Bite Back with Abbey Sharp Can HYPNOSIS Cure Your Bloating, IBS & Food Sensitivities with Dr Ali Navidi
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Mar 10, 2026 Dr Ali Navidi, a clinical psychologist who specializes in gut–brain therapies, explains how the brain and gut miscommunicate. She talks about clinical hypnosis for IBS, how stress disrupts digestion, and the difference between gut-directed hypnosis and CBT. Learn about learned food sensitivities, how habit loops create constipation or bloating, and daily practices to calm the gut–brain axis.
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Desensitize Hypervigilance Before Reintroducing Foods
- Target hypervigilance and catastrophizing first, because anxious scanning amplifies gut symptoms.
- Reduce constant attention to gut sensations to stop anxiety from sending distress signals down the gut–brain pathway.
Visceral Hypersensitivity Explains Amplified Pain
- Visceral hypersensitivity means the brain amplifies normal gut signals into pain or discomfort.
- Hunger or mild post-meal sensations can be distorted into severe pain by this amplification mechanism.
Hypnosis Restored Appetite In Severe Dyspepsia
- A man with functional dyspepsia regained appetite after hypnosis reduced diaphragmatic positioning and visceral hypersensitivity.
- During a session he felt bloating shift and dissolve and left reporting he felt hungry again.
