Gut Connection Webinar 9/30/26

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Okay, so today we are talking all about the gut connection.

And so, why are you bloated?

Why do you have brain fog?

Hair loss?

A bunch of different symptoms come up all the time, and oftentimes they're all connected to the gut.

And so that's what tonight's going to be all about, is like talking about, all right, how are things actually connected to the gut?

For what does that mean?

And what do I actually have to pay attention to when it comes to symptoms?

I talk to a lot of people who come to me with gut issues.

They've tried probiotics, they've tried elimination diets, they've tried just manage your stress, all those simple advice, but still, they're bloated, they're exhausted, they have all these strange symptoms, and they're Googling to like, 11pm Trying to figure out, like, okay, is this just me?

Like, do I have to live with this?

Like, do it.

Is there someone else I go to?

Do I go to another doctor?

Do I just live with this?

Like, what am I supposed to do?

But here's the deal is I want you to be able to walk away tonight with the idea of understanding that the gut isn't just about digestion.

It's involved with so many different parts of the body.

I actually heard a doctor say this week, in a webinar I was actually listening to, and they said that eventually every doctor becomes a, a gastroenterologist.

And his point was saying that, like, every system is essentially linked to the gut.

So.

So it's really important to start to look at your different symptoms and be able to figure out that, like, those random symptoms you have aren't necessarily random.

Symptoms, they are linked back to something else.

And typically it runs through the gut.

And so I want to talk about that as we get started.

It's really important for me to understand, okay, like, what is the gut?

Because people ask me that all the time when I start talking, like, what does that actually mean?

So, a little, just like Digestive GI tract 101.

So you, you eat food.

It starts in your mouth, right?

So food goes in your mouth.

your esophagus is going to connect your mouth with your stomach.

Your stomach's actually in your upper part of your abdominal cavity, right?

So it's up right underneath your ribs.

And then from there it goes into your small intestine and then your large intestine.

Now, in your small intestine, about 90% of absorption of nutrients happens there.

And so, and that's going to be like, in the middle, essentially, of your abdomen.

So most of the time when people say, my stomach hurts, they're really indicating, or they generally push towards where their, intestines are.

So your small intestine does a lot of the absorption, and then in your large intestine will absorb some, like, bile salts and some, fluids and electrolytes.

But for the most part, we think about the large intestine.

The role is going to be where it houses all of your microbiome.

So when I talk about the gut, typically I'm talking about your small and large intestine.

And then when I'm talking about your gut microbiome, I'm referring to the bacteria that actually make up, that actually live inside your large intestine.

So when I talk about gut microbiota, that is your large intestine bacteria, and there are trillions of bacteria that actually live in your large intestine.

so that is what, that's what the gut is.

All right?

Your gut is literally connected to every system in the body.

Every system in the body is connected to the gut.

And I would say if you don't think it's that way, ask me about it and I will, have a good conversation about how it all links back to the gut.

So in thinking about that, we're going to go through a couple of just like, systems.

I don't have enough time to go through every single body system.

So here are five symptoms we're going to go through and talk about how the gut is actually linked to these.

So let's start off with the brain.

So your gut brain connection is something that I hear people talking about all of the time.

And about 80% of the conversation that goes from between your gut and your brain, 80% actually starts in your gut and travels up to your brain.

All only about 20% of it actually goes from your brain down to your gut.

Now, if you have any type of abnormality that's going on in your gut, whether your microbiome has a ratio of bacteria that is off, whether there's inflammation for any reason, whether there's an immune response that can actually have a feedback loop and affect your brain, and we know that when inflammation affects your gut, it can actually affect your blood brain barrier.

So your blood brain barrier is this barrier protection that's supposed to protect your brain.

Right?

And so when there's inflammation down in the gut, it can actually cause inflammation up in your brain and make your blood brain barrier actually more permeable.

Meaning that things that are not supposed to actually go into your brain.

Right, the things that are not supposed to be in that environment can actually get through and actually increase inflammation there, as well as an immune response happening specific there.

So when people talk about brain fog or slowing down or feeling kind of fuzzy, like, that can be linked to your gut, because if there is inflammation there, it can actually go up and affect your brain.

We also know that a lot of your tissues are affected by your gut as well.

So like I said, in your small intestine, about 90% of nutrient absorption happens there.

Therefore, if something is happening upstream, so whether it's in your stomach, even higher up, like your mouth, your stomach, or even parts of your small intestine that are impacting your absorption capacity or your ability to absorb different nutrients, whether it be macronutrients like carbs, fat and protein, or micronutrients, your vitamins and your minerals, that can actually have an impact on the different, different tissues within your body.

Right?

So, like, hair and nails are some of the easiest ones that people pay attention to.

especially like if your hair starts to be impacted, whether it gets bright brittle, whether you start to notice that it's falling out.

