Dr. Trisha Pasricha

That's probably one of the cleanest stories in GI that we have for what increased intestinal permeability does.

It has been implicated in irritable bowel syndrome, and there's some emerging data there.

However...

When you go on social media, you'll hear these people who will say, do you have brain fog?

Are you bloated all the time?

Sounds like leaky gut.

And everyone will say, wait a minute.

Yeah, of course I have brain fog.

I am bloated all the time.

I've never heard of this thing called leaky gut.

Is that what this is?

Because these are symptoms, bloating, brain fog, that are notoriously difficult to understand, difficult to treat, difficult to get help for.

And now somebody's offering you an answer, which is leaky gut.

which is the bane, I think, of every gastroenterologist's existence when we hear that brought up.

Not because it's not real, not because intestinal permeability is real, but because that's not the root cause.

People treat leaky gut as the root cause of their problem.

And the second half of that reel will be like, and this is my three-step supplement that will fix your leaky gut.

And actually, what you want to ask yourself is, what is it about my lifestyle that might be increasing intestinal permeability?

Is that thing in any way linked to the problems that I have?

Because I've seen these cases, Mel, where somebody will come in to me having self-treated for leaky gut for a year, and the entire time what they had was celiac disease, which also causes brain fog, which also causes bloating.