“The Human Shutdown” on BrightU: How your gut’s collapse is poisoning your brain and fueling the autoimmune epidemic The Human Shutdown” Episode 6 presents a radical theory that the root cause of autoimmune disorders, mental illness and even cancer is a single cascading failure: the breakdown of the intestinal barrier (leaky gut). When the “tight junctions” in the intestinal lining open too wide, harmful substances like undigested proteins and bacteria enter the bloodstream, triggering inflammation and immune responses. The immune system attacks the body due to “molecular mimicry,” where undigested proteins from a leaky gut are so similar to the…

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