Gutsy Health | Nutrition and Medicine

Show Summary “FMT, or Fecal Microbiota Transplantation, restores the gut with the proper bacteria, allowing the body to process food, obtain nutrition, and reset the immune system. By resetting the gut, the immune system improves, and the body can start to recover.” Your gut microbiome is a crucial part of your overall well-being, influencing everything from digestion to mood. But when it's o...

Show Summary: “I struggled with depression, anxiety, and substance abuse for most of my adult life. While traditional medication and ayahuasca helped, they failed to address all of my issues. Working with my therapist on ketamine-assisted psychotherapy mostly cured my PTSD.” Mental health is a major health concern in our world today, affecting 1 in 3 Americans who suffer from anxiety and depressio...

Show Summary:  “What I love about hair analysis is you can't trick it. Hair stores roughly 90 days of information. So unless you're actually changing your lifestyle, you can’t manipulate the results.” Unlocking a healthier version of yourself might be as simple as analyzing your hair. This non-invasive method can reveal much more about your health than you think. By measuring several fac...

Show Summary:  "I’m not waging war against my body. Lyme is not my identity. I am not a diagnosis, and I am not a disease.” Living with Lyme disease can be a frightening and isolating experience. It is often misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and mistreated, leaving people with symptoms that can make them feel unsafe in their bodies. Neurological symptoms such as extreme brain fog, ice pick headach...

Show Summary:  “Learning about my body's physiology has been empowering. I now understand how small changes in my environment and consumption can greatly impact my well-being. As a result, I don’t rely solely on experts to take control of my health.”   Illness can often feel like nothing more than a hindrance, weighing you down and disrupting your daily life. But what if it could be the catal...

Show Summary: "Parasites can overgrow due to an unhealthy diet, chemical exposure, and an unnatural lifestyle, leading to illness. Parasite protocols can help decrease their numbers drastically and restore balance in the body.” Are you struggling with unexplained health issues and a feeling that something isn't quite right with your body? Then, it's time to consider a possible sourc...

Show Summary:  “I grew a benign tumor, but instead of surgery, I tried to visualize healing it with my mind. In two weeks, the tumor shrank by half, surprising my doctor and teaching me about the mind-body connection.”   There is no denying that science has made remarkable strides in helping us understand our bodies’ inner workings. However, despite this wealth of knowledge, we still struggle to g...

Show Summary:  "This should be a fundamental business lesson for everyone; No matter what people say to you or promise you when they tell you not to bring a lawyer to a contract signing, don't listen. I made that mistake, and it cost me everything. It represented my lack of self-confidence in doing this on my own and my lack of self-love and boundaries.” Controversy is brewing in the med...

Show Summary:  "Tristan's death taught me my power. But my illness taught me to be gentle and submissive to what it actually takes to honor yourself and your boundaries. I thought I knew what ease and grace were, but the dysfunction literally disabled me so I could learn my lesson." Losing a loved one is one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. The emotional weig...

Show Summary:  "After I finished my second liver cleanse, my eczema and acne were completely gone. My hair started growing, and my energy was back. I could get out of bed in the morning and wasn't falling asleep at one o'clock anymore. At last, I could see many significant shifts happening.” Motherhood can be a lonely and difficult journey, especially if societal expectations bombar...

Show Summary: “I became numb because it was so heavy. Yet one of the Gutsy Health coaches taught me to feel my body and process my emotions, not look and hold on to the pain as a bad thing. It was hard, but it’s now a beautiful part of me.” Your body is your temple. And when it's functioning as expected, taking it for granted, ignoring its subtle signs for help, and altogether shoving its nee...

Show Summary:  "About 30 years ago, a patient stomped into my office. She wanted me to pay attention because she said she was going crazy, which was a surprise. After all, this is a very successful woman who retired in her mid-40s. She was in perimenopause, so I gave her some progesterone. Three weeks later, I got a letter from her saying, 'Oh my god, I can't believe this. I'm...

