HERBS FOR BLOATING🌿 (indigestion, acid reflux, sour stomach) CAUSES: 1. The combination of heavy protein foods with starches in the GI tract creating fermentation. WHY? ➡️Starches begin their digestion process in the mouth whereas proteins begin digesting in the lower stomach. This creates a CLASH releasing two acids (HCL and pepsin)— causing fermentation, bloating, and inflammation. 🚫An example of this would be steak and potatoes OR white bread with turkey and cheese👎🏼 No, no, no! 2. Eating quickly digesting food like fruit or melons after slow digesting food like meat or nuts/seeds. Always eat your fruit at the beginning of the day or throughout the afternoon away from any other foods. 🍎 STOP adding protein powders, nuts/seeds, and collagen to your smoothies! 👎🏼🚫 Let your smoothies just be fruit☺️ 3. An inflamed, acidic lymphatic terrain in the gi tract and intestines due to a lifetime of eating processed foods, fried food, dairy, milk (aka the standard American diet). The buildup of these foods over time since they are acidic within the body once metabolized results in what’s called a “mucoid plaquing”. This can lead to deficiencies, malabsorption, insatiable hunger, and fermentation if these foods just continue to sit within the intestines (especially if you are constipated)⬇️ 4. Lack of bowel movements— optimally one should be going at least 1-2x a day. . Avoid dairy, eggs, gluten, processed food if constipated.

Remember, your body whispers that there is a problem before it screams it with a state of dis-ease in the body. It starts with the subtle signs like sleep issues, energy imbalances, some GI discomfort- and usually around that time you mention symptoms to your primary, and you are sometimes given an “aid” to mute that symptom. After a while, you begin to see more and more, sometimes anxiety/depression, sometimes full-on chronic fatigue, sometimes skin issues…the list goes on and on. By muting and not supporting your body when its “warning lights” were on, you simply just made it try harder to get your attention and point to the problem, the problem is, now these symptoms are systemic and harder to pinpoint right? So you go BACK to your primary and ask for testing, still aren’t at that state of dis-ease yet and your labs are “fine” and yet you still feel like something is wrong (and you are right!) When the body cannot find homeostasis, it will do everything in its power to get your attention so that you can find those triggers and support it. You then are told, maybe they are in your head- which makes you feel even more defeated, get prescribed another “aid” and the cycle continues… Because it was my own for YEARS, and I see it replayed over and again with my clients.

Is there any common causes for autoimmune disease that the person can avoid? Or it’s something genitic?