Soothing Digestive Distress in Your Body [VLOG #80]

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hi beauties today in our vlog we're gonna talk about soothing digestive distress in your body and this is a really important topic because digestion is the core that's focused on the uptake of key nutrients in your system and the release the ongoing detoxification the ongoing cleansing of wastes and toxins so this two part aspect of digestion is absolutely critical to our health to our beauty to our energy to our optimal organ functioning to our clarity of mind to our ability to create the life that we want it is a root root system here in our physical bodies which affect all parts of ourselves including the lightness that we've can feel in meditation our emotional health our emotional well-being our spiritual growth everything is so interconnected and there is a reason that all the great Yogi's talked about diet they talked about digestion because they understood this so incredibly well that it's very it's very difficult to progress in other areas of your life if your body is weighed down if your body is heavy so it's an important discussion that we talk about how to really optimize your digestion and to soothe any digestive distress which I find is quite common a lot of us don't want to talk about having bloating issues or constipation or IBS or just diarrhea or all the different ways that our digestion can get thrown off but if you are going through any sort of digestive distress it's very important that we pay attention to it that we look at it that we examine it and then we work to alleviate it because it's so central to your health so the first part of this is all there's many aspects today I thought we'd focus on a couple of them first one of the easiest ways to start eliminating digestive distress is to make sure that you are working on a deep level to actually boost your digestive health and what I mean by that is down in the microflora making sure that you are taking your SBO probiotics you probably have heard me say this before but I say it again because I love you and it's so important the bottle in my desk as always I remember to take mine I have one in my desk one of my bathroom one of my kitchen one next to my bedside table and it's just really important that you are nourishing your microflora every day because it can get off whack from everything from stress to sugar to not eating perfectly which none of us do by the way so it's just really important that you are taking your SPO probiotics day in and day out number two it's very important that you look at certain foods that may be disruptive to your system specifically gluten and dairy so I thought I'm pretty comfortable in my diet I'll share with you guys the last few years I felt really good and then the other night we went out to dinner at this Mediterranean restaurant and they didn't have that many plant-based options and I was pretty hungry so I ended up eating three huge pieces of this lavash bread which is vegans plant-based but it was super high in gluten and this was last week and if you guys can see I'm still breaking out from it my body does not do well with gluten it does not digest well I get super bloated I break out it messes up my whole system so it may be gluten for you and maybe other foods all our bodies are different I think it's important that we recognize the individuality of our Constitution and our genetic makeup so what works for you may not work for everyone else but it's important that we tune in to our bodies and we start to notice and maybe you've never gone two weeks without dairy but I would urge you because dairy in particular is very can be a very potentially disruptive food to your digestion just give it a go this is the best time of year one of the best times of year spring going into summer where you can just try experimenting two weeks switch to almond milk in your coffee or tea get plant-based cheeses by the way the vehicles brand is amazing she's this smoked farmhouse cheddar that I am obsessed with I've cut it up and roll it in kale leaves and eat snap it's so rich and delicious and you can use nutritional yeast as a cheesy substitute there's lots of amazing ways to get past dairy so I would urge you to try cutting out difficult to digest foods and see how that affects your digestion and now is the time to do it you also want to make sure that you're eating lots of fiber to create regularity in your system there's a lot of ways to eat obviously and sometimes we can end up forgoing the fiber that's so critical to gut health but for instance having lots of drinks even healthy ones like green juice and kombucha but if we have all these fiber less choices or energy drinks you know lower under the spectrum or lots of coffee then we are not constantly nourishing the flow so get back in the habit of your glowing green smoothie if you fell off track this is a great season for berries which happened to be low in sugar great source of fiber I've been eating blackberries a lot myself and raspberries which are particularly wonderful for women's health blueberries one of my favorites so check out berries check out all the amazing plant foods that you see at your farmers market and eat them whole so you're getting all that amazing fiber now another aspect of God health and soothing aren't just digestive distress that I think is really important to address is physiological distress so there's so much research in connecting our brains and our bodies and specifically our gut health and I talk about this a lot in my newest book recipes for your perfectly imperfect life which is a very practical guide to becoming happier and more lighter and more joyful and specific food recipes that work on healing and supporting your body and your mind and your emotions so there for instance there is a published research out of the journal physiology pharmacology that found that stress alters gut brain interaction and it leads to digestive distress which is no surprise to any of us that have gotten stressed and felt that flurry in our stomach or get gassy or you know get constipated or diarrhea so it's important that we deal with stress on an ongoing basis I'm a big believer in mini just close your eyes for a minute through the day going in the bathroom going in the closet and just taking a moment to calm down and become present and get centered within yourself there's also the letting go technique in the stumbling block technique which I discuss in recipes for your perfectly imperfect life if you haven't checked out the book yet please do so because I'm so passionate about talking about mental and emotional well-being as well as physical well-being I've seen it for years beauties I've seen people that eat so well and so on point and they're still bloated and they still have belly fat and they still don't feel good so we really want to nourish our whole self that's a core element of our Saluda philosophy so check it out take your SPO probiotics it's experiment with cutting out different sorts of foods and you will start to elevate your digestive health more and more and therefore your overall wellness your overall vitality and beauty and energy and how you show up in the world so thank you so much for tuning in I'm so grateful for our connection that you are in our community I look forward to connecting more remember you can ask me all the questions you want over on the podcast tab which I answer every Thursday and our QA podcast you can also catch me on an Instagram live there's lots of ways to connect I'm always here for you sending you lots of love I will see you back here soon