Leaky Gut, Autoimmunity, and the 90-Day AIP Gut Reset

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So inflammation, sustained inflammation is extremely hard on our gut lining. Now, this is so wild. The gut lining is one cell thick. Sometimes I wonder, is this like a design flaw? Okay, it's like very, very thin.

So this is one cell layer thick is the whole barrier between the food in your gut and your bloodstream. And when it's damaged little gaps between the cells open up. All right? So a healthy gut, these are 2 cells, nice tight juncture in our gut. When inflammation kicks in it separates the cells so there's a space between the 2.

So what that means is undigested particles, bacteria, and toxins leak through. Now our immune system conducts a massive amount of activity in the gut, okay? It's like 70%. So when things start leaking through into the body and the bloodstream, the immune system, it mounts an attack. This is the pathway into Autoimmune conditions. Now, there is a specific 90-day protocol that is built to close that gap, right, these cells that are spread apart, to tighten them back up again. Remember that number that I said earlier?

1 in 6 Women that have Autoimmune conditions in Midlife that get revealed in Midlife? Well, this is the mechanism underneath so much of it. See, our immune system has lost the ability to tell your own tissue from a foreign invader, and so it mounts a protective attack. Now, let's tie the gut directly back into the opening list of Midlife symptoms. Bloating, often the gut, that's the obvious one. Hair loss can be the gut because a damaged gut can't absorb iron and B12, and low iron is one of the common drivers of hair loss in Midlife Women. Now, body aches and joint pain are also tied to the gut because the inflammation that started there now circulates.

The brain fog is frequently the gut because inflammatory signaling affects the brain differently. And moodiness can also be the gut because a large share of your serotonin production involves the gut. So the gut sits upstream of half of the list of symptoms that Midlife Women experience. If I had a magic wand, every Woman in Midlife would do what's called AIP for 90 days. Here's why. AIP is short for Autoimmune Protocol. You do not have to have an Autoimmune condition for this to be enormously beneficial if you're a Woman in Midlife or beyond.

The Autoimmune Protocol. Every food on the AIP elimination list contains specific chemical compounds that weaken the gut lining and every food on the AIP compliant list contains compounds that help stitch the gut lining back together. AIP is a gut healing protocol. So this comes down to chemistry. Inflammatory compounds versus anti-inflammatory compounds, not whether a food sounds healthy. This is really important to understand. AIP protocol for 90 days does tremendous gut healing and there are foods that you pause eating for 90 days so your gut can heal.

So these are the foods that you pause for 90 days because they are inflammatory foods. Grains. Grains contain lectins. These are proteins that bind to intestinal cells and they create gaps in the gut barrier. And phytic acid which blocks mineral absorption and feeds bacterial imbalance.

Beans and legumes. Those are paused for 90 days because they contain lectins that damage the intestinal lining directly. Also paused for 90 days are nuts and seeds. They are high in omega-6 fats that they shift the immune system toward inflammation plus phytic acid that blocks absorption of the very minerals that your thyroid and immune system need. Also paused for 90 days nightshades. Tomatoes, all peppers, and white potatoes. These contain alkaloids that directly increase intestinal permeability.

They open up the tight junctions between the gut cell. Now, so that may have you wonder, what do we eat for 90 days? Okay. Everything on the anti-inflammatory list, such as bone broth, because this contains huge amounts of collagen and glutamine, both which swiftly and directly rebuild and seal the gut lining.

Nutrient-dense animal proteins. Okay, so beef, ground beef, shaved steak, turkey, chicken, wild-caught fish because our liver muscles are in organ meat. This is incredible. They contain zinc, Vitamin A, B vitamins, all of these are necessary to repair the gut, okay? Wild caught fish has omega-3 fatty acid which calms inflammation and supports the immune's regulatory function. Tons of cooked vegetables. This provides fiber that feeds beneficial gut bacteria without the lectin load of raw grains and legumes.

You see, this is why AIP works. I did this for myself. Enormous, enormous gut healing happened. So for 90 days, you remove the compounds that are damaging your gut lining and you flood your body with the compounds that rebuild it. Okay, so that's the whole mechanism. It's not restriction or it's not about ethics or morals, a vegetarian and a vegan diet. I was a vegan for 20 years friends and it contributed massively to continued and perpetual inflammation and it damaged my gut lining because vegan foods and I'm not talking about the vegan Franken foods.

Okay. I mean just whole foods that are vegan. They are not unhealthy. Beans, nuts, seeds, these things are not rice. They're not unhealthy foods, but they contain compounds that do damage the gut lining. And so as somebody that had inflammation and damaged gut that just kept eating vegan foods, I made it myself so much worse.

So for 90 days, you give your body what it needs to re-heal the gut. It's pretty amazing how fast it happens. Now, why I recommend this for Women in Midlife is because, so in order to have an Autoimmune condition, you have to have an impaired gut lining. That's one of the 3 necessary causes for an Autoimmune condition. So eventually an impaired gut lining is very likely going to create an Autoimmune condition. That's why so many Women have them. So given how many Women in Midlife have undiagnosed Autoimmune activity and how much inflammation drives fatigue, brain fog, joint pain and bloating, this 90-day investment is one of the most valuable things that you can do to understand what your body needs.

So you will have the full list of foods in the PDF that I give you so you could do this on your own. I guide people through AIP one-on-one, you know. And then after 90 days, there's a specific method of bringing foods back in so you can see how healed is my gut, and let me tell you, you get reactions immediately if your body's not ready for it, right? Things that you couldn't see before you did the AIP, you will then see after you do it and you reintroduce foods. You'll get immediate reactions if your body's not ready for something. It's really remarkable.