The Effects of Leaky Gut on the Body

Here's the thing, ladies. 70% of your immune system is lining your gut. It's not out in your lymph nodes and other parts of your body. Yeah, we have a ton of immune system in other parts of our body, but the majority of it is at your gut lining, ready as a frontline defense to protect you. And so that immune system is going to start attacking everything that it sees, that it's never seen before or shouldn't be there. And it quickly assesses, are you foreign or are you safe? Do we know you? Do we not? And if all of a sudden it's seeing broccoli in a undigested form that it didn't see it ever before, it will start attacking, and it will create antibody to that food, that broccoli, whatever you're ingesting and that it's seeing that it should not be seeing. And so once your immune system creates an antibody against something, every time it sees it, after that, it starts an inflammatory process to attack and destroy. And you can develop all kinds of issues if your immune system is constantly having to attack and destroy things that are coming into its bloodstream that shouldn't be. And so leaky gut often leads to food sensitivities. It leads to systemic inflammation. It can lead to joint pain and headaches and skin rashes and fatigue because it strangles out your mitochondria. ATP production, like, it leads to so many things. And the worst part is that it can activate bad genes. So our genes are potential information, information for our body to function. Right. We have this DNA with information in it, but it gets expressed according to how it's activated. And so just because you have bad genes, like, I have a bad gene for Hashimoto's thyroid disease, I have bad gene for Raynaud's, I have bad gene for celiac things like that, they're not necessarily activated or turned on and expressed until they have certain triggers. And so what we understand now is that leaky gut is a necessary component of activating autoimmune processes. And so you can have the gene for lupus, but if you don't have leaky gut and certain bacteria and certain triggers, you probably won't activate those genes, and they won't be expressed. And you won't have the lupus rash and the lupus joint pain and the lupus heart issues and that kind of thing. So it's really important to realize that so much of the diseases that we end up, you know, focusing on and the diagnoses we are searching for, like so much of it is preventable and reversible by getting control of what's going on in our gut. So I would love for you guys to really focus on having a healthy gut, because a healthy gut begets healthy hormones, begets good gyne health begets your entire health. Really, the microbiome in your gut is running the show.