An unhealthy gut can cause leaky gut, immune activation, systemic inflammation, and increased lipid stickiness in blood vessels.

“so it kind of comes back to the idea that we need to have a healthy gut and if the gut is unhealthy and we are constantly putting stuff in the gut that is going to irritate the gut that is going to trigger the immune system that is going to cause leaky gut we could be getting immune activation that immune activation could be triggering systemic inflammation and that certainly we know can make both LDL and lipid bloodbath or our arterial blood vessels or all blood vessels in the body more sticky more proteoglycans and you get this sort of LDL stickiness in the in the blood vessels”