What can happen in brain fog, or one of the mechanisms is leaky gut leads to systemic inflammation,

and it leads to inflammation in the brain, where specifically, but not limited to, these cells in the brain,

immune cells known as microglia, are overactivated. Now, I just want to be careful to say,

as someone who had food reactive brain fog, due to my gut being a mess many

years ago, this is very, very able to be remedied.

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Disruption of microbial homeostasis. Another way of saying that could be dysbiosis

or overgrowth, as in sebo. In addition to this, inflammation, as we also covered a moment ago,

seriactive protein, TNF alpha, interleukin-6, amongst a handful of inflammatory cytokines that can be causal to

leaky gut.

And leaky gut and inflammation are kind of a bidirectional entanglement.

Gastrointestinal conditions, probably not surprising, but IBS, IBD, celiac, GERD, really any

GI symptom throws up a flag that there could be leaky gut present.

Additionally, probably not obvious, but worth just touching on, a Western diet, a high level

of alcohol consumption.

I'm not going to make the claim that any alcohol is going to be problematic.

I think we can probably have a reasonable intake of even

Western food, processed food, as long as it's not excessive. But too much bad food, too much

alcohol, poor sleep and chronic stress, all these factors start eroding at the health of this

crucially important small intestinal membrane. Certain medications, antibiotics,

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