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A SINGLE DOSE of ibuprofen increased gut permeability in healthy humans WITHIN 24 HOURS. Not weeks. Not months. Hours. That Advil you took for your headache. The ibuprofen before your workout. The naproxen for your back. PMID: 19148789 Each one widened the gaps in your intestinal lining — the same tight junctions that keep bacteria, endotoxins, and undigested food out of your bloodstream. A study of 286 patients on long-term NSAIDs found measurable intestinal inflammation in up to 72% of them. PMID: 9824604 This isn’t rare. This is the norm for regular users. Once the barrier opens, bacterial endotoxins (LPS) leak into circulation. Your immune system mounts a low-grade inflammatory response. Insulin signaling breaks. Your body starts storing visceral fat — the deep fat around your liver and intestines that no amount of cardio burns off. The gut damage came first. The belly fat followed. Most people treat the inflammation with more NSAIDs. Which causes more permeability. Which causes more inflammation. The loop doesn’t break on its own. The barrier has to be rebuilt. A 2020 review in Current Pharmaceutical Design (PMID: 32445447) found BPC-157 resealed gut barrier integrity across multiple models of intestinal damage — including damage from NSAIDs specifically. When I first tried BPC-157, the urgency and bloating that followed every meal improved noticeably within 2 days. Not a full fix overnight — but enough to know the tissue was responding. I use Barrier — oral BPC-157 designed to dissolve across the full GI tract, where the damage actually lives. Stop feeding the loop. Fix the wall. Barrier — code GUNNAR saves 15%.