What is “That Gut Feeling?”

“All disease begins in the gut”.

There is a reason why this statement was first uttered by Hippocrates, the father of medicine himself.

Your gut, along with its inhabitants (the microbiome) is connected to every aspect of your health; mental, physical, and spiritual. Over 80% of your immune system resides in the gut and well over 10 trillion micro-organisms. Your gut houses as many nerve connections as the spinal cord and pumps out more neurotransmitters than any part of your body. The gut, for me, is not only the “first brain” but the kernel of your entire being.

I feel this way having battled, and continue to battle, a chronic condition for the better (or worse?) part of a decade I have come to realize that every state of dis-ease is as much 'psycho' as it is 'somatic'. I have come to realize that health is not the absence of this dis-ease but rather the presence of harmony. I have come to realize, as stated before, that all of this ends and begins in the gut.

We know so much about health but understand so little.

A blend of experience, knowledge, and instinct, this newsletter is born from the hope that you don’t go through what I am going through and the desire that, like me, you can take charge of your life by taking control of your health.