07/08/2024
CURE FOR LEAKY GUT?
When your pet has crazy GI issues, where no food or treatment seems to work, owners can often suspect leaky gut is at play.
Think of your gut membrane as castle walls. All the baddies are on the outside, in this case, all the digested food mixed with bacteria, some good but some bad, as well all the environmental bits you accidentally ingested, including pollen and chemicals.
The gut membrane's job is to suck nutrition from this mess and leave all the nasty stuff to be ejected from the body.
Imagine how complicated a task that is!
Keeping with the castle analogy, all the top soldiers are just behind those walls protecting the king and queen (the brain and the heart). And they take their job VERY seriously. They make it so everything coming in has to pass over the drawbridge and in the gate. That way they can check each and every entrant in case they're packing something naughty.
Leaky gut, which occurs if you are too long with a GI issue, be it a nasty, unchecked dysbiosis, IBS or IBD, or maybe a chemical insult, where inflammation and damage build to such a point, gaps start appearing in the castle walls.
Now the soldiers inside are freaking out. Baddies start coming in unchecked. But they're no walkover. They now attack and tag any invading protein. If that happens to be a half-digested bit of chicken protein then chicken becomes "a threat". Next time you eat that protein BOOM your body reacts, expelling it as quickly as possible.
This is the development of food INTOLERANCES, not an actual food "allergy", a word we hear bandied around way too much. It's a mechanical issue at the gut lining, mediated by IgA and IgM antibodies (soldiers). True allergy is a genetic issue (although can be induced by vaccines, think peanut allergies in kids), mediated by IgE, the SAS of antibodies. When these guys are active, it's dramatic.
The good news is, fix the physical barrier, cure the leaky gut, and these intolearnces can pass.
But you MUST fix the barrier first.
That's the bit most people don't understand including virtually every single conventional vet who knows virtually nothing of this process nor how to heal it (and hence they keep your dog on chemically preserved kibble which multiple studies show AGGRAVATES the condition).
Some owners try jumping to raw but it doesn't work. That's because the gut AND gut flora (the guys that fix your gut) are is completely shot. You're simply running a Ferrari down a road with potholes. The awesome car will not last (another one of my analogies, I need to TM these)
All you're doing, when you're jumping from this to that, is exposing more proteins to the gaps and building your list of food intolerances.
You need a resolution. The first is to watch my Allergy Course on drconorbrady.com. It's the most popular course I have for a reason as it explains a lot of this to you, as well as highlighting why allergy tests etc DO NOT WORK. And it tells you how to go about healing the gut using diet (via an exclusion diet), some simple herbal additions like BioFunction8 (wait till you see what I have coming soon there...) and maybe some probiotics (but not bacterial).
https://www.drconorbrady.com/resource_redirect/landing_pages/2149820514
It's already 3hrs long that course but I'm currently adding a new bit to the end to highlight how effective FMT is for cases that we can't get right using the above.
Check this study out: they treated human patients with leaky gut syndrome (LGS) with FMT in an attempt to remedy gastrointestinal flora loss "in a simple, inexpensive, permanent and effective way without the need for further treatment".
Doesn't that sound promising?!
Of the 56 patients (25 female, 31 male, avg age 33) FMT had a success rate of 89%.
That is 89% cured. Not just helped.
Based on these results the authors conclude "In leaky gut, FMT should be the gold standard treatment".
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih. gov/pmc/articles/PMC9720094/
Can you imagine how utterly transformative that must have been for those people?
Leaky Gut will destroy you, physically and mentally.
Some background on the above patients:
"Before their diagnosis of leaky gut, 6 patients received radiotherapy and chemotherapy together, and 1 patient received chemotherapy alone. A total of 22 patients had long-term systemic steroid administration, while 38 patients had a history of antibiotic use for 21 days or more, at least once in their lifetime, and 27 patients had a history of intensive industrial food consumption. A total of 14 patients had a history of autoimmune diseases (arthritis, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, psoriasis, polycystic o***y, etc.). There was a history of the need for long-term antihistamine use in 19 patients. Of the patients, 16 reported a history of intensive care treatment, and 10 reported oral stops for seven days or more."
Proper sick people. Was the Leaky Gut the cause or the result?
Who knows. But what I do know is these folk need it fixed stat.
Then there is the behavioural bit:
"Before FNT, 46 patients had a mood disorder. Of the patients, 25 had depression, 3 had major depression, 1 had bipolar affective disorder".
An examination performed 8 weeks later revealed in patients who underwent FMT showed that just 16 patients were still experiencing an ongoing mood disorder.
40 were found to be normal.
9 of the patients had aut ism "and a history of aggression when consuming certain foods" coming into the trial.
Of those "symptoms were found to be in significant remission, aggressiveness disappeared, aut ism symptoms regressed, and who showed positive improvements in dialogue with others and in learning processes" in all 9.
WHAAAAT?
BLLAAAAAASSSSSPPHEMY
But why not? Kids on this spectrum very often have GI issues and just last month a "groundbreaking" bit of research, published in the prestigious journal Nature Neuroscience, found a “definitive association” between temporal changes in gut microbiome composition and observable traits and symptoms of individuals with ASD.
Sounds like what that scientist was trying to tell us 26 years ago but everyone burned him at the stake 🤫
It's almost like there IS an environmental cause to the explosion of this disease in the general population since the 1980s...
