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Episode 9 - Heal Your Gut, Heal Your Life

Updated: Jan 2



Daily Life Improvement Podcast


Brief summary of show:


This week on the Natalie Tysdal Podcast, Natalie chats with Carley Smith, known as the Fairy Gutmother, all about healing your gut to transform your life and energy.

Carley Smith is a Nutritional Therapist, Certified GAPS Practitioner, and Registered Yoga Teacher.

Carley became interested in health and nutrition after being diagnosed with Lyme disease and using food as medicine emphasizing gut health to help heal. She became so empowered in the progress in her healing just based on diet and lifestyle changes emphasizing gut health that she started her business, Fairy Gutmother®, so she could help spread awareness around nutrition and help others.

Carley is adamant about promoting the gut health lifestyle as it is more than a diet, rather, a combination of food and environment that play a role in the health of the microbiome.



Listen in as Carley and Natalie talk about:

  • What is gut health and why we should care about it

  • The key elements to a gut health lifestyle

  • The best kinds of food to support your gut

  • The foods that compromise a healthy gut

  • Tips and recipes you can use for even the pickiest eaters


As mentioned in the episode, Carley’s wellness course is available for purchase. In the course she teaches you about the gut, the best foods that boost gut health as well as how to prepare them, and a few lifestyle tips to help optimize the gut.

The course includes:

  • Customizable diet plan designed to optimize gut health

  • Gut health videos

  • Cooking demo videos

  • Recipes

  • Yoga & Meditation

  • Helpful weekly resources/handouts to guide you through the course

Carley has been a featured guest on The Dr. Oz Show and is a frequent guest for Colorado’s Own Channel 2 News, Arizona's Family, and the popular iHeart Radio show Modern Eater. Her articles have been published in major worldwide publications including MindBodyGreen, Yoga + Life Magazine, and Paleo Magazine to name a few.

She also leads numerous workshops, public speaking events, and cooking demonstrations centered around the gut health lifestyle.




Links mentioned in the show


Connect with Carley Smith


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