This is a YouTube video titled "How Gluten Triggers Autoimmunity" containing a multi-speaker discussion from December 2019. Participants include Dr. Jolene Brighten, Ask AI Mark, and Robyn Stein DeLuca, who talk about the impact of gluten sensitivity on gut health, leaky gut, autoimmunity, hormone imbalances, and related health issues such as PMS and estrogen dominance.
Here's the key thing, the gluten piece. See, that gluten sensitivity triggers everything. As we know, gluten is what triggers the, can be a trigger for your gut to make something called zonulin. And zonulin is the molecule that opens and closes those gates in that membrane that protect the lumen, your body from what's in the lumen of your gut.
In the intestines.
Right, in the intestines. so when you're sensitive to gluten and you start to trigger that, you create this leaky gut, that's when you really open up that door, as we talked about, for autoimmunity and malnutrition. And then on top of that, she was having these bleeds. The last thing I checked, Mark, was her hormones.
Well, before you jump in, I just want to recap that because that's important. So gluten basically damages your gut lining, which then causes leaky gut, but it also prevents iron absorption. Yep. which is why she was anemic. It also triggers autoimmunity, particularly thyroid autoimmunity. So a lot of people have shimmies caused by gluten. So when you sort of dial back, you can get to the root cause and see what happens. So, so, okay.
So. And then on top of that is a quick aside. I checked the hormones and you can do this ratio between your progesterone and your estrogen. When a woman's irregular like that, you should really check that, because if you have a relative elevated estrogen compared to progesterone, that's called estrogen dominance.
And estrogen dominance can impact your cycle. It can make it irregular and it can make it very heavy.
It can lead to a lot of PMS and depression and it can last for half the month. Yeah. Okay. So all this was going on.
By the way, 75% of women have PMS. That is not a normal condition. No, it's not. It's because of our diet, our stress, our lifestyle, our gut.
Our food.
Food.
So many things drive it. Food that has hormones in it. You know, we just, you know, the.
Whole, you know, issue with hormones in our food.
And guess what's the biggest Driver of high estrogen levels? Sugar.
Sugar and hormones in our food. And starch. Exactly.
