Leaky Gut Syndrome - An American Epidemic

By Carey Grandel

Leaky Gut Syndrome is a true epidemic in the United States today. The result of years of eating the standard American processed foods diet, Leaky Gut is the end stage of a whole sequence of events. Indigestible sludge, or enzymeless processed food accumulates year after year in the digestive tract. Without enzymes, they cannot be broken down and metabolized and thereby build up layer upon layer throughout the alimentary canal.

The last part of the digestive tract which is the colon is where Leaky Gut Syndrome manifests itself. The colon's primary responsibility is to store the waste before it gets eliminated from you system. It's also responsible for reabsorbing water so you don't get dehydrated and to make sure your body has plenty of electrolytes.

In order for a normal colon to work, it has many tiny holes which allow water and minerals to be rep-absorbed into the blood system. This helps prevent loss of electrolytes and dehydration

When you have an abnormal colon, the sludge layers cause problems in the openings of the colon wall. Most adult Americans have this problem. What happens is that many of the holes get stuck in the open position and others are stuck closed. The ones that are open allow leaking of food that has been undigested into the bloodstream. Once it gets in the blood the manmade processed foods are not able to be digested. They're now able to get into the organs and tissues. This causes inflammation and filtration problems and eventually a failure of the organ or tissue. This is what is called Leaky Gut Syndrome. A more formal name used by doctors is hyper permeability syndrome.

The colon can't help but allow the contents of one's gut into the blood. The content was really just waste which should have been eliminated. Again, this happens because the pores in the colon wall got stuck open. This also means that water and electrolytes are lost ... causing the gut to be "leaky."

The way to cure this problem is to clean out the layers of sludge in the colon. In other words, get rid of the undigested foods. A simple practical way of doing this is using holistic herbal products that are not rough like laxatives. When the undigested foods are gone from the colon, then pores are now open again and can begin the healing process. Then the colon can do its job and open and close as it should in the first place. The colon will eliminate what it's supposed to eliminate and keep the right things in its systems. This will eliminate the leaky gut syndrome and even help with allergenic issues. - 33373

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