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Leaky gut

Leaky gut became a popular and recognized term only few years ago. In a way, it came into limelight because a lot of patients started having symptoms and problems that did not fit into any existing disease or syndrome description.

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Leaky gut diet

Finding a personal leaky gut diet is a never-ending journey that might take months or years. Why is that? Leaky gut is a disease that affects the body functions and hits hard the genetically weak organs of your body. Whatever was injured or suffered some impact from inborn errors of the enzymes and metabolism – that’s what will suffer if you develop a Leaky Gut. This syndrome, while starts with the gut actually can affect any system of the body and can cause various symptoms in different people.

So, how do you select the leaky gut diet? Indeed, you can try eliminating different foods and substituting them with other. But this disease is not really an allergy where just pure avoidance eliminates the symptoms. This is an ever-changing state where you can become sensitive to the foods you eat. So, when you change the foods you get sensitive to the new once. Why? Because the issue is NOT the foods themselves! It is actually the other things that make your gut inflamed and sensitive.

Leaky gut diet food list

It is as individual as it gets. Is there one diet that you can follow and get better? Not really. This is really not a “one plan fits it all”. As we explained before, it is really not the exact food. Carrots, beef and eggs have been a human food forever. Why would you be allergic or sensitive to them? It is believed that modern ways of fast fermentation, additives, chemicals that are designed by scientists to grow bigger and faster food are actually responsible for causing Leaky Gut.

Chemicals that cause a death of neurons in a caterpillar indeed might do the same to our own cells. Even when we hear the calming message from the industry that “no human damages were detected” we do not know for sure that all data was collected and analyzed. Here is an example – everyone told us that Roundup is safe. A century after release into sales we find out that it causes cancer! So, the idea of getting the right menu is not a matter of eating what someone else finds healthy. We suggest you find a Nutritionist or a Functional doctor who will know how to test you for food intolerance and create your personal list of food you can tolerate.

Leaky gut healing diet

Is a different game. Indeed, there are certain foods that are known to fix any type of the gut damage. First, you should understand that the purpose of a different diet here is not to lose weight or adjust the sleep cycle. Healing diet gives the time for the gut cells to regenerate, make sufficient amount of mucus and stop the inflammation.

How do you do that? Unfortunately, you cannot simply switch the gut off and put your intestines in a box to heal. You got to eat. That means the gut has to work and wear itself off. That is why you could not heal in the first place. Now what? Well, the ancient medicine recommends to “pre-digest” foods. What that means if baking, boiling and grilling. All these methods are meant to make the food source easily digestible. Also, some foods are easy to digest while others involve lots of energy and work from the gut and digestive glands (liver and pancreas).

Leaky gut diet plan

Is constructed by a nutritionist or a dietitian based on your existing intolerances and allergies. It should be simple and should not cost much more than you are paying for food now. The simplicity of food and significant heat degrading of the protein will do the job of repair and regeneration

Leaky gut elimination diet

Is designed to give you only the foods that you do not react to. Most practitioners will use some sort of test to determine your sensitivity profile. Some will just recommend to exclude all the suspected foods and keep only simple easily digestible ingredients such as rice, chicken, cabbages. After you have been on such a diet for at least 2-4 weeks, the foods are introduced back over some time to see if they are the ones that cause symptoms.

Leaky gut keto diet

Is a variety that is being used by practitioners to treat the gut. Ketogenic diet is full of fat and protein and very low (almost to none) on carbs. Ketogenic diet should be taken seriously and done under a medical practitioner observation due to high risk of serious complications in people with reduced function of kidney, liver etc.

Leaky gut vegetarian diet

Is difficult, as most practitioners will recommend a diet high in animal fat. It is still possible. The animal fat can be substituted with the beans and oils from plant sources such as avocado oil, sunflower oil and olive oil. This important to resurface the gut and “seal” it. Otherwise there is no difference with other leaky gut diets. As a matter of fact, many middle-eastern and Indian diets that are vegetarian, are very healthy and anti-inflammatory due to abandon spices and herbs (that are healing in their nature).


Leaky gut foods to avoid

It depends on the practitioner who discussed your problem and recommended certain plan. When you need to repair it is crucial to know what to avoid in your menu. In a way, there are certain rules to follow:

  1. Avoid the prepared and packaged foods
  2. Avoid foods with more than 3 ingredients
  3. No pesticides, herbicides, growth stimulants, fungicides, antibiotics
  4. Foods from small local farms away from commercial farming and waste facilities
  5. Fresh and untreated foods are best
  6. Know the source – large agriculture is always about additives to get more for less.

