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On the Cleveland Clinic website, Leaky Gut Syndrome is defined as following.

Leaky Gut Syndrome is a hypothetical condition that's not currently recognized as a medical diagnosis.

It's based on the concept of increased

intestinal permeability, which incurs

in some gastrointestinal diseases.

One example of that disease, a Celiac disease, probably the most well known.

But this term leaky gut has been around for a while in wellness spaces. In fact, let's listen to Mark Hyman who runs

the Center for Functional Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, talk about leaky gut.

Anybody with chronic gut issues like irritable bowel, diarrhea, constipation, bloating,

inflammatory bowel disease.

If you have skin issues like eczema, acne, psoriasis, for sure you have a leaking

guy.

Okay.

Well, a bit further down the page on the Cleveland Clinic website, it says, many people have vague

gastrointestinal symptoms and many times the causes are frustratingly elusive.

In the absence of straight answers, Leaky Gut Syndrome has emerged in the mainstream as a catch-all diagnosis for general indigestion

and possibly many other conditions. But true intestinal hyper-permeability is too specific and too extreme to explain most people's symptoms.

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