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Stress and How it Affects Your Gut
Stress and How it Affects Your Gut Stress and your gut…you know excessive amounts of stress are bad for you in general. They can also cause serious gut health issues you may not be aware of. Here are some things to know about how stress can be related to your gut health. How Stress is Linked to Gut Health When you experience a lot of stress, the brain enters what’s known as “survival mode” which affects how much blood goes to your gut. Over time, long periods of reduced blood flow can lead to the good bacteria in the gut being weakened or damaged. This weakening of the good bacteria…
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Coping with Holiday Depression
Coping with Holiday Depression It’s not always “the most wonderful time of the year”. In fact, for many and for a variety of reasons, coping with holiday depression can be pretty challenging. Depression is a huge problem at any time of the year, but at holiday season, it can be particularly painful. This is the time of year when the marketing and advertising media tell us we should be skipping through the snow with our loved ones, getting excited over that luxury car with the big red bow on the roof and just plain having a ball! But what if your life is not that great right now? Maybe you’re…
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Gut Health
Five Steps to Good Gut Health – Part 1 of 2 I want to share five different steps over the next two weeks that you can implement today to help you enjoy good gut health. Each of these steps independently will have a significant impact on your overall mental and physical well being, as they are intricately linked. Attempting to adopt too many steps into your lifestyle at once can feel overwhelming. My experience with my coaching clients is that too much at once tends to discourage people from moving forward. I want you to take it easy on yourself, and focus on one step at a time. Set goals,…
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Prebiotics for Gut Health…Do you need them to feel better?
Prebiotics for Gut Health Sometimes there are things I would prefer to keep to myself…to keep private. However, to be true to my commitment to you… to be transparent about health and to be of service to you in your quest for better health, sometimes I have to put myself out there. This is one of those times, and it ends up being a discussion about prebiotics for gut health. Earlier this summer I had a bout with an intestinal bug for two or three days. It left me in a state that was really beginning to frighten me. My bouts of “intestinal distress” in the aftermath were sudden and…
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Depression and the Gut Brain Connection – Are you depressed?
Depression and the Gut Brain Connection If you’ve never heard of Dr. Kelly Brogan, it is my pleasure to introduce you to her! Dr. Brogan, who is well versed in the subject of depression and the gut brain connection, is a brilliant holistic women’s health psychiatrist whom I discovered by following my main man in the functional medicine world, Dr. Mark Hyman. The post I want to share with you today is about the subject that launched my career of sharing my success over depression by changing how I eat. It’s about the connection between your gut and your brain and how it influences how you feel. Dr. Brogan begins…
