THE BETTER BELLY PODCAST - Natural Constipation Remedies, Acid Reflux, Hormones, Gut Health, Functional Medicine

Have you ever done a detox program like fasting, a juice cleanse, or whole30 for 30 days and you felt GREAT afterwards - but as soon as you returned to normal life, your brain fog, fatigue, weight gain, constipation, bloating, skin issues, or hormone symptoms came rushing back? Are you struggling with chronic constipation despite trying everything? Fiber, magnesium, water, going gluten free, dairy...

Have you done multiple food sensitivities tests, but the results keep changing, and you feel like healing your gut is a moving target, with no real lasting results no matter how hard you've tried? Have you changed your diet a million times? You've gone gluten free, dairy free, paleo, done the low FODMAP diet, low acid diet, elemental diet, and many others - but you still have symptoms like constip...

Are you suspicious that you have heavy metal toxicity, but you don't know if it's something you should actually do something about, or if it's really that key to driving your constipation? Or - have you done a heavy metal detox, but you didn't feel better after doing it? Or you even felt even worse? Or - have you been trying to help your constipation through a million types of magnesium, but no on...

Have you done multiple protocols, cleanses, or rounds of antibiotics to get rid of infections like H. Pylori, candida, SIBO, parasites, C. Diff. or Lyme - yet you still have all your symptoms? Are you looking at doing another round of testing or protocols to try and get rid of the same pathogens you've worked on in the past? Are you suspicious you have certain pathogens - parasites, Lyme, mold tox...

Have you been taking digestive enzymes to try reduce symptoms like constipation, acid reflux, fatigue, bloating, or abdominal pain - but you still have all or most of those symptoms? Have you bounced from one digestion supplement to another trying to find the right one that is powerful enough to make your digestive issues go away? If you said yes to either of these questions - this episode is for...

Do you feel powerless against constipation? Do you feel like you've tried EVERYTHING to relieve constipation - magnesium, fiber, water, probiotics, doctor visits, or maybe even things like going gluten free or dairy free - but no matter what you try, you can't poop on your own? Do you struggle with feeling hopeless than you'll ever feel comfortable in your body again? If so, this episode is for yo...

Are you struggling with chronic symptoms that you can't explain or get rid of, and nothing you've tried has worked? Do you have symptoms all over your body, from rashes to diarrhea to headaches, fatigue, and tinnitus, but no diet, doctor, or supplement you've tried has helped? Do you have a history of estrogen dominance, hypothyroidism, candida, SIBO, IBS, or toxic mold exposure - but even when tr...

Is meat good for you, or is it quietly destroying your gut health, your cholesterol, and your long-term health? Have you been told to eat less red meat, focus on cholesterol lowering foods, and load up on plants to protect yourself from autoimmune disease and chronic illness, but you’re still dealing with bloating, constipation, fatigue, or worsening autoimmune conditions? Or maybe you’ve tried ve...

Have you recently heard about postbiotics, and you're wondering if they're all hype or if they really can help improve your gut health? Do you have bloating, gas, diarrhea, or constipation, and you're suspicious you have gut dysbiosis - and you're wondering if postbiotics might help your gut health? Are you taking things like postbiotics, prebiotics, or probiotics, trying to find the best diet for...

Is IBS still running your life - even though you’ve tried the low FODMAP diet? Are you cutting out more and more foods, following all the “rules", taking probiotics or supplements, and still dealing with bloating, indigestion, and abdominal pain? Or maybe the low FODMAP diet worked at first, but now your IBS symptoms are creeping back in and you’re wondering, why did it stop working? If you said y...

Is your food sensitivity list growing, despite eating right or doing things to try to heal your gut? Are you dairy free, gluten free, grain free, or on a restrictive diet like the low FODMAP diet and dreaming about the day you'll be able to eat foods you love again? Have you been told that you'll never be able to eat a food again like dairy, gluten, wheat, or corn - but you want to know if anyone...

Have you taken magnesium citrate to relieve constipation, but it hasn't worked? Have you tried higher and higher doses, or different types of magnesium like magnesium malate or magnesium oxide, to relieve constipation, but they don't work or leave you with tons of gas, bloating, and abdominal pain? Or - are you researching different types of magnesium and trying to figure out which is the best for...

