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Katie Lovitt (00:00):
I really care
about your symptoms today that
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you're experiencing.
And I appreciate the fact thatyou want those gone, but it's so
much more than that.
It's looking at this biggerpicture of health.
And making sure that you feelbetter for a long time into the
future.
So that you're not keepinggetting derailed by your gut
over and over again.
And that you're just free tofully show up and live.
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In your life like you want.
Hey, everyone.
Welcome to The Nourished andThriving Show.
I'm your host, Katie Lovitt.
I'm a registered dietitian on amission to help you increase
your impact and legacy on theworld while healing your gut and
reducing your IBS symptoms.
I'm so grateful to have youhere.
Each week I'll inspire you tolive vibrantly and provide
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One of the things
that comes up a lot of the time
in conversation with my clientsand with, you know, people that
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I'm just talking with onInstagram.
Is what does feeling better meanto you?
I think a lot of the time.
We aren't really clear on whatare really, you know, got health
goals are.
What better means anything likethat?
And then we never really knowwhenever we've achieved our
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goal.
So that can end up being reallyfrustrating because you know,
you're moving along and you'retaking action after action after
action.
But never feeling like you'rereally arriving at your
destination and it's because youdidn't know what your
destination was to begin with.
So I'm going to share onedestination with you guys, and I
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don't ever think.
That feeling better just means.
One thing.
I think that it means a lot ofdifferent things, but I do think
that this is one thing thatfeeling better will mean for
most people.
And so I wanted to share aboutit.
So the one thing that I thinkis.
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A sign of true long-termlasting.
Gut healing and feeling better.
It's something that I havecalled gut resilience.
And I want to tell you guys astory about gut resilience and
how you can know if you have itor don't have it.
But first I want to just definewhat the word resilience means.
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So resilience is a noun.
And it means the capacity towithstand or to recover quickly
from difficulties.
Now I think a lot of the time,whenever we're first seeking out
healing, we don't really thinkabout longer term.
We just want to feel better now.
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I think that's why so many ofyou guys.
Our so tempted.
Bye.
These really jazzy, shinymarketing.
Programs from differentsupplement companies, because
you just want to feel better.
You're desperate.
And you're like, yeah, I'll takeit.
Y'all try that.
I'll do this.
I'll do that.
And you end up just spinning incircles from thing to theme
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because you don't actually havestrategy behind it or
understanding.
But you just want to feelbetter, but you don't really,
like I said, define what thatmeans and you don't think longer
term.
Then the immediate gratificationof that desire or feeling better
in the here and now.
That resilience is reallyimportant.
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And so whenever you're thinkingabout feeling better, Are you
thinking about someday?
I may have got symptoms again.
I know that's not something thatmost of you want to think about.
You want to think about it as anall or nothing deal where I'm
fixed, and I never have to dealwith this again, because you
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just want to feel better.
But the fact of the matter is welive in a dynamic world with a
lot of different variables.
And chances are got symptoms ofsome sort or other are going to
creep up in the future.
For you and you're going to haveto deal with them.
But if you have got resilience,like we're talking about here.
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You're not going to have to dealwith it as intensely.
Or as much as long, I guess youcould say.
As what you're currently goingthrough right now.
And that is why it's really agreat sign of gut healing.
So this concept of gutresilience, let me give you this
personal example, very personalexample of what this means.
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So.
A couple of weeks ago, I tummybug was going around school.
I have three.
Children, two of them areelementary aged and the other is
preschool toddler aged.
And for those of you parents outthere listening to this, whether
your kids are old or young, Youknow that pretty much any
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parent's worst nightmare is atummy bag.
Not really like there in thegrand scheme of beings, a lot
worse things that could happen,right.
Like, not truly, but like whenyou're thinking about kid
sicknesses, tell me bugs rankpretty high up there.
They're pretty messy.
Kids don't tend to like.
No, their bodies fall enough toknow when certain things are
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about to happen.
So it's just fantastic.
So tell me bugs going aroundschool.
It was so bad.
I think one day there were 14teachers out and they were
having to like combine classesbecause so many teachers were
sick.
They ended up actually doing afull, like sanitation of the
school overnight because.
So much stuff was going around.
So kiddos game down with thetummy bug.
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I avoided it actually for awhile.
Both of my girls got it.
No one else.
Got it.
Well then the next week, mylittle boy got it.
And we woke up in the middle ofthe night to him having gotten
sick and his bed, which isalways just a delight, right?
Like vomit in the bed.
There's like the sheets and allthis stuff to animals and the
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blankets.
It's two in the morning.
You get my drift.
So we clean it up as best as wecan for the middle of the night,
clean him up.
Of course he's upset becausethis thing has just happened to
him and he doesn't feel good.
Clean him up, console him.
And we just bring them to bedwith us because he didn't feel
good.
He's crying, he's upset.
And of course, as soon as we gethim in our bed, he promptly gets
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sick to his stomach.
Again.
Which is always so fun.
And so we clean that up again,as best we can for now two 30 or
three in the morning.
And I'll get to sleep and youguys.
Little Bo likes to snuggle hismama and he slept nose to nose
with me.
And I knew in that moment I wasdoomed.
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There was no way around it.
