What is leaky gut syndrome?
Imagine the lining of your digestive tract as a net with incredibly tiny holes – tiny enough to allow certain particles through but also to filter out larger particles that shouldn’t pass through. Then imagine a few breaks in this net. These damaged areas let bigger molecules, which ordinarily wouldn’t fit through the holes, pass through the net. You’re looking at a picture of a leaky gut.
Your gut lining is a barrier that keeps large particles from going where they shouldn’t go. Leaky gut syndrome describes a ‘porous’ intestinal tract, or one with a permeable lining, causing the cells lining the gut – ‘tight junctions’, as they are known – to pull apart, which allows material to ‘leak’ into the bloodstream. Increased intestinal permeability, or hyperpermeability, is not yet a generally accepted condition in the allopathic world, but it is receiving more and more
