Breaking the Barrier: The Science of Gut Permeability

In this episode on Gut Health, we dive deep on the the importance of a great functioning gut, what's is normal and what happens when it starts to break down and become problematic. Most commonly known as leaky gut, intestinal permeability is the more accurate and the term that will help track down better research on the subject matter.

Many try diets, detoxes but do they truly address the enough of the stresses that lead to leaky gut? The truth is many do not and so it is a repetitive cycle of attempts to solve the issue. The key aspect to the anatomy of the small intestine that determines if the gut is leaky or not is referred to as Tight Junctions and Tight Junction Proteins. This is where zonulin comes in...a hormone that regulates the tight junctions.

In this episode we detail all the common and well know triggers to zonulin and leaky gut, from dietary to medications to brain based mechanisms.

We discuss what can happen if this becomes chronic and goes uncorrected, leading to many issues and diseases well outside the gut.

The goal of this episode is to walk you through what is normal, what are triggers that take you away from optimal gut health, how this can lead to chronic systemic inflammation and how if uncorrected can lead to bigger health issues more widespread than the gut.

We hope you enjoy the episode. Please if there are topics you would like discussed, be sure to comment on our IG @healthwealthultimateself and we can plan future episodes to cover your specific topics or bring in guests specialized on that topic.

Until next time,

The Team at Health Wealth and the Ultimate Self