Leaky Gut Syndrome – What A Mess

I have been trying to figure out the exact cause of this condition for a long time. I now realize why it was so difficult to crack the code. There are many causes of this increasingly common gastrointestinal problem. It is the result of a GI tract that has been attacked by numerous vagaries of modern living.

Poor quality food as well as a severely restricted diet. Our ancestors ate a much wider variety of foods. One example is in the 1920’s they ate as many as 30 different berries and 10-15 types of nuts. And they ate the whole food. We only get what is left over after it is processed to death. Our body needs the unique nutrients that are contained in those foods.

A chemical saturated environment: everything we ingest and touch is laced with chemicals that have many altering effects on our own biochemistry. The explosion over the last 20 years of new synthetic antibiotics is everywhere, including our food and water supply, and all of our health and beauty and toiletry products. We are a bacteria phobic culture.

Because of the unavoidable facts above, we are falling apart. We have become a walking semi-food/semi-hemical blob staggering around. We are a culture whose immunity is so weak we can’t stop things from growing on us and in us (give me more antibiotics in my antiperspirants, mouthwash, tooth pastes, and household cleaners please!) Because of this we can’t properly heal and maintain the integrity of our bodily tissues.

Hence, Leaky Gut Syndrome. Why the term ‘syndrome?’ That is used because there are many contributing causes as stated above. We have holes in the wall of our stomach. Because of this undigested food particles as well as preservatives and whatever else we swallow pass unprocessed directly into the blood stream causing our immune system to freak out and to set off all kinds of alarms = food allergies / intolerances.

There is a long list of other symptoms such as malnutrition, fatigue, skin issues, learning issues, pain syndromes, headaches, high cholesterol, sugar management, all types of allergies - you name it! Do you have one of those kids that seems to react to everything? Why do we need peanut-free zones all of a sudden?

We have sprung a leak at the top of the biochemical assembly line, the gut, where it all begins. The complicated part is figuring out what causes this and how to live with it.

The easier part is healing it. Supplements and herbs are what we need to heal this. This can require quite simple nutrients, but we must know how to dispense them and what ones to use (typically ones that are predigested so as to not stress this broken system and set off the alarms.)

The Great Bone Broth Hoax

Bone Broth supposedly having magical health properties to help with IBD is just flat out junk.

There is nothing nutritive in this stuff that is not readily available in most any other food. There are literally dozens and dozens of stories online and on blogs of people who experimented with doing the Bone Broth Diet and they all concluded the same thing, it does not work!

Let me make this completely clear - all of the inflammatory bowel conditions: IBS, Colitis, Crohn’s, Leaky Gut—even GERD can be healed, but it is impossible unless you

ingest nutritional supplements that contain concentrated amounts of what heals skin, fat, and muscle...what your GI tract is made of.

Bone Broth does not have any of those nutrients.

What Causes Inflammatory Bowel Disease?

If you have been told that you have Inflammatory Bowel Disease you are likely in the dark about what initially caused this condition. Your doctor may have told you that the causes of your ailment are unknown. That is not true. Your doctor isn’t holding back useful information from you. The truth is that doctors are not taught in medical school what causes issues like irritable bowel syndrome. As a result, physicians don’t have any helpful information to relay to their patients. Inflammatory bowel conditions were never discussed before the 1950’s. This is because they did not exist. There were certainly many stomach and bowel maladies but these were temporary and aside from homemade elixirs they just passed with time. For these simple conditions, plop-plop-fizz-fizz was all we needed.

Now there is a new kid on the block. It all happened just after WW2 when manmade synthetic antibiotics were unleashed into our environment and in our bodies. These have a devastating effect on our gastrointestinal tracts. Being very effective they killed everything bacterial that crossed their path. There was nowhere that was more affected than our gastrointestinal tract. The inside of our bowel is protected by a good bacterial culture known as the mucosal lining. We need this to survive.

This is the beginning of the history of inflammatory bowel conditions. Prior to this, there was no substance that could kill off the mucosal lining. No one ever suffered from any IBD. There are graphs available that show the parallel increase of antibiotic use and the increase in inflammatory bowel conditions. None of this is coincidental. Don’t look to your doctor for help with this. They have bought the antibiotic treatment concept hook, line, and sinker. In fact, if you go to them with a bowel problem you are likely to leave their office with just a prescription.