Dr. Will Bulsiewicz
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They get trained up there and then they get deployed.
and they go and take up and do their service in the lining of your intestines.
Interesting.
70% of our immune system is in our gut lining?
Is in our gut lining.
Wow.
Yes.
So if our gut is unhealthy, we are unhealthy.
because basically what happens is that there's a cascade where these microbes and those immune cells, they're right next to each other.
And the only thing that's separating them is a single layer of cells, which we call the gut barrier, right?
And if that starts to break down,
which happens when the gut microbes are weak and not able to do their job.
So they are the stewards.
The gut microbes are the stewards of the gut barrier.
They build it for us.
They repair it for us.
That gut barrier, that single layer of cells, it protects the immune system.
So when it's fortified,
the immune cells are at ease because there's no one to fight.
But if it's weak.