starts in your digestive tract and spreads
throughout the body.
The good news is that a healthy gut is very
well adapted to filtering out the bad guys
while still absorbing the stuff from your food
that you need. Let’s use another analogy to
show how a healthy intestinal lining manages
the process of selective absorption.
THE PARTY IS ROCKIN’
(SECURITY ON THE
INSIDE)
Think of your body as an exclusive
members-only nightclub in the rough part of
town. At Club Body, there is a security force
on patrol inside the club at all times (immune
cells circulating throughout the body) that
watches over the members and deals with any
riffraff that happens to sneak in. But the big,
muscular bouncers at the doors (a collection