Leaky Gut
and
Weak Links in Digestion & Immunity
Chronic digestive problems often have a common theme of leaky gut: porous intestines that allow undigested food, toxins and pathogens to penetrate this protective barrier that is a crucial part of our immune system.
Symptomatic evidence often appears as reactions to many foods, sometimes all foods.
Then the whole body becomes toxic and multiple organs weaken, including organs of digestion needed to extract nutrients to repair the intestines. It’s a vicious circle. There are multiple vicious circles, linked to other circles, inside other circles, until one’s whole life can be going in circles trying to find a way out of a small circle of foods you can eat until it’s 3 or 4 foods and for some people they can’t even leave the house.
Some people measure leaky gut with the mannitol and lactulose test. It’s not always necessary to do that as one can focus on assessing the root causes of other gut symptoms especially infections and lack of good bacteria.
Leaky gut usually involves food sensitivities: reacting to many foods, histamines, MCA, etc. Many people are fixated on the reactions and put all their energy into avoidance so they miss the root causes.
Leaky gut is itself a symptom that has three types of root causes that need to be addressed: nutrition, infection, and toxicity.
Each individual has a unique symptom pattern and requires unique solutions done in exactly the right way, in the right order and amounts. No one can guess what you need to solve your problem in social media comments. This is why I don’t give personal advice in comments here, nor product recommendations. I have to say it up front because many people don’t read to the end where I explain that; people asking for advice who can’t read and follow instructions anyway.
I offer information here that I think is at an appropriate level to begin a more effective strategy. So here are some considerations for the root cause factors at work to begin more individualized assessment and treatment planning.
This is a list of possible weak links in the digestive system.
Butyrate is widely understood as a key nutrient for the intestines to repair leaky gut holes.
The most direct butyrate rich source is raw butter, but many people can’t tolerate that.
There are butyrate supplements, but I prefer to foods, including probiotics.
The other source is fermentable fibers, but people have lost the good bacteria to ferment and digest fibers into butyrate.
Often there is an infection of pathogens that has to be killed to make space for the probiotics to gain hold and take over the job of pushing back infection and reversing dysbiotic mutations.
Candida is usually involved, but there is often more, like bacteria, since they are all having big party inside the biofilm shields that need to be broken up to get at the bugs.
But wait, if you have larger parasites like worms, that may be necessary to address first before other infections or overgrowth. External parasites effect the terrain that mutates other pathogens. This is I believe the right application of terrain theory, rather than the one-sided understanding of terrain theory, that external infections never matter.
Lab tests and energetic testing can help identify pathogens and don’t need to be perfect because the best ways to attack infections (kill shots) actually work in a broad spectrum. A few things can address everything, there are multiple options and I won’t be specific. The characteristics I look for in effective kill shots include natural, pathogens can’t adapt or can’t evade a simple combination, and broad spectrum of pathogens addressed.
But, wait again, if you are going to break up biofilm shields, metals are likely to be released. You have to absorb toxins as they are releases. Some are not absorbed and need to be processed by the body’s own detox systems like glutathione in the liver and the bile flow needed to get that out.
Boosting bile flow when necessary is a first order of priority because that regulates constipation to remove waste so it does not remain to leak through the gut.
Backing up even further: Basic nutrients like magnesium usually need to boosted otherwise nothing works. People feel better with magnesium for every cell including the gut.
Do you feel like we are still going in circles?
A process is needed to smash that circle into a straight line of action one thing at a time:
Starting with the one or two things you can tolerate leading preparing the way to the next weak link to be fixed to tolerate the solution to the next need. That’s highly individualized so I can’t guess what anyone needs.
Methods can include interpretation of symptoms, labs tests to diagnose general direction, and energetic testing to identify additional weak links organs, root causes, and especially specific solutions as lab tests don’t prescribe.
Probiotics can be one of the first things to do and can be as big a part of the solution as anything
Good bacteria help digest food.
Good bacteria are also key to the immune system, they even regulate immunity by communicate with the immune system organs as a whole about where to send its defenses.
Other immune system parts to be identified as possible weak links include: the IgG, thymus, spleen, marrow producing white blood cells, lymph that works with the intestines. The immune system helps fight pathogens and toxins wreaking the gut and rapidly spreading through the blood to other organs through like your head to give you a headache.
Stress damages the intestines and immune system.
Of course there is always more. The point is to identify weak links.
Taking the right probiotics species can be a starting point. This is individualized and likely in stages. It may start with those that push back against pathogens to make space for the good guys, and then move toward a wider variety associated with general health and longevity. Somewhere in there prebiotics can be used until a wider variety of foods can provide food for your new friends.
If you are readying this on social media and have questions please see my related posts and pages that are easily found a few clicks away.
