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today I’m going to talk about the

importance of the intestinal mucosal

barrier so a first question is what is

it well it’s simply a barrier between

the inside of your colon which you have

all the microbes I’m talking about the

large bowel okay so most of the microbes

the friendly bacteria should exist in

the large bowel and so here are the

microbes right here and then there’s a

barrier I mucosal barrier it’s thick

there’s new kiss in it and then you have

the cells of the colon called colano

sites and these little guys will absorb

selectively certain nutrients okay now

most of your nutrients and your protein

is absorbed in the small intestine the

large bowel is all about fermenting

fiber but there is some water and some

electrolyte absorption but this mucosal

barrier is the first line of defense

okay so the body’s trying to protect

itself from pathogens and also from

these microbes getting into the body so

we want to keep these guys out here so

they can ferment fiber because our

bodies cannot break down fiber so we get

help from our friendly microbes that

live in our body this mucosal barrier

also is antibacterial so it repels

bacteria it’s also a place to ferment

fiber fiber is a carbohydrate but very

different than glucose this fiber does

not affect insulin so basically these

microbes eat the fiber and turn them

into fat small chain fatty acids okay

the most popular one is called butyrate

okay which is interesting because

butyrate is in the family of beta

hydroxy butyrate which is a ketone so it

has ketone effects also another function

of this barrier would be selective

absorption so the body is going to

absorb certain things that wants to

absorb and not other things and the one

thing is going to definitely absorb is

this fatty acid a small chain fatty acid

because the primary function of this

acid is to feed the colon cells

what’s not being fed as energy to these

cells can also be used by our body

because our liver can absorb it and use

it as energy as well another function of

this would be lubrication people are

always concerned about mucus and I don’t

want to lose mucus in my body well your

body does need this mucus to provide for

lubrication so these little guys eat

fiber they turn into these little fatty

acids one being butyrate and then

butyrate feeds the colon cells butyrate

is also an anti-inflammatory so it’s

very beneficial to people that have

inflammatory bowel conditions also it

improves insulin resistance so it helps

your blood sugars just like beta hydroxy

butyrate which is one of the ketones

very similar also butyrate is

anti-cancer and things like polyps and

tumors in the colon it also has sati

properties so it helps with hunger and

it just allows you to feel satisfied and

lastly butyrate will help maintain the

thickness of this mucosal barrier which

is very very important because if you

lose this barrier then these microbes

can get in there and create a lot of

problems so this is just another reason

why you should be consuming fiber as in

vegetables there’s a couple things that

you can do to help heal this barrier in

addition to consuming vegetables one

would be to take glutamine glutamine

helps maintain this barrier right here

colostrum also will help reestablish

this barrier it can be gotten in a

powder form at the health food store in

a minute fasting very very very

important to help heal the gut reduce

inflammation and there’s one more thing

I want to mention which is very

interesting I’m experimenting with it

with several people right now but it’s

called bpc 1:27 this is a peptide okay

it’s a natural peptide that you can take

in a pill and it goes in there and it

actually heals the lining of the gut I’m

gonna give you more information on this

in the upcoming weeks but it’s one of

the peptides that doesn’t have to be

injected you can take it orally in a

pill anyway there you have it the

importance of the intestinal mucosal

barrier

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