Full Transcript What Leaky Gut Is 0:00 Hey everybody, today I wanna tell you about leaky gut. 0:03 I'm gonna tell about what it is, how it starts, How to test for it, and how to treat it. 0:11 So, we'll start with what on earth is leakey gut? 0:15 You might have heard of it before, And you might know already that it's a whole body issue. 0:21 It's not just in the gut, So what's going on here is we've got one type of cell in the intestines called the epithelial cell. 0:30 And with those epiphyllial cells, they are held together by something called tight junctions. 0:35 These look like a zipper. 0:37 They're called type junctions because they're meant to be tight. 0:40 When leaky gut happens, these tight junction and epiphelio cells create more space between them. 0:48 So that creates some leaks in the system. 0:53 Those leaks and that space is where undigested food can come through, any undi- digested food particles or excess hormones and toxins can leak through 1:05 and can then more easily connect to the blood brain barrier. 1:09 So obviously we don't want this to happen. 1:12 This does affect more than just the gut alone. 1:15 The gut can cause symptoms like bloating and digestive concerns, but because the leaks go through the blood-brain barrier, 1:25 we can also experience brain symptoms too. 1:28 So one of the things that people will notice if they have intestinal hyperchromiability is they feel brain fog or they don't feel as cognitively sharp 1:37 as they used to. 1:39 Anxiety or mood destruction can with the whole body, you might also notice changes in skin.
Symptoms Beyond Digestion 1:49 So especially if you have chronic skin issues like acne that just won't go away, eczema, even rosacea, which is rosiness around the cheeks and even a little 1:59 on the nose, there's also a correlation from the skin to the liver, liver being part of the gut system, but the lever uses the scan as its exit route. 2:10 So we can see symptoms in the brain. 2:13 We can say symptoms of the skin. 2:15 And we could also see some symptoms and hormones. 2:18 Now, in some other videos, you'll see the strobilome. 2:23 The strobalome is part of a microbiome where estrogen is related and estrogen as processed. 2:30 Now, if there's leaky gut, If there was hyperpermeability in the intestines, this can cause issues with menstrual cycle. 2:37 This can caused issues, with the way that we process estrogen, but we can also see issues but cortisol and cortisol is our main stress hormone. 2:48 When we see a lot of cortisol, when we stress on top of a stress, top of a stress for many days in a row, or weeks in row. 2:58 I think chronic stress now, this can affect the hormones. 3:04 This can effect the immune system. 3:07 And the immunity system, 70% of it is housed in the gut or starts in my gut. 3:14 Cortisol is known to decrease immune function. 3:18 So we're seeing this confluence of hormones and immune systems and it all starts Why does the gut get deaky or why did the intestines get permeable in 3:30 the first place? 3:31 There are a few reasons. 3:34 Today we'll talk about five. 3:36 The first reason is chronic stress.
Common Causes of Intestinal Permeability 3:40 That cortisol that keeps on layering in, that can cause the permeability all by itself. 3:47 I don't wanna blame stress on everything on stress because it's not the end all be all, but it is a component. 3:54 And that's one of the reasons in our program that we have this laid out as five pillars, the first pillar being gut health, 4:02 then nutrition, hormones are the third and last physical piece, and stress reduction is the fourth. 4:10 The fifth one is venturing so that you don't have to do this by yourself. 4:13 But all that to say, stress is a huge important part of health. 4:17 Stress reduction so we don' have too much cortisol leading to leaky gut. 4:22 The second piece is food. 4:25 Ultra-processed foods are known to cause hyperpermeability in the intestines and are know to caused leakiness. 4:31 This can disrupt the gut bacteria and can also cause inflammation in lining. 4:37 Third piece, NSAIDs. 4:40 This is nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. 4:44 We think about these non-stereoidal anti inflammatory drugs as gut disruptors when they're used a long time. 4:50 So there are other medications that can disrupt the gut, but NSAIDS are definitely one of them. 4:57 Fourth, environmental toxins. 5:00 I've been touching on this a little bit in my program, we talk about it a lot, But there are things like phthalates, glyphosates and synthetic fragrances 5:08 that are known to disrupt hormones, but they are also known too disrupt the gut. 5:13 Usually they disrupt their gut when they're consumed and that can lead to more hormone disruption. 5:19 Fifth and probably most important is dysbiosis. 5:24 Now, dysbiosis is a fancy word for anything that is off balance in the microbiome. 5:30 This can mean too much bacteria, too muc fungus, yeast, to much virus. 5:36 When there is this biosis, this can cause a stress response in a gut and the body says something's going wrong, there's an imbalance here. 5:45 That imbalance alone can be caused by one of these first four things, the stress, food, medications, or environmental toxins. 5:56 When dysbiosis happens, I always want to think about why did this start in the first place? 6:01 What's at the root cause here? 6:03 So ways that we can look, ways we that can test. 6:07 There are three different tests that I'd like to highlight on why we can, where we figure out what's causing this. 6:15 Why are these intestinal permeabilities starting? 6:19 One of them is called the lactulose test. 6:21 Now this is usually a breath test, lactilose is a solution, so a liquid that humans can't digest, but bacteria can.
