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Most everyone with a reasonable amount of education knows we have a mouth that leads into the esophagus, which in turn leads into the stomach, and from the stomach, the intestinal tract, and finally the large intestine, or colon. That’s about it. And in most cases, that’s all that’s necessary to get on in this world as far as digestion is concerned. With a little bit of luck, this sequence of anatomical structures, which constitutes the alimentary canal, will serve us faithfully, if not abused over a long period of time.

But when something goes awry in any of these sections, repair begins at once and can range from natural healing to open surgery, depending on the nature of the problem. This is nothing new. But what may be considered new to most people is how these organs are put together. The cellular structure that makes up the body is mind-boggling. Since we are concerned primarily with the small intestine, let’s focus on this tube that stretches from the lower end of the stomach to the ileocecal valve that leads into the five-foot-long large intestine (the colon) and through the sigmoid colon and rectum, where the residue of digestion exits the body.

Fig. P2—The Normal Digestive Tract

Fig. P3—Where the Leaky Gut Begins