Gut & Immune Health

The Gut: Where Bacteria and Immune System Meet

The immune system is inside your body, and the bacteria are outside your body and yet they interact. Gut has different kinds of layers to prevent any external pathogen from invading into the body. These layers include mucus membrane, healthy colonies of gut bacteria, layers of muscles, and connective tissue. A huge proportion of your immune system is actually in your GI tract. Certain immune cells in the lining of the gut spend their lives excreting massive quantities of antibodies into the gut. In fact, there is a lot of interaction between the body’s immune system and bacteria in the gut. Researchers at Johns Hopkins are now in the early stages of figuring out how the composition of the gut changes in different diseases, how the body’s immune system interacts with these tiny hitchhikers and particularly how that relationship may function in disease.

Having a strong gut barrier is vital to prevent the majority of chronic diseases. The strong gut layers or barriers prevent overstimulation of immune cells which are lining underneath. When immune cells get activated due to leaky gut, they produce inflammation in the body which is the root cause of chronic diseases like obesity, coronary artery disease (atherosclerosis), cancer and autoimmune disease.

Gut and Immune health coaching is created to provide knowledge to those who are suffering from chronic medical conditions, gut and immune disorders, and/or whoever seeks a healthy lifestyle.