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Lindsay Dhanens Nutrition, Bakersfield, CA (2025)

11/10/2025

People love to say “your liver and kidneys detox on their own” 🙉 and they’re right… in theory

That phrase assumes your body isn’t being hit daily with mold toxins, metals in your water, pesticides on your food, plastics in your coffee cup, and fragrances in your air🙈

That’s a full-time job for your liver….. And most of us are running on overflow bc we are undernourished and stressed to the max.

When detox slows down, everything feels it. Your body CAN cope but at a certain point, even the healthiest body will have failed adaption without the right support. We simply run out of resources😩

Supporting detox isn’t about “doing a cleanse.”
It’s about helping your body keep up with the world we live in.

💛 Identify the overload/imbalances → Rebuild capacity → restore energy → LIVE BETTER

This is the way🙏

Comment ROOT for more info on how to get your own personalized comprehensive detox protocol

10/20/2025

Do your cravings feel totally irrational or do you feel like you can’t seem to control your appetite no matter how “healthy” you eat?

Good news! 🙂 It may not be you / your willpower

It’s probably your gut🫠

How does this work?👇
When your gut barrier gets leaky, bacterial toxins (LPS) leak into your bloodstream. These trigger low-grade inflammation (metabolic endotoxemia) that disrupts the hormones (leptin + ghrelin) responsible for hunger and fullness.

Certain gut infections fuel this process👇
Things like Candida, SIBO, H. pylori, and gram-negative bacteria (like Klebsiella or E. coli) produce excess LPS and/or damage the gut lining.

That means MORE inflammation, MORE cravings, and more frustration when nothing seems to work😫

Healing your gut isn’t just about digestion. It’s about restoring the communication between your gut + brain + fat cells

💬 I have very few spots open for Root-Cause testing through end of 2025🙏Comment ROOT if you’re ready to uncover what’s really driving your cravings and learn how to repair your gut barrier from the inside-out

REFS:
Cani et al., Diabetes (2007) — Metabolic endotoxemia drives insulin resistance
Zhao et al., Cell Death & Disease (2015) — LPS inhibits adipocyte differentiation
De La Serre et al., Physiol Behav (2015) — Chronic LPS causes leptin resistance
Vila et al., J Clin Endocrinol Metab (2007) — Endotoxin alters ghrelin and appetite
García-Jiménez et al., J Mol Endocrinol (2014) — Gut-derived inflammation and obesity

10/18/2025

You don’t just “wake up” one day with thyroid issues, autoimmune disease, or stubborn weight gain.

Long before your labs ever flag a problem, inflammation has been silently brewing in your gut. This disrupts your hormones, metabolism, and immune system all day every day😬

Every time your gut barrier is compromised (from stress, processed foods, infections, alcohol, low fiber, etc.), bacterial fragments like LPS leak into the bloodstream. Your body sees them as invaders 👉 triggering inflammation that doesn’t turn off

👉 That’s why you can feel exhausted, inflamed, and anxious years before any diagnosis shows up. Your doctor doesn’t know what to tell you🫠

Because inflammation doesn’t start in your thyroid.
It doesn’t start in your hormones.
It starts in your gut.

When you restore the gut barrier and lower inflammatory signaling, your energy, weight, and mood finally start to normalize again👏👏👏

💥 This is exactly what I’m teaching inside my upcoming course Gut Health Mastery 🙌 how to identify and reverse the silent inflammation that’s been wrecking your health long before your labs will catch it.

💬 Comment WAITLIST below to be the first to know when enrollment opens

10/14/2025

No one’s perfect (I’m sure not!) and this isn’t about never having a drink or never taking a pain med again.
But the more we understand what these things actually do inside the gut, the more we can make informed choices that protect it👏

Both alcohol and NSAIDs damage the mitochondria inside your intestinal cells

Those mitochondria are the energy source that keep your gut lining cells alive, fuel tight-junction repair, and power detoxification + immune balance.

When they’re damaged, ATP (cellular energy) drops, oxidative stress skyrockets, and the epithelial cells start dying off (apoptosis)🫣

That’s when the gut barrier begins to “leak,” letting bacterial toxins and food particles slip into the bloodstream 👉 triggering inflammation, immune dysfunction, and hormone chaos🥴

Over time, this looks like bloating, fatigue, skin flare-ups, anxiety, and even thyroid or blood-sugar issues

So while you don’t need to live perfectly, I think it does help to understand how everyday habits add up🙏 When we know better, we do better💃💃

Comment “BARRIER” and I’ll send you my Gut Barrier Support Tips & favorite support supplements.

