Simple Tips to Keep your Immune System in Tip Top Shape this Fall — erinlamb

The good bacteria line up like little solders along your gut lining protecting it, but when they are weakened or damaged due to things such as stress, hard to digest foods, a highly processed diet, vegetable oils, alcohol…. the healthy gut lining can be compromised leading to food sensitivity symptoms and a compromised immune system. These soldiers (the good bacteria) protect you from invaders, turning on and off your immune system at just the right time.

When leaky gut develops (the gut lining is compromised), you can experience many unpleasant symptoms in relation to different foods you eat. For example, you’ll eat a piece of cheese, and particles will slip through the intestinal barrier and set off an immune reaction. The food isn’t necessarily the “bad guy” however your body sees it as an invader! Continuing to eat these foods can lead to chronic inflammation and pain because the immune system will continue to see these particles as invaders. All of the sudden you are experiencing these unpleasant symptoms all the time and you can’t figure out where they are coming from!