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Should You Complete A Test For Leaky Gut?

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Channel: CanXida · 2018 · Education

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Is testing for leaky gut really necessary? Here's my take on it...

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Greetings, Eric Bakker from New Zealand. Thanks for coming back and looking at my video. Got a whole lot of questions here today from different people. 

First question, should I do a test for leaky gut? That's a very good question, and it's a question I get asked many times by different people. There are essentially four or five different tests you can do for leaky gut. I think I may have done some videos on testing for leaky gut. You can do food allergy testing, you can do stool testing, you can do zonulin testing, you can do electrolyzed mannitol testing, so many different types of tests. 

Should you do this test? Is it relevant for you to do the test? I don't think it is. I don't really do testing for leaky gut anymore. You look at some YouTube videos or websites and people say, "If you've got headaches, if you've got fatigue, if you've got arthritis, if you've got X, Y, Z symptom," a list this long, "you should test for leaky gut."

Well, I've said it before, don't get paralysis from analysis. You could do 20 tests. The amount of patients I see who spend thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars on tests that end up giving them either no information or useless information. Is it really worth it? Think about it.

If you've got problems with your health, there's a high probability that you've got leaky gut. High probability. I probably have got leaky gut to a mild degree. I like a glass of wine. I don't drink alcohol every day, but I do drink it every now and then. There's a chance I'll have intestinal permeability. The people who are most prone to intestinal permeability will be the ones who take pharmaceutical medications every day, who drink a lot of alcohol, moderate drinkers or high drinkers, people who stress a lot. Look at some of my other videos on leaky gut and that will explain if you are a sitting duck for leaky gut. 

You could test for it but, then again, why would you want to test when there's a high probability that you probably already have got it, anyway? Research conducted since 2000 has shown that a majority of people who live in the Western world will have leaky gut to some degree. There is a chance you'll have it. To me, that's like drinking one glass of alcohol and then saying, "Well, have I drunk any alcohol? Is it measurable?" 

Of course it's measurable. Now, some people it will be measurable to a higher extent than others, but it will be measurable. Most people will have some form of leaky gut, ranging from very mild up to extreme. In some cases, they don't even know they've got leaky gut. I would say in a majority of cases. 

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