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- Your gut isn’t asking for perfect food. It’s asking for peace.
Your gut isn’t asking for perfect food. It’s asking for peace.
I used to treat food like a checklist.
High protein? ✅
Low carb? ✅
Supplements on point? ✅
And yet… I still felt off.
Bloated after random meals. Energy that spiked and crashed. Brain fog by 2pm.
I kept tweaking what I ate — but the problem wasn’t what. It was how.
Most digital workers eat with stress in the background.
Their nervous system is already on edge:
Sitting all day, screens in their face, never taking a real break.
Then they shove a “healthy” meal into a system that’s already inflamed.
That’s why the fix isn’t a new macro split.
It’s a new rhythm.
When I started treating food as a signal, not just fuel — everything changed.
Here’s what that looked like:
Salt and water first thing in the morning (to rehydrate and calm the adrenals)
No coffee before food
Protein-dominant meals to flatten the glucose rollercoaster
Cooked food > raw food (easier to digest, less gut drama)
No random snacking — every input was timed with intention
Small dinners, no inputs after — to let my gut finish the day peacefully
But most importantly…
I slowed down.
I sat while eating.
I focused on the meal — not on content, not on planning.
Because your gut isn’t just digestion.
It’s your second brain — the place where serotonin, dopamine, immune regulation, and recovery all begin.
And if that system’s under siege all day, even “clean eating” becomes a source of stress.
You don’t need to perfect your diet.
You need to reduce friction at the gut-brain level — and let peace do the healing.
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