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let’s talk about intestinal permeability  or leaky gut this is a situation where  

there are holes in your intestine and your  food particles are getting into these holes  

into the lymphatic system and then your immune  system is going to react to it you’re going to  

have all sorts of allergies you’re gonna have  inflammation then you’re gonna get scar tissue  

and now i’ve done other videos on this and i’ve  talked more about certain foods that destroy your  

gut lining and that cause a leaky gut like gluten  for example taking antibiotics consuming foods  

that are inflammatory but in this video i want  to talk about another control mechanism that is  

superior to that and it is the vagus nerve the  vagus nerve comes from the brain stem and it goes  

throughout the entire thorax into your abdomen  it goes down into your pelvis and it’s a very  

long nerve and you actually have two of them okay  and 80 of that nerve goes down and only 20 goes up  

and so we have this huge communication network  between our brain and our gut and so the vagus  

nerve helps to maintain this intestinal barrier to  prevent pathogens and other things from crossing  

over into your body now they’ve done experiments  on vagal nerve stimulation to show how that can  

protect the gut barrier now from my experience  i don’t recommend stimulating your vagus nerve  

there’s other ways to go about this but they  did find that when you stimulate the vagus nerve  

it actually protects this barrier this gut barrier  also low vagal activity so when there’s low  

function in your vagus nerve you have an increase  in permeability and inflammation and so the vagus  

nerve is all a part of something called the  autonomic nervous system the vagus nerve is part  

of the division called the parasympathetic and  the parasympathetic is all about rest and digest  

and so this division of the autonomic nervous  system also helps you secrete hydrochloric acid  

it helps you release enzymes from your pancreas it  helps you release bile from your gallbladder it’s  

involved in peristalsis that’s the pumping action  of your colon it helps you prevent inflammation  

and also controls the valves of the stomach  above the stomach and below the stomach and  

helping to prevent a condition called gerd and  so the vagus nerve has this protective function  

in the intestinal epithelial barrier now that’s  all very interesting but the question is what if  

we have a problem with the vagus nerve what is the  best thing to do well there just happens to be a  

very key nutrient that supports the vagus nerve  and that is thiamine and the question where does  

it come from it comes from grains but here’s the  problem when you consume grains grains have gluten  

and that will destroy the gut so you don’t want to  get your b1 from grains in fact consuming grains  

creates a deficiency of b1 you want to get your  b1 from nutritional yeast you can also get it from  

sunflower seeds if you have gut issues i think  it’s very very important to not neglect vitamin  

b1 in the control of intestinal permeability hey  before you go if you’re benefiting from any of my  

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