That is when people start to be like, hey, what's actually going on?

A lot of times that can be linked back.

Yes, if you might have some nutrient absorption issues, but what's actually causing that nutrient malabsorption, why are you not absorbing that?

and nails are something that are impacted as well.

So recently I actually had this client a, and she came to me and with some gut issues.

But it was really interesting because as we were going through her whole intake, so we were able to Do a test and be able to see some abnormalities.

But my intake also takes, like, a really long time.

So going through a lot of her symptoms, I started to notice that some of the patterns that she was reporting on her nails actually came, like, made sense because they fell in line with all the things that we could see within her digestive tract as well.

So as we looked at her GI testing, we were able to say, like, okay, we know that you have a malabsorption issue.

We know it's linked to stomach acid, because I'm seeing these patterns on your nails in addition to what we're seeing on your GI map, which is a, stool test that I had her do.

And so by being able to link that, we can identify, okay, this is where your abnormality is actually coming from.

And this is what we need to address.

when it comes to other tissues that we see impacted as well are going to be things like skin.

and, yeah, skin is another one that comes up oftentimes.

Your immune system is another thing that's going to be impacted by your digestive tract.

So people that get sick so stuffy all the time, chronic irritation, that is generally an indication that there's something going on in your gut.

we know that about 70% of your immune cells actually live in your gut lining.

So if there's something that is impacting your gut lining for whatever reason, that can actually have a role or play, have an impact on your immune system and the way that your body is responding, whether it's to environmental toxins, whether it's food toxins, like food as well, that can lead to food sensitivities as, as well, as well as someone that might have an uptick, whether it's like, mold exposure or, even environmental allergies that they start getting stuffy, and they didn't used to do that, it can be impacted by the way that their gut lining is actually the environment of their gut lining.

Sex hormones or different types of hormones are something that we link all the time to your gut as well.

And I recently had someone come to me.

I've had a couple people come to me, both males and females, who have had hormonal issues.

And we've been able to fix their gut and therefore fix those hormonal issues as well.

And some of the reason is because, so our sex hormones are actually based in fat.

So if we have any sort of abnormality that's impacting our ability to absorb fat, we run the risk of actually having abnormal sex hormones as a Result of that, because our body doesn't have the ability to make them, right.

It doesn't have the body ability to be able to make them and be able to transport them throughout the body the way that they're supposed to go.

So whether it's a dysbiosis.

And so when.

I mean that, like, you have different ratios of bacteria in your large intestine, so we have what's called your commensal bacteria, and that's like your healthy bacteria, the stuff that's supposed to, like, ferment.

different fibers produce things like short chain fatty acids, and that feeds a healthy environment in your gut.

All right, so we have our good ones, our commensals.

Then we have our opportunistic.

And opportunistic are the ones that are, like, gonna be present, but beyond a certain threshold, they can actually cause damage.

And so when we talk about dysbiosis or something that's impacting your gut microbiome, the ratio of, like, essentially the good versus the opportunistic is off, and it's leading to abnormalities, whether it's in digestion, absorption, or just the byproducts that they're making are out of whack with what your body actually needs to do, what it needs to do.

All right, so when it comes to our sex hormones, if we have dysbiosis, if there's a different ratio than is oper to like, than is op optimal, then we can notice that there are.

We have abnormalities in the way that our sex hormones are synthesized and transported throughout our body.

Another thing we know is that there is actually an enzyme in our gut that helps specifically with estrogen.

So I see this most often with females that are having some sort of, like, menstrual issues or, like, really heavy periods or really extreme symptoms around their period is sometimes, all right, that enzyme can actually increase and be in excess.

And so what that means is when our body has excess estrogen, it wants to get rid of it.

That hormone or that enzyme is going to actually cleave it and have our body reabsorb it, which can lead to things like estrogen dominance, which we don't want, because that can impact fertility.

It can impact your, period symptoms.

So things that are negative.

So again, if your gut is out of whack, that can actually lead to those issues and then thyroid.

So most of the time, people hear of thyroid, and they think of, like, weight loss, weight gain, everything.

So our thyroid hormones are helpful for just maintaining, metabolism.

We know that there's Part of our gut that actually helps convert our different types of thyroid hormones.

So we have different types of hormones that are produced in our thyroid and different types of hormones in general.

They generally are in what's called an inactive form.

And so for our body to actually use it, it has to go and convert to something else.

Our gut in our large intestine is where that thyroid hormone actually goes from inactive to active.

So if you have something that's going on in your gut, it can actually impact your thyroid hormone, which can lead to decreases in your thyroid hormone.

It can lead to stubborn weight gain.

It can lead to.

And that a lot of times I see people that have been on these thyroid, medications for a really long period of time, but no one's actually thought to look in their gut.

and that is, can or has the potential to be the root of what is actually leading to their thyroid hormone kind of being out of whack.

