2. RESTORE: Restore what’s missing. Add back in the essential ingredients for proper digestion and absorption that may have been depleted by diet, drugs (such as antacid medications) diseases, or aging. This includes digestive enzymes, hydrochloric acid, and bile acids that are required for proper digestion. 3. REINOCULATE: Restoring beneficial bacteria to reestablish a healthy balance of good bacteria is critical. This may be accomplished by taking a probiotic supplement that contains beneficial bacteria. 4. REPAIR: Providing the nutrients necessary to help the gut repair itself is essential. Collagen can seal the leaks while L-glutamine helps to rejuvenate the gut wall lining.
PILLAR 2: Get Rid of Gluten, Grains, and Legumes Gluten is a group of proteins found in grains like wheat, semolina, spelt, rye, kamut, and barley. Gluten, which has been linked to more than 55 diseases, prompts your immune system to attack your own tissues. It’s not easily digested, and it contributes to gut imbalances like SIBO and Candida overgrowth. But even more damaging is gluten’s ability to trigger the body to produce zonulin, a protein that can signal the tight junctions between the cells in your intestines to open and stay open, causing leaky gut. Lectins are also problematic. These are naturally occurring proteins in foods such as beans, peanuts, lentils, tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, fruits, wheat and rice that protect them as they grow. Like gluten, they don’t have any nutritional value for people. Lectins are clingy and can attach to your gut wall, where they can ultimately enlarge openings enough to pass into your bloodstream. PILLAR 3: Tame the Toxins A toxin is a poison — any substance that’s dangerous to the human body. That includes things you know are a problem such as heavy metals like lead and mercury, industrial chemicals and pollutants, and pesticides. Then there is a category many have never even heard of — mycotoxins, the volatile organic compounds released by certain types of mold.
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