People who have a more active lifestyle with more exercise tend to have better gut health. There’s good evidence that poor diets, especially those high in saturated fat, are associated with leaky gut, so when we’re stressed we don’t reach for broccoli, we reach for the donuts, we also sleep more poorly when under stress, and poor sleep can also contribute to leaky gut based on animal data.

Janice Kiecolt-Glaser

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Some would respond by saying, ‘We’ll never agree on this.’ Others would get real nasty and say things like, ‘You idiot. How could you possibly say something like that?'.

Janice Kiecolt-Glaser

In a healthy marriage, you have to have emotional housekeeping. You have to discuss disagreements, but it’s the way you discuss them that has an impact on your health.

Janice Kiecolt-Glaser

When we’re stressed, it’s all the things we do and don’t do [to our bodies], in addition to the stress, that impact everything in our lives, including our relationships.

Janice Kiecolt-Glaser

Inflammation is more and more being seen as associated with a whole host of things you don’t want — cardiovascular disease, diabetes, arthritis, frailty, and functional decline.

Janice Kiecolt-Glaser

There have been animal studies that show that stress can lead to leaky gut in mice, and studies with clinical depression that have shown the same, but this shows that chronic marital stress can lead to greater gut leakiness, and that leakiness is very much associated with inflammation.

Janice Kiecolt-Glaser

The thing about a spouse is that your spouse is typically your major source of support. If your spouse becomes your major source of stress, you don’t have a major source of support, and now it’s been replaced by a major source of stress, so you now have a double whammy.

Janice Kiecolt-Glaser