High Performance Health Listening to Your Gut and Achieving the Optimum Balance in Mental Health
Angela is with Brittney Oliver board-certified health and life coach, author speaker and founder of an international online health coach training school.
They discuss the role gut health plays in anxiety and depression and the importance of gut health for expectant mothers and their babies.
It’s about getting your gut biome in alignment and understanding how health is all-encompassing it’s what you do physically, mentally and spiritually. Gut health has a vital role in mental health as it is responsible for producing 90% of your serotonin and 50% of your dopamine find out how to listen to your own body and achieve the right balance in your gut biome.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- When the gut environment is not balanced it can trigger a stress response.
- There are many varying indicators throughout the body that can be indicators of poor gut health including issues with skin and gastrointestinal problems.
- You can’t be present in your life when you are suffering from depression.
- Health is all-encompassing it’s your mental, physical and spiritual well-being.
- For each individual, it’s important that the approach is personalised and education about the role of the gut is vital.
- There are a range of different types of stress and understanding what these are and how they impact on the gut is the key to knowing how to achieve a balance.
- The microbiome of the mother influences the health of the gut of the baby.
- The gut health of the mother will improve dramatically prior to birth to support the best possible gut bacteria for the baby.
- To enhance your baby’s gut health, understand that your gut is a biome garden and different microbes have different jobs.
- Once you understand you can do better, you can put hope into what you think is hopeless.
- It’s about the function of the natural body first and then looking at what you can do to help it.
BEST MOMENTS
‘The gut is responsible for producing 90% of your serotonin and 50% of your dopamine’
‘The state of the baby gut is directly connected to the mothers gut health’
‘I want to empower people to heal on their own’
‘If you understand your gut you will understand your body and its well- being and balance’
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ABOUT THE HOST
Angela Foster
Angela is a Nutritionist, Health and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance.
After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind:
To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful and limitless life.
Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.
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