ends up affecting the structure and health of the intestine; and therefore, destabilizing the immune system. It is not that he makes a strike in the Western style, but on the contrary: he makes a "Japanese strike", that is, he works more. This overactivity of the defenses leads to an autoimmune disease (the body attacks its own body and not the aggressor).
For years we have punished the intestine with an excess of medicines (including antibiotics), junk food, food additives, and a list of very frequent and undesirable foods that I will reveal to you ... all of which produces "leaky gut syndrome" » It is the beginning of an infinity of health problems and symptoms such as migraine and headache.
The leaky gut syndrome is the modern epidemic that creates digestive and autoimmune problems. Conventional doctors do not pay much attention to intestinal health, which is the key to the proper functioning of the immune system.
For example, a single cycle of taking broad spectrum antibiotics can lead to a massive destruction of the intestinal flora or microbiota. The recovery may take years, and even then some of the microorganisms will never recover. A single antibiotic treatment can affect the microbiota for the rest of your life.
Goodbye microbiota, goodbye health.
But that's not all, the list of damages is greater: permeability of the intestine, overgrowth of bacteria, yeast, decay of the immune system ... I know that taking antibiotics is often imperative (they saved my life, one of the three times I was on the verge of death), but they have a price.
As a metaphor, it's like cutting down a whole forest to put out a fire. Undoubtedly, antibiotics have saved many lives, like mine, but they have also ruined the intestinal health of many people. As a rule, they should be taken only when they are essential and never by self-prescription.
The indiscriminate use of antibiotics, uncontrolled medicines, environmental toxins, food additives, some cosmetic ingredients, stress and improper nutrition ... are responsible for sabotaging intestinal health. From there, you can expect anything.
Before using antibiotics, it is better to ask yourself the question: are they really necessary? To use them systematically and indiscriminately is to attack the microbiota, which is getting bread for today but hunger for tomorrow. As you now know, the affectation of the intestinal flora causes various health problems also the migraine.
The Great Problem is aggravated with a gut, and a blood-brain barrier, permeable. Imagine that toxins that are not naturally eliminated reach your brain. You can not expect anything good. The consequences are many and none will please you. I've been one of the lucky ones: just a migraine! (originating in a leaky gut, intolerance to gluten and intolerance to histamine).
Other people, less fortunate, have developed: allergies, arthritis, lupus, eczema and dangerous degenerative diseases of the mind and joints. Do I still ?: autism, diabetes, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar, nervous tics, ADD, ADHD, ALS ... and an endless list. Is it normal that diabetes has multiplied tenfold in the world in the last ten years? In a decade more, 500 million diabetics diagnosed in the world and others are expected both in the anteroom.
bad nutrition -> leaky gut -> toxins in blood -> liver stress -> accumulation of toxins -> chronic inflammation -> disease
This chain is summarized as follows:
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Bad nutrition -> disease
When the digestive tract presents cracks, partially digested foods and substances that had to be eliminated and excreted enter the organism, through the walls of the intestine, into the bloodstream. Imagine the danger that this may entail. Undoubtedly, the leaky gut syndrome is the origin of immune disorders.
The toxins in the blood alert the liver, which will now have an extra job to eliminate all those intrusive toxins; and as it will not be able to with all, the toxins will accumulate creating inflammation. This is how all kinds of intolerances are unleashed, the breeding ground for an infinity of diseases.
Once activated, autoimmunity can be fought in different ways. But to reverse it, it is necessary to reduce inflammation and increase immune function.
The optimal strategy includes:
reduce inflammation
reduce accumulated toxicity
heal the digestive tube
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Anti-inflammatory food comes to the rescue
To heal the digestive tract we have L-glutamine, an essential amino acid that regenerates cells quickly and helps seal the openings of the lining of the small intestine, thereby eliminating the symptoms and associated permeability hazards available as a supplement.
An anti-inflammatory diet, a change of sugar-free diet and supplementation of L-glutamine (powder) revert that condition in two or three months. In me it made a huge difference, and it is a supplement to which I return every year, taking it for a few months.
And the genes? Do not they have anything to do with all this? I think that the genetic factor is overvalued, and as I read somewhere, in the matter at hand, it is estimated that 25% does have a genetic origin, but 75% does admit correction. As a rule, I shy away from diagnostics that focus on genes and DNA and focus on epigenetics.
In addition, today we know that we can influence the genes and modify them. It's a new science and it's called "epigenetics." And to what we are going in this book, some environmental factors, such as nutrition, can initiate processes that lead to changes in the epigenome. That said, I do believe that genes influence one part, and on the other hand the blood group to which each person belongs, as well as the lineage of the ancestors.
But what I believe most is in the aphorism: «Change the diet to build a new me».
In my process of activating vibrant health, I have studied books and more books (in the bibliography I indicate which are the ones that have made a big difference in my state of health and well-being), and I soon came to the conclusion that the problem of my headaches was not in my head, or in my genes, or in bad luck ..., I concluded that I was in what is called "the second brain": the digestive system.
Putting pieces of the puzzle together, I remembered that the subject of the diet did not seem to be very important in the conversations with the dozens and dozens of doctors and alternative therapists I had used in the past.
In fact, the most general recommendation I received was that "I ate everything, in a balanced way and without excesses". It's not bad advice, but it does not seem like a great guide either. To recommend that you do not need to study for so many years, right? Imagine that a financial advisor advises his client: «Invest in a little of everything, in a balanced way and without excesses ... ..., I suppose the client will not pay for such advice again.
As I said, I think an important factor had been omitted: food; and not so much in case it was good, regular or bad, but because of the effect it could create on the digestive system. When food is eliminated as a factor in the equation of health and well-being, an error is made that will make that equation never fit. Health is not possible without a wise diet.
I turned to functional medicine and discovered that I had "leaky gut syndrome". And linked to it: «gluten intolerance» and also
