915 - How To Test For Leaky Gut, A Science-Based Review

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Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

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🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

We hear a lot about healing leaky gut, but how do we know we have it in the first place? Is a stool test enough? In this episode, I’ll review the most effective and least effective leaky gut tests. Let’s get the most accurate results, so you can move closer to healing! Watch now.

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➡️The 4 MOST Effective Leaky Gut Treatments:

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➡️A Simple & Effective Leaky Gut Repair Protocol:

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➡️8 Signs Your Gut is LEAKY:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QER7XXJ5CM&t=36s

➡️The 10 BEST Foods for Leaky Gut:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5yXO71ZDec&t=1084s

➡️Healing Leaky Gut & Inflammation with Dr. Jockers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZVH40KsMFA&t=1702s

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Featured Studies

📉 Probiotics fortify intestinal barrier function:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37168869/

📉 Fecal zonulin is elevated in Crohn's disease and in cigarette smokers:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29034305/

📉Probiotic supplementation affects markers of intestinal barrier, oxidation, and inflammation in trained men:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22992437/

📉Associations between food-specific IgG antibodies and intestinal permeability biomarkers:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36147305/

📉Is there a possible correlation between antibodies against lipopolysaccharide, intestinal and blood-brain barrier proteins in IBD subjects?: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30959215/

📉The Relationships between Intestinal Permeability and Target Antibodies for a Spectrum of Autoimmune Diseases: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38003542/

📉A case for improved assessment of gut permeability: a meta-analysis quantifying the lactulose:mannitol ratio in coeliac and Crohn's disease: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35012471/

📉Probiotics fortify intestinal barrier function: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37168869/

📉Randomised placebo-controlled trial of dietary glutamine supplements for postinfectious irritable bowel syndrome: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30108163/

📉Psychological and Gastrointestinal Symptoms of Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome Undergoing a Low-FODMAP Diet: The Role of the Intestinal Barrier: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34371976/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dr. Rucho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best.
0:16.2	To stay up to date on the latest topics, as well as all of our prior episodes.
0:23.2	Make sure to subscribe in your podcast player.
0:26.5	For weekly updates, visit Dr.ruciot.com.
0:30.7	Let's discuss the best and the worst tests for leaky gut.
0:35.9	And if you've been minding your gut health, you probably appreciate that leaky gut is, to some extent, an important item to assess. If there is leaky gut, if there is too much leaky gut is to some extent an important item to assess. If there is
0:39.8	leaky gut, if there is too much leakage of particles from the gut loom and from the gut lining
0:44.7	through into the bloodstream, then this elicits an immune response and inflammation, which
0:52.2	can manifest as a wide array of symptoms. And we've discussed this in detail
0:57.4	in the podcast in the past, but this might include, but not limited to, cognitive impairments,
1:03.1	like mild kind of impairment, also known as MCI, brain fog, anxiety, depression, insomnia, even environmental sensitivity.
1:14.7	So this includes food because remember, food is from the external environment passing
1:18.6	through your body or things like mold or sensitivity to pollens and grasses.
1:26.7	It may also include skin eruptions of various sorts, joint pain,
1:31.8	fatigue, and even alter conversion or metabolism or release of certain hormones. So that makes
1:39.5	the question, well, if I have these symptoms, and I think leaky gut might be implicated in them, how can I assess?
1:46.5	And that's what I want to break down and cover with you today.
1:49.1	We'll look at the four main ways of assessing leaky gut, which are zonulin, indirectly through stool assessments, through tight junction or leaky gut barrier proteins, and also through what's known at the lactulose manitol absorption test.
2:06.0	And as we wade into this discussion,
2:11.2	it is important to define, well, how do we assign if a test is accurate or not?
2:18.2	Because sadly, just because a lab offers a test and the test might look really official,
2:24.0	it doesn't actually mean that due scientific investigation has been performed to tell us if this test is accurate or not.
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