10 Signs That You Have A Leaky Gut

Hello Health champions. Today I want to go over the top 10 signs and symptoms that you may have an inflamed and

leaky gut and if you stay with me and watch all the way to the end you'll be amazed at

how many of your signs and symptoms that may be associated with inflammation and leaky

gut. Number one is digestive problems and that's no big surprise obviously you may have things

like chronic diarrhea constipation may have gas or bloating and you can have things like

IBS which is irritable bowel syndrome and that's a broad descriptive term that covers

just about anything but very often is associated with alternating between constipation and

diarrhea SIBO is something that's been popularized in recent years which is small

intestine bacterial overgrowth and one of the main symptoms of that is gas and bloating

What we want to understand is that these are just the tip of the iceberg that there's so much more going on.

Leaky gut is also known as intestinal permeability and how do you know if you got it?

Well there are lab tests but they're not necessarily that reliable.

They're expensive There are lots of false positives so do you really need a lab test to figure out if you

have it. Well not really because this is so common that if you think you got it then you probably

do and the other thing is it's just like a lot of other condition in the body it's not

necessarily that you have it or you don't but the question is how much do you have it? what

happens is you have these cells and there's different layers you're supposed to have a

protective mucus layer on the inside fn the lining of your gut and then on the

top on the apex of these cells you have some hair cells and then this gray line which is

enlarged here these the tight junctions and they are supposed to keep, to hold these cells really tightly

together so that nothing can get through but if this loosens up if there is a poor nutrition

or inflammation or auto immune attack then we can get a loosening a weakening of

these tight junctions and things can start leaking through in severe cases you could

also have leaking both through the tight junction and through the cell if these membranes have been

damaged We want to think about the gut a little differently than most people do because we

think of it as putting food inside us when we eat something and goes inside but that's

not really how it works gut is really sort of outside of you cuz you put things in on

one end and if your body didn't do anything with it if it didn't break it down and actively

decide to use it and absorb it then it would come out the other end exactly the same way

you put it in but the gut is a tube and out of this tube we're only supposed to have single

molecules cross and we'll take another look at that to get a bigger picture of that and

then these single molecules they don't just happen to travel across it's a very purposeful

activity there are carriers there's transport mechanisms to take these molecules across these cell layers

from the gut into the bloodstream and then once they're in the bloodstream then we can

take them further into the cell and that's really the whole purpose of this is to put

things in the gut the blood is not really where it needs to be they need to be in the cell because

that's where we can do things with it that's what we generate energy and we can reassemble

these individual molecules into tissue and in the bloodstream is where the battle takes

place this is where if some foreign particles if some unintended particles get into the

blood now your immune system have to fight it out and make sure that we can neutralize

them and that they just don't get into the cells and if everything works the way it's supposed

to then what gets into the blood and into the cell intracellular that's only the approved

stuff the second thing that can happen with leaky guts and inflammation in the gut is

nutritional deficiencies and what happens is we have these villi or fingers in the gut

and then if we magnify this we see that on the surface of the cells we have something called microvilli

which are hair cells these are also known as brush border and there's something about

this brush border that that is a home for bacteria beneficial bacteria and the production of

enzymes that we need to break down the food and if we don't have a healthy environment

in the gut then this brush border gets damaged and we don't have the proper bacteria and

the proper production of enzymes now we can't break down the food properly and then we can't

absorb it properly so now we get deficiencies in essential fatty acids we get deficiencies

in essential amino acid and carbohydrates they're not essential but to the extent that

we eat them we still need to break them down in a proper way. because if we don't if we

don't break them down and absorb them in the early portion of the digestive tract then

they're going to drift further down they're going to travel further down the digestive tract

and become food and particularly food for the pathogenic bacteria remember we're only

supposed to absorb individual molecules one at a time and if we don't have enzymes then

these sugars the disaccharides which are two sugars linked together or polysaccharides they

can't get through this barrier and now they travel down and become food for the bacteria

that can harm us. Number 3 is multiple allergies and sensitivity and this is unfortunately

something that we're seeing more and more of in recent years food intolerance and something

called Universal Reactor is if you have a leaky gut and pretty much everything that you eat

some of these proteins and antigens leak through your intestinal membrane now you're going

to get multiple allergies and they can get to the point where you are a universal reactor

pretty much anything that you eat you're going to have some kind of reaction to it and then

