Gut Health

Avoid These Surprising Foods If You Have Leaky Gut

Step one for a happy and healthy gut.

If you’ve been dealing with leaky gut, you’ve probably made some big changes to your diet. Maybe you cut out dairy products and gluten. Maybe you gave up sugar or alcohol. And it’s hard to remove all the fun foods from your life… so you at least want to see results, right?

There’s a reason you’re still suffering with symptoms and that your leaky gut hasn’t resolved…

You’re still eating foods that trigger leaky gut. Only these are foods you’d never expect to have to give up.

And of course changing your diet is an important step toward remedying a leaky gut… but it’s only the first step. You need a complete plan of attack to get your gut barrier—and your gut microbiome—back in top shape.

What Does Leaky Gut Feel Like?

Some leaky gut symptoms are exactly what you’d expect: diarrhea, IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), gas, and bloating.

Others might take you by surprise, because they have nothing to do with your gut, at least not directly. But leaky gut can affect many body systems and cause a shocking range of issues including:[1]

Leaky gut has also been linked with many chronic and autoimmune diseases including fibromyalgia[2], Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (also called autoimmune thyroid)[3], and rheumatoid arthritis.[4]

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What Exactly Is Leaky Gut Anyway?

Leaky gut is just what it sounds like, but maybe not in the way you’re thinking. Your large intestine—your gut—is lined with a protective mucosal barrier.[5] That barrier uses a process called selective permeability to decide what gets through. When the mucosal barrier is working at full strength, only healthy substances like nutrients and antioxidants pass into your bloodstream. Harmful bacteria, toxins, and other pathogens get locked inside so they can be eliminated.

Your gut barrier acts like a shield to keep your whole body safe. But it’s highly vulnerable to all sorts of threats, like pathogens, toxins, and free radicals. The threat list also includes natural compounds found in some of the foods you’d normally eat.

One of the gut barrier’s main threats comes from LPS toxins (lipopolysaccharides). Harmful bacteria in your gut microbiome—the trillions of bac