Stomach Pain, Gas, & Bloat (oh my!)

A poor diet loaded with carbs, simple sugars, and processed junk food, no raw fruits or veggies, and very little water in my life lead me to dealing with pain, gassiness, and bloat on a regular, daily basis from my teen years into adulthood…..until I found a solution that not only soothed my symptoms, but also offered healing benefits, a stronger immune system, less inflammation, and more energy. Read on if you suffer from stomach pains, gas or bloat and are here looking for a solution.

The digestive system is at the CORE of your body, and so, at the core of your health. If it's sick, you're sick.

Did you know most of us are carrying around 5-10 pounds of decaying fecal matter…which contributes to the 1.8 million (and rising) cases of colorectal cancers. (source) 

Healthy elimination habits have a direct effect on your...

Hormones. Used up hormones, particularly estrogens, need to be eliminated swiftly from your body so they don't build up and cause imbalance. When estrogens hang around too long they feed cancer cells, among other things.

Liver Function. The liver empties out into the intestinal tract each night at about 3 a.m. If the intestinal tract is backed up, the liver has nowhere to go with the sludge it has filtered out of your blood stream. This sludge includes those used up hormones I just mentioned and any other toxins you have consumed and absorbed from your food, water, and environment, as well as general metabolic waste (think car exhaust). As with any clogged sewage system, the backed up mess goes back to where it came from. For us, it means back into the bloodstream. This creates a domino effect of problems like allergies, inflammation, toxicity, etc. 

Skin condition. Most skin issues are actually gut-related issues. If there is inflammation in the gut (or anywhere else in the body), there will be inflammation in the skin at some point. The body needs to flush it out somehow and even though the skin is the last resort, we are typically so backed up with toxins that our skin is the only route left. This creates issues like eczema, psoriasis, and cystic acne.

Sleep. Serotonin affects our sleep. It is used by the brain, but it is made in the gut. If the gut is too filled with decaying fecal matter and trying to manage the problems that that causes, it's not going to be able to give good focus on creating a non-vital hormone like serotonin. It's more worried about getting the rotting garbage out so it doesn't end up in your vital organs to create more damage.

The body also does 80% of its restorative repair in deep sleep mode. So if you're trying to heal from anything, sleep is imperative.

Stress. Sleep effects our HPA-axis (Hypothalamus, Pituitary, Adrenals) this is our stress response system. When we are not getting good quality of sleep, the body will read this as stress. This will have another cascading domino effect on your overall health, but more specifically it will burn out your adrenals, throw off your menstrual cycles, and mess with your mental clarity.

Mood. Lots of depression conditions are treated with serotonin drugs. See above in sleep. 

Brain Function and Mental Alertness. The skull does this amazing thing at night where the plates contract and sort of "wring out" the brain like a sponge to clean the toxins from it. (remember, toxins can also just be metabolic waste from its normal healthy functioning. like car exhaust). The garbage then gets wrung out into the spinal cord and filtered out through the lymphatic system. This cleansing function can only happen in a deep REM sleep. This is one reason we are in mental fog when we don't get good sleep.

Immune Function. The digestive tract is a LARGE part of our immune system. If it's not functioning well, our immune system is weakened. We don't need any of THAT right now, do we? 

ALL OF THIS MATTERS! 

And all of this is directly affected by the state of your digestive system functioning properly. 

What does functioning properly look like?

The perfect bowel movement should be soft, well-formed in one piece, light-to-medium brown in color, and easy to pass. Elimination should take minutes, not hours. 

If you are not properly and efficiently having perfect bowel movements within 2 hours after every meal, you need to do some work in the area of gut health.

Also, if you’re not eliminating first thing in the morning (after your morning water), or you need coffee to get things going, you need to do some work in the area of gut health.

And how LIBERATING it is to poop like this! Yes, I just said that and it's TRUTH. (If you know, you know.) 

Sitting down and getting my business done in the time it takes me to even just pee is something I thought I would never experience. And did you know....having a "good poop" releases happy endorphins too? That's why we feel so GOOD when it's done!  #doublewin :-)

You will feel light and energetic and just plain GOOOD!

My journey with healthy gut habits is about 10 years strong now. If you want to know how I do it grab my guide HERE.

When I think back on how much of my time... my life, was wasted buckled over in stomach pain or being embarrassed by my ballooned out belly it makes me sad and mad and robbed. I'll never get that time back. If only I had known then what I know now, how much different would things have been for me? 

I don't want that for anyone else.

The guide is free…the protocol is simple. Check it out and give it a try.

Be sure to come back and tell me how much you loved it.

Be well my friend! 

Jackie