Wellness Simplified: Evidence-Based Health Habits for Busy Professionals
May 25, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 15 segments
Bloating, brain fog, and that heavy, foggy feeling after a meal you've quietly accepted as normal. If any of that sounds familiar — it's not just you, and it's not just how you're built. In this…
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Like most people I think have a rough se- uh, sense of what the gut does, but maybe you could talk them through a bit about how the different organs actually work together as a system and where along that path things can start to go wrong.
So the way-- I'm a very visual person, so I like to visualize a garden of microbes, different bacterias, and they're all worlds in and of themselves.
They're little planets living within us, on us, and in us, and that is a pulsating organ or ecosystem or interface that is constantly talking to our organs and our functional structure in our body, and they're just talking to each other in and out, in and out all the time.
We are the host, and without the microbes, we would have no immune system at all.
Yeah? So I like to visualize that, and the thing around how the gut all works is just think logically from north to south.
If we have things up north that are sluggish, lackluster, deficient, you're going to have it snowball, and you're gonna have issues further down south as you travel down the tract or the, the intestinal tract.
Uh, so the most important thing when you're really reviewing your gut health is h- how am I digesting my food in my stomach? Number one.
How's the stomach working where we produce hydrochloric acid? That is an important thing so that we can break food down, so that we can absorb vitamin B12 and iron in particular, as well as other Bs and magnesium.
It's not im-- it's, it's good to have it, but it's not coming at the right time, so we can either take something like Nexium or a proton pump inhibitor and just block it, but then how are we gonna break down our food and absorb our nutrition now? And what, what are the consequences of that? So it starts in the mouth where there's actually a microbiome in the mouth, uh, and the saliva will kickstart your hydrochloric acid to signal in your stomach, which then starts to send signals to your pancreas, your gallbladder, and your liver.
So as food is hopefully partially digested from the stomach acid, it leaves the stomach, goes into the small intestine where the pancreas has released some enzymes to try and break it down further.
The gallbladder sort of drips it into the small intestine so we can emulsify fats and actually get nutrition from our food.
If we don't have these juices working, you might not actually absorb what you're eating.
And one of the key, uh, systems that needs to be a companion through all of this is your nervous system.
Yeah? So if you might be eating the perfect meal, you might have taken your digestive enzyme even, uh, and textbook everything looks great.
Like most people I think have a rough se- uh, sense of what the gut does, but maybe you could talk them through a bit about how the different organs actually work together as a system and where along that path things can start to go wrong.
So the way-- I'm a very visual person, so I like to visualize a garden of microbes, different bacterias, and they're all worlds in and of themselves.
They're little planets living within us, on us, and in us, and that is a pulsating organ or ecosystem or interface that is constantly talking to our organs and our functional structure in our body, and they're just talking to each other in and out, in and out all the time.
We are the host, and without the microbes, we would have no immune system at all.
Yeah? So I like to visualize that, and the thing around how the gut all works is just think logically from north to south.
If we have things up north that are sluggish, lackluster, deficient, you're going to have it snowball, and you're gonna have issues further down south as you travel down the tract or the, the intestinal tract.
Uh, so the most important thing when you're really reviewing your gut health is h- how am I digesting my food in my stomach? Number one.
How's the stomach working where we produce hydrochloric acid? That is an important thing so that we can break food down, so that we can absorb vitamin B12 and iron in particular, as well as other Bs and magnesium.
It's not im-- it's, it's good to have it, but it's not coming at the right time, so we can either take something like Nexium or a proton pump inhibitor and just block it, but then how are we gonna break down our food and absorb our nutrition now? And what, what are the consequences of that? So it starts in the mouth where there's actually a microbiome in the mouth, uh, and the saliva will kickstart your hydrochloric acid to signal in your stomach, which then starts to send signals to your pancreas, your gallbladder, and your liver.
So as food is hopefully partially digested from the stomach acid, it leaves the stomach, goes into the small intestine where the pancreas has released some enzymes to try and break it down further.
The gallbladder sort of drips it into the small intestine so we can emulsify fats and actually get nutrition from our food.
If we don't have these juices working, you might not actually absorb what you're eating.
And one of the key, uh, systems that needs to be a companion through all of this is your nervous system.
Yeah? So if you might be eating the perfect meal, you might have taken your digestive enzyme even, uh, and textbook everything looks great.
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