Every day we get more information about the importance of our intestinal microbiome. Leaky gut, a modern epidemic is ground zero for turning on genes and letting pathogens grow that cause chronic diseases. Leaky gut can be reversed. The intestinal microbiome has been my passion for several years. In naturopathic medical school, teachers stressed the importance of correcting gut issues first.I was fascinated with the microbiome and how it regulated every part of the body. Modern life, prescription pain meds and antibiotics, genetically engineered foods, electromagnetic fields, birth control pills and evolved pathogens contributed to this modern scourge called Leaky Gut.
Two critical questions that I ask patients during the new patient intake: Were you a vaginal or C-section birth and were you breastfed and for how long? The answer to both of those questions determines your overarching health picture for the rest of your life.
In leaky gut, the small intestine becomes more permeable allowing the entry of large molecules and toxic material into the bloodstream that cause local and systemic inflammation. Bacteria, fungi, parasites, heavy metals, undigested proteins find their way through a damaged porous mucous membrane. These foreign substances get in the bloodstream signaling the immune system to become reactive and start creating antibodies against your own tissues. The body cannot begin to repair the inflammatory damage unless the permeable gut is healed.
Mom's breast milk rich in colostrum enters the bloodstream of her baby. All of mom's antibodies to every pathogen that mom has met in her lifetime is transferred through the colostrum to her baby. Colostrum contains specialized skin cells that seal holes in baby's intestines so that the leaky gut is corrected within two days.
Leaky gut syndrome is directly associated with all autoimmune diseases: alopecia areata, autism, chronic fatigue syndrome, Crohn's disease, allergies, IBS, MS, RA, Raynaud's, scleroderma, Sjogren's syndrome, ulcerative colitis, diabetes, inflammatory arthritis and polymyalgia rheumatica to name a few. If you have any of these conditions you most likely have leaky gut.
Isn't it time to stop the leak? Call us and come in for testing and treatment. Reverse your chronic disease by treating your leaky gut.
