What if your gut-brain axis isn’t just a “cute concept”… but the thing running the show?
Erin is giving you the FULL class from last week’s Funk’tional Nutrition Academy Open House, breaking down how stress, subconscious patterns, and nervous system signaling directly shape digestion. This one’s for my practitioners, but honestly, if your gut isn’t improving, you’re going to want to hear this too.
You’ll understand how perception shapes digestion, why healing requires both gut work and nervous system work, and how to start interrupting the loop that keeps symptoms stuck.
In this episode:
- The role of subconscious patterning in shaping your symptom experience, and how those patterns can be changed
- How neuroplasticity becomes a tool for gut healing, and why your brain is not stuck in old patterns
- How shifting out of a constant “on guard” state can restore motility, enzyme output, and real digestive function
- The “prediction loop” your brain runs after repeated gut symptoms, and how it primes your body to react
- How your brain can misinterpret normal gut sensations as “dangerous”, through visceral hypersensitivity
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