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⚠️WARNING⚠️ Just because a drug is “well tolerated” or sold over-the-counter or you don’t have any apparent side effects or a doctor recommended it… doesn’t mean it’s 100% safe.

Although leaky gut or intestinal permeability is essentially the new guy in town for conventional docs, some don’t even acknowledge it.

“So here’s a pill to fix things” 👨‍⚕️📝 when it can actually make things worse with prolonged use😡

🍕Acid-reducers: With less stomach acid, you dont digest your food well enough. You absorb less nutrients and larger, undigested food particles damage the gut barrier.

🗓️Oral birth control: You have a whole microbiome called the estroblome that breaks down hormones. Synthetic hormones shut off your natural hormones and give you a fake menstrual cycle. This process disrupts your natural estroblome/microbiome, weakening your gut barrier.

😊☹️ Antidepressants: The majority of your serotonin and dopamine are made in the gut then sent to the brain. Antidepressants often help with symptoms in the beginning but eventually disrupt your gut-brain axis, leading to less natural production of happy brain signals.

🦠Antibiotics: This one is well-recognized 👏🏻 where you’re also killing off good bacteria in your gut along with the infection you’re trying to treat. Antibiotics can throw off your natural microbiome for 6-12 months after one 7-day course.

🤕NSAIDs: Easily bought over-the-counter and easily over-used. They reduce inflammation and pain but actually cause inflammation in the gut when used longterm. Longterm use includes 3-5 times per week, one dose per day everyday, 14+ days, keeping a value sized bottle in your medicine cabinet 😅.

💚These drugs are essential in many cases and you don’t have to avoid them when you absolutely need them. Assess how long you’ve been using them and is it time to take a step back? It is good to be informed of the risks and take action to counter those risks. Focus on holistic gut health practices like eating whole foods, prebiotics aka fiber 🍇🍎🥦🫑, probiotics, breathwork or meditate 5-10 minutes a day, filtered water, and joyful movement 🤸‍♀️💚

Want to know the truth about leaky gut???

We pretty much all have it, have had it, or are going to get it.

“Gut health” is sooooo trendy right now. And I’m glad it is because it’s increasing awareness for us to take better care of ourselves from the inside out.

Things that cause leaky gut 🔎:
〰️Alcohol
〰️Processed foods (additives, dyes, emulsifiers/gums, preservatives)
〰️Pesticides
〰️Gluten
〰️Not chewing food completely
〰️Stress
〰️Lack of sleep
〰️Mineral deficiencies
〰️Imbalance in gut microbiome

There are definitely more things but these are the most common reasons and things we are exposed to on a daily basis we may not even realize could cause this damage.

If you’re going to take away one tidbit from this post… chew your food 🍽️ We usually chew a bite on average 5 times before we swallow. Digestion starts in our mouth and chewing a bite 10-20 times will profoundly change your gut health! This will decrease the particle size, improve digestion, and lower the risk of damage to your gut lining from larger food particles.

It is going to feel weird chewing so long and feel like FOREVER at first, but stick with it 😊 your gut (and body) will thank you 💚

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