This is what you need to know about common digestive issues

In your mind’s eye, imagine holding a bicycle inner tube. Next take a pair of scissors and cut the tube so that it hangs down in a single straight line. Then place the tube on the floor in front of you. What you now have is a design very similar to your digestive system. Both are hollow tubes with an opening at the top (the mouth) and an exit at the bottom (your butt).

If we forced food into the top of the inner tube and then squeezed it all the way down, it would eventually come out at the bottom. This would be a pretty good example of how the body expels waste. Now hold that image.

Again take out our scissors and begin making several microscopic nicks to the inner-tube. If we again try to force the food down the tube notice how some of it begins to squeeze through those tiny nicks. In theory, those tiny particles are now finding their way into the bloodstream. That’s not good, right?

Not really. The immune system is smart but it isn’t expecting to see fecal matter and particles of food floating around in the bloodstream. As far as the immune system is concerned, all partially digested bacon sandwiches are safely trapped inside the inner tube (AKA your digestive tract).

So when the immune system spots something it doesn’t recognize, it gets a little freaked out and…