Gut Psychosomatics: Why Your Psyche Decides What the Body Synthesizes

When someone complains of bloating, diarrhea, nausea, or heaviness in the stomach, the method looks not only at food but at the psychological state. Because that state determines what the body will synthesize — and whether food will nourish you or poison you.

The psychological state sets the biochemistry

The method's key insight: your psychological state determines which substances your body synthesizes from what you eat. You can eat plenty of good things — cheese with amino acids, fish roe, the best products — but if you're stuck "in this program," the result is the opposite.

"What your body synthesizes depends on your psychological state."

The avoidance program: when the neuron has no reason to synthesize

If a person lives in a program of reacting and avoiding, the neurons simply don't synthesize what's needed — serotonin, melatonin. "Why would they?" The biochemical chain shifts, and out of good substances — tryptophan and others — you get the wrong output. In essence, a "poison" is synthesized.

In a state of "gourmandise," however — a good setting, calm, eating slowly — the right substances are synthesized. The brain "lets go" of the body, and satiety and calm set in.

Why satiety never comes

When you're not in the gourmandise state, food doesn't satisfy you. And then you crave a top-up: alcohol, sugar, especially fructose. But fructose passes through the liver and blood along the same biochemical path as "cheap beer." This creates a vicious circle — and this is also where excess weight comes from.

"When you're not in a state of gourmandise, that food won't satisfy you."

Irritable bowel as "asthma of the gut"

The method offers a vivid model. In asthma a person breathes normally, but the body reacts hyper-reactively to dust — and an attack begins. The same happens in the gut: the sympathetic system is overstrained, and the organ reacts hyper-reactively to things it normally tolerates.

Why does the gut react specifically? For one person the weak spot is the lungs, for another rheumatism, for another the gut. That is its reactivity.

The root: prolonged stress

When you stay in stress too long, the environment becomes toxic for you. The adrenal glands are overstrained, natural cortisol is depleted. This is the neurophysiological basis of why the "weak spot" starts to fire. That's why, before treating anything, the method suggests first clearly seeing the process itself — how and why it works.

Practice

A "gourmandise" checklist — so food nourishes instead of poisons:

1. Before eating, check your state: are you calm or in react/avoid mode? If tense, don't eat "on the run."
2. Create a good setting: a calm place, no rush.
3. Eat slowly — give the brain the signal "you can let go," so satiety arrives.
4. Notice whether you crave a "top-up" of alcohol, sugar, or fructose — a sign satiety didn't happen.
5. If the gut "fires," look not only at food but at prolonged stress and overstrain.