Danya Joy
Integrative Health Practitioner and Registered Nurse
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Hi! I'm Danya, I'm a nurse and integrative health practitioner with a focus on gut health! I help people heal their bodies from the inside out. I'm a big believer that we must have our health if we want to make our biggest impact in the world. We do everything better when we do it healthy!
I want to increase knowledge around the gut and how hugely important its health is for our overall health. Let's spread the good healthy stuff together and empower people to take control over their own futures!
When the bacteria from you colon migrate to the small intestine or you have imbalance in the normal bacteria in the small intestine, we call this SIBO. Stress slows digestion, allows more fermentation of your food which feeds these bacteria and it can also contribute to bacteria moving from your colon to your small intestine. * Poor diet quality and alcohol consumption lead to inflammation in the gut which can cause imbalances in the gut flora. Kill off the bacteria and rebalance the gut with the right bacteria.
If you have candida or SIBO and you’re experiencing heightened stress and anxiety, you’re probably also experiencing worse digestive symptoms. Working on normalizing the sleep cycle helps with the cortisol cycle because melatonin and cortisol are closely linked! More on that in a different post 🙂 Magnesium before bed, CBD and herbal tea as well as avoiding blue light 2 hours before sleep can greatly help with normalizing bedtime. If you can keep your meal times regular, and leave that time just for eating, you can improve digestion and decrease the possibility of a stress response while or just after eating!
Candida diets focus on removing all sugars and carbohydrates under the assumption that candida can only survive on a diet high in sugar. And if you haven’t rebalanced the gut microbiome and worked on other external causes of imbalance, such as excess stress, the candida will take over again the moment you introduce sugar back into the diet. From a holistic nutrition and functional nutrition perspective, we certainly don’t want to cut fruit from the diet forever! A whole foods diet that is laser focused on nutrition and easy to digest will keep candida at bay while your supplement regimen does the hard work.
I know you don’t want to hear about your probable candida overgrowth while you eat dinner, but I just want everyone to know that they aren’t alone in their weird health symptoms and that there is always a root cause. While this fungus is generally a normal tenant of our internal ecosystem, it can get out of balance and start to cause systemic issues that hurt all aspects of our health. Antibiotics, alcohol, highly processed foods, birth control, steroids, chronic stress and many other disruptions to our health can cause candida overgrowth. So once there is overgrowth, most people need to follow a healthy, whole food diet in combination with herbal anti-fungals and supplements that break down the biofilms of the candida.