The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
these results indicate that some saponins readily increase the permeability of the small intestinal mucosal cells thereby inhibiting active nutrient transport and facilitating the uptake of materials to which the gut would normally be impermeable well that is exactly what leaky gut is
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when the cell culture which was um meant to mimic the human gut was exposed to the saponins there were clear increases in transport across the membrane which is essentially the equivalent of leaky damage to the human gut these results indicate that some saponins readily increase the permeability of the small intestinal mucosal cells thereby inhibiting active nutrient transport and facilitating the uptake of materials to which the gut would normally be impermeable