Not exact matches
Because our
immune response to its content had been repressed
through our inability to engage in constructive public discourse about
issues of race relations and police brutality.
I also kind of had some gut
issues which you and I worked
through, and there was clearly a link between the stress that I was facing, my underactive thyroid, my poor gut health and then my kind of weak
immune system — which I paradoxically thought my
immune system was great because I never got sick.
Many people will have no
issue through life with gluten until they develop a condition known as Leaky Gut Syndrome which can occur after antibiotics or other similar event which causes a major stress to the digestive,
immune and nervous system.
I had learned from my research that soaking and sprouting grains, nuts and legumes could help minimize food allergies.1 I also learned that a lack of beneficial bacteria in the intestines causes proteins and starches that have not been completely digested to leak
through the gut wall and provoke
immune reactions.2 While I knew that my two meals a day would not be enough to heal the children with these
issues, I resolved to do the best I could to give them foods that would not exacerbate their problems.