Your Gut is Not a Battlefield — It’s a Garden
On bugs, balance, and the microbiome as a messenger, what your gut knows, and why the war-on-microbes model is making us sicker
You were never meant to be a sterile creature.
Not clean.
Not separate.
Not cut off from the teeming world that lives within and around you.
There are more microbial beings in your body than there are human cells.
You are a cathedral of consciousness
built from symbiosis.
A pulsing, breathing universe of moss and memory,
wrapped in skin.
Medicine told us otherwise.
It taught us that infection was an enemy,
that health was the absence of invasion,
that we must disinfect, destroy, and dominate
the small lives that brush up against our own.
But here’s what the body whispers, when we listen:
Not all that enters is threat.
Not all fatigue is failure.
Not all bugs are bad.
Dr. Robynne Chutkan calls the gut a garden.
A forest.
A delicate terrain shaped by every antibiotic,
every childhood sickness,
every night of broken sleep,
every inherited pattern.
It part of your ocean zipped up in a suit.
A realm of aliveness, pulsing with wisdom,
each wave of bacteria and breath of fungi
a message, not a mistake.
This is the first Window of Health: Infection and Invasion.
When I work as a Medical Intuitive, I narrow a symptom into one of the 8 Windows of Health. You can learn more about that here.
Window 1 is Infection and Invasion.
From a medical model, infection would always be a problem, in fact, a very specific enemy to target.
But look closer, and you’ll see:
EBV might be slowing you down, not to harm you, but to teach you rest.
Herpes might be your clearest lesson in boundaries and communication.
Lyme might be amplifying your intuition until you can't ignore it.
Fungus might be decomposing what is no longer vital.
Parasites might be clinging to your loneliness until you decide to let go.
Even the energy of others—cords, hooks, ghosts of old entanglements—might feel invasive, but be trying to remind you of the beliefs that are not servings you.
In my readings, I don't fight these forces.
I listen to them.
I ask, “What are you trying to say?”
And then we begin to translate.
What if healing isn’t about eradication—but relationship?
What if your job isn’t to be pure,
but to be permeable, aware, and alive?
This is the terrain of the Household Medicine: Gut Wisdom course.
Together with two other brilliant doctors, we’ll guide you through:
The microbial and energetic terrain of your belly
How digestion, emotion, trauma, and intuition collide
What modern medicine forgets and what your inner world already knows
How to teach your patients (or your own body) to trust the gut’s messages again
We are not just clearing out infections.
We are composting grief.
We are restoring boundaries.
We are growing gardens.
🌿 Enrollment is open for the May 1–29th session.
Thursdays 6–7:30 PM PDT • $399 • Live & online
All are welcome: laypeople, seekers, and providers.
🧬 You are not just a human being.
You are a living network.
Let’s help you tend it.
👉 Click here to enroll or learn more