Intestinal Permeability is now recognized as a link to clinical infections, food allergy, Crohn's disease, dermatological conditions, colitis and auto-immune disease such as rheumatoid arthritis, and other "allergic" disorders. Decreased permeability appears as a fundamental cause of malnutrition, malabsorption and failure to thrive. Causes can be linked to poor digestion over use of NSAIDS, or Candida which cause tiny holes (permeability of the mucossal barrier). Now undigested food, bacteria and other material can enter the blood stream, but the immune system looks at this material as a foreign invader and attacks it. So the food is no longer a nutrient, it becomes a toxin, further adding to your toxic load, leading to allergic symptoms!

The small intestine has the paradoxical dual function of being a digestive/ absorptive organ for nutrients as well as a powerful barrier against the excessive absorption of bacteria, food antigens and large molecules. Increased permeability of the intestinal mucosal barrier can increase the number of toxins & antigens entering the bloodstream and lead to an overly sensitized immune system in some individuals. Decreased permeability, on the other hand, appears as a fundamental cause of malnutrition, malabsorption and failure to thrive. A number of clinical disorders are associated with both conditions. See lab Test: Leaky Gut

All lab tests can be done through the mail in the privacy of your own home, except blood tests, we send you to a lab to have your blood drawn for these. After you pay for the test we mail you the kit, the results take two weeks, the test results will be mailed to us and we will call you to go over the results, its that easy! All tests include the consultation for the report of findings.

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