15 | Reduce Bloating and Understand Gut Health

Bloated often? Unsure about what to do to help your gut or confused on what supplements and vitamins you should be taking?? We will break down the manual techniques you can start doing today to help reduce that bloat and we go into a very informative interview with guest Sara Cullen, CEO of GEM, the anti-vitamin. A healthy gut makes a healthy body. Check out GEM: Check out GEM to start your anti-vitamin! Vivobarefoot Shoe Discount:  Improve your feet = improve your body! Free your feet of the shoe prison they were previously living in. These are the only shoes Doc Jen & Dr. Dom wear daily when walking and working out. They have drastically improved the function of Doc Dom’s feet and allowed Doc Jen’s toes to improve functional mobility and decrease the big toe from drifting into the other toes! Get 15% OFF VivoBarefoot Shoes with code “TOB” at checkout and finally feels like to FREE YOUR FEET!!  What You Will Learn: PT Pearl: Gut Mobility | Tools and Techniques to Reduce Bloating 03:13 - What is motility? 11:41 - What fascia is and why it matters to gut health 13:56 - Why diaphragmatic breathing helps gut health 18:36 - Techniques and positions that help motility for the colon To Watch the PT Pearl on YouTube, click here: https://youtu.be/SVQbHyAdQVE Interview with Sara Cullen: 25:41 - Sara’s background and initial journey with creating GEM 26:49 - What Sara found in supplements that were not acceptable to her 31:13 - How to identify the supplements you should avoid 37:02 - How to understand the amount of superfoods you should consume daily 42:04 - What bioavailability means to GEM and why it’s important 47:14 - Why GEM is geared specifically for women About Sara Cullen: Meet Sara, the founder of GEM, a pioneer in nutritional science producing convenient, real food products that optimize daily health. Sara has a BS in international agricultural development studies from Cornell University and has worked with women entrepreneurs and farmers in sustainable food networks all over the world, from Morocco and Kenya to India and Vietnam. As a 2x entrepreneur in the food & beverage world, and a former Venture for America Fellow, Sara is passionate about redesigning a healthier future for women and fundamentally changing the way we nourish ourselves. Items mentioned in this episode include: Coregeous Ball by TuneUp Fitness: https://www.tuneupfitness.com/?rfsn=2660179.4964a0 Gut Mobility on Instagram Post: https://www.instagram.com/tv/B3n6FE_jO1x/ Gem’s Website: https://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=1487305&u=1799406&m=94525 Thank you so much for checking out this episode of The Optimal Body Podcast. If you haven’t done so already, please take a minute to subscribe and leave a quick rating and review of the show!