Bloated, Stressed, and Stuck?

How Cortisol, Insulin Resistance, and Metabolic Rhythms Shape Gut Health — and What That Means for Healing, Fasting, and Cancer Care

Modern healthcare clients often present with a familiar cluster of complaints: bloating, fatigue, brain fog, sleep disturbance, and stubborn weight gain — all while eating “pretty well.”
Functional nutritionist Shana Hussin, RDN, explored this pattern beautifully in her conversation on High Desert Health Coaching: “Bloated and Stressed Out: Cortisol, Insulin Resistance and Healing.”

from https://highdeserthealthcoaching.com/bloated-and-stressed-out-cortisol-insulin-resistance-and-healing-with-shana-hussin-rdn/

Her key message resonates far beyond digestive health: our gut symptoms often reflect stress-driven hormonal imbalance, not simply dietary intolerance.

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🔬 Fasting and Cancer: A New Way to Think About Healing

Cancer has long been seen as a disease of genetic mutations, a random malfunction of cells gone rogue. Yet, a growing body of research — championed by experts like Dr Jason Fung, author of The Cancer Code — suggests there’s more to the story.

According to Dr Fung, cancer is not just a disease of genetics, but of metabolism — a condition driven by the environment within the body, particularly by what and how often we eat.

Author of the international bestsellers The Diabetes Code and The Obesity Code Dr. Jason Fung returns with an eye-opening biography of cancer in which he offers a radical new paradigm for understanding cancerand issues a call to action for reducing risk moving forward.

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