How to Have a Healthy Gut

10/19/21 • 71 min

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Are you one of the many people who are struggling with gut health issues? Founder of the Healthy Gut Company, Steven Wright shares his personal journey toward healing his gut, as well as some strategies that we can implement to support our digestive system.

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode173.

Topics Discussed in This Episode:

How digestive enzymes work
The importance of hydrochloric acid
Why so many people have a hydrochloric acid deficiency
Some of the biggest factors that contribute to an unhealthy gut
The specific carbohydrate diet (SCD)
Systemic enzyme therapy

Key Takeaways:

One of the biggest reasons why many of us experience so much bloating is because we have issues with low stomach acid.
Food, water, and air are the biggest human consumption variables on a daily basis when it comes to our health. The quality of those ingredients matters to our overall outcome.
If you're on an elimination diet for longer than three months, you begin to create your own dysbiosis in the microbiome.
Taking out complex carbohydrates from your diet can create more food sensitivities, more food reactions, and less oral tolerance over time.
The specific carbohydrate diet is a version of a FODMAP style diet where you're not eating anything processed out of a wrapper or package. It’s a whole food diet where you're cutting out as many complex carbohydrates as you can.

Action Steps:

Consider going on the specific carbohydrate diet. Eliminate the foods that are giving you problems and attempt to reintroduce them as quickly as possible.
If you’re having an IBD flare, start with the intro diet along with the specific carbohydrate diet. This means eating all cooked meats, fruits, and vegetables and nothing raw.
Support your body with all the mechanical needs it might be missing at the moment to break down foods.
If you want to protect your gut, eat a lot of fermented foods, say a gratitude prayer before you eat, slow down, and try to eat a wide range of foods.
Find a supplement that's going to cover your pancreatic enzymes, your brush border enzymes, and microbiome enzymes all in the same capsule. You also want to try to find something with minerals added to it.
Take enzymes with your meals and before bed. Also, don’t be afraid to experiment with your enzyme dosages.
If you're in a bad place, like if you’re someone who has refractory IBD or you're headed into the hospital, one of the coolest things you can do is give your gut a break by doing a 24- or 36- or 48-hour water fast.

Steven said:

“The hope... is that if you supplement with [HCl] long enough and you rebuild the natural processes, you reabsorb all your minerals, and you kind of train your stomach how to work, you will end up usually coming off of HCl.”

“The systemic part of enzymes can not be understated, and I think it's one of the most underrated anti-aging tools... It's really cool from an anti-aging standpoint.”

Thanks for listening!

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You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode173.

Topics Discussed in This Episode:

How digestive enzymes work
The importance of hydrochloric acid
Why so many people have a hydrochloric acid deficiency
Some of the biggest factors that contribute to an unhealthy gut
The specific carbohydrate diet (SCD)
Systemic enzyme therapy

Key Takeaways:

One of the biggest reasons why many of us experience so much bloating is because we have issues with low stomach acid.
Food, water, and air are the biggest human consumption variables on a daily basis when it comes to our health. The quality of those ingredients matters to our overall outcome.
If you're on an elimination diet for longer than three months, you begin to create your own dysbiosis in the microbiome.
Taking out complex carbohydrates from your diet can create more food sensitivities, more food reactions, and less oral tolerance over time.
The specific carbohydrate diet is a version of a FODMAP style diet where you're not eating anything processed out of a wrapper or package. It’s a whole food diet where you're cutting out as many complex carbohydrates as you can.

Action Steps:

Consider going on the specific carbohydrate diet. Eliminate the foods that are giving you problems and attempt to reintroduce them as quickly as possible.
If you’re having an IBD flare, start with the intro diet along with the specific carbohydrate diet. This means eating all cooked meats, fruits, and vegetables and nothing raw.
Support your body with all the mechanical needs it might be missing at the moment to break down foods.
If you want to protect your gut, eat a lot of fermented foods, say a gratitude prayer before you eat, slow down, and try to eat a wide range of foods.
Find a supplement that's going to cover your pancreatic enzymes, your brush border enzymes, and microbiome enzymes all in the same capsule. You also want to try to find something with minerals added to it.
Take enzymes with your meals and before bed. Also, don’t be afraid to experiment with your enzyme dosages.
If you're in a bad place, like if you’re someone who has refractory IBD or you're headed into the hospital, one of the coolest things you can do is give your gut a break by doing a 24- or 36- or 48-hour water fast.

