: Laura M. Brown
: Beyond Digestion How GUT Health Connects to Your Mind, Body, and Soul
: Lioncrest Publishing
: 9781544518459
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: Medizin
: English
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Do you have trouble digesting the world around you? The onset of digestive and gastrointestinal issues often begins in times of grief, abuse, or other major negative life events. When the mind can't digest its reality, the body stops digesting its food-literally. In Beyond Digestion, Dr. Laura M. Brown, ND, exposes the many ways in which your gut health relates to the overall health of your mind, body, and soul. Even your mood can be a reflection of, or reaction to, what's going on in your gut. Now, Beyond Digestion offers a clear path to break the negative cycle of many chronic health issues. Learn how to: Get to the root cause of your health problems Detoxify your gut Harmonize your sleep and body rhythms Strengthen your immune system Balance your hormones Regulate your emotions Tune in to your body's inner wisdom Connect to your primal source of energy transformation

Chapter 1


1.It’s Not Your Fault


Here’s what you’ll learn in this chapter:

  • You didn’t know: how food affects the microbiome
  • It’s not your fault: how North American culture makes gut health difficult
  • You didn’t know: you have a toxic bucket
  • You can’t control everything: how you can influence the expression of your genes and how you age
  • How to create a timeline to track your health

You Didn’t Know


Daphne was on leave from the city for six months. While away, she let her sister use her car. When she came back to reclaim her vehicle, it wasn’t in the same shape she left it. Her sister just doesn’t care for things the way she does. Upon cleaning it out, she found a sandwich from a nationwide food chain under the driver’s seat. Her sister claimed she hadn’t been at that food chain in over four months. You’d think it would be stinky and full of mold. It wasn’t.

“Disgusting as it may sound,” Daphne comments, “it still looked so good you could eat it.”

Of course she didn’t! But how can this be? The answer is that there are so many preservatives in processed food that it can’t even break down after spending four hot months under the seat of a car. That says a lot about whether it can break down in your digestive tract into usable blocks of nutrients. How many meals a day do you eat that are like this sandwich?

Cheese should get moldy. Meat should rot and stink. That’s natural. Sometimes bad is good, if you get what I mean.

It’s Not Your Fault


It’s not your fault. Our culture does not help here. You try to work, raise a family, and look after a home, exercise, and have some time with family and friends. Most people do their best to get to the grocery store to buy some food and maybe cook it. Many just use thedrive-through or convenience shopping to pick up a quick snack. You trust that these big chains give you the nourishment you need to get through your day.

These places are businesses, motivated by profit. They make the food as cheap and tasty as they can to keep you coming back for more. What you don’t