Leaky Gut Syndrome

I saw a joke some time ago, called This Year's Wish: I earn all my own money, I eat all the delicious food, but the meat grows on other people's bodies. Yes, we are least anxious about the flesh growing on other people. But the reality is not always so smooth. Some people gain weight when they eat something, while some people eat a lot of meat and fish every day but still weigh only a few kilograms. Even the doctor said that their physical constitutions are different, which may be related to leaky gut syndrome. What is leaky gut syndrome?

Since the economic take-off, the general public has had enough food and clothing, and the sequelae of overnutrition - obesity - has made the word "weight loss" a fashionable buzzword and action. Beauty slimming practitioners, Chinese medicine practitioners, drug dealers... have made a lot of money by relying on "fat". Fat people rely on dieting, exercise, acupuncture, taking diet pills, going to slimming centers, etc., in their determination to get rid of excess fat. However, there are also people who want to gain weight because they are as light as a swallow, but they cannot gain weight no matter how much they eat. According to medical research, there are two reasons why one cannot gain weight: one is physical problems, and the other is unhealthy gastrointestinal tract.

There is a proverb that says: "A barren field absorbs water." This sentence is used to describe a thin person's big appetite. We often see "big eater" competitions on TV. The winners are usually not fat. So, some people gain weight even by drinking water, while some people eat a lot but still cannot gain weight. If we exclude health issues, this situation that is envied by modern people can only be attributed to DNA.

A friend's daughter is a freshman in college, at the age where she loves to be beautiful. She is 160 cm tall and weighs less than 40 kg. Most of her classmates are overweight and are trying hard to lose weight, but she wants to gain weight, so she eats a lot. Despite eating a lot of food, the number on the scale never moves up.

The doctor asked her, "What do you usually eat?" She replied, "Milk, chocolate, ice cream, bread, fried chicken, hamburgers... I eat anything high in calories... " "What are your bowel habits like?" According to the little girl's description, I highly suspected that she had leaky gut syndrome. Due to poor intestinal function, she could not digest food completely, so of course she could not gain weight!

The body has a standard operating procedure for digesting food. When food enters the small intestine from the mouth, esophagus, and stomach, saliva, gastric acid, bile, and pancreatic juice break down the food and transport it to the small intestine. The surface of a healthy intestine has a mucous membrane covered with dense villi. A healthy mucosa allows nutrients to pass through the barrier to various organs in the body. If the intestine is unhealthy, the villi may become sparse, making the intestine bare like a water pipe, resulting in a reduced absorption area. If the intestinal mucosa is incomplete, incompletely digested large molecules will enter the body through the injured intestinal mucosa, thus causing food allergies.

Most people who commonly experience food allergies suffer from leaky gut syndrome, a condition in which the villi of the small intestine become inflamed and irritated, allowing toxins produced by metabolism and microorganisms to enter the bloodstream. The first to be affected are the liver, lymphatic system and immune response including the endocrine system, resulting in asthma, food allergies, chronic sinusitis, eczema, urticaria, migraine, irritable bowel, diseases caused by fungal infections, fibromyalgia, various arthritis and breast fibroids. For those who suffer from leaky gut syndrome, the absorption of nutrients in the intestine is naturally greatly reduced. Eating becomes just a superficial ritual. Of course, no matter how much you eat, you just can’t gain weight!

Leaky gut is a trouble maker. It prevents people from gaining weight, but it also prevents people from losing weight. Have you ever had a craving for a certain food? Or eating a lot but not feeling full? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then you may have a leaky gut that triggers chronic food allergies.

People who have a strong urge to eat certain foods are more sensitive to foods that may cause allergies. This urge is very similar to that of drug addicts, who will experience painful withdrawal reactions when there is no drug to take or when they are quitting drugs. Therefore, even if these allergy patients do not eat certain foods, their bodies will feel uncomfortable, so they have to rely on eating to relieve the discomfort. The result of eating too much allergic food often causes angioedema, and water is retained in the body, forming puffiness.

For these people who look fat, after eliminating the foods that cause allergies and strengthening intestinal repair, they can naturally and quickly eliminate the water accumulated in the body, and sometimes even lose 2-4 kilograms in a week.

Each person's genetic inheritance determines the parts of the body that are prone to react when they have allergies. Any important organ may become the outlet for allergic reactions. If the brain is affected by allergies, ADHD, depression, irritability, headaches, etc. may occur; if the pancreas is affected by allergies, it may cause problems with blood sugar regulation; and when blood vessels are affected, edema may occur. Several of these symptoms may occur at the same time, and they may become more severe with continued exposure to the allergenic food.