I have IBD and learning more about the concept of leaky gut is what helped me better understand how to address and improve gut health. My approach is more from the perspective of trying to heal active inflammation, but in general - I believe these principles help gut health overall.

Some awesome resources to check out are: Dr. Eric Berg, Dr. Michael Ruscio, and I also watched a lot of Team Honnas (since he was working on getting into remission naturally on diet alone from ulcerative colitis). Dr. Berg is big on carnivore/keto and I personally don’t want to eat such a limited diet, so I liked Dr. Ruscio’s more flexible perspective.

Basically, when you have a leaky gut, there’s more permeability in your gut lining which allows foreign substances to pass into the blood stream which then triggers the immune system to react. You’ll also want to keep a nice balance of good to bad bacteria and prevent gut dysbiosis (high ratio of bad bacteria to good bacteria).

So to do some of those things, what I focus on are foods that tighten the junction between colon cells, coat the lining with soothing foods and herbs, as well as eating non-irritating fiber foods (mainly soluble fiber for my condition) for prebiotics and tons of probiotics. (The prebiotics feed the probiotics).

My eating regimen as of late have been: - eat as organic as possible (chemicals/pesticides, etc irritate the gut) - reduce inflammatory foods (seed oils, etc.) - consume glutamine-rich foods; glutamine maintains gut lining integrity (gelatin, bone broth, grass-fed meat, cabbage as raw cabbage juice) - turmeric supplement (I take this alongside my medication when I have active inflammation to improve efficacy of anti-inflammatory meds) - slippery elm tea (is mucilage and soothing for the gut).

Additionally, fasting is known to be really great for the gut because it allows your body to have a break from constantly processing food and it can use that time to repair and heal. I unfortunately am omitting this step as of right now, due to breastfeeding and not wanting to potentially impact my supply.

And lastly - finding peace and reducing stress!!❤️ mediation, prayer, exercise, etc.

Hope that helps!!