Candida/Leaky Gut
Candida
If you look around, you will see forums and groups talking about candida everywhere. And lots of programs are available through their contacts.
But the truth is, that these people are not getting any better. Treating the condition does not restore people’s health.
We don’t treat Candida. Instead we help people like you address the root cause of why Candida is there by helping you rebuild your health by building healthy lifestyles. This is the secret to restoring heath.
Chronic bloating, fatigue, brain fog, or constant digestive discomfort can make daily life extremely difficult. If these symptoms feel familiar, your gut may be struggling with increased intestinal permeability, commonly known as leaky gut.
At HealthfullyU, Dr. Brad Montagne, a functional medicine and functional wellness clinician specializing in wellness coaching to help people across the United States identify the root causes of gut dysfunction and restore healthy digestion through evidence-based nutritional, lifestyle, and functional coaching strategies.
Our approach goes deeper than symptom control, it focuses on true healing.
What Is Leaky Gut?
Leaky gut occurs when the intestinal lining becomes weakened or inflamed. This lining acts as a barrier that controls what enters your bloodstream. When it becomes permeable:
- Toxins
- Bacteria
- Undigested food particles
- Inflammatory molecules
…can move into the bloodstream and trigger widespread inflammation.
This inflammation can affect every function throughout the body.
At HealthfullyU, we focus on identifying WHY your gut barrier becomes compromised – not just treating symptoms.
Common Symptoms of Leaky Gut
Many people don’t realize their symptoms originate in the gut. You may experience:
- Persistent bloating & gas
- Abdominal pain or cramping
- Diarrhea or constipation
- Food sensitivities
- Chronic fatigue
- Joint pain or body aches
- Skin flare-ups (eczema, acne, rashes)
- Headaches or migraines
- Brain fog or concentration issues
- Anxiety or mood changes
- Autoimmune activity or unexplained inflammation
- Hormonal related problems
If these symptoms have been ongoing, a leaky gut specialist can help identify the reason behind your discomfort.
What Causes Leaky Gut?
Several factors can weaken the intestinal lining:
Diet High in Processed Foods
Refined sugar, artificial additives, and low-fiber diets can damage gut bacteria.
Chronic Stress
Stress hormones weaken the gut barrier and slow digestion.
Gut Microbe or Flora Imbalances
Overgrowth of bad microbes in your gut.
Long-Term Use of Certain Medications
Antibiotics, NSAIDs, and steroids may disrupt the gut wall and microbiome.
Food Sensitivities
Gluten, dairy, and other reactive foods can trigger inflammation.
Poor Sleep & Lifestyle Factors
Irregular sleep, alcohol, smoking, and dehydration affect gut lining repair.
Chronic Illness
Chronic health conditions are another stress that weakens your immune system, and depletes your energy stores.
Dr. Brad helps you discover all these factors using a whole-body functional Wellness approach.
Functional Medicine & Wellness Care
You need a Functional Gut Repair Framework that really works. That has to be a custom designed program that fits only you and your needs, and that changes as your needs change as you heal. This will address:
* Your eating habits
* Metabolic changes
* Hormone dysregulation
* Lifestyle needs
* More
What to Expect During Your Consultation
Online Telehealth Consultation
This is where we go through your history to find what root causes are expected in your case, and how these need to be addressed for you to be able to optimize your health.
We cover metabolic functions, hormone regulation, diet and lifestyle influences, and a lot more.
You can meet Dr. Brad from anywhere in the USA.
Your First Appointment Includes Evaluation of:
- Full metabolic systems
- Food intolerance
- Hormone systems
- Detox pathways and toxicity
- Microbial imbalances
- Initial care recommendations, and more
Follow-Up Appointments Include:
- Personalized care updates
- Supplement adjustments
- Long-term healing strategy
HealthfullyU is known for ongoing support, not one-time visits.
Why Patients Across the USA Choose HealthfullyU
40 years of experience helping people like you restore their health. Functional medicine and wellness approach backed by science Deep expertise in how your body works. Whole-body, root-cause wellness care Virtual consultations across the United States Personalized wellness plans, no generic protocols Compassionate, you-centered care
Your gut affects every system in your body, we help you rebuild your health from the inside out.
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If your symptoms have been dismissed or you still don’t have answers, HealthfullyU can probably help.
Hippocrates: The Father Of Medicine
Hippocrates, the father of medicine believed that all disease starts in the gut. He didn’t have the science that we have today to prove this, nor did he have a deep understanding of all of the interactions that go on inside of the gut. He just intuitively knew that health revolved around the gut.
Today, we can look through the lens of science to understand that Hippocrates was right.
