Gut First

Weak rear delts can lead to slow digestion, low stomach acid and therefore increase your chances of a bacterial overgrowth, It does so by creating forward head posture, Which compresses the vagal nerve, Leading to poor vagal tone, Which affects digestion. It's almost as bad as being chronically stressed all the time, due to the fact they both affect the gut mainly via the same mechanism, Will send you over to Doc for more advice on how to train them though, not my domain of expertise.

Please for the love of all that is good in this world start hitting your rear delts more often bro

JUST IN: FDA advisory panel votes to expand pharmacy access to BPC-157, a peptide promoted for injury recovery and gut healing.

Unpopular take but BPC-157 should be the LAST thing the FDA is approving, Instead all pharmacies should carry prescription grade betaine hcl + enzymes and prescribe regularly, Medical grade herbal bitters for bile flow, And Zinc L-Carnosine for gut lining. 80/20 of ALL of IBS, Sure BPC has it's place but if people were simply given these basics first they wouldn't suffer such intensive gut lining damage and microbial overgrowths where they have to reach for BPC. Can't you see it's just symptom managing that they're cashing in on, just because it's a peptide, Right compounds. Wrong intentions.

WHY DOES EVERYONE AND THEIR MOTHER HAVE SIBO

I pray functional medicine never figures out what it's actually doing wrong... Because every practitioner running the same 8-week "root cause protocol" on a gut that's still on fire is a man permanently removed from ever fixing his patient. A firefighter spraying perfume on smoke & calling it fire suppression. And the practitioners aren't even lying on purpose. That's the part that gets me. They read the labs. They found "root causes." Inflammation, hormones, nutrients, all flagged, all real. They're not wrong about what they see. They're wrong about what any of it means. A homocysteine of 7.6 gets flagged "elevated" in a real client's real report. Anything under 10 is optimal. That's not a lab error. That's a man reading a thermometer and prescribing a parka in July. Here's the client. 41 years old. Wants energy, focus, muscle. Reports bloating, gas, burping, nausea, heaviness after meals Already worked with a functional practitioner. Already had a plan. The plan: 3 to 12 months. Phase 1, lower inflammation. Phase 2, add nutrients. Phase 3, optimize hormones. Phase 4, fine-tune metabolism. Four separate problems. Four separate timelines. One gut, silently laughing at all of it. Because there was only ever one problem. Low stomach acid → food ferments instead of digesting → gas and endotoxin rise → gut inflames → absorption collapses → zinc drops → thyroid slows → energy and focus go with it Everything on that four-phase plan was a symptom of the first line. Nobody read past it. Now the mistakes. The ones keeping good practitioners running twelve-month protocols on problems that take twelve days 1. Treating inflammation like the disease instead of the smoke alarm. Fish oil, curcumin, NAC, thrown at inflammation that's being actively regenerated every single meal by undigested food hitting bacteria. You can dose antioxidants forever and the fire keeps relighting itself. 2. Adding fuel to a system that's already fermenting. Client's already bloated, gassy, burping. The fix handed to him: more fiber, more prebiotics, more fermented food. That's not treatment. That's throwing more coal into a furnace you're trying to put out. 3. Supplementing minerals into a gut that can't absorb them. Zinc and magnesium, handed over like the deficiency is the problem instead of the symptom. Low stomach acid means neither one gets absorbed anyway. You're not fixing a deficiency. You're funding one. 4. Reaching for hormones before checking if the plumbing works. Testosterone at 559. Not low. The prescription pad reached for enclomiphene and DHEA anyway. That's overriding a system that never asked to be overridden. It needed to be restored, not replaced. Every one of those four mistakes treats a downstream symptom as an upstream cause. None of them ask the only question that matters. What can this body no longer do? Not what's high. Not what's low. What's failing. Fix digestion first. Absorption follows. Minerals follow that. Hormones follow last, because they were never actually broken. Not 3 to 12 months. Days to weeks, once you stop treating four symptoms of one collapse as four separate diseases.