20. The man who discovered Zonulin and Leaky Gut: Dr. Alessio Fasano, MD

[@LiekeDirkes]

Informative session! I LOVE DR. Fasano! He is by far the best when it comes to gut permeability!!

[@frantisek_heca]

Excelent topic. But the most important, before healing leaky gut, is to approve upon a tests that should be done to measure the severity of leaky gut. What tests should one take? I have already some idea (and some informations why zonulin in stool is not enough), but would like to hear yours.

[@bernadettegiancarlo6035]

I love that wine ge drinks! It is amazing.

[@Mandypsalm119]

Dr Amy, thank you!! I have all your books and use your supplements. Now i have podcasts from Amazing Dr Amy!❤

[@AmyMyersMD]

Thanks for your support!

[@bernadettegiancarlo6035]

I'm sure you don't remember meeting my son and me when you did a book signing in Mt Pleasant, but both of you have saved my son Luciano. We are loyal to your products. My endo accused me of lying about graves disease because I don't have antibodies. I took Luciano to MUSC GI dept. The doctor there told me I was crazy. Stay off Google. There was no connection between gluten, gut, and brain. I referenced Dr. Fasano, and she still rudely dismissed me. We have discovered Luciano has Lyme disease. He got it while we lived in Italy. He has that strain. And his measles vaccine is bad. He has autoimmune encephalitis. I'm trying to find another doctor now to keep recovering him. The most important supplement he takes daily is your glutathione. It's the only one that works. 3 to 4 capsules each morning. I stupidly allowed a doctor to give him antibiotics last year and his gut is a mess again. I am so grateful to both of you. My child would have no ability to speak, learn or regulate emotions and lost forever without the two of you.

[@bahodurabdukholiqov6848]

So how do you fix leaky gut???

[@AmyMyersMD]

The 4R approach is a proven approach that Dr. Myers recommend to all of her patients to fix leaky gut and restore your health: remove the bad, restore what's missing, reinoculate, and repair the gut. Learn more on our website: www.amymyersmd.com/article/leaky-gut-treatment

[@bahodurabdukholiqov6848]

What part of digestive system does leaky gut effect? Small intestine or colon ? Or both???

[@AmyMyersMD]

Leaky gut is when the tight junctions that hold your intestinal wall together become loose. Your gut uses projections called villi to control materials passing through your gut and into your bloodstream. The villi grab micronutrients floating in your gut that have been broken down from the food you eat and push these micronutrients towards tiny openings in your gut wall directly into your bloodstream. Then, your blood carries this nourishment to all the cells in your body. To better illustrate this process, think of your gut as a drawbridge. Your gut is naturally semi-permeable to let teeny-tiny boats (micronutrients) pass through your intestinal wall and into your bloodstream. External factors, including certain foods, infections, toxins, and stress, can break apart the tight junctions in your intestinal wall, leaving the drawbridge open. Once this happens, you have a leaky gut. When your gut is leaky, much larger boats that were never meant to get through (toxins, microbes, and undigested food particles) can escape into your bloodstream. Your immune system marks these foreign invaders as pathogens and attacks them. Gut imbalances and leaky gut have been linked to hormonal imbalances, autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, diabetes, fibromyalgia, anxiety, depression, eczema and rosacea, just to name a few. A properly functioning digestive system (gut) is critical to good health. Problems in our gastrointestinal (GI) tract can cause more than just stomach pain, gas, bloating or diarrhea; they can be the root cause of many chronic health problems.