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Digestion

Digestion has been a huge part of my own journey, and I have come to think of it as one of the more honest signals the body gives. It often has something to say about what is going on in the rest of your life before you have worked it out yourself.

Gut health is not only a question of food, either. The gut and the brain are in constant conversation, which is part of why stress turns up in digestion at all, and why so much of this comes down to how you eat rather than only what. In my own experience, when digestion settles, other things feel steadier too.

The writing here covers food combining, digestive enzymes, elimination, and intuitive eating.

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