Heal your body by listening to your gut
In this fascinating interview with Jini Patel Thompson, founder of Listen to Your Gut and author of several books, host Vai Kumar reveals a lot of important information about inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease, colitis, diverticulitis and irritable bowel syndrome).
A deeply personal topic for both the guest and host, this episode takes listeners through a multi-faceted approach to finding balance and restoring balance to the body. Listening to your body, paying attention to your intuition, using our body's defense and healing abilities are all great memories from this chat.
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Here are some chapter highlights and notes from that conversation:
- Chapter 1: Jini's Journey, Her Unconventional Approach – Our guest comes from a family of doctors and pharmacists and shares with us how she approached her healing journey.
- Chapter 2: Specific Carbohydrate Diet – what it offers and what Jini personally found to be a hindrance.
- Chapter 3: Listen to Your Gut Protocol, Disease Manifestation – How IBD Presents Differently in People
- Chapter 4: Getting Started to Cope
- Chapter 5: Personality Types, Internal Reaction – How our bodies trigger imbalances depending on how we react to situations
- Chapter 6: Diet, Allergy Tests
- Chapter 7: Cell regeneration – how healing happens in our bodies
- Chapter 8: Herxheimer reaction – rapid release of toxins
- Chapter 9: Methodical Approach to Healing
- Chapter 10: WiFi, environmental toxins
- Chapter 11: Adrenal Systems, Need for Hormonal Balance
- Chapter 12: Fecal transplantation, surgical aspects in general
- Chapter 13: Children and IBD
- Chapter 14: Natural Therapies
- Chapter 15: Microbiome testing, stool testing, food allergy testing
- Chapter 16: Absorb plus protein supplement
- Chapter 17: Jini's Books, Protocols
Chapter markers
0:00 – Jini’s journey, her unconventional approach
10:00 – Specific carbohydrate diet
1:00 p.m. – Listen to your gut log, disease manifestations
16:11 – First steps to coping
6:00 p.m. – Personality types, inner reaction
10:00 p.m. – Diet, allergy test
28:00 – Cell regeneration
33:00 – Herxheimer reaction
37:00 – Methodical approach to healing
53:00 – WiFi, environmental toxins
56:00 – Adrenal system, hormone balance
57:30 – Fecal transplant, surgical aspects
1:00:00 – Children and IBD
1:04:00 – Natural Therapies
1:08:00 – Microbiome testing, stool testing, food allergy testing
1:11:00 – Absorb plus, protein supplement
1:15:00 – Jini's books, protocols, children's series
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Jini Patel Thompson is an internationally recognized expert in natural healing for digestive diseases. She healed herself from widespread Crohn's disease and has been medication and surgery free for over 25 years. Jini has appeared on numerous podcasts, TV and radio shows in the US, UK, Canada and Australia, giving people hope and vision on how to heal their colitis, Crohn's disease, diverticulitis and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) using all-natural methods. Her books on natural healing of digestive diseases have been sold in over 80 countries worldwide. Jini is married and has three children, nine sheep, 11 horses, a cat and three dogs.