So this is like just an overview of these are different symptoms or different systems that actually, like, are all one system because they're all connected to the gut in ways that, we can see that there might be a gut abnormality.

And the interesting thing is, typically when people come to me, they don't just have one issue.

So it's not just like, I have brain fog.

It's like, I have brain fog and.

And my hair is falling out and there's something up with my period, or I have stubborn weight gain and I'm sick all of the time, or, I'm bloated all the time.

And, you know, my nails are getting kind of funky and, like, I'm getting colds and stuff.

So typically when we're looking at it, we're looking at multiple different, We're looking at different symptoms to actually tell us the whole story.

These are some specific patterns that I actually see on a weekly basis.

And these are going to be GI Specific.

Even.

Even though we know that gut issues aren't necessarily all, like, GI Specific.

Like, yes, you can have bloating and you can have all these, like, abnormal, like, bowel movements and everything, but you can have, like I said, some things going on with different systems.

So it's not necessarily just this, but these are some common bowel or, different types of GI symptoms.

I see bloating.

So when it comes to bloating, it's.

There are different types of bloating, right?

So there are some that happen, like, right after you eat.

And that's generally going to be indicative of, like, do we have issues with, like, stomach acid or enzyme enzymes that are being produced in your upper, digestive tract?

Because that's required to, like, break down foods so that you can absorb things later on.

So if you eat food and then all of a sudden you're bloated, that tells me that in your upper GI tract something is out of whack.

And typically I see it's either stomach acid or an enzyme issue, right?

It's not breaking down your food fast enough.

Another thing I see is, like, bloating that gets gradual throughout the day.

And typically when I see that, it's because there's an issue deeper down into the digestive tract.

So small intestine or large intestine, some people will even be fine when they go to bed and then they'll wake up bloated.

If that happens, then I'm going to be looking in their lower digestive system.

Like, those are the symptoms I'm going to be looking for, because that's going to be indicative that something's going on further down versus higher up in their digestive tract.

one of the patterns that's really common is low stomach acid and reflux.

So here's what I mean.

this is one particular person that came to me that had reflux.

They had, undigested food in their stool.

Their testosterone, was actually really low.

This is a male, right?

And they came to me.

So what I normally see with reflux and stomach acid, so when you eat food, food is going to go down into your stomach.

And we actually need enough stomach acid, one, to start to break down food.

Right?

We also need it to be able to activate some of the enzymes that actually break down food.

So, so, for example, pepsin is something that breaks apart proteins.

We need enough, acid in order for our body to actually start to break down that protein and activate that or that enzyme.

if you don't have enough stomach acid, then protein doesn't get broken down quite as much as it should.

Not only that, but acidity in that food allows for it to transition to the next part of your digestive system.

If you don't have enough acid, then it kind of hangs out for a longer period of time because you, your body slows things down.

So things can actually get broken down sufficiently as it moves throughout your digestive system.

So what that means is you eat food, hangs out in your stomach, it starts to produce, it starts to actually ferment higher up.

It shouldn't.

Right.

It should get to your lower part of your intestines before it starts to ferment.

But because it's moving so slow, it stays there.

That increase in pressure because of that actually starts to push on, the little, like, clamp that goes at the top of your stomach back up your esophagus and can lead to reflux.

So oftentimes I find that people who actually have reflux, it's not because they have too much stomach acid.

It's actually too little, and the food is hanging out for too long.

And it's that pressure, because that food can't move down because of the low stomach acid that actually leads to this reflux.

So that's what was going on with this individual, that I was working with.

He came to me, he had reflux, he had all these other signs of low stomach acid.

We did some testing, and we're able to figure out, like, all right, yes, you're.

The patterns that we're seeing on this stool testing is really indicative of low stomach acid.

Once we went and actually supported that stomach acid, not only did the reflux go away and the bloating right after he was eating went away, like, he didn't have bowel issues anymore because he was dealing with, like, loose stools as well, and his testosterone shot up.

Because stomach acid also is going to break down different foods and allow you to absorb things like fat, which is going to be a precursor for testosterone.

So.

So it allowed the whole system to work a lot better.

another pattern I see is when people come to me and they're like, hey, I was told to eat clean and eat more fiber, and all of a sudden I just feel actually worse.

So that's one of the hardest places I find people to be, is they start to have GI symptoms, they go and try to clean up their diet, and then they actually feel terrible afterwards.

If that's happening, that's going to tell me that there's a bacterial, ratio that is off.

Right.

When your body eats food that has fiber, it's going to lead to some fermentation.

But if you feel terrible and worse, that means your body is so out of whack that the ratio of the different bacteria aren't prepared to actually react to the food the way that it's intended to.

And so that's when you need to seek a little bit more help, because eating more fiber, isn't going to make it better.

You're probably going to feel the more symptoms.

