{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Physician, Heal Thyself The Podcast","title":"Diet, Digestion & Stress: Root Causes of Chronic Illness - EP111","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1577,"description":"You are not merely what you eat — you are what you digest, absorb, assimilate, and eliminate. And that principle doesn't just apply to your gut. It applies to everything you are taking in spiritually, mentally, and emotionally as well.\nContinuing the root-cause series, Dr. Ana Lara goes deep on the second and third obstacles to cure: diet and digestion, and chronic stress. She explains the Nature Cure teaching that digestion is not just physical — what you are mentally, emotionally, and spiritually absorbing and failing to eliminate matters just as much as what is happening in your gut. She covers the clinical questions naturopathic doctors ask to assess digestive function, the inflammatory foods most commonly driving chronic symptoms (sugar, dairy, gluten, corn, soy), specialized testing including stool analysis and the Carol Method, and the foundational naturopathic principle of returning to the food God created for us to eat. She then turns to chronic stress — the nervous system in a state of unrelenting sympathetic activation — and connects it back to vagal tone, hormones, blood sugar, immune function, and sleep. From a spiritual and clinical perspective, she addresses the Sabbath not as a religious rule but as a physiological necessity, and closes with practical tools: herbal nervines, prayer, breathwork, sleep hygiene, and the reminder that no supplement can restore what rest and relationship with God can provide.\nDigestion is a lens for the whole person — what you absorb, assimilate, and fail to eliminate spiritually and emotionally shows up in your gut just as surely as what you eat.\nSomeone can eat a perfectly clean diet and still suffer from bloating, dysbiosis, and malabsorption if the underlying spiritual and nervous system dysregulation is never addressed.\nThe top inflammatory foods to remove when rebuilding digestive health: processed sugars, dairy, gluten, GMO corn, and non-organic soy — plus any food that consistently triggers a negative reaction...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7BlbO0DlxZ9TfxfXnOie8HzzksLgXXsUBE22ReU_fyU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jYzA3/ZmYwMzJjZTkyMGUx/YzIyYWQxMTE5MGQ4/Mjc3Yy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}