5 Things You Need to Know & Consider Before Starting a Gut Healing Protocol | Ep 393
The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast
Erin Holt
4.8 • 788 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
We’re bringing it back to the gut!
If you’ve ever started a gut protocol and thought, “Why do I feel worse?” or “Why did this work… and then completely fall apart?” this episode is for you. Erin is sharing what a gut protocol is, why going straight into antimicrobial “kill” mode can backfire, and how ignoring the body’s internal environment can lead to flare-ups and stalled healing.
You’ll also learn Erin’s five step B.L.A.S.T framework to make your gut protocol results stick: think Bowels, Liver, Adrenals, Secretory IgA, and Trauma.
Your nervous system has EVERYTHING to do with gut results, and a more supportive, whole-body approach helps the body do what it already knows how to do: heal.
In this episode:
- Why jumping straight into antimicrobials is a red flag and can overload your system
- What Erin’s sudden wine reactions, hives, and crushing headaches reveal about histamine and gut imbalance
- How constipation and sluggish detox pathways can turn a healing protocol into nonstop reactions and flare-ups
- Why chronic stress hormones sabotage gut immunity, digestion, and your ability to clear infections
- How unresolved trauma and a dysregulated nervous system can keep the body stuck in survival mode
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| 0:00.0 | And so when we think problem with the gut, oftentimes our first thought is to go right to the infection or the suspected infection. So we want to go right into the kill protocol portion of a gut protocol, like kill the infection, kill the parasite, kill the yeast, kill whatever's there. and we treat it as an act of warfare, rather |
| 0:23.7 | than taking a step back and saying, hey, what's the overall environment that created this |
| 0:28.4 | problem in the first place? Why did the person get this infection in the first place? |
| 0:34.4 | Truly figuring out root cause necessitates asking the question, why did this happen? |
| 0:42.4 | Welcome to the functional nutrition podcast, spell it with a K, because we do things a little |
| 0:46.2 | differently around here. I'm your host, Erin Holt, and I've got 15 years of clinical experience |
| 0:50.8 | as a functional nutritionist and mindset coach, creating a new model that I call |
| 0:55.1 | intuitive functional medicine, where we combine root cause medicine with the innate intelligence of |
| 1:00.0 | your body. |
| 1:01.3 | This is where science meets self-trust. |
| 1:04.0 | Your body already knows how to heal, and this show is going to show you how. |
| 1:08.5 | If you're looking for new ways of thinking about your health, |
| 1:14.9 | be sure to follow and share with a friend because you never know whose life you might change. |
| 1:21.8 | Hello, my friends, and happy 2026. This is the second podcast drop of the new year, |
| 1:27.1 | and I'm very excited to be here with you guys, despite the fact that my voice is a little bit rickety rockety, I mean, is it even the |
| 1:29.0 | holidays if you don't get a little bit of a whisper of a cold or a cough right after the big |
| 1:33.7 | holiday push? I really truly am excited to be here with you because I have this newfound |
| 1:39.6 | excitement for this podcast. It's been over eight years. and I spent a lot of time thinking last year of |
| 1:46.0 | what the wellness space is doing, what the podcast wellness space is doing, and what do I want to do, |
| 1:51.6 | and what direction do I want to take it? And I have some pretty clear intentions, and that is |
| 1:57.0 | coupled with the fact that I actually have more creative space to dedicate to this podcast. |
| 2:03.5 | If you listen to a couple of my recent episodes, I've talked about some changes that we've made here. |
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