Dr. Tabatha Barber explains how stress shuts down digestion and detoxification, disrupting your gut microbiome of 40 trillion bacteria. Sleep loss, rushing, conflict, processed food, and overexercise all destabilize the balance.
I think when we're talking about at a very elemental, fundamental level, women don't fully understand that stress, being in a stress state is not gonna optimize digestion, it's not gonna optimize detoxification, it's certainly not gonna optimize bowel habits, and so all of these things will contribute to alterations in the microbiome, like our microbes, there's 40 trillion bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa they are dynamic. They respond to just about every, every input that you can imagine, whether we're getting enough sleep, whether you're running through the airport to make a flight, whether you just yelled at your spouse, whether you're eating ultra-processed foods or nutrient-dense foods, whether you're over-exercising. The microbiome adjusts and shifts accordingly.
