What if just one lifestyle change could help you avoid getting cancer or diabetes or

heart disease or high blood pressure?

This one change could cut your risk of chronic disease and add years to your life.

Well the simple solution to so many of these problems is to eat a healthy diet.

In other words one centered around whole plant foods.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast. I'm your host Dr. Michael Breger.

Today we look at some of the latest research on leaky gut syndrome.

Did you know that common drugs, foods and beverages can disrupt the integrity of our intestinal

barrier?

Here is the story.

In intestinal permeability the leakyness of our gut may be a new target for disease prevention

and therapy.

As all of its little folds are intestinal barrier, covers a surface of more than 4,000 square

feet that's bigger than a tennis court and requires approximately 40% of our body's

total energy expenditure to maintain.

Mounting evidence implicates the disruption of intestinal barrier integrity in the development

of numerous ailments such as inflammatory bowel disease.

Researchers measured intestinal permeability using blue food coloring.

It stays in your gut if you're healthy but can be detected in the blood of extremely

sick individuals as their gut barrier breaks down.

You don't have to end up in the ICU to develop a leaky gut though.

Simply taking some aspirin or ibuprofen can do the trick.

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