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How I defeated my belly bloat

My journey in healing my gut

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Karen
Dec 01, 2023
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As we come to the end of 2023, I want to share a personal win from this year — my journey to defeat the dreaded belly bloat. 🎈 I am sharing this as a celebration of my achievement and efforts, and also to encourage others on their health journey, to help them see that this is possible.

I’ve been battling gut health issues for years. I was tested for celiac (negative results) and slapped with a (lazy) IBS diagnosis and told to avoid certain foods.

Well that wasn’t good enough for me. I decided to do my own investigation, plus sought the help of a functional medicine trained nutritionist. And the result? I finally overcame the bloat and healed my gut!! 🥳

Firstly, I discovered that I am gluten sensitive (also called NCGS — non-celiac gluten sensitivity) and I know this because when I eat gluten, my thyroid antibodies go through the roof (leading me towards autoimmune hypothyroidism / Hashimoto’s). So cutting gluten was an important start. I was already avoiding lactose, being lactose into…

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