Dr. Datis Kharrazian

So we have to open that up.

Also, when the brain is injured, the brain's inflamed, the blood-brain barrier does open up.

And traumatic brain injuries, for example, open up the blood-brain barrier.

because you have to bring in cells like natural killer cells and T cells to get rid of the debris in the brain.

So when there's a lot of inflammation in the brain, they do open up.

So when you get inflammation in the gut, the inflammatory meteors in the gut can activate messengers in the brain, the glial cells, those glial cells, then trigger mechanisms, zonulins release, the blood-brain barrier opens up to deal with anything that could be in the brain.

But if it stays chronically opened up and there's chronic inflammation and chronic injury, you can have some serious problems.

Now, if you look at, for example, studies on the traumatic brain injuries, people get head injury, their blood-brain barrier can be open for six, seven weeks after the brain injury.

It can sustain and be open even for months and months and years if the inflammation continues.

It's there.

And then that can accelerate neurodegenerative changes.

And then when you look at... So it's like the blood-brain barrier opens up.

The things that shouldn't cross can now cross.

So larger-based chemicals can cross into the brain.

Now you can get...

aluminum and iron buildups, iron depositions in the brain.

Those are linked to neurogenic diseases.

You can have antibodies and pathogens cross into the brain.

They've already been linked to like plaquing and Alzheimer's disease.

So yeah, there's definitely, you know, gut brain relationships that are there.