A leaky gut lets partly digested food go
where it does not belong, triggering an
immune response and potentially creating a
reaction to an otherwise healthy food.It’s clear that leaky gut syndrome is
related to immune-mediated problems in the
body. How this translates to autoimmunity,
however, isn’t as well understood. The most
researched theory to date (still under
exploration) involves an additional
mechanism called “ molecular mimicry ”:
when something that is foreign looks a lot like
something that is self.
See, parts of proteins in various foods and
infectious agents resemble parts of various
proteins in the body. (Remember the bad guys
at the club door, wearing masks?) The theory
is that when immune cells inside the body see
a foreign invader that looks a lot like
something that belongs to us, they may get
confused and attack us instead of the foreign