Love Your Gut by Dr. Megan Rossi

Author:Dr. Megan Rossi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Experiment
Published: 2020-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Could It Be a Leaky Gut?

Triggers of a Leaky Gut

As I alluded to in chapter 1, leaky gut is not a black-and-white “syndrome.” In fact, the tight junctions (remember, they’re like the bouncer on the door outside a club) between the cells that make up the wall of our intestine open and close all the time in response to a variety of things. This includes diet (e.g., a high-fat meal), exercise (e.g., strenuous endurance running), medication (e.g., some painkillers) and, perhaps not surprisingly, stress. The role of stress was shown in a clinical trial where they measured the gut leakiness in people before and after public speaking. The study found that those who were more nervous and stressed were the ones whose gut became leaky.47 Now, before you start freaking out (and trigger further stress-induced leakiness), rest assured that these factors tend to have only a short-term effect on the tight junctions and don’t seem to cause any major issues. In some diseases, exposure to proteins (e.g., eating gluten if you have celiac disease) has a more sustained and severe effect on the tight junctions and therefore the leakiness of the gut. But if you have celiac disease and strictly avoid gluten in your diet, the tight junctions do their job and the leaky gut resolves. This explains why a sustained leaky gut is considered more a symptom of an underlying disease rather than the cause of disease.

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