Let’s Understand that How The Gut Works
The gut is an amazing organ. It’s lining, called the mucosa, is only 1 cell layer thick. But those cells are unique – there’s nothing like them anywhere else in the body. They have these finger like projections called microvilli that increase the surface area of the gut about 400 times.
Microvilli
The microvilli are like little fingers projecting out into the inside of the gut where your food passes. The microvilli produce a lot of mucous that does 3 things: it adds liquid to the passing food; it lubricates the gut wall; it provides a medium where the flora or microbiota live.
Microbiota
The microbiota does the bulk of our digestion. And when we look at electron microscope pictures of the gut wall, it appears that the food never touches the gut wall. The microbiota seems to act as a shuttle moving nutrients from the passing food to the gut wall for absorption.
Immune Function
Just under the mucosal lining is the submucosa where we find three quarters of our immune system. This is an intricate lymphatic chain of vessels and nodes called Peyer’s Patches. Here, the immune system is poised to deal with the primary source of incoming toxins, and bacteria escaping from the gut.
There is an intricate system of blood vessels intertwined with the immune system that carry the absorbing nutrients straight back to the liver.
Enteric Nervous System
There is also an complete nervous system inside of the gut called the enteric nervous system. This controls the functions of the gut and communicates with the brain.
Outside of the submucosa is a few layers of smooth muscle to move the food along.
And outside of the muscle layer is some really tough connective tissue to hold all of this delicate balance together.
Candida Overgrowth Symptoms: Changes With Inflammation
When any cause of inflammation stays in the gut for longer than 24 hours, several changes start to occur.
- The microvilli start to atrophy.
- The surface area of the gut wall decreases with the microvilli atrophy.
- Mucus production decreases with the atrophy, decreasing lubrication, digestive fluids, and a place for the microbiota to live.
- The microbiota starts to wash out of the gut into the toilet.
- Pathogens start to grow in place of the healthy flora.
- Food now rots and ferments rather than digest.
- This creates a toxic environment that spills out into the immune system and blood vessels.
- The liver gets overwhelmed with the toxic overflow.
- The toxicity becomes systemic.
- The systemic toxicity creates hormone dysregulation, autoimmune responses, and breaks down every metabolic process in the body.
Candida Overgrowth
Candida is a small part of the normal flora when everything is healthy an in balance.
But when the inflammatory changes described above begin to take place, Candida thrives and can become the primary microbe that grows in the gut. This is a big problem because it becomes a pathogen when it grows in large numbers.
Candida ferments food which changes digestion. And the fermentation process that it creates gives off a very strong toxin called acetaldehyde. Acetaldehyde is 7 times stronger than embalming fluid – formaldehyde.
Leaky Gut & Its Impact
The Candida causes more inflammation in the gut wall, which makes the mucosal lining leak more in 2 ways.
1. The mucosal cells are connected together by what is called tight junctions. These tight junctions begin to loosen their grip and allow undigested food particles to pass between the cells rather than through them.
2. Autoimmune responses within the gut wall begin to destroy the mucosal cells.
Systemic Toxicity Reactions
All of this makes the gut wall leak more and more. The more it leaks, the more toxic it becomes, the more it overwhelms the liver. The liver can’t process all of the toxic spillover, so whole body becomes toxic. This is called systemic toxicity.
The systemic toxins try to get out of the body through the 2 secondary elimination organs; the lungs and the skin.
The lungs start to respond with asthmatic reactions. The skin responds with unexplained rashes like eczema.
The toxins that can’t escape start to hide in all of your fat tissues making your fat stores toxic.
Thyroid and Adrenal Responses
All of your hormone producing glands are about 50% fat.
The Thyroid becomes toxic and starts to shut down. The Adrenal glands follow the thyroid. With this, the whole HPA Axis begins to dysregulate.
Brain Fog increases with the rising toxicity.
Autoimmunity
And autoimmune responses occur in reaction to the rising toxicity.
Candida starts to change and take deep root and survive. It turns from the yeast form to the fungal form and fungal parasite form. Mold is closely related to these changes.
Why People Don’t Heal with Candida
The whole reason why people can’t get help with this is really quite simple.
1. Candida is not the source of the problem, it grows in response to the real problem.
2. Most Candida Cleanse programs only hope to address the yeast form only. Anybody with chronic gut or reproductive problems usually has 3 or 4 forms of Candida that they have to deal with.
3. You can’t go after Candida to fix this problem, you have to find out why it is there and address it from that perspective.
4. Very few have the tools to figure all of this out.
5. Candida keeps changing as it tries to survive. Whoever is trying to direct people’s care need to have the tools to monitor these changes and change therapy to keep you healing.
And because this is a lucrative market, you have a lot of people that have no idea what they are doing peddling quick fixes that just can’t work.
Candida / Leaky Gut Specialist
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