Do You Know What is Driving Your Leaky Gut?
This is Part 2 of a 3 Part Series explaining exactly how Leaky Gut develops and progresses.
There are probably many of you reading my articles and wondering to yourself, what is Leaky Gut? If you fall into this category then this article is for you! Without getting into the symptoms or causes of it let's take a look at exactly how it progresses.
I don't want to bore with you an anatomy lecture so I'm going to keep this as simple as possible.
Advanced Onset of Leaky Gut After the intestinal inflammation wears down the mucosal barrier and damages the microvilli, it begins to take its toll on the intestinal lining cell structures.
These intestinal lining cells are designed to fit together tightly forming tight gap junctions, so that they only allow the small and fully digested nutrients through and into the blood stream.
As damage occurs, these cell structures called desmazomes begin to break down forming looser and larger gap junctions.
These larger gap junctions now allow larger harmful and unwanted particles such as undigested food, toxins, parasites, bacteria, and yeast/fungi straight through into the blood stream.
This is how Leaky Gut gets its name.
As you can imagine, these harmful particles and pathogens that easily reach the blood stream are now free to travel anywhere in the body wreaking havoc everywhere they go.
When these undigested food particles and pathogens reach the blood stream, they become foreign invaders to the body which are commonly referred to as antigens.
This prompts the body to produce antibodies which play the role to seek out and locate these antigens anywhere in the body.
Once located, the antibodies attach themselves to the antigens.
During this process, chemicals are released to signal the immune system to send immune cells to the area to destroy the foreign invader.
One of the chemicals that are released during this process is called histamine which triggers an inflammatory response.
The inflammation results in the stimulation of pain and further damage in the affected area of the body.
Keep in mind that these particles are constantly leaking into your blood stream for which your body must constantly produce antibodies.
These antibodies are constantly triggering the immune system which becomes overactive.
So, what does the Advanced Onset of Leaky Gut leave you with? Just to name a few of the associated Leaky Gut Symptoms...
1.
Food Allergies 2.
ADD/ADHD (both children and adults) 3.
Chronic Fatigue 4.
Headaches & Migraines 5.
Joint Pain 6.
Asthma 7.
Skin Conditions (Eczema, Psoriasis, etc) 8.
Start of Autoimmune If you missed it, check out Part 1 of this 3 Part Series named "Do You Know What Kick Started Your Leaky Gut?" Be on the lookout for Part 3 of this 3 Part Series named "Are You Suffering from the Long Term Affects of Leaky Gut?"
There are probably many of you reading my articles and wondering to yourself, what is Leaky Gut? If you fall into this category then this article is for you! Without getting into the symptoms or causes of it let's take a look at exactly how it progresses.
I don't want to bore with you an anatomy lecture so I'm going to keep this as simple as possible.
Advanced Onset of Leaky Gut After the intestinal inflammation wears down the mucosal barrier and damages the microvilli, it begins to take its toll on the intestinal lining cell structures.
These intestinal lining cells are designed to fit together tightly forming tight gap junctions, so that they only allow the small and fully digested nutrients through and into the blood stream.
As damage occurs, these cell structures called desmazomes begin to break down forming looser and larger gap junctions.
These larger gap junctions now allow larger harmful and unwanted particles such as undigested food, toxins, parasites, bacteria, and yeast/fungi straight through into the blood stream.
This is how Leaky Gut gets its name.
As you can imagine, these harmful particles and pathogens that easily reach the blood stream are now free to travel anywhere in the body wreaking havoc everywhere they go.
When these undigested food particles and pathogens reach the blood stream, they become foreign invaders to the body which are commonly referred to as antigens.
This prompts the body to produce antibodies which play the role to seek out and locate these antigens anywhere in the body.
Once located, the antibodies attach themselves to the antigens.
During this process, chemicals are released to signal the immune system to send immune cells to the area to destroy the foreign invader.
One of the chemicals that are released during this process is called histamine which triggers an inflammatory response.
The inflammation results in the stimulation of pain and further damage in the affected area of the body.
Keep in mind that these particles are constantly leaking into your blood stream for which your body must constantly produce antibodies.
These antibodies are constantly triggering the immune system which becomes overactive.
So, what does the Advanced Onset of Leaky Gut leave you with? Just to name a few of the associated Leaky Gut Symptoms...
1.
Food Allergies 2.
ADD/ADHD (both children and adults) 3.
Chronic Fatigue 4.
Headaches & Migraines 5.
Joint Pain 6.
Asthma 7.
Skin Conditions (Eczema, Psoriasis, etc) 8.
Start of Autoimmune If you missed it, check out Part 1 of this 3 Part Series named "Do You Know What Kick Started Your Leaky Gut?" Be on the lookout for Part 3 of this 3 Part Series named "Are You Suffering from the Long Term Affects of Leaky Gut?"
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