Welcome to the Just Ingredients Podcast, I'm Cara Lynn and here we talk all things nourishing to the mind, body and soul.

This is a place where you can, Gut Health Specialist, and the founder of

Han. After struggling with their own chronic digestive issues for years, Hannah dove

head first into the latest in gut health research, seeking answers to her bloating,

food sensitivities, and pain. With her science-backed formula, Hannah has overcome her own digestive issues

and helped hundreds of other women around the world do the same. Today, Hannah leads a team

of functional practitioners that help clients transform their gut health and overcome their never-ending digestive issues with functional nutrition, targeted supplementation, and advanced lab work.

Welcome back to the show everyone. Today's guest is Hannah and I'm excited to talk to her about the gut.

Many guests have been on the show and have talked about the gut related to your mood

or related to different specific things but we just never talk about the gut in

general and I know a lot of people deal with digestive issues and being bloated or hurting after they eat.

So I'm really excited to talk to you today. But before we begin, will you just tell my audience a little bit about yourself in your background and how you got involved in what you do now?

Absolutely. I'm so happy to be here. Thanks for having me. I'm Hannah Aylward. I'm the CEO and founder of Han and at hand we really help women overcome chronic digestive issues that we've been struggling with for typically years and years and I really got into this work because I needed it myself.

So I struggled with my own digestive issues for years and years.

And I feel like that's why a lot of us get into this work or trying to find a solution to To our own problems, I was someone that

was eating a really healthy, I exercised consistently, I was young and I just still felt

awful, like I would look six months pregnant after eating an apple. You know, I tried going only raw diet. I tried eating oil-free. I tried eating low-fod map. I tried every single diet in the book. And nothing was really getting to the bottom of these chronic digestive issues.

I would eliminate gluten and dairy and those things helped a little bit but I was still like something is off like for how healthy I eat, for how active I am, like something is really missing here.

It caused me so much stress and pain when traveling, when going out to eat, I mean I would always pack my own snacks like I was terrified to go out and get dinner with my girlfriends, you know, and this is what we see in a lot of our clients as well. So things just weren't really making sense, you know, I was having all of these issues and I was still

feeling really bad and I was kind of learning about functional medicine and

learning about these more holistic kind of root cause approaches and so much of it

really revolves around just peeling out all of these foods,

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