Over the years, I’ve tried a variety of things to improve my gut health, microbiome and overall wellbeing, from lifestyle practices to diets.
Tag Archives: Gut Health
Selvi Rengasami, MD: Holistic Gut Health (E82)
Enjoy this interview with Dr. Selvi Rengasami, a Crohn’s warrior, physician, and integrative nutrition health coach. From medications and multiple surgeries — including a temporary ostomy — to facing death, she’s reached remission and filled her life with joy, purpose, and the ability to guide others on the path to gut health.
Episode 45: Sylvia Tam, Ulcerative Colitis Warrior and Founder of Beviva Foods
https://crohnsfitnessfood.podbean.com/mf/play/ahps2a/45_Sylvia_Tam.mp3 In today’s episode, Sylvia Tam shares her journey with Ulcerative Colitis and how it led her to starting Beviva Foods, a gut-friendly snack company centered around IBD patients. She spoke about her decision, after a colonoscopy in 2011 confirmed Ulcerative Colitis, to focus on her mindset, dietary changes, and family traditions in Chinese medicineContinueContinue reading “Episode 45: Sylvia Tam, Ulcerative Colitis Warrior and Founder of Beviva Foods”
Episode 44: Kiersten Thomson (@theformerfoodie) leverages the power of food to battle Crohn’s
https://crohnsfitnessfood.podbean.com/mf/play/di5xmb/44_Kiersten_Thomson.mp3 In today’s episode, Kiersten Thomson shares her journey with Crohn’s Disease and how she leans on the power of food to help manage her symptoms. Not willing to accept the idea that food didn’t matter, she sought the help of a functional medicine doctor. For the next year, she did well. She cut outContinueContinue reading “Episode 44: Kiersten Thomson (@theformerfoodie) leverages the power of food to battle Crohn’s”
Forgetting Crohn’s (almost…)
Some days, I almost forget that I have Crohn’s Disease. Honestly, I don’t think there’s been a single day since my diagnosis 13 years ago–or even since my first symptoms 17 years ago–that I haven’t thought about Crohn’s or digestive issues. But for the most part, my day-to-day life with Crohn’s is well managed…and althoughContinueContinue reading “Forgetting Crohn’s (almost…)”
Cystoscopy: My fears and anticipation vs. what actually happened
Do you ever find yourself loving Google, yet hating it at the same time? That was the case for me as I spent more and more time researching and looking up information during the two weeks leading up to my cystoscopy earlier this month. My last four urine tests all showed blood in the urine,ContinueContinue reading “Cystoscopy: My fears and anticipation vs. what actually happened”
Episode 39: Jenny Pascoe (@crohnieintheclassroom) talks travel, hypnotherapy, meditation, and fitness
https://crohnsfitnessfood.podbean.com/mf/play/gj7cvm/Jenny-crohnieintheclassroom.mp3 In today’s episode, Jenny Pascoe shares her Crohn’s story and how it took 10 years of battling symptoms before a capsule endoscopy confirmed a diagnosis of IBD. She struggled during those years trying to find ways to manage her symptoms, including numerous dietary changes, and even found herself wondering if it was all inContinueContinue reading “Episode 39: Jenny Pascoe (@crohnieintheclassroom) talks travel, hypnotherapy, meditation, and fitness”
Fasting and diet, my one-two punch out of my most recent Crohn’s flare up
How I used fasting and diet to pull out of a mini Crohn’s flare up and yes, vegetables really do hate me… Things started going downhill two months ago in July. Over the summer, I started playing around with adding different vegetables into my keto-carnivore diet. One by one–and spread out over the courseContinueContinue reading “Fasting and diet, my one-two punch out of my most recent Crohn’s flare up”
Episode 36: Ciara Munnelly takes control of Crohn’s with mindset and fitness
https://crohnsfitnessfood.podbean.com/mf/play/ywxmz8/Ciara_Munnelly.mp3 In today’s episode, Ciara Munnelly shares her journey with Crohn’s Disease and how she’s learned to change her mindset and find better health through fitness and lifestyle. Though she was always active growing up, as she got older, life got in the way of fitness. Then, when she was diagnosed with Crohn’s, she allowedContinueContinue reading “Episode 36: Ciara Munnelly takes control of Crohn’s with mindset and fitness”
Episode 35: Molly Dunham-Friel, battling IBD, IBS and SIBO
https://crohnsfitnessfood.podbean.com/mf/play/a9g5cx/E35_-_betterbelliesbymolly_mixdown.mp3 In this week’s episode, Ulcerative Colitis fighter, Molly Dunham-Friel, shares her journey battling Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), and Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO). One year after her Ulcerative Colitis diagnosis in 2012, she was diagnosed with IBS, and in 2018, SIBO was added to her list of gut conditions. OverContinueContinue reading “Episode 35: Molly Dunham-Friel, battling IBD, IBS and SIBO”