10. [GUT HEALTH] Is your GUT the problem?!

I’m SO excited for you to hear this week's episode because your gut is one of the MOST IMPORTANT aspects when it comes to your health (if not THE most important)! Your gut is responsible for absorbing nutrients which helps you make the hormones you need AND break down and eliminate the ones you don’t. It has its organisms/bacteria that add up to MORE than the amount of cells in our body!! Those organisms influence our mood, weight, inflammation & overall hormonal health. Your gut is responsible for moving hormones out of the body and helping you detoxify.

When your gut isn’t functioning properly, you can experience anxiety, depression, headaches, joint pain, fatigue, difficulty gaining or losing weight and hormone imbalances.

You need a healthy gut to remove excess estrogen and other waste from the body. Estrogen is moved out of the body through the bowels so when your gut function is compromised estrogen goes back into circulation in your body which leads to those excess estrogen symptoms of bloating, cramping, heavy periods, irritability a.k.a. PMS. You need to poop at least once a day to remove the excess estrogen your body no longer needs so if you’re constipated, you’re most likely suffering from estrogen excess.

Leaky gut leads to widespread inflammation and hormone disruption throughout the body. We could get a leaky gut when the cells of our intestinal lining are compromised a.k.a. little holes that are food particles go through and into the bloodstream. This is caused by stress, medications, eating foods you’re sensitive to, birth control, gluten, low fiber diet, pesticides, high sugar diet & more.

When you have leaky gut, toxins, microbes, and undigested food particles make their way through your intestinal lining & it sets off your immune system because your immune system doesn’t recognize them so it starts defending them. This results in an inflammatory attack by your immune system. Leaky gut leads to food sensitivities and immune disorders like autoimmune disease.

TANGIBLE TIPS:

1. Add in FIBER to every meal. Fiber is ONLY IN PLANT FOODS. (start with a salad- make veggies the largest thing on each plate). Fiber grabs onto excess hormones, toxins & cholesterol & helps eliminate it out of the body.
2. Add in Omega3 FATS daily- if not in every meal. Omega 3s= avocado, nuts, seeds, olive oil. Omega 3s are ANTI INFLAMMATORY & NOURISH the gut.
3. MOVEMENT. Movement INCREASES the DIVERSITY in our gut! Take the stairs, get up at least once an hour, park in the furthest parking spot, dance around, pick a movement you love.

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