Lindsey Burwell explains why most oral supplements don't reach your bloodstream. They have to survive stomach acid, get processed by your liver, and cross the gut lining. Leaky gut, inflammation, and low stomach acid can destroy most of what you swallow.
So basically what happens when you take a supplement, it has to survive your stomach acid and then it gets broken down by the liver and then it passes through your digestive tract and your gut lining in order for it to then be absorbed by the blood. And that is called first-pass metabolism and it wrecks a huge chunk of whatever you just took. That's assuming if your gut is actually even functioning well. So if you have leaky gut, inflammation, low stomach acid, anything that is causing microbial imbalance, you're absolutely not gonna be absorbing optimally.
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