What Is Leaky Gut? #shorts

Let's talk about how gut issues, or we call dysbiosis, leads to problems in the gut. Now your small intestine, it's the size of a tennis court if you laid it out flat, maybe two tennis courts, and it's one self-thick. It takes basically food that you break down inside your stomach through digestive enzymes and all kinds of other things. And the basic building blocks of amino acids, sugars, fatty acids, they get absorbed across the gut lining and they get absorbed through the cells. But sometimes when there's damage to the gut, you get the separation of the cells. We call that leaky gut. and then food particles and bacterial particles leak in between those gaps. We call them tight junctions that kind of get loose. 60 to 70% of your immune system is in your gut. Why? Because that's where you put all this foreign material every day and your immune system is supposed to help you deal with foreign material. So that's really important to understand that you have this really delicate lining and it can be disturbed and that leads to this whole imbalance.