And also not eating fiber is going to make it worse over time because it's going to decrease any of that commensal bacteria.

And, and so that is a, really, that's a good sign when someone has that symptom.

I'm like, all right, you gotta go and do a little bit more testing because at that point food's not gonna make it better.

So if you've gotten stuck there, that's because someone didn't look deep enough.

They were giving you the simple answer.

And if the simple answer and solution didn't make things better, then you gotta dig a little bit more.

Okay, that was the exa, one of the things that happened with this individual that I was working with.

So she came to me and again was having like sleep stomach issues.

And she went and was put on a low fodmap diet because that happens all the time.

And it worked for a little bit and then all of a sudden like it wasn't working anymore and she started feeling terrible.

And the problem was, is they didn't give her a transition off of the low fodmap.

They were like, hey, just start on it.

And she was in her 20s and just like, stay on it.

But the problem is, is low fodmap is going to decrease the types of fibers, so it's going to impact your gut in a negative way.

But it's supposed to be used temporarily.

So anyways, when we work together, we were able to like do additional testing, figure out that her bacteria was all off, go and address that dysbiosis or that ratio that was off, heal it back up.

So now she's in the process of actually reintroducing food.

She hasn't eaten in like five years.

but it took a process of actually going through that.

another pattern that a lot of people kind of like dismiss or they'll like make fun of is like, if you have pretty foul smelling gas on a regular basis, that's not something to look past.

All right, I know it's like funny and like kind of embarrassing, but there are different things that our body starts to tell us.

And this is one thing that it's like, okay, that's actually indicative of something that's not supposed to happen.

If it happens like once a year, all right, you probably ate something funky and that's not the way that you're supposed to do it.

But if this happens on a regular basis, this should be an alarm bell that, like, hey, this isn't supposed to happen and I need to do something about it because that's going to be indicative of how your body's actually the different types of gases it's producing.

And there are some times when there's a dysbiosis, so the ratio of your bacteria is off, it can lead to fermentation in an overproduction of certain amounts of gases.

When that happens, that can be indicative that there's an issue.

Typically, this is going to be paired up with different types of bloating as well.

So when those two come together and it's not just something that you deal with, that's something that you actually look into.

All right.

A lot of times when symptoms come up, it's not like I said before, it's not just one symptom.

It's a bunch of them that go together that allow you to kind of, like, take a step back and figure out, like, okay, what's actually going on.

So here are some additional symptoms that people don't always identify as being gut symptoms, but they are.

so first one is, like, acne and sugar cravings.

Typically, people are like, I have acne, and, like, I'm, like, addicted to sugar all the time.

What they're not paying attention to is they probably have some stomach pain.

That's happening on a regular basis, too.

They've just normalized it.

So when you get those symptoms together, that is indicative of certain things that can be going on in your digestive system, and they're worth looking into.

Another one, like I said.

So if you have reflux all the time, and if you start having, like, splitting nails again, that's going to be indicative of some nutrient malabsorption.

You should look into that because you need to be able to fix the absorption issues, because that's going to fix both of those things.

Brain fog.

Brain fog and sleep disturbances happen all of the time.

And I think a lot of times people just, like, they take melatonin, they take, zma, they start taking magnesium, they, do all the things.

If you're taking all of the supplements, if you're trying all of the, like, stress techniques and the no blue light and everything like that, and it's not working, that tells me there's a deeper issue.

And typically, when it comes to that, there is something going on that's inflamed in your gut, and you have to address that.

Migraines is another thing.

If you have migraines all the time and you can't figure out where they're coming from, I would check the gut, because, again, there's a large connection between your gut and your brain.

It happens all the time that I see that connection, hair breakage and low energy, if that's happening, that needs to be looked into.

A lot of times people are like, it's just low iron.

If you have that and have been on low.

I've, been on iron supplements, and it's not getting better.

It is not just low iron.

You need to go figure out, is it an absorption issue?

Is it some other types of issue?

Because things like your thyroid can be impacted.

Dysbiosis can impact your thyroid.

So if you go and you're just, like, supplementing and supplementing and it's not getting better, that is not a reason to just increase your supplements.

That's a reason to look at why your body's not handling them the way it's supposed to.

Heavy periods and PMS and breast tenderness.

We've talked about this before.

Those are also indicative of potential, hormonal abnormalities that are oftentimes linked to your gut.

So I think we've, like, normalized.

Like, hey, it's totally fine.

Like, I just have really heavy periods or I just have, like, crazy pms.

Like, those things aren't actually normal.

Like, a little bit of it is fine.

But if it's, like, really off the charts, that's something that you need to look into, because that's not normal.

So whether you're looking into hormones and.

Or hormones that are impacted by your gut, that's something that you need to take a step towards.

Chronic colds and stuffiness is another thing.

So if you're stuffy every once in a while, like, the season changes, whatever, that's normal.

