True Potential Health Saskatoon

When we talk about gut health, it can be helpful to shift the focus from identifying individual “bugs” to looking at the overall terrain.

In the garden analogy, it’s not always essential to pinpoint every specific microbe. In some cases, testing can be useful, but the bigger picture is often about the environment those microbes are living in.

Whether we’re talking about bacterial overgrowth or other imbalances like parasites, the goal is the same: creating an internal environment that supports beneficial microbes while making it harder for unwanted overgrowth to thrive.

That’s where the “garden” approach comes in.

We work on encouraging more of what supports the gut (think beneficial bacteria, digestive support, and a nutrient-rich foundation from food) rather than only focusing on what we’re trying to eliminate.

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SIBO has been getting a lot of attention lately, but the real question is: what’s actually going on in the gut?

Instead of thinking of it as just a “condition to fix,” it can be more helpful to view the gut as a living ecosystem. Most of you know my favourite analogy is to think of the gut as a garden, and in a garden, balance matters.

When things feel off, symptoms like bloating, gas, and irregular digestion are often signals that the internal environment needs support.

Quick fixes have their place, but for long-term gut health, it’s about restoring balance in the terrain of the gut.

🌿 Ask about where to start or how to get back on track with your gut health routine at your next appointment.

In menopause and perimenopause I look for the “potholes”- the deficiencies a woman may be experiencing that of course include but are not limited to hormones. Women come into menopause often very deficient and depleted. And guess what? Many times as I explain this to my clients, they recognize many of these symptoms in their kids and family members, maybe even in their students or clients! We are a world out of balance. And although I’m not oversimplifying because life is very complicated….the foundations need to be addressed. This has never changed for as long as I’ve been in practice and long before that. Know your numbers. Know your Omega6:3 ratio and your omega 3 Index. It’s a great start. It’s cost effective. It’s standard of care. It’s evidence based. And it’s the missing portion on your plate every day. Move over protein!! 💪🏻💪🏻Make room for essential 🐠🐠

Something really fascinating happened after I dislocated my shoulder…

One of the things I started learning about in the rehab literature is something called cross-education.

And it basically means this:

Even if one arm is injured or immobilized… training the OTHER arm can actually help preserve strength and function in the injured side.

Researchers have shown that when you train one side of the body, both sides of the brain and nervous system are activated.

So even though my injured shoulder may not be moving normally right now… my nervous system is still receiving input through training the opposite side.

And that can help reduce some of the strength loss that normally happens after injury or immobilization.

I found this so encouraging because when you’re injured, it’s easy to feel like everything has to stop.

But the body is incredibly adaptive.

And this is such a good reminder that recovery isn’t only about the injured area itself.

It’s about supporting the whole system:
• nervous system
• inflammation
• muscle activation
• circulation
• sleep
• nutrition
• movement

And as somebody who teaches root-cause medicine and whole-body healing, I love seeing modern rehab science validating how interconnected the body really is.

So if you’re dealing with an injury right now… don’t automatically assume you have to become completely inactive.

There are often smarter ways to support healing while still supporting the rest of the body.