we need to talk about size of particles the smallest unit size were concerned with is

called one Dalton and it's like a base unit for the size of molecular matter that is the

size of one proton and the next size up we're concerned with is a glucose molecule or an

amino acid molecule these are the size that are supposed to readily pass across the membranes

and get absorbed but anything larger is supposed to have trouble getting across so glucose

is 180 Daltons and an amino acid can vary a lot in size but they're generally in that

same size range roughly the same size now if we increase this. We blow this up 50 times now we have

what's called an antigen and this is about the size that's large enough for your immune

system to recognize it and tag it an antigen is something that can produce an antibody

in this is 50 times larger than the molecules that we're supposed to absorb and then we increase that

eight more times and now we have the size of a typical protein so proteins can be rather

small and they can be an enormous but just to give you an idea what we'll call the protein

about 60 to 80,000 Daltons and then if we blow that up 500 more times now we're at the size of

a virus and they're at about forty million Daltons and the next step up would be a bacterium

is now we blow it up 30 thousand more times so again body cells can vary quite a bit

but a bacterium is about the scale of one of your body cells so when we go from the

size of the molecule we're supposed to absorb up to the size of a cell or a bacterium we're

talkin about increasing 6 billion times in size and why are we talkin about this because I

just want you to appreciate how fine to how precise how delicate these barriers are in

the body that they're only a certain size that were supposed to absorb and they're infinitely

smaller than the structures of of the body of the cellso when we're talkin bout or cell

would still talkin something that is microscopic it is far too small to see by the naked eye

and yet we're talkin something that billions of times smaller that your body is supposed

to keep out. number four is skin rashes so when we have things like acne or rosacea were eczema

it's because when we have a lot of inflammation and we have a lot of immune reactions we also

build up a whole lot more debris and waste products in the body we have certain organs

of elimination and most people know about things like the liver and the kidney but we

also eliminate a lot of stuff through the lungs and the largest organ of elimination is actually

the skin Now we could argue depending on what waste product we look as and so forth

which one of this is most important but these are the top four elimination organs that we

have and your skin is super important to help your body in getting rid of waste and if

you have more waste then it's going to cause some problems on the way out the fifth sign

of a leaky gut is a poor immune system and why does that happen because your body gets

busy with other things so if your immune system has two jobs basically it can fight off pathogens

or it can fight off toxins and foods that get into the wrong place that's a toxin

so when we have food reactions and the body starts making antigens and we have white blood

cells that go after food that's in the wrong place now it creates a lot of inflammation

and again we're using up resources on the food rather than the pathogens and foreign intruders

number 6 is autoimmune disease what is your immune system supposed to do? It is basically

just telling the difference between your own cells your own tissue and those things that

are not your own cells so like we talked about food particles and pathogens, virus, bacteria

Etc and then it supposed to neutralize and eliminate and fight off those things that

are not yourself but auto immunity is when it gets confused and it can't clearly tell

the difference between self and foreign so in a war analogy it's sort of like falling

prey to Friendly Fire that the more chaos the more smoke the more stuff going on at

the same the more difficult it is to tell the difference between self and foreign and

some examples of this or SLE like systemic lupus erythematosus which is an autoimmune

disease that start attacking a lot of your organs and systems. celiacs disease we have

Crohn's disease and I have Hashimoto's thyroiditis are more examples of autoimmune diseases and

these are becoming more and more prevalent in recent years and Hashimoto's is probably

the most common of all of them and very much under diagnosed because when people have thyroid

problems we just give them a synthetic hormone we don't necessarily go and look for the root

cause but Hashimoto's is an autoimmune attack of the thyroid Rheumatoid arthritis is a devastating

attack on the joints on the synovial membranes in the joint so you get crippling arthritis

multiple sclerosis is when the autoimmune attack happens to your nervous system and

you have messages your brain is trying to send messages out by the electrical wires

and if you have an attack to the insulation of those wires called myelin now you're going

to get short-circuiting you're going to have signals jumping across at the wrong places

causing multiple sclerosis and psoriatic arthritis is another example A lot of people think of

psoriasis as just a skin issue but it's actually an arthritis it can be as crippling as rheumatoid

arthritis and one more is Vitiligo which is what this girl has it is when you're losing

in the skin number seven is arthritis, or osteoarthritis that you often find with joint pain and this

is so common that basically most people over 60 have this to some degree and it starts

effecting the large joints of the body like the spine and the knees and hips and shoulders

but also the joints of the fingers very common and unlike the autoimmune arthritises this one

is usually looked upon as mechanical so people get over 50 or over 60 and they go to the

doctor and they take some X-ray and they say you have arthritis in your joint have worn

down but this is the wrong way to look at it because your body wears down every minute

of every day but when it's working it gets rebuilt so we don't want to think of it as

a breakdown we want to think of it as a lack of repair so for example most people

are going to have if they have knee pain then they're saying well your left knee wore out

well you walked an equal number of steps on your right knee so why didn't that one wear down

