Spent hundreds of dollars on a food sensitivity test, a SIBO breath test or a GI-MAP, followed the protocol perfectly, and your symptoms still run your life? This episode is for you.

In the first episode of my new series, The Gut Healing Industry Has Let You Down, I’m breaking down the three tests I hear about most from clients: food sensitivity tests, SIBO breath tests and stool tests. We look at what the research actually says about how accurate they are, including a study where the same stool sample sent to seven different companies came back with completely different results. I also share my own story of testing “positive” for severe dysbiosis years after I was completely symptom-free, and what that taught me about chasing test results.

Then we get into what none of these tests can measure: how your nervous system and your gut talk to each other. I walk you through two fascinating studies showing that people with IBS make the same amount of gas from the same foods as people without IBS. The difference is how much their gut feels it, and why that changes everything about how you approach healing.

In this episode, we cover:

• Why food sensitivity tests often flag the foods you eat most, and whether you should retest
• How your gut’s speed can give you a false SIBO result in either direction
• What a stool test is really measuring when you scoop that sample into the cup
• Visceral hypersensitivity, and why your symptoms may have more to do with your gut’s sensitivity than the food itself
• The tests that are worth doing

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Take the free quiz: Gut Issues? Find Out If Your Nervous System Is The Cause!

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Find out more about my program: Gut-Brain Healing Toolkit

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Yep, an ex broke up with me on a bus to Berlin and said one of the reasons was my food restrictions. That was the biggest gut punch. For nearly two decades, I had been the one navigating all of my food restrictions, never wanting it to be a burden to others, and in that moment my deepest fear came true.

Years later, I've reintroduced every food I avoided for almost two decades, including dairy and gluten. I recently spent three weeks in Italy, traveling in a van through the Dolomites with no kitchen, and ate gluten and dairy at almost every meal. In this episode, I share what that was like, what happened when the food fear showed up, and why a short safe food list is about more than the food on it.

In this episode, I'm talking about:

• What it was like to eat gluten and dairy at almost every meal in Italy after nearly two decades of restriction
• How the food fear still showed up, and why it didn't run the show
• How to tell the difference between a no that comes from fear and a no that comes from your body's preference
• The study that shows why the sensitivity often lives in your gut's nerves, not just in the food
• Why your nervous system may have learned that anything outside your safe list means danger
• Why "eat a little and see" so often fails, and the order I use to reintroduce foods

Join the free masterclass: Discover the Missing Piece to Break Free from the IBS-Stress Cycle

Take the free quiz: Gut Issues? Find Out If Your Nervous System Is The Cause!

Want to talk about getting support? Book a free clarity call!

Find out more about my program: Gut-Brain Healing Toolkit

If this resonated with you, be sure to let me know over on:

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Is nervous system work enough on its own to heal your gut? I get some version of this question all the time, and today I'm answering it directly.

The honest answer is: it depends. Nervous system regulation is always the foundation, and for a lot of the people I work with, it's the missing piece that makes everything else finally click. But when chronic stress or dysregulation has been running the show for a long time, it can also weaken stomach acid, enzymes, and bile production, affect your gut lining, and open the door to imbalances like SIBO or dysbiosis. At that point, regulation alone may not be enough to undo what's already happened physically.

In this episode, I walk through both sides: why nervous system work is non-negotiable, what it can heal on its own, and how I figure out when someone also needs direct support for the digestive process itself, and in what order.

In this episode, I'm talking about:

• Why nervous system regulation is foundational, and when it can be enough on its own
• How chronic stress and dysregulation physically affect stomach acid, enzymes, bile, and your microbiome
• The two layers of nervous system patterns I look for: lifelong background patterns, and patterns that formed around your symptoms
• How I assess what's happening in the digestive river without running tests
• Why the order you address things in matters as much as what you address

Join the free masterclass: Discover the Missing Piece to Break Free from the IBS-Stress Cycle

Take the free quiz: Gut Issues? Find Out If Your Nervous System Is The Cause!

Want to talk about getting support? Book a free clarity call!

Find out more about my program: Gut-Brain Healing Toolkit

If this resonated with you, be sure to let me know over on:

Instagram: @trustyourgut.health

To find out more: www.trustyourguthealth.com

Please SUBSCRIBE, leave a review, and share this podcast with anyone you think may benefit! Thank you!