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How to heal your microbiome after antibiotics | Dr Will Bulsiewicz, MD

The Proof with Simon Hill

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The Disruption of the Gut Barrier

The gut is a single layer of cells incredibly thin. You couldn't see it with the naked eye, it's like taking a piece of your plucking one of your hairs and then shaving it probably a couple times. So that's those epithelial cells are what separate, you mentioned before, the tube, the outside world to our body. This is the principal layer that is creating this separation between the outside world and our body. And within this context, the disruption that this has had on actually the physical barrier, it ends up breaking up these tight junctions, and you get this increase in intestinal permeability.

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