If it's happening all the time, that is not normal.

All right?

And there are actually some, bacteria within your large intestine that are associated when they get in excess with chronic colds and stuffiness.

I was talking to someone last week, all summer.

They couldn't figure out why they were stuffy.

We get.

We did a GI test for them, and they had this one bacteria that is really associated with histamine response.

And it was off the charts, literally, like, the highest I've ever seen a bacteria come back on a test.

and it was, like, wildly high.

And I was like, this is why you had, like, a cold all summer, is because she was actually reacting, to the dysbiosis in her large intestine.

And then cold intolerance.

That's another thing.

If you are so cold all the time, that is another indication that there might be something up with your gut.

So I would look into that.

this is an Example of a client I've, she was dealing with, like, hair falling out, low energy.

Like I said before, she was one of those people that was put on an iron supplement.

It just wasn't working or moving the needles.

So we actually did some additional micronutrient testing and was able to figure out, like, she had mold exposure that was impacting it.

So that was the amount of, AM that was also impacting her absorption of different nutrients.

She was over supplementing with some.

So, like, her nutrients were all over the place.

And she had mycotoxins, so she had mold exposure.

Until we get rid of the mold exposure, her body is actually not going to be able to decrease inflammation and absorb those nutrients.

So we were able to finally connect the dots and are working towards that as well.

So just an example of how the things can be connected.

Okay.

I talk about this all the time, but if things are happening all the time, that is not normal.

Our body talks to us all, all of the time, right?

So we have so many hormones and neurotransmitters that, like, tell us, like, when we eat, they go up to our brain and they say, hey, look, I'm full now.

You don't have to keep eating.

And the same thing is, like, when you're hungry, we have things that actually go from our stomach up to our brain that say, hey, look, I'm hungry.

It's time to eat.

We don't always listen to those signals.

Right?

We're really good at ignoring signals.

But we have signals like that all of the time when you were bloated.

And like, I've had this conversation with a bunch of people recently.

I don't know why, but, like, bloating is not just feeling chubby.

Bloating is like, there's actually distension.

Like, there's something.

There's pressure in your abdominal cavity, whether it's like air, like air and gas and stuff that's like actually pressing out.

That's what bloating is.

So if you eat and then all of a sudden you look like you're three to six months pregnant, that is a problem, right?

If that's happening on a regular basis, that is not normal.

All right?

And so some people are like, well, I just like, bloat every day.

Like that.

You don't.

Nobody just bloats every day.

Like, that's a problem.

We need to look into that.

Same thing with, like, a cold.

Like I was saying before, like, if you're stuffy when the seasons change or you catch a cold, that's one thing.

If you're that kid that is cold or that gets a cold every six weeks, you just like, can't get over it.

That is a problem that you need to look into something deeper.

So our body has inflammatory responses, immune responses, to trigger us to say, hey, look, something's not right, we got to go fix it.

And oftentimes we're just like, hey, we don't need to pay attention to it.

We do need to pay attention to it.

Go look into it.

Because a lot of times your body is telling you something and we just need to answer the call and be able to figure out why it's doing that so that long term we don't have those issues.

I'm going to briefly go into medications because this is something that people talk about all the time.

Well, people don't talk about all the time, and I think they need to be talking about it.

All right.

There are a bunch of medications that actually impact our gut that people are taking on a regular basis.

So, so one of them being, like ppi.

So that's anything like Pepcid, Prilosec, the things that are going to lower stomach acid.

And we talked about it before, oftentimes people actually have reflux when they have low stomach acid.

So if you're taking those and you just have to keep upping the dose over and over and over, that may be an indication that your stomach acid's actually too low, not too high.

And long term, that can cause a lot of issues, not only in your stomach, but just downstream from an absorption capacity.

SSRIs are obviously, they're prescribed often, and we just have to think about the fact that they have an impact on gut transit time.

So when food slows down, when it's going through your digestive system, that's something you need to be aware of.

so that GLP1s are different things that are going to slow down food as it moves.

And when that happens, that can change up the bacteria that grows in different parts of our digestive system and lead to an overgrowth in places it's not supposed to exposed to.

And then that can lead to a bunch of different issues.

Right?

And so we don't want that.

birth control is the same.

So hormonal birth control, excess amounts of progesterone and estrogen can actually slow down food transit time as well.

And increased amounts of estrogen can actually increase cup gut permeability.

Meaning, like, your cells are supposed to be really close and tight together.

If you have excess amount of estrogen, it can actually like open that up and lead to things like leaky gut, which most people have heard about.

Then things start to like come through the gaps that aren't supposed to come through the gaps.

And that leads to inflammation and a whole bunch of other symptoms that are not ideal, that can be GI related or other related.

And so, excess estrogen from hormonal birth controls can lead to that.

