Your body is speaking to you. The question is whether you’re listening.
Gut medical advice changed my life three years ago. I sat in a gastroenterologist’s office while a man I’d never met looked at test results and told me nothing was wrong. My stomach had been in knots for months. However, according to his charts, I was fine.
“Everything looks normal,” he said. “Maybe try reducing stress.”
Then he handed me a prescription and sent me on my way. An eight-minute appointment. He never asked what I ate or how I slept. Just test results and a pill.
I didn’t fill that prescription. Instead, I went home and asked my gut what it needed. It told me everything.
Why Gut Medical Advice Works
The human gut contains over 500 million neurons—more than your spinal cord. Additionally, it produces 95% of your body’s serotonin. Your gut is not simply a digestion machine. It’s a second brain.
We’ve known this forever, actually. Why do you think we say “trust your gut” and “gut feeling”? These aren’t just expressions. Rather, they’re ancestral wisdom passed down because our forebears understood something modern medicine has forgotten.
Your body knows. It always knows. (Speaking of bodies that know things, my colleague Tucker recently wrote about how American kids can’t do push-ups anymore—and what that says about our national decline.)
What My Gut Medical Advice Told Me
When I finally learned to listen—through meditation, through elimination diets, through sitting with discomfort instead of medicating it away—my gut had a lot to say.
It told me I was eating foods that didn’t serve me. Gluten. Conventional dairy. Anything processed. Furthermore, it told me I was surrounded by toxic energy. A friendship that drained me. Work that didn’t align with my purpose.
Within six weeks of listening, my digestive issues were gone. No prescription. No specialist. Just listening.
Why They Don’t Want You Getting Gut Medical Advice
Here’s something that might sound controversial: the medical establishment benefits from your disconnection from your own body.
If you listen to your gut, you don’t need as many tests. You don’t need as many pills. Consequently, you become your own health authority, and authorities don’t like competition.
Big Pharma can’t patent intuition. Insurance companies can’t bill for body wisdom. The whole system is built on the premise that only experts with credentials can interpret what you’re feeling.
But here’s what I’ve learned: the experts are often wrong. Meanwhile, the body—your body, right now—is sending signals that no machine can detect.
How To Start Listening
First, get quiet. The gut speaks softly. It can’t compete with your phone notifications. I recommend twenty minutes of silent meditation each morning.
Second, eliminate the noise in your diet. Processed foods scramble your gut’s communication system. Clean eating isn’t about weight loss—it’s about clearing the channel.
Third, trust what comes through. When your gut says something that contradicts what a doctor told you, consider the source. One has known you for eight minutes. The other has known you since before you were born.
Your gut has kept you alive this long. Maybe it deserves your attention.
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