2 Hidden Causes of “Leaky Gut”: “Be Good to Your Gut” pt. 3
Welcome Back!
The Holidays got me thinking a LOT about my gut. I mean, it can only take so much bad food and alcohol, right?
Overindulgence takes its toll, whether you eat healthy or not - not to mention the added stress and lack of quality sleep we all deal with each December …
It’s why we’re running down my favorite ways to aid digestion and prevent a Leaky Gut …
So far, we’ve covered how to eat or drink whatever you want and not suffer afterwards as well as the one “Forgotten Basic” essential to Gut Health …
Check out Be Good to Your Gut 1-2 if you haven’t already to get up to speed …
As I've said before, taking probiotics and/or following a Gut Health Regimen won’t work if you don’t avoid routine exposure to common toxins …
So, let’s talk about the two everyday things people do to wreck their guts they probably don’t even know about …
Here we go …
The #1 thing to avoid on a daily basis is chlorinated tap water!
It’s essentially Bleach …
Bleach is an antibiotic that, even in trace amounts, kills your beneficial gut bacteria, leading to digestion problems, bloating, brain fog, and mood issues.
For the full conversation, check out Empower Your Shower; it’s a real eye opener …
Thankfully, chlorine is pretty easy to filter out of your water - just NOT with a Brita filter!!!
Brita is owned by a bleach company and only removes the taste, not the chlorine.
You need one that filters BOTH Chlorine and Chloramine (Chlorine + Ammonia) and installs in minutes – no special tools or professional help required - including in your shower …
Why?
When you shower in chlorinated tap water, this toxic chemical vaporizes and rapidly absorbs straight into your body through your skin and lungs!
In less than a minute, it’s in your bloodstream and circulating throughout your entire body.
When you drink it, your body at least has a chance to filter out the toxin through normal processes.
In a hot shower, it goes straight into your bloodstream and your GUT … NO FILTER!
That’s why I recommend a filter and a structured water showerhead from Multipure like the Aquashower …
Otherwise, your blood chlorine levels from a ten-minute shower are SCARY high - 10x what you would get from drinking a couple glasses of chlorinated tap water.
Now, let’s get to the second hidden cause of Leaky Gut …
The #2 everyday thing to avoid is Glyphosate.
Glyphosate is an herbicide SO toxic that - even in minute amounts - it causes a Leaky Gut.
Think of a tightly woven bed sheet and how tightly packed the threads are.
Now compare that to the strings on a tennis racquet.
Glyphosate in your food blows the “weave” in your gut apart from bedsheet spacing to tennis racquet.
In short, Glyphosate exposure destroys your “tight junctions,” giving you a leaky gut.
This causes systemic inflammation throughout your entire body from foreign matter leaking into your bloodstream.
Unfortunately, Glyphosate is everywhere, but it’s heavily used on GMO “Roundup Ready” crops.
So heavily for so many decades, in fact, that it’s now dispersed throughout the atmosphere in most North American areas, so …
Almost all previously farmed soil contains Glyphosate – including farms which have switched back to Organic practices.
So, what can you do?
Buy organic foods when you can because they will contain less herbicide …
But washing your produce doesn’t rinse it all off because it completely saturates fruit and vegetable tissue. Your best bet is to …
Take Humic/Fulvic Acid to “inoculate” the tight junctions in your gut lining against the integrity-destroying action of Glyphosate and protect you from developing a leaky gut.
I recommend XX Brand Humic/Fulvic first thing in the morning and before dinner every day because it directly detoxes Glyphosate.
Now, considering how easy it is to get these toxins in your system daily, they’re most likely there already …
You need a surefire way to rid your body of them ASAP; it’s called a Pure Vitamin C Flush …
If you want it to work properly, however, it’s crucial that you take the right kind of C like we talked about before. The problem is ...
Only about 10% of Vitamin C as ascorbic acid is non-GMO.
Most of it’s made from corn genetically modified to tolerate large amounts of herbicides and pesticides like - you guessed it - “Roundup.”
That’s why you need Ultra-pure Ascorbic Acid C with NO Glyphosate residue.
It takes much less of this type of C for people to flush than the Glyphosate-tainted types - not that you want those in your system anyway …
AND it’s highly bioactive so absorbs into your cells much easier and faster; you can literally FEEL the effects after 3 hours or so.
For more detailed information, including my Top 10 Reasons to Detox With Vitamin C, check out Reboot Your “Body Battery!” …
The goal again, however, is to avoid these dangerous chemicals in the first place - whenever you can, as much as you can …
Next time we’ll run down my proven 4-Step Gut Health Protocol guaranteed to halt and repair a Leaky Gut … Plus one BONUS biohack you need for routine Gut Maintenance ...
‘Til Then … Be Good to Your Gut!
… and Have a Happy AND Healthy New Year!
Theo
