Do you have an angry stomach?

The word for grumpy in Danish is mavesur, this literally translates in English to 'Angry Stomach'.

If I'm nervous in English both my mind and my stomach churn. 

When we're firing on all cylinders and achieving the things we want in the way that we want it's said that we are relying on gut instinct. 

It's clear that we have known of the brain gut connection for hundreds perhaps thousands of years. 

It's when the brain and the gut aren't well connected for prolonged periods that things start to go wrong. 

80% of our seratonin sits in our gut (the happiness hormone). So when we are chronically stressed we are often depressed because the nervous system is choosing do divert focus from the gut until stress is resolved. 

Our reptilian drivers push us to sugar and dopamine to replace the serotonin. This is part of the reason that stress results in weight gain. 

So the man up story
The will power story
The self sabotage story
The wrong method story 

Of health and weight loss.

It's all nonsense. 

But Chronic stress is at the root of fat storage, depression, IBS, physical pain, Illness, chronic disease and more. 

Stress is when our primate brain perceives a survival threat. 

You know those crazy or bizarre things that make your children cry and you can't work out why?

Often it's those. 

Remember how impossible it is to talk your child down from the fear and upset?

It's hard because the primal brain cannot access logic.

And the primal brain never grows up. 

That's what I do now. 

I coach people to remove threats that result in long term disconnection of the brain and the gut.

Because when the connection exists, you know what to do and how to do it

Ed Ley