When your microbiome is flourishing it enables every cell in your body to keep you healthy – diversity is key!

But that’s only part of the story. You also need to understand how to live in balance with your constitution. When we live out of balance with our particular constitution our gut microbiome also shifts out of balance, and this leads to dis-ease, which if left unaddressed, leads to disease further along the line. Ayurveda, which has been around for 5000 years, explains how to return to and remain in balance.

There has been a surge of research, articles and books, in relation to gut health which mirrors the rise in digestive issues and chronic health conditions which has occurred alongside an increased use of chemical farming. My approach to gut health is to bring together the Ayurvedic approach, the latest research in relation to our microbiome, with a solution focused approach to managing stress—this is the approach that allowed me to heal 15 years of digestive challenges in just 3 months. Subscribe to my newsletter, and follow my podcast and posts on substack and Instagram, where I will be continuing the conversation around gut health.

I am trained in Ayurvedic nutrition. For Ayurveda, the things we consume through all of our senses will impact our body’s ability to metabolise our food. For this reason Ayurveda takes into account food and lifestyle choices, explaining the effect these have upon people with different constitutions. If you are eating nutritious food to nourish your cells but your lifestyle is causing imbalance, you will still be creating conditions that undermine your immune system and negatively impact your gut microbiome. Ayurveda is able to accurately identify your particular constitution and offer guidelines to support this. Ayurvedic Nutrition is a fascinating topic and I’ll be continuing the conversation through my posts, podcasts, newsletter, as well as on my Instagram and Facebook book pages.

During 2020 numerous research papers showed there was a correlation between gut health and the severity of COVID 19 symptoms—gut problems lead to a lowered immune function. The Ayurvedic healing model is based on the understanding that strong immunity and vibrant health are a product of good digestion, and explains that our life choices, the food we eat and, the way we grow our food, determine whether our digestion is healthy.     

We currently have a global chemical farming system that kills the microbiome in the soil, this leads to food that is lacking in nutrition, at the same time as bringing chemicals into the ecology of our physical system that kill the microbiome in our guts—hence the steep increase in gut problems and chronic health conditions since the introduction of glyphosate and other chemicals that kill biological life, in the 1990’s.

To address this we need to source our food from farming practices that regenerate the microbiome in the soil—no-dig and no chemicals. This will also allow the carbon to move from the atmosphere back into the soil—the industrial/chemical farming practices have been killing the life in our soils which caused the carbon stored in them to be be released into the atmosphere, because soil that has no life in it can’t store carbon.

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Solution Focused Hypnotherapy (SFH) cured me of PTSD in 12 weeks, I went on to train and now support people to turn stress around. SFH is a process based on the latest in neuroscience. It shifts the brain from the survival, unhappy, angry, anxious, obsessive, addictive, depressed part of the brain to the creative, innovative neo-cortex. Operating from this part of the brain allows us to solve problems and produce all those feel good chemicals. The combination of solution focused conversation with light trance work is a powerful way to manage the stress in your life.