How to Repair and Nourish Your Gut | Dr. Giulia Enders

What can unlocking a healthy gut do for your life? It can recenter one of the most important organs we have. And really with that, have all these second and third hand effects that you wouldn't even maybe have thought of. All these influences on your mental health, on just your sleep quality, on your metabolism, on your weight, on how you just feel emotionally during a day. It's sometimes more potent than genetics. And why would you not wanna get into something that is so easy to influence and change and then has such a wide reach on every aspect of your health? What's the biggest myth about the gut that you wish would disappear? I think a lot of people are afraid that it's, like, too fragile, too sensitive, too stupid to handle things. And the gut is a very robust organ. If you treat it right and understand it most of the time, it can take a lot actually. And so sometimes when people think they have all kinds of sensitivities, some people do. And then for other people, it's more something that damage the gut. So now when all these foods come into contact, fructose, gluten, dairy, and so on and so on, the gut always has an issue, but that's more because it has an underlying general issue that you have to first take care of. And then when it's all healed up and doing well again, you probably are able to eat all these foods again. But people then stop entirely, especially with IBS, for example. And they say, I can't have all of these things. And I would say, you're right. You're not imagining this. You really can't at the moment. But it's not because, you know, your stupid gut can't take it. Because there's something underlying that we need to fix first, and then slowly and surely, you'll be able to have all these things again. Sometimes people have a little bit of a wrong view of the what their body is actually still capable of and what medicine and, like, things from the outside can do to it. What are the most common signs, that the gut is not healthy? Very simple things are just the basics. Do you have a bellyache? How is digestion? Your body basically sends you a text every morning when you go to the bathroom. Might check it out. It's free. Just turn around and look. And then also some other things are also a bit more subtle when you look at the effect of an unhealthy gut on symptoms like anxiety, risk of depression, just an immune system that's out of check, maybe influenced by some disturbances in the gut has an impact. If someone wanted to improve their gut health, what should they eat more of? I would say eat more of things that you really like, but that are luckily also healthy. That's always the first step. Because what I see oftentimes in …