What if your clean diet is starving your gut and fueling your fatigue, brain fog, and stubborn bloating?

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I'm Ethan Foster and today we're examining why invisible gut dysfunction is so common,

how short chain fatty acids, especially buterate, anchor your resilience and why replacing

seed oils with stable fats can be a decisive first step toward repair.

I'm focused on giving you direct, actionable information you can apply right away.

I'm Alara Sky.

In this episode, you'll learn how your microbiome influences digestion, immunity, metabolism, and even mood.

Why diversity matters, what the fiber paradox means

for you, and how a simple oil swap can start restoring balance from the inside out.

You might relate to the pattern described in the gut cure. You train hard, track macros, and

read labels. Yet you crash mid-afternoon, your joints ache for no clear reason,

and digestion feels unpredictable. Standard labs look normal, but something is off. The book points

to a root cause many people overlook, a depleted or disturbed microbiome that's failing to

generate the compounds your gut relies on to keep you steady.

Your gut microbiome is a vast community of bacteria and other microbes concentrated in your colon.

When it's balanced and diverse, you digest more efficiently, regulate immunity, and maintain steadier energy.

When diversity drops due to antibiotics, ultra-processed foods, chronic stress, and environmental

toxins, opportunistic microbes gain ground.

That imbalance shows up as bloating, irregularity, mood swings, low-grade inflammation, and susceptibility to triggers

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