Gut Health & Hormones in Midlife | Dr. Steven Gundry on Healing from Within

If you've got leaky gut, I can virtually guarantee you you have leaky brain. The wall of our gut is the same surface area as a tennis court. So if you're watching Wimbledon, there's a tennis court inside of it, and it's only one cell thick. And everything we swallow is here on the other side of this one cell thickness, about 80% of all of our immune system white blood cells are there. Why? Because mischief can come through. Our modern diet produces leaky gut in almost all of us. Unfortunately, the immune system basically kind of gets overrun and they're going, oh, my gosh, you know, the hordes are coming across the wall, we're battling them, but we can't hold them back. And they text up to the brain and there's a set of immune cells in the brain and they're going, we can't hold them back. Get ready, prepare yourself and start throwing roadblocks to prevent these guys from getting to you. And so we see all this brain fog in women in their 50s and early 50s that never existed. Brain fog, you know, that's something that happened to a 90 year old. What's scary is that we can measure this. It's not so much we gotta do something in the brain. We've gotta, you know, reinforce the troops and repair. We got to build a better wall.