When gut bacteria are starved of fiber, they consume the mucus lining, compromising the gut barrier.

“how when you're starving these gut bacteria in the colon, how they start to eat away the mucus and of course that's the gut barrier that is the mucus. Most people know about the gut barrier when that breaks down, you start to have the immune cells which are usually not in contact with all these bacteria in you gut. So it starts to come in contact and then they can start to have an immune response.”