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What Causes Gut Inflammation?

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Channel: CanXida · 2018 · Education

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Is your gut inflamed, and if it is, what is causing this inflammation? Let's delve a bit deeper and look at some of the most common causes of this all too common condition. 


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Greetings! Eric Bakker, naturopath. Thanks for tuning again. We're talking about gut inflammation. We're going to talk about, in this video, the causes gut inflammation, so what makes the gut inflamed? Why does it get inflamed? What keeps it inflamed?
If you're just watching this video for the first time or haven't seen any others, be sure to watch the other videos I've completed in the gut inflammation series. It'll give you more of an understanding on this topic. 

So one of the key things, of course in gut inflammation, is leaky gut syndrome, and I've done many videos on leaky gut. You can watch those. So leaky gut often comes about through alcohol, antibiotics, high stress, poor lifestyles. It's basically like a garden that hasn't been maintained for a long time. It ends up looking pretty crappy. Can be fixed up depending on how crappy the garden is, can take maybe a few hours of work, right up to 12 months of work. 

Now, the gut is no different. It's like a huge garden. Lots of different species growing here and there. Now gardens, as you know, look fantastic, but they look pretty crappy when they're not looked after. Don't you admit?

Some gardens look terrible and some gardens look pristine, actually pristine. You can have a pristine garden, but you need to tend to the garden. You need to look after it. Alcohol is like pouring gasoline on the garden, in my opinion. Okay, you might get away with a few drops of gasoline here or there on a couple of weeds to kill them, but if you're going to be pouring gas on the lawn all the time, you're going to end up wiping it all out. 

Antibiotics is like napalm in the gut, okay, you're going to destroy the garden, so just be very careful what you eat and what you drink will directly impact on the gut either to the benefit or to the detriment. 

So that's the first key thing I wanted to talk about, really, when it comes to what causes gut inflammation. It's leaky gut; you can get that leaky gut fixed up. Depending on the bacterial imbalance, it could be yeast responsible for increasing this or keeping it going. 

It could be bacteria or could be parasite like blastocytisis, so sometimes a functional tests like a comprehensive stool analysis may be a good start for you to assess what the garden is like and what it's going to be like to get back in shape. It's like giving the gardener a call, "Hey, come over and check out my garden." "Oh man, this garden is a mess!" And you get a whole written report from the garden or all the things that need doing and fixing, which is like a stool report, right? So that could be a good starting point for you if you've got a very dysfunctional gut. 

Some people do permeability tests. I don't tend to do those any more because in my opinion, most people have leaky gut to some degree, so that's one of the causes of inflammation is leaky gut. One of the key causes of inflammation is very poor microbiomes, so poor gut function. Now this can be with leaky gut or without leaky gut, but most people with very poor gut function, you've got candida or bad bacterial overgrowth like aceibo, small intestinal bacterial. They will have leaky gut by default anyway, so the bacteria are often a really big problem. 

Bacteria I tend to see quite often with gut inflammation would be Klebsiella, pseudomonas, and Citrobacter. Those are three key species who I see regularly in stool tests underpinning many, many problems that people have, particularly when their counts become very high and what makes that worse is when Candida comes along for the ride and sits there and we get a positive yeast culture in the stew, especially over one plus. 

So I hope that gives you a bit of information on what I see or perceive to be some of the leading causes of inflamed gut. Thanks for tuning in.

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