Emulsifiers in processed foods work like detergent, dissolving the protective mucin layer in your gut. This exposes intestinal cells and triggers inflammation that spreads through your body, affecting metabolism and driving disease. Eating real food avoids the problem.
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Emulsifiers turn out to be extraordinarily problematic. Emulsifiers are what hold fat and water together. That's what detergents are. That's what you put in your clothes. Washer Tide is an emulsifier. It's a molecule that has a polar head on one end and a nonpolar head on the other, very specifically, to be able to bind both fat and water together so you can lift the stain out. So what happens if you swallow a detergent? You. You chew through the mucin layer. It actually dissolves the mucin layer off those intestinal epithelial cells, allowing for this systemic and gut inflammation, actually driving the inflammatory process. So we want to promote metabolism by making mitochondria work better, and we want to suppress inflammation. And most of the inflammation is at the level of the gut. In both cases, the food is the problem. What I would say is, eat real food.