Blog 20: Why Your Gut Won’t Heal Itself: The Hidden Factors Sabotaging Your Health
Why Your Gut Won’t Heal Itself (and Why That’s Not Your Fault)
If you’ve been trying to “fix your gut” with probiotics, fiber, or random tips from TikTok… but your bloating, constipation, cravings, and fatigue keep coming back…
you are not the problem.
You’re frustrated because you’re doing everything you think you should be doing — eating cleaner, drinking more water, avoiding foods that make you miserable — and your gut still feels like a full-time job.
This is one of the most common complaints I hear from adults across Arizona:
“My gut symptoms keep coming back. Why won’t they just stay gone?”
Here’s the truth:
Your gut cannot fully heal itself when there are underlying issues that keep the fire burning.
As a functional medicine provider and the founder of Health Wyze, this is the “why” behind what I do. I’ve been the patient who tried everything — yet nothing worked until someone finally looked deeper. Now I help Arizona adults do the same.
Let’s talk about the real reasons your gut can’t just “fix itself.”
1. Your Gut Is Constantly Being Triggered — Even by Healthy Foods
People often assume gut problems only come from junk food.
But many of my patients react to:
Eggs
Almonds
Coffee
Greens powder
“Healthy” protein bars
Artificial sweeteners
These aren’t bad foods… unless your gut lining is damaged.
A healthy gut can handle almost everything.
An inflamed gut reacts to almost anything.
2. Hormones Dictate Gut Function — and Most People Don’t Know It
If your:
stress is high
sleep is low
periods are irregular
thyroid is sluggish
insulin is elevated
…your gut cannot stabilize.
This is why I run specialty labs like GI-MAP and hormone panels — because gut symptoms are often the result, not the cause.
You can’t fix gut problems without fixing hormone problems, and vice versa.
3. Your Gut Microbiome Might Be Out of Balance
This doesn’t mean you need random probiotics.
It means your beneficial species may be depleted — especially ones like:
Akkermansia
Bifidobacterium
Faecalibacterium prausnitzii
When these are low, gut repair slows down dramatically.
A stool test can show exactly what’s missing so we can rebuild your gut in the right way.
4. Chronic Stress Physically Weakens Digestive Function
Arizona adults are busy. We commute, sit in traffic, deal with heat, manage families, juggle careers — and your gut feels all of it.
You may not realize this but:
Stress shuts down digestion.
Your body prioritizes survival over nutrient absorption.
That’s why you can eat healthy and still feel terrible.
5. Your Gut Needs a Strategy — Not Guesswork
Your gut is resilient, but it can’t heal while you’re stuck in a cycle of:
Trying random tips online
Removing foods with no plan
Taking supplements that make symptoms worse
Ignoring underlying infections, inflammation, or hormone issues
Gut healing isn’t luck.
It’s strategy.
This is why I practice functional medicine: because nobody should have to guess their way to feeling better.
DIY Gut Tips You Can Start Today
Here are simple, safe, non-supplemental steps you can do at home:
1. Start a 10-minute “gut walk” after meals
Improves digestion, blood sugar, and motility.
2. Add one cooked vegetable per day
Cooked vegetables are easier on sensitive guts than raw.
3. Practice 3-3-6 breathing before eating
Helps switch your body into “rest and digest.”
4. Keep a 3-day symptom journal
Track patterns around meals, sleep, stress, and bathroom habits.
5. Eat within a 12-hour window
Supports circadian rhythm and digestion.
Your Gut Can Heal — It Just Needs the Right Approach
I help adults around Arizona uncover the root causes behind gut symptoms — instead of treating them with guesswork.
If you’re tired of trying to heal your gut alone, I would love to help you get to the bottom of it.
