BY JOYCE WONG JIN YI
DO YOU know almost 80% of your body’s immune system and health reside in your gut? From your cardiovascular health to your brain health, your gut plays a crucial role. Whether you are dealing with a heart or brain problem, the first place you most often have to look is the gut. When you want to have a healthy body, pay attention to your gut. Let’s discover the uniqueness of the gut, leaky gut, what triggers leaky gut and what you can do to have a healthy gut.
To understand the entire mechanism, you need a bit of basic gut knowledge, starting with how it works. The gut is an organ system that covers the digestion process. The intestines are where the hard work of digestion takes place. It functions as the primary surface of nutrient absorption. They are lined with microvilli, microscopic cellular membrane bulges that increase the intestine’s surface area where nutrient absorption occurs.
