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Food fear creates a frozen gut.
An initial food reaction may have had a physical cause, but the emotional memory of it can harden into something deeper. The body contracts. The mind braces. The nervous system prepares for danger.
And what was an isolated response becomes a pattern that feeds itself. It reinforces itself until it feels like there...
We live in a time where we can measure almost everything by ourselves: sleep cycles, heart rate variability, stress, glucose, metabolism. Tracking our biometrics is popular with biohackers and those who want to understand their body.
But just because we can track it… does it mean we should? Tracking can give you invaluab...
’ve been talking a lot about the freeze nervous system state as a root cause of digestive issues like slow motility and poor digestion. What’s interesting is that the frozen weather conditions in the Northern Hemisphere often mirror—and even amplify—this internal state.
When it’s cold outside, the body diverts more resources toward keeping vital org...
The Gut and Psychology Syndrome (GAPS) diet helped pull me out of nervous system freeze and burnout. It cuts out sugar (except for honey and fruit), grains, starches, seed oils, most dairy, processed foods, beans, soy, corn, alcohol and caffeine. It focuses bone broth, animal fats, low starch veggies and fermented foods.
I followed it for about five months, not bec...
More people than ever are being diagnosed with SIBO and H. pylori in our post-COVID world.
We moved through an overwhelming global event, and the uncertainty that followed continues to weigh on us. Add health issues, and it can feel like far too much.
The good news is that our bodies were designed to respond to stress. The nervous system adapts when it sen...