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Page 16| Abby's Magazine - www.AbbysMag.com The Cleanest Performance Line Ever From pre-workout to post-workout and everywhere in between, Garden of Life ® Sport has you covered. NON Project V E R I F I E D nongmoproject.org GMO S ff, painful fingers? Aching knees? A chronic pain in the back? We o en a ribute these ills to an unfortunate effect of aging. It's arthri s, we say, resigned. But what if the pain in our joints was actually caused by an imbalance in another part of the body, in the gut? A recent ar cle in The Atlan c magazine reviews several studies that uncover links between microbes in the gut and other diseases such as rheumatoid arthri s (RA). Rheumatologist Jose Scher found that people with RA had higher levels of a certain type of bug in the intes nes than people without RA did. Scher also found that people with psoria c arthri s had significantly lower levels of a type of bacteria than those without the inflammatory disease. This connec on isn't just between the gut and arthri s—it's a connec on that can be found between the gut and any type of inflamma on in the body. Maybe you've just sprained your ankle and have been on Motrin, trying to hobble through your day, or maybe you've been taking birth The Connection Between Leaky Gut and Joint Pain control pills for years. Or perhaps you just had a viral gastroenteri s. Any of these situa ons can irritate the small intes ne, causing a leaky gut or intes nal permeability—a condi on when the food par cles passing through the intes ne "leak" into the blood stream, triggering the immune system to go into a ack mode against the invaders. In addi on, most things that live in our gut are camouflaged so that they can survive there. But when your gut is leaky, the camouflage doesn't work as well. In fact it can be quite dangerous to us. When your body tries to make an bodies against a camouflage, it o en makes an bodies that inadvertently cross- react with your own body, resul ng in autoimmunity. Because the leaky gut results in increased inflamma on, if you have a predisposi on to inflamma on in your joints, this general increase in inflamma on in your body will result in joint pain. This research suggests that even if you are not diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, if you have general joint discomfort, the problem may not dwell in your knee, but in your gut.