Elizabeth's Thoughts

The gut plays a crucial role in health and well-being, largely impacting nearly every other system in the body. It’s usually pretty evident when someone struggles with their gut health because there are many symptoms that directly impact digestion. What many don’t know is how intertwined other health issues are with the status of the gut. Most conventional doctors don’t consider the state of their patient’s gut while treating or managing conditions like diabetes, cancer, auto

Understanding the Vagus Nerve: Have you ever felt butterflies in your stomach? Has anyone ever told you to “trust your gut”? What about ever having experienced anxiety in addition to chronic bloating, nausea or diarrhea? Your gastrointestinal tract and brain are deeply connected by a nerve called the Vagus Nerve. This nerve acts like a two way highway, largely responsible for the brain-gut connection. Therefore our gut talks to our brain, and our brain talks to our gut (L

As a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP), I am trained to utilize a unique approach towards restoring wellness through optimizing the Nutritional Therapy Association (NTA) foundations of health. Your body is wise and speaks to you through various signs and symptoms. This could look like struggling with digestive issues such as constipation, diarrhea, bloating or acid reflux. It could also manifest as struggling with energy issues such as waking up tired, hitting a wall by

Experiencing signs and symptoms of imbalance is a healthy and normal response that we actually do want to happen if the body is thrown off balance. This is the body's way of saying "hello, pay attention to me!" This could mean having an inflammatory response, getting sick often, having irregular cycles, having a "leaky gut," or even fluctuations with blood sugar such as becoming a little bit insulin resistant or hypoglycemic. These are examples of how the body uses protective