Intestinal Fermentation

Your belly is rumbling. It swells, presses, grumbles, produces gas — as if an uncontrolled process is running inside you. And that is exactly what it is. Medically, intestinal fermentation is a fermentation process: bacteria break down undigested food components and produce gas, acids, sometimes pain. The intestine becomes a brewing vat in which something is simmering, never coming to rest.

But why is it fermenting? Not only because you ate the wrong things. But because your digestive system — the most sensitive mirror system in your body — is showing you that something in your inner life is not being processed. Something is sitting in your stomach that you can neither dissolve nor let go. And so it keeps fermenting. Day after day. Bloat after bloat.

Intestinal fermentation is not a digestive problem, but a blockage — emotional, energetic, and eventually physical.