Steven said:

“The systemic part of enzymes can not be understated, and I think it's one of the most underrated anti-aging tools... It's really cool from an anti-aging standpoint.”

Thanks for listening!

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Previous Episode

Unraveling Your BS (a.k.a. Belief Systems) and Diving Into Your Subconscious Mind

What are your blind blots and belief systems that block you from achieving your goals? Delve into your subconscious mind with the CEO and founder of C.E.O. Blueprint Adele Tevlin and find out how you can reshape your thinking to start living the life you want.

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode172.

Topics Discussed in This Episode:

The conscious mind vs the subconscious mind
Where our limiting beliefs come from
Unraveling our belief systems
Why we commit self-sabotage

Key Takeaways:

People have a kind of programming in their life based on their childhood. We have a set of beliefs that we inherited from our parents at a time in our life when we couldn’t choose them for ourselves, and that foundational period becomes the lens with which we see the world.
The conscious mind is your intellect. It’s what gives you the ability to think and reason and the ability to accept and reject information. The subconscious mind, on the other hand, can’t reject but only accept everything as fact, so it is very susceptible to suggestion.
Awareness is like learning to ride a bike, and your soul, your higher self, has that. Once you discover and uncover certain lies and truths and do the deeper healing, you'll never forget it.

Action Steps:

Unravel your belief systems by taking a look at your results. Your life is a result of what you believe
Know where you’re at in an honest, humble conversation. Some people need to learn to put the pedal to the metal while others need to take their foot off the pedal.

Adele said:

“If you never do the work to question what you believe, you end up believing something that someone else told you. So the question then becomes ‘Are you living your life or someone else's life?’”

“Any successful person knows that the minute they start to succeed, they're met with temporary defeat. What are you going to do at that moment, sink or swim? But most people stop because they are obsessed with being comfortable.”

Thanks for listening!

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BIZ: Comparisonitis, Realistic Timelines and Getting Into the Right Headspace for Success and Growth

How can you recalibrate your life for the journey that lies ahead? Get a taste of my business mentorship program as I dish out some mindset talk that you can relate to in many different areas in your life.

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode174.

Topics Discussed in This Episode:

The danger of comparisonitis
Why it’s important to have realistic time frames
The mindset of a CEO
Emotional business vs factual business
Why you need to love what you’re doing
Why you need to think about your revenue goals

Key Takeaways:

You have no idea what’s going on behind the scenes in somebody else’s life, so don’t compare yourself.
Building your business is not a rush. It's important to have realistic timeframes, and that’s going to help take the pressure off.
Many people don't realize the amount of resistance that can show up when they start to dive in and do the work.
Your mindset dictates so much about your success and your growth.
You’re human, and it’s okay to fail. It’s important that you recognize failure as part of the process. The sooner you do, the more you experience ease, joy, and flow in your journey.
We don't do emotional business. We do factual business.
You have to be okay with doing the boring and mundane stuff. They’re the stuff that matters and moves the needle forward.

Action Steps:

Stop comparing yourself. Instead, focus and stay in your own lane.
Commit to only one thing at a time and follow through with it. Don’t take several courses, programs, and trainings simultaneously.
Reframe how you see failure and look at it from a standpoint of learning and education.
Get used to doing the boring and the mundane.
Think about your revenue goals.

Samantha said:

“We don't do emotional business. We do factual business.”

“You really have to fall in love with your work. Don't just go out there and launch programs and put things together because you think that's what you need to do or it sounds good. No, do it because you are so in love with it.”

Thanks for listening!

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