How a combo of Eastern and Western approaches can de-bloat you.

October 27, 2016 Ashley 0 Comments

You’ve probably heard before that stress can cause weight gain.

But, if you’re like me, you probably always thought it was just because of that one stress hormone called cortisol. (And the poor eating choices that follow being anxious all day.) After reading this story about a woman (Dominique, was her name) who moved to a new city and gained what looked like a baby bump, however, I realized there’s way more than meets the eye when it comes to stress.

(Her at the termination of a typical day – versus first thing in the morning.)

Strangely, she’d never suffered something like this before.

So, what gave?

Why now?

After hitting up a litany of different doctors, she finally got her answer. Yes, it was stress. But it’s what the stress was doing to her body that was so weird. Because, deep inside her belly cellar, something was amiss. See, the thing is – we all have bacteria in our abdomens. And, while this is typically a good and 100% necessary thing (inasmuch as we need them to function properly), it can become a bad thing. How? Well, hell kinda breaks loose when the crueler kinds’ve bacteria (like yeasts or parasites) commandeer our midsection’s insides and boot out the good bugs.

Once these micro tyrants take over, you know it double fast, too. ’cause all those familiar every-day-feels-like-Monday symptoms suddenly arise. You’re puffy and bloated. Dragging your toes and towing giant eyebags. Begging for bed when you just woke up three hours (or was it minutes?) ago. These uneasy side effects might differ from one’ve us to the next. But the common denominator’s that – when our bacteria are out’ve whack – we feel it. And a few surplus paunch pounds from seemingly out’ve nowhere are often a part of that. It’s not cute. But, while it might look like a food baby, it’s actually more like being actual preggo with an evil, alien, parasitic babies. Millions of ’em.

The remedy?

Well, I suppose that might vary from person to person. But for Miss Dominique, it was an even amalgamation of meditation, medication, and miscellaneous other holistic approaches. The whole “East meets West” thing. And, ultimately… it worked. It was that simple. Between the mind-body exercises, Chinese herbs, probiotics, and this one Asian remedy called “BloatEase”, she managed to battle the bad bacteria, and usher back to her gut the good guys in no time.

Ya know, I think what I dug most about this chick’s experience was the final takeaway: that, when it comes to stress induced issues, no – you don’t want a band-aid treatment. Obviously. But that doesn’t mean you hafta walk through the pharmacy aisle with a cross constructed of lavender scented hemp, rejecting anything ingestible that might help offer a segue toward renewed health. There’s a middle football-shaped area on the East ‘n West Venn Diagram. And, in it, those two approaches can peacefully coexist, symbiotically helping one another (and, ultimately, you) out.

Just like your gut and the bugs that live in it.