I don't think we can say leaky gut is not real. There's too many legit Drs who are not naturopaths who believe that while it cannot be definitively diagnosed, it does exist.
All my symptoms seem to be of the leaky gut kind and there is a blood test now that will point to leaky gut. I can try and get the name of it if you like.
There was a time when no one believed fibromyalgia or CFS or IBS was real either.
The Dr is a GP who specialises in gut health and has had success with people 'healing' their gut lining over time. I've been to enough naturopaths who think they are Drs to know many of them simply assume they know what is wrong.
This is a legit GP.
I am very sick. I've had IBS and CFS and FM and chronic asthma for years. I am deficient in a lot of nutrients and malnourished.
I'm not making digestive enymes or absorbing many nutrients from the food I eat.
I've been to GI specialists at private hospitals and had e every test there probably is.
I've been sick for far too long and I seem to have a lot of other issues other than the IBS symptoms.
So I am not saying that everyone who has IBS has leaky gut, but because no one can definitively say leaky gut does NOT exist, and a lot of well respected Drs and specialists belive it does, then I am keeping an open mind.
Sure it may not work but I gotta try. Considering no one can tell us exactly how to cure our IBS, just on how to live with it, if there's even the slightest chance that leaky gut is real and could be the cause of a lot of my issues I am gonna do all I can to give it a go.
I really urge everyone to listen to their own bodies and ensure that their IBS diagnosis IS IBS and not something else.
I used to believe it was IBS but the fact I have no good bacteria, no digestive enxzymes and am severely malnourished and it seems to all be pointing to what Drs call "leaky gut" then I think I owe it to myself to give the diet a shot.
If it cures the IBS over time then that means something. The Dr talked about the gut-brain connection aswell.
I think that IBS is caused by something that Drs still cannot cure and from what I have seen no one is even trying to cure it. We're just expected to live with it and while I am so grateful for Heather's book because it has helped so many, it would be great to be cured of the IBS. I currently can only tolerate plain rice, chicken and bread and boiled pumpkin and sweet potato and potato.
It's not getting better-it's getting worse. And I can't live off just plain white meat and smooth pureed vegies forever.
It's really hard to live like this and again, I'm not saying that everyone who has IBS has it because of leaky gut. But if there was a way to heal the gut lining in those who DO appear to have leaky gut symptoms, then I am all for trying it.
Anyway I will update on how it goes and also how my fructose test goes aswell .
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Re: Do I call what I have IBS or do I need to clear these other possibilities up first?
