It Starts With Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

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technically not yet in your body.


Here is another critical point: The entire
process of digestion takes place while your
food is still inside the long tube that passes
from the one end of your digestive tract to the
other. If undigested food somehow finds its
way into the body, well, it’s as good as
wasted.


Useless.
And probably harmful.

Keeping the right   stuff   in  and the wrong
stuff out is critical to a healthy gut.

Let’s go back to talking about skin. Think
about what would happen if your skin was
“leaky,” for example, if you crashed your bike
and had major road rash. That road rash would
expose your unprotected insides to the outside
world. If some bacteria found their way
inside, they could cause a pretty ugly
infection, which your immune system would

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