Suffering From Chronic Illness? your nervous system could be the missing piece

Do you suffer from IBS? IBD? autoimmune conditions, and/or mental illness such as anxiety or depression? whatever your chronic illness is, from skin issues to digestive problems your nervous system could be the piece you’ve been missing.

In the pursuit of better health you may have seen a practitioner or two, taken some supplements and herbs, tried creams and changed your diet. You may felt some relief but if you still feel incomplete about your healing, it could be because your nervous system is the missing link.

As a nutritionist I know right away that if my clients come with chronic illness, the nervous system needs to be treated first.

You can eat the best foods in the world, but if your body feels that it’s in danger it’s not digesting anything. 

Imagine this:

You are a tree, your nervous system is the roots, your gut is the soil, the rest of your body and its systems are the leaves, branches and fruits coming off the tree. If the roots aren’t well, they can’t receive nutrients from the soil. Likewise, if the soil isn’t rich and healthy, the roots won’t have nourishment to receive. This is the interconnected relationship of the gut and our nervous system. The roots and the soil.

In our body, if the nervous system isn’t healthy, it doesn’t allow our gut to absorb food and digest properly.

This results in a starved body, even if we eat the best foods.

Our digestive capacities are connected to the parasympathetic nervous system, that section of the nervous system that operates when we are calm. That’s when the digestive system can operate optimally, and food can be absorbed.

It doesn’t stop there though. When our engine (gut) suffers, the rest of the body follows. This is where hormonal health shifts, infections and other immunity symptoms such as skin rashes show up, and our mood starts changing. We become more irritable, angry, and lacking the zest for life. This is where living in a state of anxiety and/or depression could result. 

All of these (and more) start with our nervous system. We need to move from a paradigm of treating a symptom or a system to treating the whole.

Feeling like you tried many ways to heal but things are just not changing? Reach out to me to learn how we can go to the root cause and bring healing deep from within.