When Your Body Feels Tight, Dry, and Unpredictable — The Methane Pattern Nobody Is Explaining

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If your body feels tight, dry, and reactive — and nothing you've tried has actually held — this episode is for you.

I'm walking through one of the most misunderstood gut patterns I see in my client work: methane dominance. Not because it's trendy, but because it's the pattern that explains so much of what people have been told is "just IBS" or "stress" or "anxiety" — without anyone ever connecting the dots.

In this episode I cover:

— Why methane isn't made by bacteria (and why that changes everything about how you approach it) — The hydrogen economy in your gut and the self-reinforcing loop that keeps this pattern stuck — Why methane dominance doesn't just affect your digestion — it affects your fascia, your pelvic floor, your diaphragm, your hips, and why your whole body can feel like it's bracing all the time — The dryness piece — why you can drink water and still feel completely parched inside — Why the same food hits differently every single day and what's actually driving that inconsistency — The B12 and iron absorption problem nobody talks about in the context of methane — Three distinct presentations of this pattern and why knowing which one is yours matters — Why elimination diets, probiotics, and killing-focused protocols don't hold — and what actually has to change instead — The sequencing that makes physiological sense: what to do first, second, and why order matters

This is not a quick-fix episode. This is a connect-the-dots episode. The kind I wish someone had handed me years ago, and the kind my clients tell me made everything finally make sense.

If your body has felt stuck, stagnant, tight, reactive, and hard to figure out — I hope this is the thread you've been looking for.

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