So if someone says that, you know, like these are like the top three things that you could do to help heal your gut, what would you say they are?

The top three would be, number one, do everything you can to work on stress. That's clearly number one.

And not just immediate stress, but if you have any kind of trauma history,

this goes back to childhood, they're called ACEs, adverse childhood experiences.

We know that the more ACEs you have as a kid, the more likely you are to have an autoimmune

disease like Hashimoto's or have just any kind of illness as an adult.

And this is something that's really the most overlooked aspect by most practitioners and people

is the adverse childhood experience connection.

So that's number one.

Number two would be diet.

That's fairly straightforward.

And number three would be sleep.

Sleep is also often overlooked.

A lot of people think just because they're getting seven to nine hours that that's okay,

but the quality of the sleep might not be good for a number of reasons.

What do you see some of those reasons as that they're not getting that quality sleep?

So caffeine consumption during the day, alcohol consumption in the evening, what they're eating

for dinner.

And then another big thing is the use of devices later in the day in the evening,

like cell phones, tablets, computers, the blue light from those will significantly

decrease the quality of the sleep.

Again, even if you're getting seven to nine hours, the quality may be decreased if

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