01/03/2026
A stomach bug can actually be a sign of toxic overload. If I were dealing with diarrhea and vomiting, I certainly wouldn't panic.
Having diarrhea is a natural cleansing effect. Many bugs are expelled through the bowels.
When it’s short term and caused by food poisoning or a bug, it’s a necessary part of healing. As long as it’s not chronic.
The body’s goal is to keep you alive by keeping these toxins away from vital organs like your brain by storing them in fat cells. But, when the toxic load is high, the body reacts.
Here are a few steps I would take as a gut health coach:
1. Fasting - It’s one of the oldest and most effective ways of cleaning the insides. As long as I don’t have a serious illness, regular fasting will clean and rejuvenate my body. When I stop eating solid foods, this allows energy to get redirected to removing toxins and parasites. I would drink homemade meat stock, natural mineral and spring water, herbal teas (chamomile, ginger root), and vegetable broth with sea salt often.
2. Probiotic foods - Adding probiotic foods with high protein content every hour (homemade whey, sour cream, kefir or yogurt) to meat stock can be very effective in removing diarrhea. If I had a dairy allergy, this would not be an option. Instead, the juice of fermented veggies would work or goat’s milk dairy.
3. Raw organic egg yolks - As long as I don’t have an egg allergy, adding them to hot meat stock cooks them slightly and they’re easily digestible since they absorb quickly in the gut.
4. Avoid plant foods - Eating lots of raw or even cooked plant foods can be irritating to an already inflamed gut. Once my stools improve, then well-cooked veggies can slowly be introduced.
5. DigestZen essential oil blend - A combination of cardamom, coriander, fennel, ginger, and peppermint essential oils that calm stomach upset, food poisoning, queasiness and motion sickness.
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