Spironolactone is a diuretic that I see all the time that is prescribed for acne nowadays.

so not only do you have to pay attention to the hydration factor when you're put on that, but the purpose, the function of that is to decrease like tissue repair essentially, which is one of the ways that it helps kind of like prevent acne.

But in doing so it can actually impact like your gut lining or your stomach lining specifically, and its ability to repair in there.

And so because of that I've seen impacts on not only like your stomach, but also like your stomach acid levels and that impacting the bacteria like downstream in your gut as well.

So that's one thing to be aware of.

And then NSAIDs, a lot of people take them all the time, especially when it comes to like athletes that I've worked with a lot.

And so if you have them all of the time, that can start to break down the lining of the gut over time which can have an impact not only on stomach acid but also on your, like the bacteria in your large intestine as well.

Both of those get out of whack and they can lead to long term issues.

So I'm not saying don't take these, I'm just saying be aware of what they do and have that conversation with whoever's telling you to take them.

All right, so I'm really close on time so I'm going to speed up on this for those that just to respect your time and then, but I want you guys to leave with some takeaways of like, okay great, like here's all the stuff that could happen, like what do we actually do now?

Great question.

All right, so this is someone I'm going to skip past that.

What I normally look at from like a GI perspective.

I want to look at your stomach acid and your enzyme production.

Right.

So these are things you should be questioning if you're starting to have symptoms.

Like what are we actually looking into stomach acid and enzyme function.

Are they actually working the way they're supposed to?

Right.

Bacteria is the bacteria in the right ratio, is it overgrown in some?

Is it underground?

Like what's it supposed to be?

Like?

I'm also looking at gut integrity.

So like your large intestine, are the cells like is it solid?

Do we have like a good seal on it so that it like keeps things where it's supposed to keep or are there things that are leaking through that are causing inflammation?

Right, if there are, that can lead to things like infections, overgrowth and so do you have parasites, mold related issues, bacteria, like excessive amounts of bacteria, yeast, even like fungus.

Those different things can actually grow within your digestive system and can lead to a bunch of issues.

So we got to look at that and then we have to connect all of that to the rest of your symptoms.

Like what are your hormones?

Like what's your skin?

Like, what's your energy?

Like, what's your immune system?

Like, what about your hair, your nails, your different body tissues?

Those are really important to look at from a big picture.

So as you're thinking about like what should I be doing?

You should be questioning all of those things and trying to figure out, okay, what, what is actually impaired and what am I feeling right?

What are these symptoms?

So five things to kind of take away today as like, all right, these are first steps.

So if you're someone who's like, hey, I've tried all the things and nothing's work.

Here are some things that I'm like, try these.

And if they don't work, that is a really good indication.

Like, all right, then you probably need to look into a little bit more support.

So one is going to be like hummer sing for five to ten minutes each morning.

So the reason you do this is your vagus nerve actually connects your brainstem down to your gut and high vibrations of your vocal cords can actually stimulate this nerve.

So it's really important because it plays a really big role in that gut brain connection.

And when how it does also is like we want our sympathetic versus parasympathetic nervous system.

So fight or flight.

So you want to be stimulated when it's time to be stimulated and you want to be able to relax when it's time to relax.

Your vagus nerve helps with that transition back and forth.

And when it is not stimulated, it definitely makes it harder.

So like there's the the, the calm parts called like the rest and digest.

If it cannot get to that rest and digest and it's just overstimulated all the time, that's when we see a lot of issues.

So humming and singing it's not going to be like, you're not going to do it one time and be like, my gosh, I feel great the next day.

But over time, it actually adds up and can help to engage and, and that nervous system and stimulate that vagus nerve, which is helpful for that gut brain connection.

Right.

So that's one thing to do.

if you drive to work, great.

Go belt it out on the way to work.

Highly recommend.

all right, number two is make sure you're leaving three to four hours between meals.

So the reason for this is a couple of reasons.

One, if you cannot do that, that should be a red flag.

I worked with someone who they were like, if I don't eat every two hours, I get in pain, like, bloated pain.

So I have to eat every two hours just to make sure that I don't bloat.

Okay, that's a problem.

You need to look into it because that's not normal, right?

If you're like, hey, I'm not hungry for like five, six, seven hours, that's another problem.

I would look into motility issues and say, and go talk to someone, because if things are going too slow, then that can lead to another slew of issues.

Right?

Leaving three to four hours not only is a good indicator of, like, am I eating normally or not?

Right?

It's also good because we have what's called the migrating motor cortex, which, are complex, helps to essentially, like, sweep in your digestive system in between meals.

And so we want that if it doesn't have the ability to go through its whole process, that can lead to dysbiosis.

It can lead to bacteria getting in places where it's not supposed to go, overgrowing and causing that ratio to be off.

So eating every three to four hours, allows that process to be completed without it impacting, allows that process to be completed.

