Gut-Brain Axis

A new angle on helping clients with IBS: the 48-hour flare playbook. What to do during a bad day, and how to turn it into data that prevents the next one.

Your IBS flare calendar looks suspiciously like your hormone calendar. Here’s the estrogen-gut mechanism — and the levers that work when your gut follows your cycle.

Your brain’s immune cells don’t just react to bad sleep — they listen to your gut, your gums, and your stress. Here’s how microglial priming works and what quiets it.

One in ten people sitting in your sessions meets IBS criteria — here’s the evidence-based 30-day playbook that turns vague gut complaints into a workable plan.

The bacteria in your gut teach your brain’s immune cells how to behave. Here’s the microbiome-microglia connection, minus the hype.

Functional medicine treats the microbiome-sleep link as a one-way street. The research says it’s a loop — and that changes what actually works.

A growing body of research links gut-driven inflammation to depressive symptoms — and that changes what actually helps.

If your gut runs your schedule, you’re far from alone: IBS is one of the most common digestive disorders worldwide — and the fixes are more practical than you’ve been told.

New research reveals how oral bacteria hijack your gut’s tryptophan metabolism through the kynurenine pathway — and it changes everything about the gut-brain connection.

The bacteria in your mouth may be influencing your brain health — here’s the science behind the oral-brain connection.

If you have depression and digestive issues, the connection isn’t coincidence. Here’s the investigation pathway most doctors never offer.

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