Anxiety and Depression - What's the Messiness of the Gut?

When it comes to diagnosing what the actual issue is with the gut, we just generally don't have enough. To be able to really discriminate what's going on in the gut that's causing specific mental health problems is more of a trial and error system. So you know, with something like irritable bowel syndrome, sometimes the person does have leaky gut. Sometimes they have small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. Sometimes it's a fungal, candida kind of thing. But again, that's like the gray area that's really frustrating and really scary for people who already have preexisting anxiety.

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