For a while, I genuinely believed I could meditate my way to feeling better.
Months of it. Trying to think my way into healing. I read the Joe dispenza books, and listened to Becoming supernatural on audiobooks at the same time.
And it didn't work not because I wasn't trying hard enough, but because what I actually had wasn't something thinking could reach.
It was a body running short on the raw materials it needed.
No amount of stillness fixes a deficiency.
What I didn't understand yet was why I was deficient in the first place.
I wasn't necessarily under-eating the right foods.
My gut wasn't absorbing what I was giving it.
After healing my gut, I came back to the meditations and the Joe Dispenza work, and it then genuniely made a change in my life.
The part most people haven't heard
The gut lining works a lot like border control: constantly deciding what gets let through into the rest of the body and what gets stopped at the wall.
When that lining is inflamed or compromised, it doesn't just let things through that shouldn't cross.
It also stops doing its other job properly: actually absorbing the nutrients from the food you're eating.
You can be eating well on paper and still be deficient, because the gate itself isn't working.
How your gut talks to your brain
That same compromised lining sends signals well beyond the gut.
The vagus nerve connects your gut and your brain, and most of that signal runs gut to brain not the other way around.
So when the gut is inflamed, the brain doesn't get a neutral update. It gets a distress signal.
Often that shows up as anxiety with no obvious cause, anxiety that doesn't fully respond to the usual approaches, because the usual approaches are aimed at the wrong end of the nerve.
Someone describes anxiety they can't explain. We look at the gut, and there it is: inflammation nobody had connected to how they'd been feeling, or absorbing. Years of SSRI use, which has been also shows to destroy the gut microbiome.
You dont have ten prolems in the body
You have one body:
- a gut lining that's not absorbing properly
- an immune system on high alert
- and a brain reading all of it as distress.
- a nervous system so wired it can't wind down.
These symptoms that looked unrelated. yet are all interconnected.
if this sounds familiar
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