Good morning!
This morning, I am thrilled to share a piece my niece wrote for Coffee & Chat. Erica has researched and found some great information and a resource that has truly changed her life. I hope you find it interesting and helpful.
Hey! My name is Erica McIntyre and I have a passion for the body and GUT HEALTH!! So, lean back, take a big sip from that coffee cup and let me tell you the story of how I discovered that elusive thing called GUT HEALTH!!
It was February of 2016 and even before I walked into my doctor's office, I was beyond excited to finally get some of my health issues resolved, particularly my toe fungus.
As I sat on the exam table, though, my doctor handed me a prescription and said, “Now, head on downstairs and get your blood drawn. We will need to watch your liver function closely while you are on this medication.
” “Oh… ah.. ok,” I replied.
As I walked out into the chilly winter morning, I remember feeling confused and thinking, “Why in the world do they need to monitor my liver to fix my toes?? What kind of drugs are they giving me??”
Over the next few weeks, I found myself coming back to that same question over and over again!!
All of this was running circles in my head until one day, as I lay in bed staring at the bottle of pills (that was possibly affecting my liver), I experienced a true ah-ha moment!!
I realized that if the doctor was giving me something to fight this internally, that is exactly what I needed to do. However, I needed to do it in a way that would not endanger my liver!!
So, I did what any one of us would have done, and I Googled it!! I went into research mode!! It was right around this time that I discovered GUT HEALTH!!
I felt like I had found a new frontier. The more knowledge I got about the connection between the gut and the rest of our body, the more excited I became!! I started learning about probiotics, prebiotics, and what a multivitamin should really contain. I began this amazing journey that has led me to the realization that for most of my life I have been struggling with gut health issues.
I found a few products that worked for me and I went for it!! From the moment I started to address my gut health issues, I felt like Wonder Woman!!
I finally started sleeping at night again with no more lying in bed for hours, blankets pulled up over my head, trying to shield the light of my iPhone from waking my husband.
I found myself naturally passing up the baked goods that were lying around the house. Hello, people!! That shocked me!!! I love croissants, and I walked right past one without giving it a second thought.
I was able to drive without falling asleep at the wheel or having to pull over and take a nap in a random parking lot.
And finally, I said goodbye to those pesky last twenty pounds that I have been trying to part with for the past decade! I remember the defining moment when I realized that everything had changed for good.
I was packing for our move to Phoenix, Arizona, and I was gathering together all of our toiletries and medications when I pulled out my migraine medication and realized that it was unopened!! I stopped cold and it hit me that I had not had a headache since addressing my gut issues!!
As I reflect back on that appointment and think about my journey since leaving my doctor’s office, I am simply amazed at all I have been through, and just in case you were wondering, last summer, for the first time in a very long while, I wore flip-flops to the beach and dug ten beautiful, healthy toes into the sand!!
If you would like to learn about the products that Erica found great success with, you can contact her at: erica.courtney.davis@me.com
Have a great day and Happy Easter!
God Bless!
Mike
