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The Gut feeling, Part 1: The complex gut and its superheroes
Inflammatory bowel disease, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, microscopic colitis, lymphocytic colitis, collagenous colitis, leaky gut, irritable bowel syndrome, celiac disease – a long list of some of the different ailments and diseases that can occur in the intestine.
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Even if the intestine runs and winds pretty much in the center of our bodies and we usually take its daily functions for granted, it is still a danger zone for our health since the central canal of the intestinal tube is in contact with the outside world in both ends.
Fortunately, there are many defense systems (mucus, immune system, defense molecules) that protect the sterile inside body beyond the gut wall, where also the nutrients from our food need to find their way to help build the components of all of our cells and organs.
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Åbo universitet