Leaky gut vegetables to avoid

  • Any fresh harsh greens are good to stimulate the gut, but they cause more damage when you have inflammation
  • Kale contains a lot of iron that can cause iron overload if your gut is too permeable
  • Histamine-rich food should be avoided

Leaky gut supplements

There are many supplements that can help healing the problem. They come as a bulk herbs or pills – a dry powder of herb packaged in a capsule of collagen or cellulose.  An expert practitioner has a list of vitamins and herbs that will help your gut cells to regrow and improve nutrition. Almost every protocol for leaky gut treatment will include:

  • Herbs such as fenugreek, fennel, thyme and thistle
  • Vitamins such as B-group, E, D and C
  • Chinese proprietary formulas that contain herbs, essential oils and mushrooms
  • Rejuvenation mixes of minerals, vitamins and herbal extracts
  • Cleansing minerals such as activated charcoal, bentonite clay and muds
  • Fungal and probiotic fermenting products (Chinese rice, kombucha, sour kraut)

Leaky gut probiotics

Are based on essential normal gut bacteria mixes designed to substitute the microbiome you are missing. We have about 5lb probiotics in our gut – a mixture of about 150 different strains and measured in billions.

During unhealthy conditions (toxins, chemicals and inflammation) we lose the “landscape” on internal gut where these bacteria lives. So, a needed and important bacteria dies off. Instead, a harmful bacteria and fungus can populate the gut making inflammation and leaky gut even worse. Your practitioner will recommend a certain type of probiotic supplement that will fix your specific situation. You can even have a test to know if your bacteria are normal (SEBO test)


Leaky gut treatment

Lifestyle Treatments for Leaky Gut

Lifestyle Treatments for Leaky Gut. You will be recommended certain lifestyle changes. Why? Because the gut health is reflected by your habits, shopping style and activity in general. There is no such thing as healing gut without healing a body.

So, if you decided that your life is miserable because of inflammation and low energy, it will be your homework that will produce the results and change. Your practitioner is only a guide who will educate you about health and disease. It will be your choice to change the lifestyle to have a healthy body once again.

Here are some general rules that every practitioner should address with your:

  • REMOVE foods and other substances that can damage your gut
  • REPLACE them with healthy foods
  • REPAIR with vitamins and supplements
  • REBALANCE with probiotics

Leaky gut protocol

When you start your journey to health, a leaky gut expert will generally write down a plan and leaky gut protocol. Most of the time a protocol will be personalized based on your unique demands and habits. A good leaky gut clinic has many practitioners who will work with you as a team:

  • A team leader (a gastroenterologist, an allergist or a Functional doctor, or a natural medicine practitioner)
  • Nutritionist or dietitian
  • Psychology counselor
  • Fitness specialist
  • Herbalist
  • Acupuncturist

You will be asked to follow a certain protocol that involves supplements, medications, diet, exercise and mindfulness (mediation and relaxation techniques). Most practitioners will give you a list of foods to eat, menu plan and breakfast ideas.


Leaky gut remedy

Leaky gut natural remedies are what really works. All common medicines are designed to treat one or another symptom. They have side effects. All medicines are degraded and detoxed by the liver, which is one of the most damaged organs in the Leaky gut syndrome. Herbal medicines are powerful in a way of treating the whole body, they are utilized by the tissues only on ‘as needed’ basis, meaning you cannot really overdose with herbs.

That being said, we strongly recommend a medical expert guidance, as your body and enzymes may be unique. That is why supplements and natural remedies should be always looked at as real medicines. The doses should be carefully selected, and personal sensitivity should be evaluated before treatment starts.

There is also a huge variety of natural methods that can be used to heal the body:

  • Acupuncture
  • Moxibustion
  • Medical massage
  • Acupressure
  • Cupping
  • Essential oils
  • Mud bath detox
  • Hot spring detox
  • Reiki
  • Energy exercise
  • Martial arts

Leaky gut is a modern age disease where we pay for the use of convenience. In a way, the best method of healing is to go back into nature and natural living. It might not fit everyone and every life demand, but more and more people follow that rout in order to live a healthy and worry-free life. Find the best expert in natural healing to learn more about your condition and treatments that will heal you.

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