Every year on May 29, the World Gastroenterology Organisation marks World Digestive Health Day, a global initiative focused on raising awareness around digestive health and how often symptoms get overlooked or dismissed. This year’s theme is “Chronic Diarrhea: Don’t Flush the Signs Away,” which is really about paying attention to what the body is trying…
Category: Inflammation & Balance
What Gua Sha Is Really Doing Beneath the Skin
The first time my practitioner scraped a smooth wooden tool along my skin and left those deep red marks behind, I won’t lie, I wasn’t sure what to think. It looked intense and scary, if I’m being honest. It felt strange too, and nobody around me had even heard of it before. But after that…
The Link Between My Gut and My Trigeminal Neuralgia
For years I treated my trigeminal neuralgia as a face problem. It lived in my jaw, my cheek, my sinus, so naturally that is where I focused. I saw dentists, tried medications, managed flares as they came. The idea that my digestive system had anything to do with nerve pain in my face honestly would…