Basically.

next thing is drink water.

A lot of times I talk to people, they say they drink a lot.

When I ask them to quantify it, it is not a lot.

So at least half of your body weight in ounces, outside of any exercise or training, because your stomach acid and your digestive, secretions and juices that help to break down your food are liquids.

You need enough liquid in your body for those to be in optimal amounts.

And if you don't have enough in your body, then it's going to make it harder for digestion in general.

So when everyone grew up and their parents said, like, hey, go drink water if you don't feel good or whatever.

Like, water is important.

Go drink water.

And if you're drinking that much, then I'd say, half your body weight in ounces up to your full body weight in ounces.

That's like a good amount of that.

If you're doing that and you're like, great, I still have issues still.

I mean, look into more things.

But if you're not doing that, oftentimes I find a lot of people with stomach acid issues, they're just like, not drinking water to, like, drink, drink some water, right?

That will help with that process.

You need to do that first before you start working on anything else.

If you are having some stomach issues, right?

You bloat right after you eat.

You're, noticing that you're having issues.

I'm.

I'm gonna do three for the price of one.

On this one.

There are three things I'll do, right?

Three things I'll recommend.

One is lemon, right?

So lemon can be really helpful, because when you, like, like, normally I'll tell someone, like, take quarter of a lemon and just like suck on that or squeeze an entire lemon into water right before you go eat a meal.

The reason being is because that sour and that, like, bitterness you're going to get from lemon when your mouth starts to water, that is actually the beginning part of digestion.

And so if we can use that to stimulate digestion, that can help people that have issues in their upper GI tract, specifically with stomach acid.

So a lot of times if they're starting to have issues with bloating or stomach, stuff, they don't think that their stomach acid is really up to par.

That's one of the things I'll have them start with.

And most people can tolerate that fine.

So that's an easy thing just to try.

if you're starting to notice those symptoms, another thing I'll say is that ginger is awesome.

so get regular ginger, cut off like an inch chunk, boil it in like a cup of water for 10 minutes, and drink that every morning.

That will help with mood movement, in your upper GI tract as well.

So a lot of times I'll tell people, like, incorporate ginger in.

That's like, really helpful.

If you wake up bloated in the morning, do it again after dinner.

And that can be helpful as well.

And then another thing with bloating is peppermint or like peppermint tea.

I would say do that either like 30 minutes before meal or 30 minutes after a meal, because that helps to actually relax Some of the muscles.

So that's more for people that have like, hey, I have cramping and stuff.

After I eat, try incorporating in peppermint tea afterwards.

And that can help to kind of like, again relax some of those muscles.

So they aren't as crampy.

Right.

So I would do that.

those are some things, if you have some of those symptoms, you can try them to see if they help mitigate some of those symptoms.

And then this last one's really dietitian.

Y.

I am a dietitian.

So there we go.

is eat your colors.

And the reason why.

So like, different colors of produce, different colors are going to be associated with different micronutrients.

So your vitamins and your minerals.

Getting those in is going to be really important to, to make sure that you actually, like, meet your needs.

Right?

To make sure you're actually getting, the different types of antioxidants that will help to decrease inflammation and support your immune system.

So that's super important.

Not only that, but produce is going to have different types of fibers, and fibers are important because when your large intestine ferments them, it's going to feed a healthy gut and keep those cells really healthy, which is super important as well.

and so we want that.

And another thing that helps with that is including resistant starch.

So things like cooled potatoes, rice green bananas, those things are all going to have a different type of starch that actually help again to, when your large intestine like eats those, essentially it ferments it into short chain fatty acids.

What it.

Which it needs in order to support a healthy gut lining.

So if you're eating colors, I typically say, like, try to aim for three colors in a day and five in a week.

If you're getting in different colors, you're getting in fiber and you're getting in, resistant starches that should help support a healthy gut.

If you go to do that and you are in more pain, that is a red flag that there is a deeper issue and that probably won't solve your problem.

You probably have to do a little bit more investigation into what is actually going on.

So.

All right, I spoke fast.

I went over time.

Sorry about that.

If you came here and you're like, that is all I got for you today, right?

You came here and you're like, I want to learn some things about the gut.

That is all the stuff I got about the gut.

So, hopefully that was helpful and you have enjoyed that and you have a couple of takeaways.

And like learned a couple of things.

If you're like, great.

While I was listening to that, I actually like think I need to talk to somebody about this because I have more issues than I think are normal and I want to know what that looks like.

I'm going to give everyone who just came to learn stuff.

Like, that's your learning time.

Go ahead, sign off.

I'm glad you came.

Hopefully it was helpful.

if you're like, hey, I want to hear a little bit more about like, who, what is it like working with you?

How do I like, what's the next steps?

I'm, going to take a sip of water, give everyone who wants to sign off, sign off.

