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 …
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 …
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 …
How to Know If Your Nervous System Is Causing Gut Symptoms
When addressing the gut the focus is on food, or addressing microbial infections/overgrowths/imbalances. What or how you eat is important. But it’s not the whole story. The food reactions are …
Why Nervous System Regulation Is Not a One-Size-Fits-All
“Nervous system regulation” has become one of the biggest buzzwords in wellness lately. You see it everywhere, from gut health to trauma recovery to stress management. People are trying breath …
How to heal your gut with your mind
Years ago, I was told IBS was in my head. I rejected that IBS had a mental component because I solved my issue completely with diet and mineral balancing. But …
Common blocks to healing
What got us sick won’t get us well. It’s recognizing the dysfunction of what’s not working for us anymore that can get us out. Most people use the same energy …
Is IBS incurable?
Almost 20 years ago I had IBS, and it changed the course of my life. And I go into depth about my story here. When doctors gave me an IBS …
How to heal without antimicrobials
Function medicine focuses on identifying the root cause of symptoms for the most effective intervention. It helps people who have been abandoned by the mainstream medical system. It loosely follows …