Why your Gut Health Matters more than Ever After 40 with Stephanie Grosvenor
5/11/20261 hr 23 min
You know that exhausted, bloated or anxious feeling that just won’t shift? It might not be stress, it might not be your hormones… It might actually be your gut… and it could be trying to tell you something important. This week I sat down with Functional Nutritionist & Health Coach Stephanie Grosvenor from Unlimited You Coaching, who spent years sick without the answers before finally listening to her gut and healing herself. Now, Stephanie wants to help others to heal too. We’re talking about why gut health becomes extra critical in peri-menopause and menopause, what leaky gut actually is and why 70% of people have it without realising… and the practical steps you can start taking this week to feel a real difference that don’t include spending hundreds of dollars on tests. Key moments: 00:16: Are you listening to your gut? Why your gut health is the missing piece in how you feel every day 3:20: The truth about living with symptoms you’ve just accepted as normal 13:47: What gut microbiome actually is and how it runs everything 18:16: Anxiety, brainfrog.. The symptoms most women never connect back to their gut. 19:51: Why your skin issues might have nothing to do with your skincare and everything to do with you gut 21:53: The bowl movement truth no one talks about 24:54: 70% of people have leaky gut right now and don’t even know it 26:02: Why prei-menopuase is the worst time to ignore your gut 26:26: Leaky gut.. What is it? 35:28: The everyday habits quietly destroying your gut 43:06: The simplest way to make better food choices every single day 51:46: The number 1 tip to start healing your gut today! 1:09:11: How within five days for early signs of changing your diet you will start to feel a change 1:16:06: How to make healthy eating feel like self-love instead of restriction If you want to keep learning about your gut from Stepahnie, please connect with her via her instagram @unlimitedyoucoaching, Website www.unlimitedyoucoaching.net or email her directly at info@unlimitedyoucoaching.net Follow along and see the behind the scenes over at https://www.instagram.com/sarahrusbatch/?hl=en Join my latest program Thirve After 40 and find out more here https://sarahrusbatch.com/ If you want to join a space where women feel safe to be seen, ask the questions they don’t always say out loud and connect with others going through the same as you,join my free Facebook group, Women’s Wellbeing Collective here. And if changing your relationship with alcohol is something you want to explore further, you can find my book Beyond Booze on Audible, Spotify, Kindle and Amazon. Click the link here.
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First 90 secondsStephanie Grosvenor· Guest0:00
70% of people currently have leaky gut, and this is insane because leaky gut didn't exist 40 years ago. If you are not going two to three times a day, you are constipated, and this blows people's mind. I know a lot of people that go once every three days, and they're like, "Well, I've done that my whole life. Like, I thought that was normal."
Sarah Rusbatch· Host0:24
All of this comes from a very personal story for you, Steph. Do you wanna start with sharing a little bit about that?
Stephanie Grosvenor· Guest0:30
Of course. I actually lived many, many years being very sick without realizing. Anxiety, low moods, brain fog, where you feel like you can't remember things, you're struggling to concentrate and to focus. And the moment I understood leaky gut, well, I knew that is exactly what I was dealing with. The good thing about leaky gut is it's very, very, very treatable.
Sarah Rusbatch· Host0:52
What are some of the signs that might show that someone has got some form of gut dysbiosis or a poorly functioning gut? Hello, hello, and welcome back to another episode of Stronger, Bolder, Wiser. And this week, we are discussing a topic that I find so interesting and that I have done a deep dive on so many times, and which is why I wanted to bring this topic to you, because I want you to know everything I have learnt over the last few years about your gut health and the impact that it has on your mental health, why it changes during perimenopause and menopause, and what we can do about