Nov 14, 2025
Constipation Relief: Back to Basics
If you’re reading this blog post, I’ll make the assumption that chronic constipation, bloating, and discomfort after eating (especially as the day goes on) is something that you’re hoping to resolve.…
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Gut Health
Curated posts exploring Gut Health from the Living Roots Wellness team.
Nov 2, 2021
Belly Massage for Constipation, Bloating, and Stress
The belly is such a mysterious beast! For so many of us, we've learned to "suck it in." Or perhaps, we've been conditioned to ignore the uncomfortable feelings in our belly, as it can sometimes be to…
Aug 8, 2020
Brain Fog Part 6: Candida Overgrowth
Candida Overgrowth? So often, candida overgrowths reveal a system under chronic stress and out of balance. While it might seem important to “treat” the overgrowth, it is merely a symptom revealing a…
Jul 28, 2020
Endotoxin, Carrots, and Gut-Healing Diets
Nutrition Experiments I enjoy staying open and changing my mind about nutrition. With every dietary shift, I am finding new and sometimes controversial ways to nourish our cells, increase energy prod…
Jul 17, 2020
The Trauma-Brain-Gut Connection
“It's all in your head” is a phrase often tossed around by doctors failing to understand certain symptoms when lab tests come back normal. There is some truth to this statement, especially in the con…
Jul 12, 2020
Fecal Matter Transplant: At Home
After some standard blood work and testing nine samples of his stool, my fiancee was dubbed safe-HIV and parasite free, that is-to be a donor. With a smile on his face, he blended up his beet-tinted…
Jun 12, 2020
Hormonal Birth Control & Post-Birth Control Syndrome
Hormones took a sharp turn in the 1960s, with rippling repercussions largely influencing the current epidemic of chronic disease, gut disorders, and autoimmune conditions among young women. While som…
Jun 4, 2020
Brain Fog Part 5: Tension
Brain Fog, Calcification, and Myofascial Release Knots, constrictions, adhesions, and overly sore muscles filled with lactic acid often form as defense mechanisms from some initial trauma. Our body i…
May 29, 2020
Brain Fog Part 4: Magnesium
Magnesium, Brain Fog, and What to do About it (scroll to bottom for action steps) This might sound dramatic or overly serious, but the body will not function properly or heal from chronic illness if…
May 22, 2020
Brain Fog Part 3: Mold
What do coffee, cantaloupe, popcorn, LSD, brie, peanut butter, and penicillin have in common? MOLD, either carrying their spores or as a by-product of fungal activity. When mold gets busy, it produce…
May 14, 2020
Brain Fog Part 2: Movement
Brain Fog Part 2: Physical Stress & Inflammatory Exercise Walking Lifting Leaping Lunging Rolling Tumbling Twerking Twisting Falling Bruising Bouncing Climbing Cartwheels Burpees Burping Biking Squat…
Apr 24, 2020
Laxatives, Bowel Movements, and Beyond
Is there anything as satisfying, as relieving, as energizing as a complete bowel movement? To this day, I haven't found a better road to immediate, physiological joy. A functioning bowel: a true gift…
Mar 11, 2020
Soil-Based Probiotics, Disease, and Supplement Scams
Microbiome research continues to blossom to the great delight of the curious, constipated, and the bloated. Anyone suffering from gut dysbiosis and microbiota imbalances revels in the new knowledge t…
Jan 9, 2020
Thyroid Function, Adrenaline, and Chronic Disease
Let's talk about the under-appreciated thyroid, baby! While diving in to pro-metabolic nutrition, mysterious gut dysbiosis, and getting to the root cause of cases involving chronic, complex disease,…
Nov 5, 2019
Frequently Asked Questions about Colon Hydrotherapy
What is colon hydrotherapy? In the simplest sense, colon hydrotherapy is the art of delicately washing out the entire colon with repeated fillings of warm, filtered water. This form of bodywork helps…
Aug 28, 2019
Fiber Fiasco
America is a constipated nation.... If you pass small stools, you have to have large hospitals. - Denis Burkitt Constipation. Bloating. Swelling & gas. Diarrhea. Foggy brain and feeling awful? Haven'…
Jul 25, 2019
How the Carnivore Diet Can Heal Your Gut & Brain
“The true method of knowledge is experiment.” --William Blake Meat-Based Trends When Joe Rogan interviewed Dr. Shawn Baker back in 2017 about only eating meat for two years straight, increasing number…
Oct 3, 2018
Coffee Enemas, Toxins, and Liver Support
Origin Story I vividly remember brewing my first batch of enema coffee back in 2013: Anxiously pouring the warm coffee into a pink rubber enema bag and letting it flow into my rectum while I listened…