I like to the think of the GI Tract like a tube, a massive tube at 33 feet long. The inner lining of the tube is designed to only let in the “good guys” or “what the body needs”. These things are nutrients and fluids from your food. For simplicity sakes, think of the inner lining of the GI Tract as “The Wall” in Game of Thrones. Remember how important it was to keep that wall up and intact? Same concept here. We want that Wall nice and strong and above all SELECTIVE.
When the bad bugs in the gut outnumber the good bugs they excrete compound that breakdown The Wall barrier…effectiively letting in the riff raff. Your body responds to said riff raff by mounting an attack, and BOOM we have body-wide inflammation. This is when we go get blood work and our inflammatory markers are SO HIGH and we have NO IDEA why.
Guess what contributes to all that bad bacteria breaking down the wall? You got it: poor diet, medications, stress, infections, environmental toxins and low stomach acid. Let me introduce you to LEAKY GUT.