And if you want to stay on, stay on.

In the next five minutes, I'll kind of talk about what that looks like for whoever wants to hear.

Wasn't a minute, but it was close enough.

okay, so, when it comes to.

So if you're like, all right, great, that's a good information, I think I have problems or I have, I'm interested in what it looks like to actually like work with you and stuff, that's where we kind of go.

So I have a couple of different programs and working one on one with the gut.

So when I work with individuals, when it comes to the gut, right.

I have what's called the GUT Reset.

So this is a three month all in, like all intensive.

Like I, I've got stuff I really want to go figure out what's going on and.

Three months.

The reason it's set for three months is I have yet to find anyone who has healed their gut in less than three months.

Typically it's like a three month plus depending on the severity of what's going on.

So what it looks like in the gut reset program is so I start off by doing, a test, right?

So GI MAP is the gut test that I do.

I have it sent directly to you.

You go, you collect your sample, send it into the lab and then from there once we get the results back.

So as that's getting processed, my intake form typically takes like 40, 45 minutes.

Like I am really in depth because like I said, there are so many symptoms that are connected to the gut and I want to know all the information.

So I take all of that intake form, I take the results from the GI map and then we spend 75 minutes going over, everything that I see, right.

And from there I've also built a protocol like, okay, what, what do I see on here?

What are all the issues I not only am going to go over, I want you to understand this is what's off.

This is why I think it's off.

This is how it connects to your symptoms as well so you understand what's going on in your body.

And then from there we'll say, and this is what the program is going to look.

This is what we're going to have to do and the stages we're going to have to go through in order to be able to get to healing.

And then for the next 12 weeks we'll meet every two weeks, right?

So have bi weekly meetups, where we'll do a 30 minute, like zoom, essentially like check in or virtual check in, where we'll go and be able to go through symptoms, make any adjustments we need to, to your protocol.

and then in between that we've got ongoing support.

So every week that I don't meet with you in a virtual capacity, I'm checking in with you online.

And then you always have access to like a chat with me where if you have any questions during the week, like 8 to 5, I'll be able to answer it.

So you can be like, hey, this is weird.

I've had people be like, hey, I just started this supplement.

Or, or my supplement numbers are off on this one.

or I have this symptom.

and so it allows us to have communication throughout the week.

And then like I said, we'll check in once a week whether it's virtual or not.

And that goes for 12 weeks just to make sure we get through all of that.

So that is what the GUT reset program is.

It's an in depth, hey, I need to get this done for three months.

And so the investment in that is 20$500 for the three months.

there are some payment plans that you can set up with, when you're going through it as well.

and I accept hsa.

I don't do insurance, but I do do HSA FSA payments.

If you're like, all right, I don't know if I need that much.

I have what's called the Get Starter package.

And honestly I haven't advertised this.

This has just been like a friends and family people have reached out and have been like, hey, I don't think I need to do the full blown one.

Can we do a starter package?

And so again, this is like the friends and family non advertised.

You guys get to hear, hear it here.

and so I have been doing this on the side and it's going to roll out into a fuller package.

But for now this is like the friends and family behind the scenes package that's going on.

So essentially it's a little bit more trimmed down.

We'll still start with a comprehensive like stool test.

You'll still do your long intake form and we'll go through all of that.

The initial is the same, we'll sit down, we'll do our initial and by sit down, virtually go through the 75 minute initial, go through that entire protocol, and I'll give you the whole protocol for you.

and then six weeks in, we'll just do one follow up.

So instead of having five follow ups, one every two weeks with the like check ins, this one is just like, hey, six weeks in, we'll do a check in, see how you're doing, make sure that you're good to go and then kind of keep you like on your way.

So you're like, all right, I know what I need to do.

And then you just go implement it, during that time.

So this one's essentially just six weeks versus the other one is like more intensive and for 12 weeks.

So, this one is 997.

The investment in this one in for the month of October, this is the last month that it's actually staying at that price because once it gets to November, it's actually going up, a little bit more.

So if you are like, hey, I'd like to do the gut starter program, I'm really interested in that.

I have 10 spots that are open for October, before that price rolls up to the higher price.

So if you're like, hey, look, I want a little bit, I want to look into it, I don't want to do the full blown one.

This is a great option for you.

So regardless of what you're thinking about, if you're like, hey, I'd love to like kind of talk about what this looks like, I don't know which one I want.

If you scan this QR code that's going to take you to my calendar and you can set up a free discovery call and kind of talk through your symptoms and I can kind of give you an idea of like, all right, I think this is probably a better bet for you, or we can figure out what might be a better plan for, for you and where you're at, or just answer some questions if you have them.

So this is, that's what you can do.

I'll leave that up there for a second so you can go ahead and scan that.

but that's all I got for you guys.

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So thanks so much for coming.

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Have a great rest of your night.