S8 EP18: The Gut Brain Connection with Guest Dana Monsees

The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast

Constantly Varied Gear

Health & Fitness

4.9 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Do you feel like you’re never really feeling your best? Whether it’s sleep, stress, skin, hormones, mental health… Did you know that this can potentially be coming from your stomach?

Today we have Dana Monsees on the podcast for a second time since we enjoyed having her so much the last. Dana is a dietitian-nutritionist (MS, CNS, LDN) and body image coach who specializes in helping women with gut issues from a weight-inclusive, non-diet approach. Today we talk about common digestive issues, what those symptoms look like, why cutting out food isn’t always the answer, and offer solutions so that you can get to feeling like your best self. Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:

Dana’s background in coaching women with gut issues
Gut health and cutting out foods
Fitness and digestion at different times of the month
Constipation and what happens when things stay in the colon too long
How hormones affect digestion and vice versa
What to know about hormone testing
The number of women who experience GI issues
Why so many women present with gut issues
Considering all the different factors involved in gut issues
Whether exercise exasperates GI issues or if there are exercises people should avoid when theyhave gut issues
The brain/gut connection
Connections between trauma, food, mental health, and more
Creating more safety in the body and environment to aid digestion
Where to find Dana

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0:00.0	You might be like, oh my God, my hormones wildly changed, but you wouldn't actually know if that's true or not because you were at a completely different time in your cycle, whereas in the first part of your phase, estrogen is high and progesterone is low.
0:12.5	And then when you go to the second phase, it's flipped.
0:14.8	So it might look like, oh, my gosh, yay, my progesterone is so much higher because everyone's like, yay, progesterone. It's the feel good hormone.
0:23.2	And then estrogen, you're like, oh, my God, my estrogen dipped.
0:24.0	Like, what's happening?
0:24.9	And you're like, well, wait a minute.
0:29.0	I mean, it might have dipped, but we don't know because we don't have an accurate comparison.
0:32.5	So it just adds another layer of complication in there.
0:38.3	The big question is this. In a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals?
0:48.3	We are an army of hardworking women changing their lives through fitness and health. Wherever you are at
0:57.5	on your journey, we have the answers to how to make working out and eating well a part of your
1:03.9	life. Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast. Hi everyone and
1:15.6	welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives Podcast. I'm Kelsey. Now Rachel, guys, we love Ardena.
1:22.0	Ardena! She's back. We're so happy to have her. We call her our Dana because she is just the nutritionalist that, no, no, no, no.
1:34.6	We just, no.
1:38.3	It's a nutritionist, guys.
1:40.8	Do you want me to say it?
1:42.7	Yes.
1:43.2	Oh, my God. I hate you want to say it? Yes. Oh my God.
1:44.5	I hate everything.
1:46.7	You know what?
1:48.2	I'm out here doing my best and I got Dana on so I'm not even worried about nothing
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