Erica Hoke explores whether leaky gut contributes to repeat miscarriage. She explains how the Standard American Diet damages the gut lining, disrupts progesterone and estrogen, and triggers inflammation and immune problems that harm pregnancy. Dietary changes can heal the gut and improve outcomes.
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Today we're talking about repeat miscarriages and the causes, and it's a terrible thing to go through. So I want you to hear me when I say I don't, uh, take the information that I'm going to share with you today lightly. Um, but if you're having repeat miscarriages, your gut health could be to blame. Something called leaky gut is very prevalent, um, in our society. In the American Standard American Diet, which is often acronymed as SAD diet. And the reason that leaky gut affects your possibility of having repeat miscarriages is because of the effect that it has on hormones. So what is leaky gut? So most people think about their intestines, their gut, if they think about them at all, a garden hose, a sealed tube that their nutrients are digested through, etc. But in fact, your gut is actually very permeable, and it looks more like this. So there are junctions that separate, and as the junctions separate, your toxins from your intestines leak into your bloodstream. So how does that affect your— how does that affect your hormones? So it I want to get this right. So it is linked to reduction in progesterone. The toxins also create inflammation. So things like endometriosis, which I had stage 4 endometriosis and leaky gut, also repeat chemical pregnancies that I wasn't even aware of at the time. So it also negatively impacts your estrogen. So your estrogen is not able to be metabolized properly and it ends up being too high. You have too much estrogen, which also is a contributor to many, many reproductive issues. So if you're thinking that you have leaky gut, you also might have a weak immune system as well, as that is something that also is compromised as the toxins are leaked into your bloodstream. So it's something to take into consideration. Leaky gut can 100% be healed with, with diet and changes in your food choices. And that is going to help your overall health and help your chances of staying pregnant and not having a repeat miscarriage. If you like the content that I'm putting out, go ahead and hit that subscribe button and I will see you next time. Bye-bye.
