16/04/2024
🌱💩 Let’s talk gut health! 💩🌱
Did you know that constipation and diarrhoea could be signs of an imbalance in your gut microbiome? Yep, it’s true! 🤯 Our gut is home to trillions of bacteria, yeast, and other microorganisms, and when the balance of these critters gets thrown off, it can wreak havoc on our digestion and, you guessed it, our weight 🌀
Constipation, where it feels like everything’s at a standstill, and diarrhoea, where things are moving too fast, are both red flags that something’s amiss in your gut 🚩
This imbalance, known as dysbiosis, can also present with symptoms like bloating, gas, food intolerances, fatigue, tummy pain, heartburn, mood swings, and weakened immunity. 🌟 It can be caused by a poor, low-nutrient diet, stress, overuse of antibiotics, genetics, immune dysfunction and a stack of other factors 🍔😓
Constipation is more than just feeling stuck by the way – failure to move your bowels at least once per day can result in the reabsorption of toxins, metabolised hormones & waste products back into your blood stream. This creates lethargy, mood changes, hormonal imbalance, weight gain and increased gut issues as your liver does its best to recover and filter the rubbish back out the second (or third, or fourth..) time round 😬
Lose stool & diarrhoea often means you’ll struggle to absorb the nutrients in your food quickly enough before the bowel is evacuated. Low nutrient absorption means low energy, fatigue, anxiety, low immune function, weight gain, digestive issues and in some cases, chronic disease & inflammation.
Do you need some help with your 💩? Naturopathy focuses on nourishing the gut in ways you’ve probably never considered. You’ll be surprised how much difference it makes when you focus on addressing the cause of disease to start getting things back on track 💚
