Page 11 - Autoimmune diseases

small components by your stomach and the first

part of your small intestine, the food you have

eaten is absorbed into your body in the middle and

later part of your small intestine.

The proper functioning of this area of your

small intestine is crucial to your overall well being.

If you do not absorb the nutrients from your food

here properly, your body will become malnourished

and begin to malfunction and break down overtime.

If, however, you absorb aspects from your food that

are potentially damaging to the body (think

additives to food, any bacteria that may have

survived, or parts of food like lectins that disrupt

the functioning of the body), you can create health

problems in the body. What helps your body to

absorb that which you do want from food from that

which you do not want is the structure of the walls

of the small intestine.

The area of the small intestine where you

absorb nutrients has a sort of filter that is only one

cell thick. On one side of this filter is the space

where all of your food is passing through the small

intestine. On the other side of this filter is where

you have blood and lymph vessels where the