Gut feelings can lead you to making the best instinctive decisions but are you listening to your gut which provides clues to your whole body health?
Digestive health issues are a major health issue: around 70 million Americans experience some forms of digestive disease. Quality of life, physical and mental, finds its source in a healthy gut. Without a healthy gut, numerous medical conditions will affect one's daily life. Some of the medical conditions of an unhealthy gut are:
Stomach upset: Your stomach is where you experience uncomfortable symptoms, nausea, bloating, constipation, diarrhea and eventually heart-burn. Those are the signs that your stomach and colon can not absorb and digest food.
Chronic fatigue and insomnia: A symptom of an unhealthy gut is the lack of good sleep and recovery. That leads to chronic fatigue and has physical and mental consequences. An unhealthy microbiome is not able to produce the Serotonin that is needed for sleep and biological rhythms. Serotonin, which helps regulate mood and sleep, is produced in a healthy microbiome.
Mood and mental health: Similarly to the lack of good sleep and recovery, reduced production of serotonin will lead to depleted learning and memory, erratic social behavior and eventually sudden feelings of depression and anxiety.
Intense food cravings: There is growing evidence that shows our gut microbiota influence our cravings for certain foods, such as sweet, refined carbs and high-lactose dairy products. Those foods will feed our pathogen bacteria, such as E Coli (involved in Crohn's disease pathogenesis) and Candida (involved in female's health).
Weight gain or loss: An unbalanced gut flora is unable to Absorb, Digest and Metabolise Nutrients, to store fat and to regulate the glucose spike in the blood cell. This reduced digestive functions lead to weight fluctuations.
Migraines: Without beneficial bacteria in the gut, food that is absorbed will produce fermentation of undigested proteins in the human gastrointestinal tract by the resident microbiota, a process called bacterial putrefaction that can sometimes disrupt the gut homeostasis, and produces bad gas. Nausea and vomiting are symptoms of a bad digestion, as well as headaches and migraines.
Source: https://www.medicinenet.com/what_are_the_symptoms_of_an_unhealthy_gut/article.htm