Food fear creates a frozen gut.An initial food reaction may have had a physical cause, but the emotional memory of it can harden into something deeper. The body contracts. The …
Is the Oura Ring Worth It?
We live in a time where we can measure almost everything by ourselves: sleep cycles, heart rate variability, stress, glucose, metabolism. Tracking our biometrics is popular with biohackers and those …
Why Sauna is a Powerful Healing Tool for the gut
’ve been talking a lot about the freeze nervous system state as a root cause of digestive issues like slow motility and poor digestion. What’s interesting is that the frozen weather conditions …
How diet affects the nervous system
The Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) diet helped pull me out of nervous system freeze and burnout. It cuts out sugar (except for honey and fruit), grains, starches, seed oils, …
A common root cause of SIBO & H. pylori
More people than ever are being diagnosed with SIBO and H. pylori in our post-COVID world. We moved through an overwhelming global event, and the uncertainty that followed continues to …
How to beat histamine intolerance at the root
If you’re eating “healthy” and doing all the right things but still feel inflamed, reactive, or unwell, histamine intolerance could be part of why. Most people are told histamine issues …
How to Tone the Vagus Nerve for your Nervous System Type
As nervous system work becomes more mainstream, especially for gut healing and chronic health issues, the vagus nerve has (rightfully) received a lot of attention. In this post I tell …
Three key principles of Gut Healing that Actually Work
I became a health coach because doctors couldn’t help and told me I could only manage symptoms with medication or reducing stress (but how??). Meanwhile my symptoms kept getting worse. …
Cortisol balancing treat
This recipe was inspired by finding a jar of black currant jelly and remembering just how supportive this often-overlooked berry can be for stress. Black currant juice and extract (the concentrated supplement form) …
Choosing the right cortisol support
Cortisol is the stress hormone associated with nervous system activation and stress. There’s a lot of talk about supporting cortisol these days. I don’t like one-size-fits all recommendations because we …