what stays out. Increased gut permeability
(and the ensuing inflammatory chaos) is
linked not only to intestinal inflammatory
conditions like Crohn’s disease, ulcerative
colitis, and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS),
but also chronic diseases like cardiovascular
disease and diabetes, hypersensitivities like
asthma and allergies, and autoimmune
conditions like Hashimoto’s thyroiditis,
rheumatoid arthritis, and type 1 diabetes.
In fact, this third Good Food standard is
directly linked to the fourth, because
increased intestinal permeability provokes
systemic inflammation. (You’ll learn why
that’s bad soon enough.)
The importance of your gut as a healthy,
intact barrier cannot be overstated.One last thing—and the final nail in your
leaky gut coffin. Remember how excessive
abdominal fat (central obesity, or what the