Please leave questions in the comments 🙂

10/06/2025

Comment “FIBER” if you want my High-Fiber Day Meal Plan (30–35 g from real food, no bloat)

Most people don’t even hit half of the recommended daily fiber and probably don’t realize that for every 10 g/day, your risk of all-cause mortality drops by roughly 10%🤯
That means if you ate 40g/fiber per day, you’d decrease all-cause mortality by 4 0 % 😳🥳

You’re probably thinking… But Lindsay, I try to eat more fiber and instantly get bloated, crampy, and heavy… My gut just “can’t handle it”🧐

If that’s your first thought👉 Your body is waving a 🚩 red flag that something deeper going on‼️
👉Gut overgrowths fermenting the extra fiber
👉Low stomach acid or sluggish motility
👉Lack of microbial diversity
👉Poor bile flow or enzyme output

Fiber should feed your microbiome…. not make you miserable.
If it doesn’t sit well, your gut terrain needs support before you can truly benefit.

Root-Cause Labs like GI-MAP, OAT, HTMA can show why your gut isn’t tolerating the very foods that should be healing it.

Fiber is extremely powerful and is clearly important! But only when your body is ready for it🌱

👇 Comment “LINK” if you want me to send you the program/tests I use to figure out why fiber makes you miserable

Refs:
•Kim Y. et al., Am J Epidemiol, 2014 — ~11% lower all-cause mortality per +10 g/day fiber
•Streppel M. et al., Am J Clin Nutr, 2008 — Zutphen Study: +10 g → 9% lower all-cause, 17% lower CHD mortality
•Park Y. et al., JAMA Intern Med, 2011 — NIH-AARP cohort confirming fiber–mortality link
•Reynolds A. et al., The Lancet, 2019 — Greatest benefit at 25–35 g/day

10/01/2025

💾 SAVE this if you’ve ever wondered why stress feels like it wrecks everything in your health (because it literally does😫)

Stress LITERALLY breaks down your gut barrier.
And when that barrier leaks, toxins slip into your bloodstream which triggers chronic, low-grade inflammation

🚩 This is the same inflammation linked to:
• Metabolic syndrome (33% of U.S. adults)
• Anxiety disorders (19%)
• Depression (8–13%)
• Autoimmune disease (5–8%)
• Obesity (42%)
• Diabetes (11.6%)
• Cardiovascular disease (48%)
• Alzheimer’s/dementia (11% of 65+)

👉 This is EXACTLY WHY comprehensive gut testing is absolutely C R I T I C A L for any condition my clients are dealing with. You can’t guess your way to root cause 🥴 we need DATA

The good news is that the gut barrier is dynamic. With the right support, it can recover!🔥

👇 Comment STRESS1 and I’ll send you my top 3 favorite supplements to support stress-induced leaky gut
🙌 Comment ROOT if you’re interested in comprehensive gut testing

References
• de Punder K, Pruimboom L. Stress Induces Endotoxemia and Low-Grade Inflammation. Front Immunol. 2015.
• Moloney RD et al. The microbiome: stress, health and disease. Front Immunol. 2014.
• Moloney RD et al. Stress and the microbiota–gut–brain axis in visceral pain. Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2016.
• CDC, NIH, NIMH, Alzheimer’s Association prevalence data.

09/26/2025

Depression and anxiety are NOT just “chemical imbalances”. The GUT environment is DIRECTLY tied to mental health, here’s one way👇

💡 In the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety, researchers exposed blood samples to LPS (lipopolysaccharide): which is a toxin from gut bacteria that slips into the bloodstream when the gut barrier is compromised.

👉 Those with stronger LPS-induced immune reactions weren’t just “more inflamed.” They were also FAR more likely to experience persistent depression and anxiety symptoms over 9 years (Kappelmann et al., Transl Psychiatry, 2020; Milaneschi et al., Brain Behav Immun, 2021).

The ones tied most strongly to inflammation looked like “sickness behavior”:
• Low energy + motivation
• Poor concentration
• Appetite and sleep disruption
• Irritability
• Somatic anxiety (racing heart, tense muscles, avoidance)

They also found that adults with childhood adversity/trauma showed bigger LPS-induced cytokine surges which explaining how early stress can prime the immune system for decades😫 (Gibson et al., Brain Behav Immun, 2022)

🤓 Gut health is not just about less bloating. When the gut barrier weakens and LPS leaks into the blood (LEAKY GUT) the immune-brain connection can keep you stuck in fatigue, brain fog, and mood symptoms😞

Your mood isn’t random it’s just ANOTHER signal and a sign your body is in an alarm-stage of health and needs HELP🙏

If you want to move beyond symptom-chasing and address the root causes of inflammation + Leaky Gut, comment ROOT and I’ll send you details on my Root Cause Packages🦠

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