How Is Leaky Gut Syndrome Diagnosed?

To understand how Leaky Gut Syndrome can be diagnosed, it is necessary to answer the following questions one by one:

What is the digestive system flora?
What is the diversity and importance of digestive system flora?
How is our flora formed?
How does our flora deteriorate?
How can we enrich and/or protect our flora?
What does SELECTIVE PERMEABILITY of our intestines mean?
What happens when the SELECTIVE PERMEABILITY of our intestines is disrupted?
What does Leaky Gut Syndrome mean?
WHAT CAUSES Leaky Gut Syndrome?
WHY SHOULD Leaky Gut Syndrome be treated as soon as possible?
What are the symptoms of Leaky Gut Syndrome?
How is LEAKY GUT SYNDROME diagnosed?

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WHAT IS THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FLORA?

Throughout the entire digestive system of humans (from mouth to anus), all of them have special functions in their own fields (digestion, synthesis, disinfection, elimination of harmful substances, fight against pathogenic microbes, etc.), produce benefits for us, live with us, and we can express dozens and hundreds of them in diversity. In biodiversity, we live together with BENEFICIAL MICROBES, the majority of which are BACTERIA and YEAST, which are hundreds of times more numerous than the cells in our entire body. Their general name is DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FLORA.

WHAT IS DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FLORA DIVERSITY AND ITS IMPORTANCE?

If we think of our body as a complex factory, each FLORA type can be thought of as a technician-engineer. The quality of products a factory produces depends on how many specialized technicians and engineers it has. To date, 1054 different FLORA elements have been identified in the entire digestive system. The more diversity of FLORA we have in our digestive system, the more HEALTHY, HAPPY, QUALITY and LONG we live.

HOW IS OUR FLORA FORMED?

We start gaining flora at birth. During normal birth, the baby receives its first flora from the mother’s birth canal and it is extremely valuable. Cesarean births leave you deprived of this fluoride for life. After birth, the baby is shaped by the flora it receives from its surroundings, especially its mother. Breast milk, eating habits, everything in contact with the family and the environment diversifies the flora. The flora structure undergoes partial changes with age (infancy, adolescence, birth, menopause, etc.).

HOW CAN OUR FLORA BE DISTURBED?

FLORA, which we house in the digestive system, is nourished by what we eat and digestive system secretions. Not being fed orally for a long time (intensive care processes, surgical interventions), using too many antibiotics, having frequent throat infections, malnutrition, environmental pollutants (especially agricultural pesticides), radiation, immunosuppressive drugs, long-term use of corticosteroids, chemotherapy, immunity Many factors, especially diseases that disrupt the immune system, cause FLORA DAMAGE.

HOW CAN WE ENRICH AND/OR PROTECT OUR FLORA?

What is meant by enriching the flora is to increase the biodiversity of the flora. First of all, if there is no medical necessity, normal birth should be encouraged. It is important to have a quality and balanced diet. Industrial food products should be avoided as much as possible. It should not be forgotten that there are intensive pesticides on foods. We should produce and consume natural probiotics ourselves at home (pickles, tarhana, dried fruit, yoghurt, kefir, tomato paste, vinegar, pickles, etc.). FLORA BIODIVERSITY will be increased if our children are provided with long-term close contact, eating, drinking and spending time together with their healthy peers in various geographies, especially during the developmental period. It is extremely important that as many healthy breastfeeding mothers breastfeed at least once during infancy. Unnecessary use of medications, especially antibiotics, should be avoided, and alcohol and cigarettes should not be used.

What does SELECTIVE PERMEABILITY of our intestines mean?

All the foods we eat are cleared of microbes, thanks to our FLORA and digestive system secretions (saliva, stomach secretions, bile, pancreatic secretions, etc.), and are broken down and made suitable for absorption by our intestines. Each region of our intestines has different biochemical functions, and the region where each type of food is absorbed and enters the bloodstream is also different. Foods are absorbed from the intestines and pass into the bloodstream and meet the body’s needs. Our intestines have selective permeability, so it is not possible for everything to pass into the bloodstream. This SELECTIVE PERMEABILITY is vital and protects us. The selective permeability of our intestines is possible by protecting the absorption surface from external factors thanks to the flora required in each part of the digestive system and the mucus secreted from the intestine. Thanks to the mucus covering the inner surface of the intestine, the absorption surface does not come into direct contact with our digestive secretions and food. When the mucus structure is disrupted and contact occurs, irritation (ulcer) occurs on the inner surface of the digestive system and this surface loses its selective permeability.

What happens when the SELECTIVE PERMEABILITY of our intestines is disrupted?

When our intestines lose their selective permeability, many things that normally should not pass from the intestines to the bloodstream (undigested foods, toxins, microbes, etc.) begin to pass into the bloodstream in an uncontrolled way.

What does Leaky Gut Syndrome mean?

