Heather Franklin

“We use it to build stomach acid for digestion,”
― Phoebe Lapine, SIBO Made Simple: 90 Healing Recipes and Practical Strategies to Rebalance Your Gut for Good

“Self-compassion and a sense of being your biggest cheerleader should always be the underlying cause of anything you do for your health and wellness. Why? You can’t heal a body you hate.”
― Will Cole, Gut Feelings: Healing the Shame-Fueled Relationship Between What You Eat and How You Feel

“the Western world, we like to separate mental health from physical health, but the truth is that mental health is physical health. Our brain is part of our body—and there isn’t a single health condition out there that doesn’t require us to heal both.”
― Will Cole, Gut Feelings: Healing the Shame-Fueled Relationship Between What You Eat and How You Feel

“My own efforts to avoid increasingly numerous food allergies motivated my heavy reliance on sweet potatoes for over 10 years. Sweet potatoes made it easy for me to avoid wheat, soy, and other legumes that I thought were fueling my extreme fatigue and hormonal issues. It didn’t work. Despite careful avoidance of allergens, I went on to need a total hysterectomy, and my fatigue progressed to a devastating collapse that ended my working life and my ability to exercise.”
― Sally K. Norton, Toxic Superfoods: How Oxalate Overload Is Making You Sick— And How to Get Better