Gluten (gliadin), glyphosate, and pathogens like candida introduce toxic peptides that make the gut mucosa produce large amounts of zonulin. This zonulin dissolves tight junctions in the gut wall that would normally keep it virtually impenetrable to inappropriate material. That’s what causes leaky gut. That leaky gut then leaks zonulin into the bloodstream, which goes everywhere. Zonulin proceeds to attack membranes all over the body, resulting in leaky blood-brain barrier, leaky blood vessels, kidney tubules, liver cells, and more. Meanwhile, just behind the gut wall sits the gut associated lymphatic tissue (G.A.L.T. for short) which makes 80% of the immune system’s antibodies – which is why they say some 80% of your immune system is located in the gut. Broken tight junctions expose the GALT to every inappropriate substance that enters the digestive tract. This irritates the lymphatic system, which exhausts its antioxidant reservoirs, dis-regulates the immune system, and unleashes chronic inflammation. And, unrelenting inflammation drives all degenerative diseases, most notably ADD and GAPS conditions.