Episode Details

If you’ve done all the “right” things for your gut, eating clean, avoiding gluten, taking supplements, running labs, and still feel like your gut health stinks, this episode is for you. We’re challenging the idea that your gut is something you need to “fix” and exploring why symptoms like bloating, constipation, diarrhea, and gas may actually be signals rather than signs that something is broken. We zoom out to look at the gut as part of a much bigger web involving the brain, nervous system, hormones, immune system, stress, sleep, and circadian rhythm, and we share simple strategies that can help support your body without adding another complicated protocol to your life. Our goal is to help you stop chasing symptoms, start listening to your body, and build resilience from the inside out.

SHOW NOTES:

0:38 Welcome to the show!

3:03 Why your gut isn’t broken

6:09 Limbic Retraining

8:48 Underlying stressors to the gut

9:24 Spider web analogy

11:15 Simple hack to sync your gut rhythms

14:28 Overnight fasting

15:32 Perimenopausal & bloated

16:31 Gut Healing Framework

18:11 Basic elimination foods

19:02 Regulating the stress response

19:28 Renee’s gut story

21:15 How to support digestion

27:30 The many types of trauma 

30:18 Food Therapy

31:15 Repairing the gut lining & microbiome

32:56 “Party in my stomach”

35:02 Supplements for gut healing

37:50 The acid reflux myth

43:22 Supporting motility & bowel movements

47:00 Diagnostic lab testing

49:50 Triggers for leaky gut

57:30 Allergies vs Intolerances vs Sensitivities

1:01:29 Elimination Diet

1:03:41 Can you over-optimize your gut?

1:05:21 Recapping the framework

RESOURCES:

Fullscript Gut Supplements (must create an account to access)

Biohacker Babes Gut Healing Framework E-book (FREE until Sept 14)

Primal Trust - code: BIOHACKERBABES10

FREE Nervous System Harmony e-book

Book: Food Therapy

Podcast with Luis Mojica