Are you currently struggling with constipation, yet nothing you've done to heal it has worked? Have you been told that if you just ate more fiber, drank more water, or took the right supplement that you’d finally find constipation relief - but nothing is actually changing? Or maybe you’re doing all the “right” gut health things (chewing your food, cutting out gluten or dairy, eating organic) and y...

Have you been following a high fiber diet, but you recently got a colonoscopy - and you still have diverticulosis? Or - have you been told that the reason you have diverticulosis is because your constipated, but no matter how much fiber, magnesium, water, or probiotics you take, you just won't poop? Does your diverticulosis diagnosis worry you, or do you worry you'll develop it because of constipa...

Have you ever found yourself wondering, “Can I ever hope again?" Have you been doing everything you know how to do to heal - and yet the emotional weight of chronic illness still feels crushing? Or maybe you wouldn’t even call it depression… but you feel numb, exhausted, or like hope just doesn’t come as easily as it used to. If you said yes to any of those questions, this episode is for you. Toda...

Have you ever imagined finally being well… and instead of feeling excited, you felt anxious? Have you quietly wondered, “If I get better… who will I be?” Or maybe you’ve been so deep in chronic illness that it feels safer to stay where you are than to face the unknown future of being healthy again. If you said yes to any of those questions, this episode is for you. Today’s episode continues our se...

Have you ever had a new symptom flare up and immediately felt a wave of panic or fear go through your body? Do you feel a rush of panic the second you get a new symptoms — bloating, diarrhea, pain, fatigue — and your mind spirals into worst-case scenarios? Or maybe you’re exhausted from feeling like every changing (or unchanging) symptoms is an emergency… and you just want to know how to calm down...

Do you ever feel like your emotions inside you are so big that you don't know how you'll ever have enough time to process them? Do you feel like you get triggered at the sign of a single symptom, or conversation, or thought - and it takes you hours or days to feel calm again? Or maybe you’re living with chronic illness, chronic pain, or ongoing stress — and you’re wondering how can you ever regula...

Are you struggling with chronic illness or symptoms that just won't go away, and you've gotten to a point where it just feels like maybe no one understands your symptoms or what you're going through? Do your parents, family, or friends subtly or directly implying that don't really think you have anything? That you're overly sensitive and it's go away if you just chose to stop being so sensitive? A...

Have you been told you have low progesterone — and the solution was birth control, hormone therapy, or progesterone supplements — but no one could explain why your progesterone is low in the first place? Or maybe you’ve never had testing confirm it, but you're wondering if you may have low progesterone based on your symptoms — insomnia, anxiety, cycle issues, fertility struggles. Or maybe you’ve t...

Have you been told you have low estrogen — and the solution was immediately birth control or hormone replacement — but no one could explain why your estrogen is low in the first place? Or maybe you haven’t even tested yet, but you’re dealing with classic low estrogen symptoms like dry skin, low libido, thinning hair, weight gain, anxiety, or brain fog… and you’re wondering if low estrogen could be...

Have you been told you have histamine intolerance… so now you’re cutting out everything —leftovers, fermented foods, bone broth, even avocado—because you read they’re histamine high foods… and you’re still reacting? Or maybe you don’t have an “official” diagnosis… but you’ve got classic histamine intolerance symptoms like anxiety, reflux, bloating, eczema, dizziness, insomnia, or weird food reacti...

Have you been diagnosed with estrogen dominance recently - and your doctor recommended taking birth control to control it, but you're wondering WHY your estrogen is high to begin with? Or, do you have no testing confirming that you have high estrogen, but you're suspicious you may have it based on your symptoms? And, you're wondering how you can naturally balance your hormones again? Or, have you...

Have you been diagnosed with candida overgrowth — but you're frustrated that your treatments haven't work? Have you not been diagnosed, but all your symptoms — bloating, brain fog, sugar cravings, skin flares, even recurring yeast infections or UTIs — keep pointing you back to candida? Or have you treated candida before… felt better during the protocol… and then watched everything slowly creep bac...

Have you been told that your thyroid — or hypothyroidism — is the reason you’re dealing with fatigue, brain fog, weight gain, dry skin, constipation, bloating, or digestive issues that seem to keep piling up? Have you started thyroid medication or supplements, only to feel maybe a little better… but still not like yourself? Or maybe your doctor is telling you that your labs are “normal,” but you'r...