Intestinal permeability can be affected by a number of factors that many people experience on a daily basis.

Watch this video to find out what those factors are, and the next video I'll show you how to heal a leaky gut. Intestinal permeability, the leakiness of our gut may be a new target for disease prevention and therapy.

With all of its little folds, our intestinal barrier covers a surface of more than 4,000

square feet.

That's bigger than a tennis court and requires approximately 40 percent 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.

Here, 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. Indeed, taking two regular aspirin

or two extra-strength aspirin just once can increase the leakiness of your gut. These results

suggest even healthy individuals should be cautious with aspirin use as

may result in gastrointestinal barrier dysfunction.

What about buffered aspirin?

It doesn't make any difference.

Both regular aspirin and buffering produced multiple erosions in the inner lining of the stomach

and intestines put a scope down

people's throats, and you can see extensive erosion and redness inside 90% of people

taking aspirin or bufferin in their recommended doses.

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