Your Daily Dose of Gut Health Wisdom
If one more person tells you IBS is “just stress,” you’re going to scream. You’ve done the fiber, the probiotics, the food diary, the “try to relax” talk. You still don’t know why some days you’re fine and other days your gut behaves like it’s on a separate lease. This is the guide you should get in
Think of your gut like plumbing with a gate at the end.
Think of your gut as a crowded city with electricity, plumbing, traffic lights, and a police force.
Think of your small intestine as a quiet highway and your colon as a busy city.
IBS isn’t one simple problem. It’s a collection of glitches in how your gut moves, feels, and communicates with your brain.
Think of your gut as a long fermentation chamber running from your mouth to your rectum. Food goes in, you digest the bits you can, and what’s left becomes fuel for microbes—trillions of bacteria that live mostly in your colon.
Think of your gut as a conveyor belt with two major players: you and your microbes.
“Fiber” gets talked about like a single nutrient, but physiologically it’s three very different jobs rolled into one word.
Under all the noise, three things are doing most of the work: motility, fermentation, and sensitivity.
Your brain isn’t the only thing that runs on a 24-hour cycle. Your gut does too.
Think of your gut like plumbing with a gate at the end.
Think of your gut as a crowded city with electricity, plumbing, traffic lights, and a police force.
Think of your small intestine as a quiet highway and your colon as a busy city.
If one more person tells you IBS is “just stress,” you’re going to scream. You’ve done the fiber, the probiotics, the food diary, the “try to relax” talk. You still don’t know why some days you’re fine and other days your gut behaves like it’s on a separate lease. This is the guide you should get in
Think of your gut as a conveyor belt with two major players: you and your microbes.
“Fiber” gets talked about like a single nutrient, but physiologically it’s three very different jobs rolled into one word.
Under all the noise, three things are doing most of the work: motility, fermentation, and sensitivity.
Your brain isn’t the only thing that runs on a 24-hour cycle. Your gut does too.