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Without a healthy GI tract, you are always sick in one way or another—or you die! Your death may be the result of a slow, insidious process, but you will be just as dead as you would be from a speeding bullet! Therefore, it is helpful to know a little about the GI tract and how it functions. The following are the primary functions of our GI tract:

1. It digests food.

2. It absorbs small food molecules which supply the fuel and energy of the body.

3. It carries nutrients, like vitamins and minerals, which are attached to what are called carrier proteins across the gut wall into the bloodstream.

4. It plays a major role in detoxification of harmful chemicals in the body.

5. It fights infection through immunoglobulins (antibodies) which act as the first line of defense against infection.

No minor task you might say. Yet, in the healthy state it carries out those functions as easily as a normal person walks across the street. But, when damage exists within the GI tract, its function is impaired, not unlike that person trying to walk across the street with two sprained ankles.

That’s when inflammation of the intestinal tract can cause all kinds of havoc—anywhere in the body! In the light of this knowledge, therefore, it seems a mistake to treat areas (or organs) of the body without giving the slightest consideration to the possibility of the GI tract being even remotely involved.