Allergies, Obesity and Leaky Gut.

So how do we get a Leaky Gut ?

Bad fats cause bad gut bacteria, which causes more bad fat, inflammation, loss of insulin sensitivity, food allergies and a host of other symptoms and conditions. One of the references we used for this article is Cani PD, Amar J, Iglesias MA, et al. Metabolic endotoxemia initiates obesity and insulin resistance. Diabetes. 2007 Jul;56(7):1761-72.

This study showed that overweight children had a 3-fold higher level of CRP (inflammation parameter), and a 2.5-fold higher level of IgG antibodies to foods, INDICATING FOOD ALLERGIES. Most studies that show a difference of 20 to 30 percent is considered significant. In this study, the differences were 300 and 250 percent.

These overweight children also had thicker carotid arteries, at even this young age, which implies a sign of early atherosclerosis and an indicator of heart disease in later life. One conclusion of this study is excessive bad fat intake causes bad intestinal bacteria that yield food allergies that contribute to inflammation and obesity.

The authors of the study state that damage to the gut can lead to a leaky gut, allowing food particles to be exposed to the gut’s immune system. This can trigger an immune response throughout the entire body causing general inflammation, which can produce obesity by increasing insulin resistance, not to mention potentially increasing the incidence of AUTOIMMUNE CONDITIONS.

This and many other studies show inflammation from any cause, whether bacteria, allergic foods, a high-sugar, high-fat diet etc. can produce insulin resistance, leading to higher blood insulin levels. Since insulin is a fat storage hormone, you store more fat in this scenario and it can be seen most easily around the belly. This is becoming so prevalent, even on young children and teenagers; it is referred to as a MUFFIN TOP.

WHAT MAKES THE GUT LEAK?

In the above referenced article in the July 2007 issue of Diabetes, it showed mice fed very high-fat diets had a die off of the good bacteria in the gut to replace them with toxin producing bacteria, which caused inflammation of the intestinal lining and caused leaking. Other causative actions that lead to leaky gut include a highly processed, high-sugar, low-fiber diet. Studies have also shown drugs like antibiotics, steroids, anti-inflammatories, acid-blockers, and hormones can alter the bacterial ecosystem in the gut, leading to further breakdown, inflammation, and a leaky gut.

These toxins that have now leaked into our blood system start a cascade of effects with our immune cells, stimulating them to produce inflammatory molecules such as TNFa, IL-6, and IL-1 (cytokines), which in turn block your metabolism and produce insulin resistance, potentially a fatty liver, and obesity. The study showed injecting these same types of intestinal bacterial toxins into the mice made them fat just the same as if they had bad diets. Again one of the Six Steps is evaluate and eliminate toxins. We use Nutri-West nutritional support, laser, foot baths, far infra red saunas, structural and visceral manipulation.

So the final analysis is if you eat a bad diet or have toxins in the system, bad bugs flourish. Your whole gut ecosystem is upset and the outside world leaks-in across a damaged gut lining. The result can be obesity, diabetes, heart disease, allergic conditions, autoimmune, and inflammatory diseases.
Medical researchers explain how giving antibiotics to rats and cleaning out the bad bugs can prevent diabetes. They then added soluble fiber to the diet and increased the population of the good bugs like Bifidobacteria, which also helped to decrease the bad bugs. They showed this procedure alone helped in weight loss.