Our defense system detects elements that should not pass into the bloodstream (undigested foods, toxins, microbes, etc.) and strives to destroy them. After a certain stage, as a result of our defense system getting tired and losing coordination, it perceives our body’s tissues as “foreign-harmful” and begins to attack them. This is the most important breaking point. Our defense system’s attack on its own tissues is called AUTOIMMUNISM and the entire process after that is AUTOIMMUNE PROCESSES. Why is this important? Because once an autoimmune disease occurs, it invites or facilitates the formation of other autoimmune diseases. One of the most important triggering factors in AUTOIMMUNE diseases, and most importantly, is the loss of the selective permeability of the intestines. The general name of the diseases that occur when the intestines lose their selective permeability is “LEAKY GUT SYNDROME”. Some of the main diseases evaluated under the title of Leaky Gut Syndrome are as follows. Celiac Disease, Celiac-like Disease (Gluten Allergy), Lactose Intolerance (Breast Milk Allergy), Lactose Allergy-Like Syndrome (Advanced Milk Allergy), Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn’s Disease, Food Allergy, SIBO, Dysbiosis, etc.

WHAT CAUSES Leaky Gut Syndrome?

Our small intestines are approximately 6-8 meters long from the stomach exit to the large intestines. Our large intestines are 180-220 cm long. The inner surface of our small intestines is not a straight pipe; it creates many folds within itself, increasing the absorption surface area. In an adult human, the inner surface of the small intestines is 16,000-20,000 m2, which is the size of a large Olympic stadium. Thanks to this large surface, absorption, synthesis, digestion, secretion and detoxification processes occur in a healthy way. One of the most important health criteria for people is the width of the small intestine absorption surface area. Because if we compare our intestines to the borders of a country, our intestines are just as vital as the control of these places is for a country. This large intestinal absorption surface does not come into direct contact with the intestinal contents (digestive secretions and foods we ingest from outside). If it does, the same thing will happen to our intestines as the food we eat is digested in the intestines, and wounds will form on the surface. The entire inner surface of our intestines is protected from external influences by being covered with a slimy secretion called MUCUS. The structures we call FLORA, which are beneficial microorganisms that are specialized for each region of the digestive system and live with us, are of vital importance in the formation and maintenance of MUCUS. The higher the FLORA biodiversity, the better quality intestinal functions are provided.

One of the most critical factors that disrupts mucus formation and makes our intestines open to external factors, and most importantly, is FLORA DAMAGE. If the flora of the relevant area is weakened or completely eliminated for any reason, mucus production in those areas is disrupted and the intestine is exposed to external factors. The most important feature of our intestines is that they are SELECTIVELY PERMEABLE. Selective permeability is disrupted in the intestinal surface areas where the mucus protection shield is eliminated, the flora of which is disrupted, and the intestinal contents pass into the bloodstream uncontrollably and the AUTOIMMUNE process begins. This situation is called LEAKY GUT SYNDROME.

All conditions that cause damage to the digestive system flora play a role in the formation of Leaky Gut Syndrome.

WHY SHOULD Leaky Gut Syndrome be treated as soon as possible?

Due to ulceration that begins when our intestines are exposed to external factors, their absorption surface areas begin to disappear, that is, to decrease, irreversibly. The longer people suffer from leaky bowel disease and the more severe the disease progresses, the greater the loss of intestinal absorption surface area (villus atrophy) occurs, and these losses cannot be regained with treatment. To give an example, if the small intestine absorption surface has decreased from 20,000 m2 to 12,000 m2 due to Leaky Gut Syndrome, we cannot increase the surface area above 12,000 m2 again with any treatment method. The treatment to be performed is only aimed at protecting what is left behind after the damage. Treatment time is extremely important because it is not possible to restore many vital functions after the intestinal absorption surface area falls below 4,000 m2.

Was sind die Symptome des Leaky-Gut-Syndroms?

Bloating after meals
Increase in intestinal gas
foul-smelling stools
bloody defecation
Mucusy defecation
Feeling of defecation immediately after eating
Indigestion
The onset of food allergies (floury, sugary, dairy foods, nuts, spices, eggs, etc.)
Changes in defecation habits
chronic diarrhea
developmental delays
Decline in educational achievement
Deepening or emergence of autism
Mental state disorders (Depression etc.)
skin allergies
The emergence of the following autoimmune diseases:

*Psoriasis

*Fibromyalgia

*Hashimoto Thyroiditis

*Rheumatic Joint Diseases

*Behcet ‘s disease

*Gout

*Acne outside puberty

*Vitiligo Disease

*Weakening of the immune system

*Kidney, ovarian and breast cysts

*Chronic Fatigue

*Unhappiness for no reason

*etc

First of all, a detailed physical examination and questioning is performed on the patient who presents with the symptoms of leaky gut syndrome listed below. These symptoms are:

– Bloating after meals

– Increased intestinal gas

– Foul smelling defecation

– Bloody stools

– Mucusy defecation

– Feeling of defecation immediately after eating

– Indigestion

– The onset of food allergies (floury, sugary, dairy foods, nuts, spices, eggs, etc.)

– Changes in defecation habits

– Chronic diarrhea

– Developmental delays

– Decline in educational success

– Deepening or emergence of autism

– Mental state disorders (Depression etc.)

– Skin allergies

-Emergence of the following autoimmune diseases