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 …
Is stress or trauma causing symptoms?
Understanding Completion vs. Interruption in Healing Healing happens when something in us finally gets to complete its cycle. Once you understand this, your relationship with stress and your nervous system …
Why Your Body Is Not Healing: The Nervous System Stress Pattern That Keeps You Stuck
When the Body Can’t Slow Down. Does this sound familiar? Your body feels like it is moving at one hundred miles per hour while your mind begs for rest. You …
Why the HTMA may be the only gut test you need
Two decades ago, the hair tissue mineral analysis (HTMA) test was the only lab I used—and it helped me heal my gut for good. Since then, functional gut testing has exploded in …
Best ways to track healing progress
My biggest lessons from running hundreds of gut tests on clients is that symptoms don’t tell you the full story. Clients convinced they have yeast find a parasite instead. Those …
What I learned from feeling sick and recovering again
My transformation from severe IBS symptoms to a healthy gut 16 years ago changed the course of my life. That experience made me prioritize my health. My food choices and …
Roadmap for healing IBS
Lately I’ve been getting e-mailing asking about the exact steps for healing IBS. This is a huge question, so I decided to answer it with a blog. Because the causes of …
Leaky gut: a case study
Life can be ironic. I’m not talking about hipster ironic, I mean eerie coincidence ironic. This story is full of so much simultaneous bad and good luck, it might blow …
How to use nature and technology to heal
The world is full of things that speed us up and stress us out. But it’s also full of beautiful simplicity to slows us down and calm our spirit. We …
Perfectionism and the gut
The gut-perfection connection I’ll admit it. I’ve been a perfectionist all my life. Not about everything, just the things I really care about. One way perfectionism shows up in …