Much is made of the role of leaky gut in allowing the microbiome to trigger immune mediated diseases like allergies and inflammatory bowel disease, but how does one plug those leaks? We can’t, after all, easily and non-invasively take a look at the pathology affecting the gut wall and there are no lab tests to give us this information.
Fortunately, we have Chinese medicine to help give us some guidance on what might be going on. The particular signs and symptoms exhibited by a patient will suggest one of four problems as driving gut wall damage and inflammation. Each of these strategies has specific treatments that will work and ones that will definitely not be helpful. Join Dr Steve Marsden as he reviews these mechanisms of disease and how to manage them safely. He will provide cases as illustrations so you can finally start implementing more targeted and effective treatment with herbs, acupuncture and diet.