Ep #4: Leaky Gut: How to Restore Your Gut and Improve Your Mental Health

The health of our digestive system affects literally every system in our body: our mental health, resilience when stressed, focus and attention, immune system… the list goes on and on. Our gut, after all, is our second brain.

Leaky gut, when your digestion allows inflammatory molecules to pass out of the gut and into your bloodstream, affects most of us to some degree, causing Inflammation throughout our entire body and even our brain. This causes a whole host of nasty symptoms that we may not feel for years and that, even then, are often misdiagnosed.

Get ready to nerd out with me today, loves, on a topic that I am incredibly passionate about and a condition that you just might be struggling with. I have some great tips to help you improve your gut health and a special bonus worksheet just for podcast listeners (click here to grab yours today). Remember, empowering ourselves by knowing about our health and being our own best advocate is one of the most feminist, self-loving things we can do in this world. Let’s do this!

What You’ll Learn:

• What leaky gut is.
• Some root causes of inflammation and how it affects our mental health.
• What should be happening in the gut and what can go wrong.
• Symptoms of leaky gut.
• The relationship between gut health and mental health.
• How the foods we eat contribute to or fight inflammation.
• The hygiene hypothesis and why being too clean isn’t a good thing for our gut health.
• The role that stigma can play in keeping the vicious cycle going.
• The 4 R Process to restore gut health.

Listen to the full episode here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-4-leaky-gut-how-to-restore-your-gut-improve-your/id1454980022?i=1000431746679

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