It was like, he's literallybreathing.
And to my mouth and nose.
After just getting sick twice.
I'm absolutely getting sick withthis.
Like there's nothing I can doabout it at this point.
So sure enough, the next dayhappens and by 10:00 AM, I'm not
feeling fantastic.
And I'm like, I definitely, Idefinitely have it by noon.
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I was in tears because I felt sobad.
How many moms out there crywhenever you get sick?
It's really annoying, but I wasjust like, I don't feel good.
I need to go lay down and rest.
And I did.
I went and laid in bed.
I rested and my kids were sosweet all each in their own way,
trying to help mommy feelbetter.
Charlotte was like doing herbest to keep them she's my
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oldest, she was doing her bestto keep the two little ones out.
Adelyn brought me some gingerchews.
It was very sweet of her Beaucame and just patted my arm a
few times and then Charlottewould come yell at them to leave
me alone.
Anyway.
I never got sick to my stomach.
I was very nauseated.
I never got sick.
I didn't take anything becauseyou know, if you have like a
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tummy bug, you really want yourbody to like, get it out as soon
as possible.
Cause that's what it's trying todo.
I never got sick to my stomachand within, let's see, I
wouldn't lay down at noon.
By nine o'clock that night, Iwas feeling much better.
I did like just go ahead and goto sleep for the night to let my
body rest.
And I, I slept a full 12 hours.
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That night.
I was definitely tired and wornout.
But I woke up the next dayfeeling completely better,
pretty much.
And that is what I call gutresilience.
Now it was a pretty short-livedtummy bag.
It wasn't as intense as they canbe.
But never got sick.
The next day felt completelybetter and moved on with my
married life.
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Now if my gut had been in a muchworse place.
Thanks probably would havelooked a lot different.
I've actually heard of peoplecoming to talk with me and work
with me.
Who, all of their symptomsstarted with a tummy bug and
they just never fully gotbetter.
And that's because they didn'thave gut resilience to begin
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with.
So a lot of the time somebody islike, well, I was fine until I
went on this trip or I was fineuntil I went on this antibiotic
or until I got this tummy bag oruntil I had the surgery.
And yes, maybe that was thepoint in time where things
started to like go south foryou.
Symptom-wise.
But if, if that happened,chances are.
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Your microbiome and gutenvironment.
We're not robust to begin withbecause you had the opportunity
for things to go awry.
I was just talking with somebodythis morning.
Who, you know, we made thatworking together.
If, we both decided it's a goodfit, but she's been dealing with
this for five years and.
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You know, she said, I feel likeI've had gut issues since I was
a kid.
But all of these differentthings keep happening in
different ways.
So like one time I had H pyloriand I got rid of that and then I
had candida and then I got ridof that and now I may have CBO
and I'm trying to get rid ofthat.
And she was like, but it justdoesn't matter what I do.
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I never feel like I fully healbecause I keep getting different
things.
And even though they're alldifferent fees, I feel like
they're connected and she was sospot on and that, you know, was
great intuition on her part withthat.
Because they are all connected.
And the fact of the matter issomething in her gut is creating
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that it's like a weak link.
Right?
I think there used to be a TVshow called the weakest link.
One of my teachers in highschool liked it.
I don't think I ever actuallysaw it, but there's a weak link
in there that is allowing thesethings to come in and make you
feel really, really bad.
And so whenever I'm talkingabout root causes, I'm talking
about not finding the H pylorior the candida.
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And talking about finding theweak links in there because
ultimately that's what you haveto fix to keep you from
continuing to get sick over andover again.
And then the next time you do goto Mexico and accidentally drink
the water or get some foodpoisoning at a restaurant or get
a tummy bag because your twoyear old decided to breathe on
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your face.
It's not going to completelytake you out.
Do you see what I'm saying here?
So that's why I believe, youknow, gut resilience is really a
huge marker and key for overallgut healing and something that
we should all be.
Striving for and working towardwhenever we're healing, our
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guts.
So I want you today to thinkabout.
Is your gut resilient.
Do you bounce back from thingsquickly?
And this can be also moregeneral health because we know
that everything is affected bythe gods.
So are you somebody who keepsgetting cold after cold after
cold and like every bug that'sgoing around, your immune
systems may be compromised.
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And it's just one thing afterthe other, that could be an
indication that your gut healthisn't as good as maybe you think
it might be.
Or maybe you're a person who,like I was talking about with
this other person where.
You know, you've been having gutissues on and off for a while,
and you just feel like it's justkind of one thing after the
other and you keep having issuesand maybe it'll get better for a
bit.
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And then something else comesalong.
That type of thing, that is agood indication that you don't
have got resilience.
And ultimately in my gut rehabprogram, that's what I'm working
to help create for my clients.
And I talk about this, like Yactually, where yes, I really
care about your symptoms todaythat you're experiencing.
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And I appreciate the fact thatyou want those gone, but it's so
much more than that.
It's looking at this biggerpicture of health.
And making sure that you feelbetter for a long time into the
future.
So that you're not keepinggetting derailed by your gut
over and over again.
And that you're just free tofully show up and live.
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In your life like you want.
That's all I've got for you guystoday.
I'll talk with you all nextweek.
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