A fast-growing number of diseases are recognized to involve changes in intestinal permeability and include celiac disease, Hashimoto???s thyroiditis, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 diabetes, inflammatory bowel diseases, ankylosing spondylitis and other autoimmune diseases and conditions such as asthma, glioma (type of tumor that starts in the brain or spine), diseases of the nerv