Food sensitivities tied to gut problems can cause problems throughout your body. The speaker uses a scab analogy: each time you eat a trigger food, you scratch the wound and prevent healing. A 12-week elimination period lets your gut recover before you slowly reintroduce foods.
Food sensitivities with gut issues, they cause all kinds of systemic issues. Pretty much everything you're struggling with is stemming from that. It is, yeah. I always like to describe it when women really struggle like a distrainer, and your body is creating like a scab over all those holes in the distrainer. And every single time that you give it one of those foods that are triggering it, it's like scraping at that scab. And so that's why it's so important to let that heal for 12 weeks, and then we can start adding those foods back in. Because some women can't really figure out, like, what— it doesn't make me feel bad. And I'm like, I get that, but it's internal and it's constantly scraping at that scab. And you don't want a scar, right? Exactly.
