What is Leaky Gut?

How do you know if you have leaky gut? What is that? So there's actually a way you can test for it. You can look at something in a lab test called zonulin. So it just— it's seeing if your gut's more permeable. But here's the reality: if you tend to react to foods, if you're gassy, bloating, joint pain, headaches, fatigue, it's a sign that this could be an issue for you. So the other way that you test is you do one of these food sense to be tested. And different than, you know, when they do the pricks all over your back to see what you're reacting to for an allergy, this is different than that. This is a delayed reaction, and that's the problem. You eat something, and an hour later, up to a day later, you might have a reaction. So you don't connect the dots between what you're eating and how you feel. So it's very different. So you can either do a food sensitivity test, which can tell you if you're highly reactive to something. And that was what I was doing. I was teaching doctors how to put this into their practice in nutrition. I'm like, why are we making it complicated? We've got like strawberries and citrus and all the things when the reality is it's these most common 7. And then you think about ultra-processed food, but generally you need to heal your gut first and pull out those offenders before you start to reintroduce them. So you could either do a test, or I think the easiest way to start, because it's going to be shorter than waiting for the test to come back and it doesn't cost any money, is just to pull the foods out, give yourself at least 3 weeks, heal your gut while you're doing that with things like bone broth, and then go in and start trialing the foods one by one. I'm here to help you age powerfully, so don't miss out. Follow this page.