Julie Balsamo

Sorrrry, I don’t make the rules 👀

“Chew your food!!” I know. I KNOW. You’ve cut gluten, done the elimination diet, spent $60 on probiotics that did nothing, and now some dietitian on the internet is telling you to chew😉 Stay with me for ten seconds….👇🏼 Chewing is not a wellness tip. It’s step ONE of digestion. It physically breaks food apart and it triggers the enzymes and stomach acid that handle everything after! Rush it and your gut is playing catch-up the whole meal😅 Send this video to someone who needs the reminder (brb sending it to my husband😜) ✉️

Bloating is not just about what you ate. But the right foods can absolutely calm a reactive gut from the inside out 🌿 A few things worth knowing before you swipe through 👇🏻 Cooking your vegetables is not the less healthy option. For a sensitive or inflamed gut, cooked vegetables place significantly less digestive demand on the system than raw ones. Less work for your gut means less gas and less pressure building through the day. Potassium-rich foods help regulate the sodium-fluid balance that drives water retention and abdominal pressure. Most people never connect the two. And fermented foods support microbiome diversity over time, which is one of the most consistent predictors of how efficiently your gut processes food overall. Food helps. Daily bloating is still a signal worth paying attention to. Save this before your next grocery run 👇🏻 Comment GUT and we will talk about working together to get to the root of it 🌿 [anti-bloat foods, gut microbiome, cooked vegetables and gut health, fermented foods, potassium and bloating, digestive health, root cause nutrition] #guthealth #bloatingrelief #antibloat #digestivehealth #rootcausenutrition

Protein bagels made from WHOLE FOODS that actually taste good?? YES PLEASE 😍 Comment the word BAGEL and I’ll send you the full recipe 👇🏼

Constipation is one of the most normalized symptoms in gut health. And one of the most misunderstood Most people measure it by frequency alone. But how you go matters just as much as how often. Straining, incomplete evacuation, and stool form are all part of the picture most people are never taught to pay attention to. Before adding another supplement or laxative, the first step is understanding what is actually slowing things down for you specifically. Comment CONSTIPATION for our free Constipation Support Guide 👇🏻 [constipation, gut motility, bowel habits, constipation signs, digestive health, root cause nutrition] #constipationrelief #guthealth #gutmotility #digestivehealth #rootcausenutrition

Most people have been through that loop more than once 🫠 The appointment that took three months to get. The labs that came back normal. The follow up that never happened because nothing flagged as urgent enough. And then going home to the same bloating, the same constipation, the same unpredictable digestion that brought you there in the first place. That loop exists because standard GI care and root cause investigation are two completely different things. One is designed to rule out disease. The other is designed to find what is actually driving your symptoms. Most people never get access to the second one because they do not know it exists, or they assume it is out of reach financially. It is not. Most of our 1:1 clients work with our team through their insurance, paying nothing out of pocket, and finally get the kind of investigation that standard appointments were never built to provide. Comment COACH and we will show you what root cause care actually looks like for you 👇🏻 [root cause gut health, GI doctor, normal labs, functional testing, insurance covered dietitian, IBS, digestive health] #guthealth #rootcausenutrition #IBSrelief #functionalnutrition #digestivehealth