Beyond Digestion 5 Year Book Anniversary

Video interview here with Scribe Media and Dr. Laura M.Brown, ND

Beyond Digestion Overview

Key themes:

·       Two thousand four hundred fifty years ago, Hippocrates, the father of medicine, said, “It all begins in the gut.”

·       The health of your gut impacts the health of the rest of your body

·       We not only digest our food, but we also digest the world around us.

·       Your gut is your primary sensing organ; you sample 80% of your environment through your gut.

·       Emotional discernment and regulation are just as important as your diet and sleep

Concepts:

·       Letting go… too much? Too little? Emotional ties to irritable bowel syndrome.

·       The onset of digestive and gastrointestinal issues often begins in times of grief, abuse or other major life events.

·       Gut health is impacted by many different things, from birth, food, environment, stress, genetics, medications and more

·       You can improve your health by taking care of the microbes in your gut

·       Your mood and overall health are determined by your gastrointestinal health.

·       Autoimmune disease often starts with an unhealthy wall of the gut. Over 75% immune is in the gut.

Discussion points

·       Healing is a step-by-step process, like peeling the layers of an onion. To heal, you must go one layer at a time. It involves addressing the physical, emotional, cognitive and spiritual levels.

·       Food as medicine.

·       Sleep is a very active state of repair and recovery.

·       Your heart must be in the right place emotionally for your digestion to be right.

·       If Candida can preferentially feed itself by making us crave sugar, how are the other inhabitants of our gut driving our outward behaviour?

Important lessons

·       Recognize patterns, remove obstacles one step at a time.

·       When you know better you do better.

·       Identify clues your body gives about your health; the body scan.

·       Increase your awareness about the root cause of your health problems.

·       We sense other’s energy through the gut.

·       Boundaries are important in your gut and in your life.

·       There are many ways to climb the mountain. If one path doesn’t work, try another.