One Cause, Many Ailments: The Leaky Gut Syndrome: What It Is and How It May Be Affecting Your Health

This is a phenomenal book. I read it cover to cover which I feel was important for me to get the whole understanding of treating the leaky gut. It's not a long book and easy to read.

There are many good books on natural healing, but there are only a few that will forever change the way we think about health and illness. One Cause, Many Ailments is such a book. The latest work to flow from the pen of chiropractic physician John Pagano, best-selling author of Healing Psoriasis: The Natural Alternative, it brilliantly illuminates our understanding of a condition that is just beginning to draw attention in mainstream medical circles: the Leaky Gut Syndrome (LGS). Most of us have had experiences with leaky pipes, roofs, and faucets, but leaky gut--what on earth is that? No, leaky gut does not refer to diarrhea, although, to be sure, that may be one of its concurrent conditions. Rather, leaky gut refers to an abnormal permeability of the intestinal walls, affecting the ability of the gut to assimilate nutrients and prevent leakage and reabsorption of toxic substances into the bloodstream. This ultimately leads to a vicious circle in which the body is overwhelmed by poisons it cannot get rid of, while lacking the nutrients that are the basic building blocks required for cellular regeneration. Before long, certain organ systems become affected and their function is impaired. Illness results, and we wonder where it came from. As this revolutionary book explains, numerous conditions may be attributable to LGS, including arthritis, abdominal pain and distension, chronic fatigue, migraine headaches, celiac disease, diabetes, lupus, poor exercise tolerance, psoriasis, eczema, and many others. But when we go to the doctor with our complaints, most of the time our symptoms get treated, while the underlying cause goes unrecognized. Dr. Pagano appropriately looks upon LGS as an "elusive disease," because "you can't see it; it is hidden from view; pain may or may not be present, and unless special tests, such as gastroscope testing, or even biopsy of the gut wall, are medically performed, it may remain unrecognized and continue to evade the diagnostician." And while LGS is still not fully understood in the medical world, the Cayce readings, always ahead of their time, outlined the condition and its consequences, for instance in reading 3373-1, given for a woman suffering from psoriasis. This reading describes an abnormal thinning of the walls of the duodenum that caused toxins which should have been flushed out through the alimentary canal, to be eliminated through the perspiratory system and the skin instead. For those who are not familiar with Dr. Pagano's work, he is the physician who, over an illustrious career spanning nearly half a century, has helped numerous individuals achieve near-miraculous recoveries from psoriasis, a condition that medicine considers to be incurable to this day. To obtain such amazing results, Pagano prescribed the Cayce diet first and foremost, but also applied adjunctive therapies such as castor oil packs, spinal adjustments, steam baths, and herbal teas. How are these therapies effective in treating LGS,