Show Summary:  "So my sister was diagnosed with LCIS, and there were areas of concern on her breast. The doctor recommended 'watch and wait' or mastectomy, and she was in turmoil. I asked her to take progesterone hormones, and after a month, she went back for her MRI, and the abnormal cells were undetectable."   Conventional medicine entails treating patients already in the end...

Show Summary: "I started working at her second ovarian cancer recurrence, and there's more metastasis. She cried and said, 'My cancer came back because I had chocolate cake at my daughter's birthday.' That was a pivotal moment in my practice, so I said, 'I think it's more important that you focus on the joy of your daughter's birthday and that you enjoyed th...

 Show Summary:  "Based on the scientific research of Dr. Jed Fahey, who started the Chemo Protective Institute at Johns Hopkins University, cruciferous Moringa and Broccoli share closest properties such as the NRF2 pathways and sulforaphane, which detoxifies and fights off cancer." Moringa is the phenomenal superfood you never thought you needed. A humble yet miraculous tree found in thi...

Show Summary:  "If there is anything we would have changed in our healing journey, before going into the body, we would have gone to the emotions and worked on the heart and soul first. Mindset includes being mindful, regulating your nervous system, processing your feelings, and connecting to your body." As a society, we are hardwired to base our worth on our achievements. Driven daily b...

Show Summary:  "Let's talk about staying healthy during the holidays. Hopefully, maintaining healthy habits is not overwhelming but fun to do. You are excited to do it for the 'future you'. So when Thanksgiving, Christmas, and work parties come by, you are bombarded with sweets and fun food. What do you do?" The holidays have arrived. And since 'tis, the season for ga...

Show Summary:  "Women have been lied to over and over again. It's common to assume that period symptoms are normal because everybody has them. But imagine a life where you're no longer planning around your monthly cycle. You're not falling apart, your energy is consistent, and your mood is good and stable." Most women expect a dreadful Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS) every mon...

Show Summary:  "Cold therapy is one of the best things you can do for vagal tone. When people are chronically in fight or flight, it gets you out of that and helps you get you into parasympathetic states again.” Despite our earnest attempts for vitality, no one is exempt from experiencing stress, depression, inflammation and other kinds of neurological disturbances. When your body is groaning...

Show Summary:  "Whether you get the vaccine or natural infection from COVID, the spike protein destroys the blood vessels which causes clots that restrict oxygen flow. Numbness and systemic inflammation occur to critically-high functioning organs like your heart and brain. The immune system also produces abnormal lymphocytes, so you get deranged responses that last for months." COVID-19...

Show Summary:    "When you go on a conception journey, your husband becomes invested. I try not to get my hopes up, so I took a pregnancy test the next morning without telling him. Then I jumped on the bed and woke him up because it says, ‘We're pregnant!’” Many couples now face the difficulty of conceiving babies. Along with the textbook PCOS symptoms, the rise in infertility issues has...

Show Summary:  "Without pharmaceuticals and surgery, we use external methods to rehab an injured brain. And I reached that point where we see semblances of post-concussion syndrome with these long COVID cases. It mimics brain injury." Covid-19 is originally known as a respiratory disease. And since it broke out, there have been growing studies and anecdotal evidence from the ground that...

Show Summary:  "Everybody wants to change. But we can’t because we are all addicts. Our drug is sugar and we have food that gives pleasure to our brain, so we can’t let go of it.”   We all desire to be healthier. And when we actually attempt to, our usual resolutions would be to cut down on anything ‘unhealthy’ that we can think of. Sipping coffee less in the morning and taking out carbs in t...

Show Summary:  "The heart is infinite. When going through a heavy, traumatic experience, it is easy to shut down your heart and mourn. But since the universe is infinite, you can always try to remind yourself that when one door closes, another one might open. There’s always opportunity for growth and movement.” “Healing happens” is a phrase we use to remind people that their bodies are capabl...

"The pillar of fixing hormones is balancing your blood sugar before you do anything. Even with supplements, if fluctuating blood sugar is not addressed, you will fail because you’re constantly inflamed and not fueling your cells properly.” Confusing and outdated health advice crowds the industry today. Too much emphasis has been given on limiting carbs, calorie counts and diets. Most certifie...