The Gut Microbiome: Key To A Healthy Brain & Body

Besides breathing and sleeping, eating is life’s most vital activity. Food gives us energy, and allows us to think, move and prosper. Yet digestive issues, chronic disease and intestinal disturbances are increasingly common.

So why do so few of us feel like we are prospering?

Start with these questions:

• Do you have a healthy and diverse microbiome?
• Are your blood sugar levels stable throughout the day or are you on the “blood sugar roller coaster”?
• What exactly are you eating?
• Do you eat mostly real, whole food or highly processed food-stuffs that rob your body and brain of the nourishment needed for physical and mental vitality, health and well-being?

Often the underlying cause of inflammation, difficulty losing weight, food cravings and addiction is an unhealthy, damaged gastrointestinal (GI) system.

A healthy GI and diverse microbiome:

• decreases or eliminates inflammation,
• decreases or eliminates food cravings, and
• facilitates a healthy weight.

Holistic BodyMind Approach

Your body and mind can either work in harmony to produce well-balanced mental and physical health; or against each other, producing mental and physical inflammation and disease.

Why? Because we are what we eat, drink, think and do.

By creating alignment between our thoughts, choices, behaviours and emotions – harmony and health naturally follow.

For example: When we experience physical, emotional or environmental stress in life, this stress is physically represented by the types of neurotransmitters and hormones that we produce.

Adrenaline and cortisol are stress hormones that show up as the biochemical representatives in the tissues of the human body, including your GI tract. Keep in mind, that more often than not, the food you eat is a physical stressor.​ Stress can impair digestion and significantly reduce your body’s ability to absorb nutrients to feed your brain.