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conditionLeaky gut is a condition where intestinal permeability allows toxins and bacteria to enter the bloodstream, causing inflammation.
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Absolutely. And even if people are negative totally for celiac, if they have increased intestinal permeability, they start reacting to a lot of different foods. So then you start to see with that leaky gut, as we talked about before, the coffee filter and things are coming through, then the body's reacting to lots of foods that it maybe never reacted to before.
Which is a big cause of leaky gut.
And so we did a stool test, and we also tested Claire for leaky gut. And the leaky gut test that I use also measures histamine levels in the gut and the enzyme that breaks down histamine levels in the gut. And in her case, she had a mild imbalance of her bacteria, but she had an overgrowth of candida, which is a yeast or a fungus. probably from the fact that she was eating all that sugar.