Robert Whitfield MD explains how food sensitivities trigger inflammation in the gut and lead to leaky gut. GI-MAP testing measures bacterial, fungal, and parasitic loads. Chronic antibiotics or Accutane increase leaky gut risk, and the right diet depends on your genetics, not the diet's reputation.
Once you identify what stimulates, like your GI tract with the food sensitivities, know how your digestive process works either with some. We do a GI map just to check for the bacterial, fungal and parasite, you know, numbers and get a sense of what's going on. You know, folks who had chronic antibiotic use for acne or they took Accutane or maybe they had sinusitis or UTIs or whatever, they're just all at risk to have leaky gut, which further exacerbates this problem. And dietary things, people do different diets, like Paleo and Mediterranean diets or plant based diets, and maybe that's just not what they're supposed to do because they don't have the correct enzymatic makeup genetically to handle those types of diets.
