Mary Reynolds

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IBS and Leaky Gut Syndrome

Food particles, chemicals and bacteria that travel through your intestine are travelling “outside” your body even though they are inside you. We say these substances are “outside”, because the wall of a healthy intestine acts as a filter to repel the waste substances and only absorb nutrients into the body. nnImagine the intestine as an intelligent, flexible ‘tubing’ that carries the food that feeds your body. As the food passes through this ‘tubing’ its wallâ

April 21, 2003