Hi, welcome to the Healthy Moms podcast with Katie from WellnessMama.com.

Today, Katie and clinical nutritionist, Christa O'Reckio, the founder of the whole journey.com

and Gut Thrive in 5 program, discuss the link between auto-immunity and leaky gut.

Christa mentions bone broth as part of her protocol and she and Katie both consume broth daily.

Until May 30th, you can get 5% off organic pre-made bone broth from the brothry.

Christa and Katie's recommended bone broth resource, simply by going to wellnessmama.com

forward slash broth and using the code WellnessMama5.

If you struggle with infertility or gut health issues, Christa has also offered a free copy of her food as medicine e-book

that includes 180 original recipes.

To get a copy of this free resource, join our community at wellnessmama.com forward slash podcast.

In this episode, Katie and Christa discuss leaky gut and auto-immunity and how to fix it.

Let's join them.

Christa, welcome back. Thanks for being here again.

Oh, it's my pleasure, Katie.

Awesome. Why love? We've covered so much in these last few episodes that we've done together with starting with pregnancy

and fertility and optimizing even before someone gets pregnant.

And then, understanding the microbiome and how that contributes both to pregnancy and also to gut health

and to so many conditions that often aren't even connected.

And then we even deep dove into gut infections.

And this episode is going to be one that's near and dear to my heart, which is the connection between gut health and autoimmune disease.

And, thankfully, this is a connection that is starting to be a lot more well understood.

But it's only more recent that we're really starting to understand why this connection is so strong

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