The Microbiome and Diabetes

We think what we're doing is so sophisticated and so evidence-based, but we're tinkering with systems that we have a very surface level understanding of. And then we experience all kinds of unintended side effects like we described. The greater your gut is, the more your gut is leaky, the more inflammatory substances are going to get through. We call this dysbiosis. That dysbiosis leads to a breakdown of the gut barrier. So it causes increase in intestinal permeability or leaky gut. Now who's really sensitive to inflammation in the body? And oxidation. Our mitochondria.