Whether you want to decrease your cortisol, heartburn, belching, IBS symptoms, or over-eating, CHEWING your food is the answer. Experts recommend up to 40 chews per mouthful for beef and vegetables and around 20 for easier foods like fruit.  Mindfully chewing and eating allows your body and mind the resources needed for digestion.

Even Monash University, world-renowned for producing the FodMaps diet as a treatment for IBS, saw the need for mindfulness while eating. In addition to published studies on FodMAP, their research lab has released a meditation app for IBS patients. The studies showed the best results with diet and meditation app combined.

🛑 Stop speed-eating like it's your last meal.

Your parasympathetic nervous system A.K.A. your “rest and digest” systems must be flipped “ON” for proper digestion.  Otherwise, you are eating while your stress hormones are raging---as if you were in a fight for your life. Elevated stress hormones + food = indigestion, food sensitivities, IBS, and brain fog. 

Moving the needle by small increments yields large results over time. 🚦 Start supporting your life with foundational healthy habits and 🛑stop sabotaging yourself. 

- Carly Neubert, BA, NC