6 Ways To Treat Leaky Gut Naturally

Many factors can weaken the gut lining and its permeability resulting in a leaky gut. While diet plays a key role but there are other factors that are often overlooked such as sugar imbalances, hormone imbalances, chronic stress, inflammation, infection, heavy metals and environmental toxins. You must address all these underlying causes in order to give your body a fair chance at healing from leaky gut.

Since leaky gut is a symptom of various medical conditions, recovery time varies depending on the underlying cause and how long you’ve had it. Work with your doctor or naturopathic doctor who can properly test you. Find out what’s causing your leaky gut. Your recovery journey can be bumpy at times but knowing that you are progressing is good motivation to keep you going.

6 things you can do to repair leaky gut naturally

#1   Follow a Leaky Diet Plan

Eliminate foods containing gluten, sugar, dairy, alcohol and other foods that contributes to inflammation that can worsen your leaky gut. Eat foods that promote gut flora and food supplements such as collagen peptides, probiotics, enzymes, prebiotics that can help heal your gut lining. Leaky Gut Diet Plan details

#2   Treat Gut Infections Disease & Rebalance Gut Microbiotia

Gut infectious diseases such as candida overgrowth, parasites and SIBO (small intestine bacterial overgrowth) can also cause leaky gut and must be resolved. Candida is the most common fungus present in your mouth and gut. But when there is candida overgrowth, it breaks through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream. Candida overgrowth can be difficult to get rid of.

3 ways to get rid of yeast overgrowth:

Starve Candida - Follow a strict low-sugar Candida diet plan which should exclude fruits, yeast and sugar, and high in fiber. Avoid sugars, dried fruit, fruit juice, pasta, bread, pastry and any refined white flour products. If candida overgrowth is severe, consider eliminating all fresh fruits and slowly re-introduce low-sugar fruits like pears, granny apples, lime, lemons, berries and avocado in small amount.

Kill Candida - If Candida overgrowth is severe, it may be necessary to incorporate prescription medication for Candida such as Diflucan and Nystatinin. However, these medication have unpleasant side effects and can be toxic to the liver.

Anti-fungal herbs may be an optimal natural solution. Here are the top antifungal herbs such as caprylic acid, oreganol oil, grapefruit seed extract, garlic, berberine and olive leaf extract.

Antifungal resistance makes it harder to treat. Whether using candida medication or anti-fungal herbs, it's important to switch medication or herbs to avoid candida tolerance and adaptation by yeast or microbes.

Restore Your Gut Microbiome - Re-establish a healthy gut microbiome by replenishing your gut with probiotics or beneficial bacteria such as acidophilus and bifidus. A balanced, healthy gut microbiome can help you absorb nutrients that your body need to stay healthy. Dosage differ for each person and could vary from 50 billion to 500 billion CFUs per day.

Additionally, for candida yeast infection, use Lactobacillus rhamnosus (GR-1) and Lactobacillus reuteri (RC-14) daily. Clinical study shows that GR-1 and RC-14 are effective in colonizing the vaginal microflora and able to "restore and maintain a normal urogenital flora" after 28 days of oral use. Consider Fem-Dophilus by Jarrow, a probiotic formula with GR-1 and RC-14 strains.

#3   Reduce Toxic Load in Your Body

Toxins can leak out into the bloodstream and cause inflammation. Here are 6 things you can do to reduce the amount of toxins in your body.

Test your home for mold - Exposure to mold not only causes respiratory health problems, but it also affect your gut health. Mold produces mycotoxins, which are toxic compounds that depletes beneficial microbes, increases the levels of harmful gut bacteria and promote pathogenic bacteria such as E-coli that cause diarrhea and urinary tract infections. Mycotoxins also weakens the gut lining which leads to leaky gut.

Reduce exposure to mercury - Mercury is all around us - in the water, air, vaccines, cosmetic, fragrances, lotions and fish. Continuous low-level exposure to mercury from amalgam dental fillings can overtime cause mercury overload which can affect your gut microbiome, promote candida and pathogenic bacteria to grow and damage your gut lining causing leaky gut. Find a dentist that practices mercury free dentistry and safe amalgam filling removal.

Switch personal care products with organic or natural ingredients.

Install a shower head filter to keep off the chlorine, heavy metals, pesticides and bacteria that may be present in the local water supply.

Get an air purifier with a HEPA filter and big enough to cover the room.

Use a sauna to aid the body's natural detox to remove toxins.

#4   Reduce Chronic Stress

When your body is in a constant state of chronic infection due to the bacteria, fungi and viruses, your immune system is stressed and weakened.

According to a recent study, chronic stress can affect gut bacteria while other studies show that stress-induced activity in mice increases when the amount of bacteria in the gut is reduced. These studies suggest that chronic stress can cause leaky gut and may affect our mental health.

The adrenal glands, located on top of each kidney, produces hormones that you cannot live without – it regulates your metabolism, blood pressure, immune system, stress and other functions. When stressed, your adrenal glands produce cortisol to your bloodstream to help you manage stress. Over-time, chronic cortisol output weakens the adrenal, thyroid, liver, digestive system and brain.

Here are also 15 activities to help you de-stress.

Consider taking HEMPdrops CBD oil, a natural way to reduce daily stress.

#5   Increase Physical Activity To Help Lymph Drainage

If you have leaky gut, the bacteria, metabolic toxins, heavy metals and undigested food particles from your gut leak into the bloodstream which ends up in the liver, overloading the liver’s function to detoxify.

When the liver gets saturated, the chemical and physical debris are returned to the bloodstream and dumped into the interstitial fluids where the lymphatic system collects and neutralizes the toxins and returns to the bloodstream.

Since the kidney is not able to detoxify, the body eventually becomes toxic and overtime leads to fibromyalgia, due to the toxins accumulating in the tissues around the joints and muscles. Toxins can also get into the cells, which may lead to cancer.

Here are 4 things you can do naturally to address the kidney, liver and lymphatic system due to leaky gut.

Be active - The key is to get the body moving - getting the lymph flowing which will alleviate stress on your kidneys.   Walking, stretching, yard work and household chores get your muscles contracting to move the lymph.

Breath deep to squeeze the lymph from the smallest interstitial spaces in your rib cage to drain while removing waste from your lungs.

Drink lots of fluid - The lymph is mostly water. Cells do not function well when you’re dehydrated. A good rule of thumb is to drink half your body weight in ounces per day. Add fresh squeezed lime or lemon juice to your water to drink throughout the day.

Lymph drainage massage - You may also want to consider lymph drainage massage.

#6   Consider The Benefits, Risks and Alternative Options To Your Medications That Can Worsen Leaky Gut

Over-the-counter pain medications such as aspirin and ibuprofen, antibiotics, anti-acid reducing drugs and chemotherapy drugs can cause leaky gut. As in all medications, talk to your doctor - consider the benefits, risks, and any alternative options to address health symptoms effectively and naturally. Find out what medications cause leaky gut