Again I can’t give anyone personal advice or get into product recommendations.
I think it’s more productive for people to share what works for them or related info.
Symptomatic evidence often appears as reactions to many foods, sometimes all foods.
Then the whole body becomes toxic and multiple organs weaken, including organs of digestion needed to extract nutrients to repair the intestines. It’s a vicious circle. There are multiple vicious circles, linked to other circles, inside other circles, until one’s whole life can be going in circles trying to find a way out of a small circle of foods you can eat until it’s 3 or 4 foods and for some people they can’t even leave the house.
Some people measure leaky gut with the mannitol and lactulose test. It’s not always necessary to do that as one can focus on assessing the root causes of other gut symptoms especially infections and lack of good bacteria.
Leaky gut usually involves food sensitivities: reacting to many foods, histamines, MCA, etc. Many people are fixated on the reactions and put all their energy into avoidance so they miss the root causes.
Leaky gut is itself a symptom that has three types of root causes that need to be addressed: nutrition, infection, and toxicity.
Each individual has a unique symptom pattern and requires unique solutions done in exactly the right way, in the right order and amounts. No one can guess what you need to solve your problem in social media comments. This is why I don’t give personal advice in comments here, nor product recommendations. I have to say it up front because many people don’t read to the end where I explain that; people asking for advice who can’t read and follow instructions anyway.
I offer information here that I think is at an appropriate level to begin a more effective strategy. So here are some considerations for the root cause factors at work to begin more individualized assessment and treatment planning.
This is a list of possible weak links in the digestive system.
Butyrate is widely understood as a key nutrient for the intestines to repair leaky gut holes.
The most direct butyrate rich source is raw butter, but many people can’t tolerate that.
There are butyrate supplements, but I prefer to foods, including probiotics.
The other source is fermentable fibers, but people have lost the good bacteria to ferment and digest fibers into butyrate.
Often there is an infection of pathogens that has to be killed to make space for the probiotics to gain hold and take over the job of pushing back infection and reversing dysbiotic mutations.
Candida is usually involved, but there is often more, like bacteria, since they are all having big party inside the biofilm shields that need to be broken up to get at the bugs.
But wait, if you have larger parasites like worms, that may be necessary to address first before other infections or overgrowth. External parasites effect the terrain that mutates other pathogens. This is I believe the right application of terrain theory, rather than the one-sided understanding of terrain theory, that external infections never matter.
Lab tests and energetic testing can help identify pathogens and don’t need to be perfect because the best ways to attack infections (kill shots) actually work in a broad spectrum. A few things can address everything, there are multiple options and I won’t be specific. The characteristics I look for in effective kill shots include natural, pathogens can’t adapt or can’t evade a simple combination, and broad spectrum of pathogens addressed.
But, wait again, if you are going to break up biofilm shields, metals are likely to be released. You have to absorb toxins as they are releases. Some are not absorbed and need to be processed by the body’s own detox systems like glutathione in the liver and the bile flow needed to get that out.
Boosting bile flow when necessary is a first order of priority because that regulates constipation to remove waste so it does not remain to leak through the gut.
Backing up even further: Basic nutrients like magnesium usually need to boosted otherwise nothing works. People feel better with magnesium for every cell including the gut.
Do you feel like we are still going in circles?
A process is needed to smash that circle into a straight line of action one thing at a time:
Starting with the one or two things you can tolerate leading preparing the way to the next weak link to be fixed to tolerate the solution to the next need. That’s highly individualized so I can’t guess what anyone needs.
Methods can include interpretation of symptoms, labs tests to diagnose general direction, and energetic testing to identify additional weak links organs, root causes, and especially specific solutions as lab tests don’t prescribe.
Probiotics can be one of the first things to do and can be as big a part of the solution as anything
Good bacteria help digest food.
Good bacteria are also key to the immune system, they even regulate immunity by communicate with the immune system organs as a whole about where to send its defenses.
Other immune system parts to be identified as possible weak links include: the IgG, thymus, spleen, marrow producing white blood cells, lymph that works with the intestines. The immune system helps fight pathogens and toxins wreaking the gut and rapidly spreading through the blood to other organs through like your head to give you a headache.
Stress damages the intestines and immune system.
Of course there is always more. The point is to identify weak links.
Taking the right probiotics species can be a starting point. This is individualized and likely in stages. It may start with those that push back against pathogens to make space for the good guys, and then move toward a wider variety associated with general health and longevity. Somewhere in there prebiotics can be used until a wider variety of foods can provide food for your new friends.
If you are readying this on social media and have questions please see my related posts and pages that are easily found a few clicks away.
Again I can’t give anyone personal advice or get into product recommendations.
I think it’s more productive for people to share what works for them or related info.
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