In this week’s podcast, we discuss how the ketogenic diet can put autoimmune conditions in remission.
Autoimmune disorders come in many shapes and sizes, ranging from type 1 diabetes to ulcerative colitis, resulting in many different symptoms, but they all have the same root cause: leaky gut. Damage to the intestinal wall allows undigested food particles to enter our blood supply that can eventually lead to an immune response. Our immune system recognizes these undigested food particles as foreign invaders and tries to eliminate them. This is the proper response. However, overtime the immune system can become hyperactive and mistake our own cells as one of these foreign invaders, known as cellular mimicry, and it will start to attack our own cells as if they’re not supposed to be there. This is what happens when you develop an autoimmune disease.
None of this would happen if the intestinal barrier remained intact and strong. So what’s the quickest way to destroy our gut? Eating foods that are rich in lectins such as gluten from wheat. Gluten activates a protein called zonulin, which breaks down the tight gap junctions between our intestinal cells and allows particles to get past them. So removing these toxic foods is a must if you want to heal your gut.
Luckily, all foods that are very high in gluten are not allowed on the ketogenic diet. Foods like oatmeal and bread. Therefore, a properly formulated ketogenic diet will give your GI tract time to heal. Once that happens, your body can finally start fighting back against the autoimmune condition. To learn more about how the ketogenic diet can help put autoimmune conditions in remission, listen to this week’s podcast.
Links To Studies Mentioned
Lectins Causing Type 1 Diabetes
Gluten Increasing Gut Permeability
Study from the NIH showing dietary change helping with autoimmune diseases
Here’s a podcast by Mikhalia Peterson
Here’s a link to Mikhalia Peterson website
Glyphosate, pathways to modern diseases II: Celiac sprue and gluten intolerance
