Brigid Titgemeier explains why women with chronic bloating chase supplements when the real fix is simpler: sit down, breathe deeply, and chew thoroughly. Activating your parasympathetic nervous system during meals boosts digestive enzymes and nutrient absorption, often eliminating the need for extra pills.
I was feeling really bloated after my meals and Brigid was like, can you just sit down, relax, and chew your food? And I'm like— It's so simple. Women are like looking for all the supplements and the hacks and I'm like, are you sitting down and chewing your food? Some people pay us a lot of money to be like, okay, I think your nutrient deficiencies are not because of the whole foods food, the organic everything that you're buying, but it's because you need to get your body into rest and digest mode when you're actually at meal timing, which requires sitting down, taking deep breaths, supporting your central nervous system so that you can activate rest and digest, AKA your parasympathetic nervous system, and pull yourself out of the constant sympathetic fight or flight mode so that your body is like, okay, we can actually like increase your digestive enzyme production to help to break down the nutrients that you're consuming through food, to help to increase the absorption that your body is getting from these foods so that you don't have to be on 10 million supplements in order to not have these nutrient deficiencies.
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