What if the anxiety you've been trying to think your way out of isn't coming from your mind at all?
In this episode, I share what I discovered when I began my own gut healing protocol — not from the other side of it, but from inside it. Because the science behind it is too important to wait for a tidy transformation story.
The research is profound: your gut has 500 million neurons. It produces 90-95% of your body's serotonin. It communicates with your brain through the vagus nerve - and 80% of that communication travels upward, from gut to brain. Which means your gut is influencing your emotional life far more than most people realize. And a dysregulated gut may be the biological root of anxiety that has nothing to do with your thoughts.
In this episode you will learn:
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Topics: gut brain axis, anxiety and gut health, nervous system regulation, serotonin gut, enteric nervous system, microbiome mental health, vagus nerve digestion, gut health anxiety, how to regulate nervous system, gut healing, leaky gut anxiety, food and mood, psychobiotics, blood sugar anxiety, nervous system food
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