Of course the higher it is the more urgent the need to find what's causing this high
amount of IgA to come up.
So I hope that gives you some useful information today on Secretory IgA, what it is, how important
it is, sort of the numbers and you can do a saliva test as a standalone.
You can sometimes do a standalone stool test rather than bundled with another stool test.
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