How the Gut-Brain Axis Impacts Your Mental Health with Rachel Scheer
The Root Cause Medicine Podcast
Kate Kresge
4.8 • 581 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode of The Root Cause Medicine Podcast, Dr. Carrie Jones sits down with Rachel Scheer to explore the fascinating connection between the gut-brain axis and nervous system regulation. You'll hear them discuss: 1. How IBS, anxiety, and depression are linked to your gut 2. Why high achievers are more prone to gut issues 3. How trauma and stress are wrecking your gut health 4. Breathing tricks to calm your nervous system 5. Functional approaches to gut dysfunction and mental health Rachel is the Founder and CEO of Rachel Scheer Nutrition, with vast experience in the health, wellness, and fitness industry. She is skilled in nutrition counseling, public speaking, and health education. Additionally, Rachel is a certified Functional Medicine Nutritionist, fitness model, author of Root Cause: A Complete Guide to Functional Nutrition for Coaches, and host of the Sheer Madness Podcast. Order tests through Rupa Health, the BEST place to order functional medicine lab tests from 30+ labs - https://www.rupahealth.com/reference-guide
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the root cause medicine podcast. Most of the time there are gut symptoms or constipation |
| 0:05.9 | and bloating and a lot of those symptoms intertwine when there is microbiome imbalances, |
| 0:11.7 | intestinal permeability, pathogens that are in the gut. But that doesn't always have to necessarily |
| 0:17.2 | be the case. And a lot of what we see is people's mental health, really negatively |
| 0:23.4 | impacted. In fact, according to a couple of studies and just statistics that I found, approximately |
| 0:29.3 | 50 to 90 percent of IBS patients have at least one comorbid psychiatric disorder. And anxiety is known as a risk factor for IBS |
| 0:39.8 | with 40 to 60 percent of IBS patients reporting comorbid anxiety disorders. So anxiety is a huge |
| 0:47.5 | symptom that a lot of people develop. Hello, hello. My name is Dr. Carrie Jones and I'm your |
| 0:53.5 | co-host today and I'm excited to bring |
| 0:55.4 | along Rachel Shear. She is the co-founder of Rachel Shear Nutrition. She is a best-selling |
| 1:00.8 | author, speaker, and trainer. And what got my interest with Rachel is that she has an extensive |
| 1:06.3 | history educating about inflammation and gut health. But in particular, we talked about those type A perfectionistic, |
| 1:14.6 | getting everything done, has a big to-do list, |
| 1:17.6 | maybe kind of controlling type of person, |
| 1:20.6 | and how that background plays a role in your GI symptoms. |
| 1:25.6 | We go into inflammation, we go into leaky gut, but we take that basis |
| 1:31.3 | of a personality trait of somebody and walk through how that might be at the core of their health |
| 1:37.3 | issues. How might that be the core of their hormone issues? So if you fit any of those categories, |
| 1:43.3 | type A, perfectionistic, maybe firstborn, maybe |
| 1:47.0 | overachiever, and you're having some health stuff going on, you're going to want to listen |
| 1:51.3 | up because you're going to learn a lot. |
| 1:53.0 | Before we get started, though, I want to talk to you about something that comes up pretty |
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