Intestinal Permeability (Leaky Gut)
Understanding the Causes and Symptoms of Leaky Gut
Leaky gut is a condition where the integrity of the intestinal cell barrier is compromised or broken down. Normally, your intestinal cell network forms a critical barrier between your digestive tract — the outside environment — and your bloodstream, the inside environment. With intestinal permeability, that barrier breaks down and intestinal contents can pass into the bloodstream.
Testing matters because intestinal permeability carries real physiological ramifications. The goal is to identify the root-cause condition accurately, so your protocol can be built to heal the gut at the source instead of quieting one symptom at a time.
How leaky gut shows up.
- Digestive: Inflammatory bowel disease, IBS (gas, bloating, constipation, reflux), and food sensitivities.
- Systemic: Depression, anxiety, migraine headaches, muscle pain, chronic fatigue, mood swings, brain fog, and micronutrient deficiencies.
- Autoimmune: Celiac disease, rheumatoid arthritis, Type 1 diabetes, asthma, and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.
What drives it.
- Dietary factors: Refined sugar, a high-starch diet, gluten in grains, casein in dairy, and alcohol.
- Medications: Antibiotics and NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs).
- Lifestyle factors: Excessive stress and smoking tobacco.
- Gut conditions: Dysbiosis, SIBO, yeast overgrowth and Candida albicans, parasites, and low gastric acid production.
Our Approach
Symptoms are the question. The gut is almost always the answer.
01
Test before you treat.
We start with 3-Zone Gut Testing — a complete map of food sensitivity, micronutrient absorption, and microbiome health. No guesswork.
02
Repair in the right order.
The gut heals in sequence: upper, then middle, then lower. Treating zones out of order is why most protocols stall.
03
Maintain through food.
Once repair is underway, daily food and herbal supplements hold the gains. The protocol becomes a way of eating.