How Leaky Gut Is Tested 6:31 So the way that we test for this, is we do a specialized eating plan for two days to starve any bacteria. 6:39 Then you take the Lactulos solution And because bacteria can digest it and they haven't been eating on anything for two days, 6:48 they go to town. 6:50 So the bacteria go brunch on this lactulose and then you breathe into a tube and you're measuring the off gas of this bacteria that are present. 7:00 So that's one way to test for dysbiosis. 7:04 The second way that we can look for a dysbiosis and then subsequently look at the leaky gut is through a test called zonulin. 7:13 Zonuline is a scaffolding protein. 7:15 So think about in the gut, when you're having these leaks, These tight junctions are causing more space. 7:23 And the body sends a signal, saying, I can help. 7:25 I could patch those up. 7:27 So it creates more zonulin. 7:29 Zonulin comes in as a scaffolding protein to patch up these leaks. 7:35 What we can measure, we measure in the stool, but we also measure it in blood as well, is zomulin to see if it's at higher levels than normal. 7:43 That's the bodies trying to help out, trying patching up the leaks And the third way that we can test is for a more comprehensive stool analysis. 7:54 So this can look at good bacteria, bad bacteria. 7:57 Yeasts, funguses, viruses. 7:59 It can also look inflammatory proteins. 8:02 This takes a wider lens on what's going on in the gut and how can we rebalance. 8:07 Usually leaky gut does not just happen. 8:10 Leaky got happens because of something that triggered it. 8:15 Dysbiosis is one of the main things that triggers it And then what triggered the dysbiosis? 8:20 That's when we get to do the digging after we test results. 8:25 So something that you might see in your own body or some symptoms that people often miss is you think, if I have leaky gut, 8:35 I'd have to be having digestive symptoms. 8:38 While digestive systems do happen, bloating, just feeling an upset stomach, that can be from the immune response in the gut lining. 8:48 But we can also look for these brain symptoms like brain fog and low mood. 8:54 That's because those inflammatory signals cross the blood-brain barrier. 8:58 Also look at skin outbreaks, especially acne, eczema, rosacea. 9:03 This is systemic inflammation, so whole body inflammation reaching the skin. 9:09 Lastly, hormone imbalances. 9:12 If you have cycle issues or have too much estrogen or feel like you're chronically stressed out or always in that fight or flight zone,
Healing With the Four Rs 9:22 this can be related to the gut because of the systemic presentation of what you got. 9:30 So last piece, how do we heal this? 9:34 I like to use the four Rs. 9:38 The four R's are remove, replace, reinoculate, and repair. 9:45 So we first start with remove. 9:48 Remove any of those triggers that can be causing inflammation. 9:53 Second, replace. 9:54 We want the good bugs to come in and we want to replace the foods or triggers that are causing this leaky gut in the first place. 10:05 Re-inoculate is the order we get to replenish the bacteria. 10:09 This can be with things like probiotics, but I love using food as medicine. 10:14 And then repair. 10:15 we repair the gut lining. 10:17 So those zonulins, those scaffolding proteins, they're doing such great work to help heal up those guts. 10:23 We help it along the way. 10:25 we can use things like colostrum or zinc to repair gut linings. 10:33 One thing I want to leave you with are some common myths that you might hear about leaky gut or intestinal hyperpermeability. 10:42 The first thing is you may hear Leukiga is not a real diagnosis. 10:47 And while I agree it is NOT a scientific term, look in the literature under intestinal permeability and you will see tons of well-documented, 10:58 peer-reviewed research on intestinol permeabilty. 11:02 So, if ever you want to impress your friends, just say intestino-hypopermiability, and It's just a digestive issue. 11:16 Leaky gut only happens in the gut. 11:18 Not true. 11:20 Licky gut, while it may start in a gut because all health begins in that gut and all disease begins on the cut, it is a systemic whole body condition. 11:29 So thinking of it as purely a got issue is really doing you a big disservice as a human. 11:34 I wanna look at the whole picture. 11:37 And then lastly, an elimination diet will fix it. 11:40 It did an illumination diet and it fixed everything.
Myths and Next Steps 11:44 Elimination diets can be helpful. 11:47 I hope that you know that. 11:49 But when you think about the four Rs, remove is the first R. 11:54 There's three more Rs to really heal the whole issue. 11:58 So an elimination diet can excellent for that first r of eliminating the triggers and what could be causing it. 12:04 They also need to look at environment and make sure that there's not any other triggers coming in too. 12:09 But then the real healing happens with the rest of repairing, re-inoculating, and rebalancing, making sure that the body is well-healed so that this doesn't 12:19 come back in the future. 12:21 I hope this is helpful. 12:23 If you think that you have leaky gut or you know somebody that has some gut issues that want to help them get this figured out, 12:32 in comments below, I have put a link to my gut root cause quiz. 12:39 It takes about two minutes and it will help to steer us on, is it in the gut? 12:45 Is it related to stress? 12:46 is related it to hormones? 12:48 So we can start to deduce what's going on in that gut and what is really at the root cause here so we start digging a little bit more. 12:54 So it's in comments, please take it, share it with your friends. 12:58 I hope this is helpful and I cannot wait to hear your quiz results.
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