When I suspected I have increased intestinal permeability
some months ago, I did a simple search online to find out if there are simple
foods to heal leaky gut syndrome. I have
discovered that gut health is the worst culprit of this chronic condition which
is the mother of most autoimmune disorders. The results I got from my simple search
were quite amazing, confusing and conflicting all at the same time.
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On a website, you may discover that a particular food item is
an approved diet for leaky gut cure while it is a no-go area on another
website. My final conclusion was that every person is different. What is good
for the goose may not be so good for the gander. To this end, it is very
important you keep your own food diary in order to study and understand inflammatory
triggers which you have to exclude from your gut healing foods list. It is the
first step of healing leaky gut syndrome naturally.
What is Leaky Gut?
To put it simply, leaky gut is a health condition of the
digestive system whereby the intestinal lining is irritated, inflamed and
damaged as a result of many internal and external factors which it comes in
contact with on a daily basis.
These factors include parasites in the digestive tract,
exposure to harmful environmental chemicals, hard-to-digest gluten proteins, pathogenic
bacteria and viruses, metabolic wastes and microbial toxins, etc, which may find
their way into the bloodstream from the small intestine. Ordinarily, these are
harmful items that are blocked out from entering the bloodstream through the
tight junctions in a person who has good gut health.
But when pathogenic bacteria and other harmful materials
gatecrash into the bloodstream, an immune response is usually the end result of
this anomaly. These toxins are able to enter into the bloodstream because the
tight junctions on the intestinal lining have become compromised and widened.
When the immune system starts reacting and attacking its own body tissues or
cells, there is bound to be a cascade of food allergies or intolerances and autoimmune
diseases may also crop up in the process.
What are the Causes
of Leaky Gut?
The causes of leaky gut syndrome are not immediately known.
But because immune system reaction is a trigger for intestinal hyper-permeability,
we can safely say that the list below are some of the causes of leaky gut:
-Chronic stress and depression
-Poor diet
-Overuse of medications especially antibiotics and NSAIDs
-Bad bacteria and yeasts overgrowth in the digestive system
-Toxic mold exposure
-Lack of zinc
-Inflammation
-Gluten proteins
-Etc
Foods to Heal Leaky
Gut Syndrome