Leaky Gut Education

Do I Have Leaky Gut? As the terms,"microbiome," "friendly bacteria" and "leaky gut" become a part of common vernacular you may be wondering how to posatively diagnose the condition so you can begin doing something about it. Because we have trillions of bacteria present in our bodies all the time, the difficulty with testing is determining which of many possible microbiota have overgrown and by how much. So reviewing the list of leaky gut syndrome symptoms and noting how many ways you match up is a more pragmatic approach to getting started. No need for expensive testing, just some self...

Gut Microbiome and you... Healing leaky gut requires understanding a little something about your gut microbiome and who you really are. In fact, it may surprise you to learn that you are actually more "them" than you are "you". Your body is home to about 100 trillion bacteria and other microbes, collectively known as your microbiome. Since the invention of the microscope back in the 1600's, naturalists have been aware of our hitchhiking microbes but it wasn’t until the past five years that we're getting to know them better. New Research For decades, bacteria have been given a bad rap....

What is Leaky Gut Syndrome? If you're wondering "what is leaky gut", you're not alone. It's gaining a lot of attention in the media as a growing body of research links the gut to a number of seemingly unrelated health concerns and chronic diseases from allergies, to depression, anxiety and joint pain. Is Leaky Gut Real? Leaky gut can be tough for medical doctors to diagnose for a number of understandable reasons: It's associated with multiple body systems that until now were thought to function independently. Also, it has multiple causes and risk factors AND there's no specific test to...

New Diet Therapy puts Crohn's Disease in Remission How Crazy Cool is this? Clinicians at Seattle Children’s Hospital report they've brought pediatric patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis (UC) into remission using diet alone. Of this first time advance, lead researcher and gastroenterologist David Suskind, MD, asserts, “This changes the paradigm for how we may choose to treat children with inflammatory bowel disease.” Dr. Suskind and his associates used a specific carbohydrate diet (SCD) to treat a small cohort of patients with Crohn’s or UC for 12 weeks. SCD includes vegetables, fruits, meats, and nuts, and excludes grains, dairy,...