#299 What You Need to Know About “Leaky Gut”? with Dr Rupy Aujla
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
It’s World Gut Health Day this week (officially known as World Digestive Health Day), and I wanted to do a dive into something I get asked about more frequently. And that’s leaky gut.
I’m cutting through the supplement marketing and scary-sounding terms to talk about:
- Why your gut might need support even if you feel totally fine
- Why gut health is linked to bloating, fatigue, brain fog and more
- What “leaky gut” actually means
- Can you test for leaky gut, and are the online kits worth it
- My favourite foods for a healthy gut
For gut-friendly recipes, check out our collection in the Doctor’s Kitchen app and website – all designed with fibre, polyphenols and plant variety in mind to support a healthy gut.
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Papers referenced
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6790068/#S10 https://www.clinicalnutritionjournal.com/article/S0261-5614(21)00416-7/fulltext https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29519916/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8427160/#s1
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| 0:00.0 | Could your gut be leaky and is leaky gut a real phenomenon? |
| 0:08.6 | It's World Gut Health Day and I want to dive into this topic. |
| 0:12.5 | I think you're going to find it super interesting. |
| 0:26.9 | Hey, it's Dr. Rupi-Ey-Orjula. I'm going to be doing a solo episode today because it's world gut health day. And look, gut health is very trendy right now. It has been for the last |
| 0:33.8 | five years. If you look at Google trends, it's just going up and up and up. |
| 0:38.3 | And you're, and I'm seeing, fizzy pre-botic drinks, probiotic gummies, reset plans, powders, |
| 0:45.5 | all promising to fix your gut. But in the middle of all this noise, people I speak to are still |
| 0:51.9 | super confused about how to look after the gut. |
| 0:55.8 | And what I want to do is just reframe everything, bring it back to basics. |
| 1:01.3 | And I want to do a bit of a dive through the lens of Leaky Gut, |
| 1:05.6 | because I think if I can explain Leaky Gut what it is, whether it's a real phenomena, |
| 1:13.2 | and then also even using the terminology of leaky gut, explain how you can support gut health with just the basics. No supplements, |
| 1:22.2 | no probiotics, no expensive plants. Hopefully we can create not only confidence in one's ability to impact |
| 1:30.2 | their gut health, but also confidence in the ability to understand these scary sounding terms, |
| 1:36.5 | what the evidence is actually showing us. And hopefully you can share this with other people |
| 1:40.9 | as well that you might be having conversations with where the term |
| 1:44.2 | leaky gut gets thrown around because I'm definitely hearing about it in wellness circles online |
| 1:50.0 | and on YouTube as well. So this podcast episode is going to be all about leaking out whether it's |
| 1:55.9 | a real phenomenon and what you need to know about it. As a reminder, all of our podcasts are sponsored by Excel |
| 2:01.9 | because I'm a chief science officer for Excel. |
| 2:04.7 | I'm super passionate about this company. |
| 2:07.6 | If you're curious to try Excel, |
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