Welcome to Natural MD Radio, your place to hear the whole truth on health and medicine for women and children and get the tools you need to take back your health naturally starting now. I'm Dr. Aviva Rong. In the last episode we talked about what a leaky gut is and the problems that it can cause.

And just to reiterate those, it can cause so many systemic problems because what

we know is that what goes on in your gut doesn't just stay in your gut. Your gut

communicates with your immune system and your brain.

And when particles of bacteria, other organisms,

or food fragments that aren't supposed to cross

into the immune system rich layers of your intestine or into your circulatory system do cross

over they can trigger chronic low-level or even massive immune system and inflammatory reactions, leading from problems ranging from

changes in your mood like anxiety and depression to autoimmune diseases

like Hashimoto's rheumatoid arthritis,

Crohn's Disease and Celiac Disease.

Celiac Disease, Ulcerative Klyus and Crohn's,

of course, can also cause leaky gut.

And leaky gut can cause hives, allergies, food intolerances, all of the

symptoms that are associated with those and chronic inflammation can be a major reason why it's tough to lose stubborn

weight and when you're overweight that can lead to its own host of problems,

insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and even heart

disease. And one of the things I didn't mention in the last episode is this

chronic low-lying inflammation is a big trigger of something we call brain fog.

That feeling that you're thinking isn't quite clear,

your memory isn't quite working the way it used to, and you can't focus the way you want to. So it's

really important to heal a leaky gut because when your gut lining is

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