Heal Your Gut, Heal Your Mind Depression can start with a leaky gut — here’s how to make it end there Source: Pixabay Itwould be foolish to believe that depression can be overcome with a single solution. But for some people, the light at the end of the tunnel shines in a very surprising place. It certainly did for me. Healing my depression came with healing my gastrointestinal tract—my gut. When I became a nutrition student in 1992, I had a lot of healing to do. I had the irritable bowel from hell. No treatment had worked: not conventional medicine, nor the truly woo-woo stuff. What I discovered, as a student, was that I had something called a “leaky gut”. Cue much hilarity at that. The term leaky gut conjures up an image of cartoonish pseudoscience. But when given its scientific nomenclature — “intestinal permeability” — the idea immediately gains credibility. Furthermore...