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These spaces allow “foreign” material (bacteria, toxins and food) to leak into your body where they should not be, placing an additional burden on the immune and detoxification systems. If the gut is not healthy, the rest of the body cannot be either. Small numbers of molecules of different sizes and characteristics do cross the intact epithelium by both active and passive mechanisms. Once the gut lining becomes inflamed or damaged, it becomes more difficult to keep foreign, larger particles out. Antibodies are then produced against once harmless foods and your immune system becomes increasingly occupied with chores it should not have to be performing.
Continued irritation and inflammation of the gut lining causes an even greater malabsorption by reducing the overall surface area of the lining.
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