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Is Dr. Gundry and "leaky gut" a scam?
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The actual term for leaky gut is intestinal permeability, which can occur with some diseases. It's not a cause of the myriad symptoms snake oil salespeople and functional medicine doctors claim it is.
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I can only speak from my experience. My functional medicine doctor, using traditional lab tests, helped my Sjogerns and osteoporosis more than my rheumatologist did. She used the 4 Rs of gut healing and I am thankful that I chose this path for my healing. I take no prescription drugs, use food and well thought out supplementation to keep my conditions in check. I will always believe that “leaky gut” is real. Science will eventually catch up and prove this. One of my favorite quotes by Hippocrates …
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”
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Yes it is! Leaky gut is real and it can cause SIBO for one. Leaky gut allows a variety of toxins to enter your bloodstream and cause many kinds of symptoms. Functional medicine doctors are not snake oil salespeople. Like any other profession, you need to find an expert in that field. Our typical medical system didn’t help me in the least with leaky gut and my symptoms and kept putting me on prescription meds that treated the symptoms not the cause!