If you're someone who reacts to everything — supplements, foods, environments, stress — and you've started to wonder if you're just built differently, this episode is for you.
Maybe you've been told you're highly sensitive. Maybe you have a history of mast cell issues, nervous system dysregulation, or just a body that seems to respond to everything more intensely than other people's do. Maybe you've tried to support your health and had things backfire in ways that don't make sense. You do everything right and still feel like your system is working against you.
What I see in almost everyone who comes to me with this picture is not a mystery and not a personality trait. It's a system that doesn't have enough buffer to absorb what's coming in — and once you understand what that means physiologically, everything starts to make a different kind of sense.
In this episode I break down what being unbuffered actually looks like in the body. What hair tissue mineral analysis and comprehensive gut microbiome testing consistently show in people who feel this way. Why the sodium to magnesium ratio is one of the most telling markers of nervous system capacity. Which keystone gut species are almost universally absent in sensitive people — and what that costs you neurochemically, including your body's ability to produce GABA and regulate its own stress response.
This is the episode I wish existed when I was in the thick of it myself.
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