This is a YouTube video titled "The Gut Revolution: Supporting Brain Function, Insulin Sensitivity & Detoxification" containing a discussion about gut health, stress, and probiotics. The excerpt features two speakers conversing about factors harming gut health and the effects of probiotics on leaky gut, recorded in September 2023. The speakers are not identified as Alicia Mackey Huber.
What is the number one thing harming people's guts today?
The way I think about this is anything that creates stress on your gut, and that is an overly processed diet, too much sugar, chemicals, toxins from the environment, overuse of medications that disrupt the gut flora, especially antibiotics, stress, mental and emotional stress has a negative impact on our gut flora. It increases stress overall in the body and also can diminish the bacteria in the gut. And if you think how many people in the US across the world are stressed right now, that's a huge impact on our health, mental and physical.
We know that stress causes leaky gut. Do we know that taking probiotics when you're stressed will stop leaky gut?
Yes, we actually have the studies. We've shown in multiple studies that taking omnibiotic stress release even for just four weeks has a 48% reduction in Zonulin. Now, zonulin is a marker for leaky gut.
