Is Leaky Gut a Real Thing? Bloating, Brain Fog, and More
Food, We Need To Talk
Juna Gjata
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we tackle one of the buzziest—and most confusing—topics in gut health: leaky gut. Juna’s dad has been asking about it nonstop, so we brought in one of the world’s leading experts, Dr. Michael Camilleri from the Mayo Clinic, to break it all down. What exactly is leaky gut? Is it real, how do you know if you have it, and can it actually cause brain fog or autoimmune disease? Dr. Camilleri gives us the real science on gut barriers, how food and medication affect them, and what you can do to support your gut health (spoiler: fiber wins again). If you've ever wondered whether your bloating or brain fog has anything to do with your gut—or you just want to stop your dad from sending you wellness TikToks—this episode is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | So, Eddie, I know the ongoing joke of this podcast is that every episode is for me, but today I was feeling altruistic. |
| 0:09.3 | So it's about you feeling altruistic. |
| 0:13.1 | No, Eddie. It's about me doing something nice for someone else. |
| 0:16.9 | Okay, once a year, I find myself, think to myself, hmm, I should do something nice for somebody. |
| 0:21.5 | And today, this is something... You know, that's a good start. I know. Right? I know, right. |
| 0:25.4 | How does it feel? It feels great. I feel really generous today. Who are you directing your altruism |
| 0:29.7 | towards? Today, I'm doing something kind for my dad. Amen. I know. Amen. You go dad. As a dad, you must be very excited. I'm very excited. Well, my dad is obsessed with leaky gut and he is always asking me about it. He's convinced he has leaky gut. He's always asking me, how can I get tested for it? What is it? My dad thinks leaky gut is like the worst thing somebody could have. He's like watching all these podcasts and these social media people talk about it. And honestly, I found myself not really |
| 0:59.2 | knowing what to tell him, Eddie. You know, you're admitting to not knowing something? Isn't that |
| 1:03.8 | insane? I literally know everything always and I don't know what to tell him about Leaky Gut. |
| 1:09.1 | Two remarkable things in one day just for you. |
| 1:12.2 | Insane. |
| 1:13.1 | So today we thought we would have one of the world's experts on Leaky Gut come onto the podcast |
| 1:17.6 | and tell us everything we need to know. |
| 1:20.2 | What is Leaky Gut? |
| 1:21.4 | Is it real? |
| 1:22.3 | Because it seems highly disputed. |
| 1:24.1 | What causes it? |
| 1:25.8 | What are the top things you are doing every single day that could be |
| 1:28.4 | causing lihiga? And of course, what can you do to combat it? I'm Yunayata. And I'm Dr. Eddie Phillips, |
| 1:36.3 | associate professor at Harvard Medical School. And you're listening to Food, We Need to Talk, |
| 1:41.4 | the only health podcast scientifically proven To improve your dad's health. |
| 1:46.0 | Oh my God, so sweet. |
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