Well the answer is they both wore down but one was better at repairing and this is because

of multiple reasons like mechanical stability that we get from nervous system control but

the other reason again is inflammation which unlike the arthritis with the autoimmunity

this is not the erosive autoimmune kind this is more of a generalized type the 8th thing that

can happen with a leaky gut and inflammation as you get cravings and this starts often with

dysbiosis or an unbalanced gut flora and how does that work well the little creatures that

you have living in your gut your microbiome you have about 40 trillion of them there is

one bacteria roughly for every cell in your body and they sort of have a voice they have

a say in the matter sounds strange because they're kind of living down there but there's

a reason they call it your second brain and there's a huge relationship between what happens

in your gut and what happens in your brain and in the rest of the body so these bacteria

in your gut actually signal they participate in your body over all communication and they

can influence your reward and your satiety pathways and they can produce mood-altering

toxins and basically hijack your vagus so the brain has cranial nerve outflow and

the 10th cranial nerve is called the vagus nerve which is responsible for your parasympathetic

nervous system or most of your digestion so the vagus nerve is what talks to your gut

and to these bacteria and as part of that signaling system these bacteria can basically

hijack the vagus nerve so if you have an unbalanced gut and they crave sugar than they can make

you crave sugar as well. Number 9 is rain issues, cognitive issues, mental issues and now you can see how

it's starting to incorporate every system in the body start being affected when you

got isn't working properly and we get things like headaches and brain fog and memory loss

and what we have to understand is that there are two super important barriers in the body

the first one we talked about that's your intestinal membrane the second one is to your

brain and this is known as the BBB that's not the Better Business Bureau in this case

it's the blood-brain barrier and while the gut barrier is super selective the blood-brain

barrier is supposed to be even more selective because some things that are allowed into

the blood are still not allowed into the brain and the same things that start compromising

the Integrity of your gut membrane those same factors also start compromising the blood-brain

barrier and now if you understood what I was just saying that it pretty much means that

if you have a leaky gut now we also will have a leaky brain and if you start having dysbiosis

and the wrong kind of bacteria producing toxins in your gut and they leak through that leaky

gut now they're also going to be leaking into the brain and start causing brain fog and

cognitive issues. But there's even more to these cognitive issues much more far-reaching

than talk to some videos about frontal lobe inhibition and when your brain starts to be

affected when you get more inflammation and challenges to the brain now the frontal lobe

also can't produce the same amount of energy and have the same control that it normally

does and the frontal lobe is supposed to turn things off 90% of what the frontal lobe

does his to turn off distractions basically and some of these distractions are depressive

thoughts and anxious thoughts and worry and so forth and when your brain is working properly when

the frontal lobe is strong like a bright light bulb then it's going to be able to turn off

these depressive thoughts and turn off those anxious thoughts and put you in a stable mood

when the frontal lobe is compromised now these things start to rise to the surface basically

And the same exact mechanism happens with ADD and ADHD that your brain has to turn things

off in order for you to be able to focus when your brain can't turn things off now you don't

focus and you have attention deficit number 10 consequence of leaky gut and inflamed

gut is chronic fatigue chronic fatigue syndrome any time they call it a syndrome that means

they can't really pin it on anything cuz there's so many different factors and it's expressing

itself in so many different ways and it's very often associated with fibromyalgia because

these kind of depend on the same factors things like decreased brain function overall poor

nutrition and increased inflammation and like we talked about when all of this is going

on now your body has to expend a lot of energy and resources on other things such as the

digestion and immune system both of those things are extremely expensive they use up

a lot of your fuel a lot of the energy produced in the body goes to digestion and immune system

and if your body gets busy with those now you don't have a lot of energy left over for the things you want to do.

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