I watched a you tube video by Stephen Gundry MD, who was a pediatric heart transplant doc at Loma Linda with a stellar reputation.  He is talking about glial cell inflammation.  It startled me- he said no neurosurgeons have any hypothesis for how glial cells are getting inflamed.  He did research and got some excellent research teams and labs to start putting a gut protecting vitamin together.  I got some for Greg, thinking it can’t hurt.  Andy’s belief in mushroom-based herbal brain supplements seem to be well-founded.  The vitamin Dr Gundry makes is called “total restore”.  I am taking it too now, trying to stay mentally intact.  The video is exhaustingly marketing material, but the principle seems right to me.  Last night I watched a research neurologist talk to Dr. Mark Hyman about brain and neurological inflammation.  He thinks we are close to a huge new breakthrough which may help ALS patients.  His data isn’t published yet but it is also quite amazing.  It was about C dificile getting into the brain from the leaky gut and through the bloodstream.  His name is Dr. Lombard.  I also recently saw a similar video clip by a 35yr-in-practice ENT doc, about mouth flora and gum disease.  The remedy he proposes is pro-biotics most active in mouth flora,  combined in a gel lozenge to melt in the mouth.  He says he turned around a patient with terrible gum disease, without surgery, in 60 days.  All of this is pretty wonderful news, which of course dovetails with what we know about cardiac disease and other inflammatory problems in every system.  
For quite a while I have been worried about sugar and even more, corn syrup, as causes of problems in the health of our people.  So all of this makes me want to tell people and experiment with dietary supplements and better food choices. 
I also got a new vitamin from a friend’s ex-husband, who is a pharmacological chemist with sterling credentials.  He tested several ingredients to try to build a better immune support, which would not increase the  inflammatory response.   It is called Fierce Immunity.  It is made by a company called “Rebellion”.  The phD who came up with the recipe has a stellar reputation which he would hardly want to sully, and financial independence.  It contains vitamin D, zinc,  l-arginine and Hesperidin, and Quercetin.  I feel that my arthritis is better since I started it.  He tested it with AI support against 700 diseases, and the most common diseases of aging.  It helped in each case.  It works on the biochemistry links between cells, like the old telephone node system, to optimize immune function.  I figure it is better to be on only one vitamin rather than possibly having counter-productive interactions.     It is meant to be a Once-a day supplement.  
Granted this is just me, others may know more, but I think it is worth trying to do the best I can to stay healthy! 
I thought I would share it with you all, as one friend asked for the name of the leaky gut support from Dr. Gundry: “total restore .“