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Environmental Toxins, Zonulin and Leaky Gut with Dr Wendie Trubow

Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition

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The Effects of Toxins on Gut Health

Celiac is a genetically driven autoimmune disease. It's related to the HLA subtypes of DQ2 and DQ8. When you have one or two of these genes for celiac, you actually have more receptors called CXCR3 terrible name. Zonulins are the substance that cause the tight junctions in your gut to open. And when they open, they expose the tube, which is our gastrointestinal tract into our body,. Which means our immune system gets involved.

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