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Leaky gut may be a term that you've heard before. If you have an autoimmune disorder or something inflammatory or chronic illness and you've gone searching for root causes or what may have led to it, there's a good chance that leaky gut would've come up on the list. So I want to take a minute and explain what leaky gut is, what the term means, how it relates to problems like autoimmune issues, and then kind of the framework for what we do about it. Every case is a little bit different, so I can't just say specifically what to take and what to do, but I can at least lay out the framework for you so you understand what it takes to get that repaired. Alright, so let's jump right. In your digestive tract, you have cells that line that digestive tract, right? And on one side of the cell you've got what's in your digestive tract, which is either food coming out of your stomach, all the way to poop, moving through your large intestines, and then on the oth...

Hey there. Alright, I'm going to start by saying something in life, right? I like to have a multi-tool with me. You can get a leatherman, Gerber, whatever. It's like a pair of pliers. It's got three or four knife blades, a file wire cutter, bottle opener. It's got things like that on it, like a modern version of a Swiss Army knife. So I keep one in the truck, I keep one in my backpack. If I go hunting, I have one with me. It's just a really compact way or efficient way to get a lot of different things done if you need to. Well, we also have those in functional medicine, a multi-tool of sorts. We have several of them, but absolutely without a doubt one of them, one of the best and probably one of the better well-known ones, at least as far as functional medicine practitioners go, is berberine.

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So berberine isn't extract of certain plants. You can get it from several different species, but it's an extract of those plants. I would consider it a very effectiv...

So I know you guys are tired of hearing me go on about pills and shakes every morning while we're going through this cleanse protocol, so I'm going to do something a little different this morning.

I had a patient in for, a new patient, for autoimmune issues yesterday, and she suggested, she had been watching some of these, and she suggested that I talk a little bit about what I explained to her yesterday, so I'm going to do that now.

When we have patients come in with autoimmune issues or inflammatory problems, there's a protocol I have. It's called a fix anything protocol, and it's just an acronym that gives us about 11 different areas of concern that we have to deal with if we're going to get the inflammation and the autoimmune issues under control. I'm not going to go through all 11, but I'm going to go through the heaviest hitters, the ones that we see over and over again, the ones that are highest on th...