Install a healthier gut in 2024

Have you ever wondered why so many people with past painful, adverse or traumatic experiences struggle with diet or digestive issues?

If you struggle with comfort eating, bingeing, putting on weight or cravings, this will be helpful for you.

If you struggle with digestive issues, from bloating to full blown IBS, this is a must read.

When you experience a painful or traumatic event, your amygdala, a small almond shaped part of the brain evaluates the event - where does it fit on the scale from absolutely wonderful to absolutely terrible.

For those painful or traumatic events, these are considered important to your survival - so they are stored in the hippocampus and become triggers for anything that is similar or even symbolic of them.

But these memories don't just sit there doing nothing.

A stored negative judgement or event causes the sympathetic nervous system, involved in fight or flight, to increase activation in readiness to deal with another threat.

This readiness causes several shifts in blood flow within the body.

• the heart opens (vasodilates) ready to pump out more blood in case you need to run away.
• the lungs open ready to pump more oxygen around the body so you're ready to flee.
• blood shunts to the legs and arms to prepare for action - running or fighting.

But because the sympathetic system is online, it's opposing system, the parasympathetic nervous system, quickly grinds to a halt.

• blood flow is diverted away from the gut because you don't need to digest if you're about be eaten by a predator.
• peristalsis, the muscular contractions that move food through the digestive tract slow down and bowel transit time changes.
• the pancreas initiates a blood sugar spikes to give you energy to fight or flight.

This shift towards an increased sympathetic (activated) nervous system affects two digestive hormones, ghrelin and leptin, which dictate when you're hungry and when you feel full.

All this together means when you have stored negative events from the past, the gut gets less blood flow to do it's thing, digestion slows down leading to cramps, gas or discomfort, while you simultaneously need more sugar to keep battlestations at the ready.

Those two digestive hormones make you crave more sweet food and make you feel less full when you have them.

All in all, digestion becomes a big issue.

As this goes on over time, the microbes in your gut start to change and adapt and then the pattern becomes normalised.

Now, as well as dealing with the psychological problems associated with trauma, digestion and weight issues are thrown into the mix.

The GOOD news is that both the psychological symptoms AND digestive issues can both be dramatically improved.

And for many people, it is indeed life-changing (I was one of them in 2015).

Even better news?

There is also a foolproof, methodical process to shift your eating habits included to.

And none of it involves talking in depth through all the painful details of your most uncomfortable experiences.

Instead, we use the latest approach of Emotional Memory Images (Hudson and Johnson, 2021) to help you to better health.

What next?

If you would like to experience how you can overcome traumatic events and improve your digestive health, simply click the link below to book in a totally free discovery call where I'll talk you through the whole process so you've got all the information you need to decide if it's the right thing for you.

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If you have any questions or feedback, simply reply to this email and I will reply personally.

Until next time,

Danny