Vitality Radio Podcast with Jared St. Clair
Sep 23, 2026 · 28 min · 13 segments
On this episode of Vitality Radio, Jared continues his series on the intelligence of symptoms with a look at nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and heartburn. These uncomfortable digestive symptoms may feel…
Let's start with the pair that's the most dramatic, the most obviously on your side once you actually think about it, and I think we all kind of get this, especially in a case of, like, food poisoning or whatever.
Nausea and vomiting are miserable, and I'm gonna treat them as two connected things because they almost always are.
Although nausea doesn't always lead to vomiting, you're pretty much always gonna be nauseous before you vomit, right? Let's start with the nausea, because we tend to skip right over this one in many cases, and we also, in many cases, try to shut this one up.
There's a lot of them, right? But this is one signal that says something is wrong in here.
It's your body pumping the brakes and saying, "Time to decide what we need to do right now." So nausea isn't a glitch to be switched off the second it shows up.
It's information, and a lot of the time, it's protective restraint, your body holding you back from making something worse.
My poor, sweet Jen, who I adore so much, one of the afflictions that she's been blessed with, we'll say, is pretty raging motion sickness.
She stares down at her phone for five seconds while I'm driving, and she can start to get nauseous, and the head starts to spin.
Uh, so I know what it's like, but not to the extreme that she knows what it's like, and it seems to run in her family.
That type of nausea is a little bit different story than what I'm talking about.
Let's start with the pair that's the most dramatic, the most obviously on your side once you actually think about it, and I think we all kind of get this, especially in a case of, like, food poisoning or whatever.
Nausea and vomiting are miserable, and I'm gonna treat them as two connected things because they almost always are.
Although nausea doesn't always lead to vomiting, you're pretty much always gonna be nauseous before you vomit, right? Let's start with the nausea, because we tend to skip right over this one in many cases, and we also, in many cases, try to shut this one up.
There's a lot of them, right? But this is one signal that says something is wrong in here.
It's your body pumping the brakes and saying, "Time to decide what we need to do right now." So nausea isn't a glitch to be switched off the second it shows up.
It's information, and a lot of the time, it's protective restraint, your body holding you back from making something worse.
My poor, sweet Jen, who I adore so much, one of the afflictions that she's been blessed with, we'll say, is pretty raging motion sickness.
She stares down at her phone for five seconds while I'm driving, and she can start to get nauseous, and the head starts to spin.
Uh, so I know what it's like, but not to the extreme that she knows what it's like, and it seems to run in her family.
That type of nausea is a little bit different story than what I'm talking about.
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