And while many people think of ‘gut health’ as just being to do with your stomach and intestines, the health and functioning of your gut also can significantly impact many other areas of your body.
Did you know that 75% of your immune system lives within your gut and that your gut bugs can produce up to 75% of your serotonin, one of the main substances responsible for having good moods?
- Altered bowel frequency (constipation, diarrhoea or maybe a bit of both)
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Excessive gas which can present as flatulence (farting!), burping, belching or bloating
- Leaky gut (known to researchers as Intestinal Permeability)
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) like Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis
- SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth) and SIFO (Small Intestinal Fungal Overgrowth)
- Gastrointestinal Infections like parasites, thrush, helicobacter pylori or post-travel infections that haven’t seemed to resolve (E.g. Bali Belly, Delhi Belly).
Holistic approach
Contrary to what you’ve probably read on google
Or seen on social media, probiotics and high fibre diets aren’t always the best thing you can be doing to support your gut. In fact, in some instances, these things can actually be detrimental and make digestive symptoms worse! This is why when working with gut health and digestion, our naturopaths take a very holistic approach to get to the bottom of what is upsetting the balance in your body.
Here to listen, we want to understand what your body is doing; we want to understand what your body is not doing and then we want to understand the connection between these two. We like to think of it as a little bit of naturopathic magic called getting-you-body-back-in-balance.
