Not exact matches
Understandably, when your
gut experiences
damage, inflammation is your body's first reaction
to injury, which means you basically worsen the long - term
chronic inflammation.
Either way, the
gut will be inflamed under
chronic and persistent stress, further
damaging the integrity of the
gut lining by enabling those pesky gatecrashers
to invade the
gut wall and provoke the immune system.
I should point out that my case was pretty severe
to start with: severe
damage of the
gut lining
to the point of multiple ulcerations, parasitic infection,
chronic aeromonas infection, and most likely
chronic candida overgrowth have kept my digestive tract inflamed for decades.
I've written quite a bit about other root causes of Hashimoto's, including toxins like fluoride (which may
damage the thyroid), nutrient deficiencies like selenium (Selenium helps
to neutralize oxidative stress in the thyroid gland, which occurs whenever we make thyroid hormones), an impaired ability
to handle stress that often manifests as adrenal dysfunction (this weakens our natural defenses and suppresses our thyroid production) and
chronic infections like Blastocystis hominis (infections can be inside the thyroid, inside the
gut, or in another part of the body leading
to immune system confusion).
In fact,
chronic, high - level stress is one of the main triggers of autoimmune hypothyroidism, largely due
to the role in plays in
damaging your
gut (another important factor in losing weight with hypothyroidism), and inflammation.
Many people today have
damaged guts due
to diets high in inflammatory foods,
chronic stress, and food intolerances, such as
to gluten.
Collagen is rich in the amino acids glutamine, proline, and arginine which help
to repair
damage to the lining of the
gut that builds up due
to chronic inflammation (one of the many side affects of the standard american diet).
In addition
to comprehensive gluten sensitivity testing, Cyrex also tests for the following: foods that cross react with gluten,
damage that gluten can cause
to your
gut and your brain, and autoimmune reactions (when your immune system attacks and destroys body tissue) that may have gone undiagnosed yet cause
chronic symptoms.
Things that can compromise your body's ability
to absorb nutrients are illnesses of the digestive system such as Celiac Disease, Crohn's, IBS,
damage to the digestive system due
to repeated use of antibiotics, pharmaceuticals,
chronic stress, long - term food sensitivities, and inflammation in your
gut.
Chronic inflammation is bad for your health, causing
damage to your
gut, your joints, your heart, and more.
This is likely due
to the fact that gluten
damages the
gut lining, causing
chronic inflammation and increasing the risk of «leaky
gut.»
A
chronic inflammatory process is when some sort of trigger (pollen, food particles, etc) initiates a strong inflammatory process that causes collateral
damage to other tissues of the body such as the
gut lining, blood vessels, the sinuses, the lungs, the joints, etc..