YOUR GUT

It all starts with your gut……..

For me discovering the gut microbiome was a total game changer. As Dr Mark Hyman says I could “no longer treat an organ, but instead an organism”.

I never learned in medical school that imbalances in the gut can result not just in gut symptoms such as bloating, diarrhoea or constipation but also depression, anxiety and even heart disease and obesity !

Not surprising therefore that 168 million dollars has been spent on researching this fascinating and important field.

A man in his 50s  came to see me with “depression” yet when he stopped eating gluten and we sorted out his nutritional deficiencies and healed his gut, his “depression” went.

For a young woman with severe PMT again we started with her gut – encouraged her to change her diet, corrected her deficiency and added a few other specific nutrients and herbs and her PMT was a thing of the past.

Sixty million people suffer from IBS and yet in medical school I was taught that it was a psychosomatic condition ! With the discovery of the gut microbiome all of that has changed and we now focus on healing the gut.

Here is a fascinating TED talk by Rob Knight on this fascinating and emerging field.