(Archive) 23. Digestive health expert Robyn Youkilis talks about the importance of gut health and following your intuition. She is the author of Go With Your Gut and Thin From Within, and the founder of health coaching practice, Your Healthiest You.

Poor gut health stalls fat loss, creates hormonal havoc, leaves you feeling exhausted and zaps your overall health. Health coach and author, Robyn Youkilis gives us hands-on, easy-to-implement strategies to restore our gut and become abundantly healthy. We talk about emotional eating and how to reconnect with our bodies – hint: this involves not only nourishing but actually listening to your gut; It is after all, your second brain. Robyn is the perfect mash up of health expert and your good-advice-giving girlfriend. She talks about fermentation just as easily as she talks about flatulence. It’s all good. No need to be embarrassed, folks. Here's some of what we covered with Robyn: · Here we go again with the gut health! We just can’t talk about it enough and neither can Robyn Youkilis. We have so much in common! · The first thing we clear up is that, despite her last name, she is not Greek—she’s Jewish. Zoe thought she was going to have a new Greek BFF, but, alas. · Hippocrates – also Greek – said all disease begins in the gut. Good thing it’s only thousands of years later and we’re just now revisiting this point. Geez. · We talk about how 90% of your serotonin – your brains happy hormone – is produced in YOUR GUT. · Should I eat that cupcake? Robyn would answer: What’s your gut say? We would answer: Robyn, if it’s, say, our birthday, can’t we just eat the cupcake and stop listening to that backseat driver? Just for today. · She explains how to ferment your own veggies – it’s super easy. Promise. · We cover emotional eating and how at one point, Robyn could not have a jar of peanut butter in the house. She’s since let PB move back in and they’re now getting along great. http://www.robynyoukilis.com/ https://www.instagram.com/robynyoukilis/