How to Use Positive Thinking as Medicine
Good Gut Feeling by Dr. Alexandra Shustina
Release Date: 05/27/2025
The Testing Trap: Why More Medical Tests Don’t Always Mean Better Health
Good Gut Feeling by Dr. Alexandra Shustina
Download the Free "Top 5 Ways to Heal Your Gut" eBook and start transforming your health goals! Are your health tests actually helping you, or making you more anxious? In this episode of The Good Gut Feeling Podcast, we uncover “the testing trap”, how too many medical tests can create confusion, fear, and even unnecessary treatments. Discover why more data doesn’t always mean more clarity, and how to know when testing is truly necessary. We break down the differences between standard and functional tests, reveal why some results can’t be trusted, and share how to reconnect with your...
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The Hidden Epidemic: How Stress Silently Creates Disease and How to Heal It
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Download the Free "Top 5 Ways to Heal Your Gut" eBook and start transforming your health goals! What if your health problems didn’t start in your body but in your mind? In this episode of The Good Gut Feeling Podcast, we uncover the hidden epidemic driving many of today’s most common diseases, from heart and lung issues to gut problems and autoimmune conditions: Chronic stress. This causes a hypervigilant nervous system that some individuals have not learned how to turn off. Your body isn’t broken. It’s protecting you. Let me share with you different ways to destress and slow...
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The Body Remembers: Unlocking the Emotional Messages Hidden in Your Organs
Good Gut Feeling by Dr. Alexandra Shustina
Download the Free "Top 5 Ways to Heal Your Gut" eBook and start transforming your health goals! Have you ever felt butterflies in your stomach, a heavy chest after heartbreak? Those sensations are your body’s language of emotion. In this episode, we explore how the body holds onto the emotions we don’t express. Drawing from Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda, we learn that every organ carries a story: the liver holds anger, the lungs hold grief, and the kidneys hold fear. When emotions are suppressed, they sink deeper into the body, leaving subtle imprints that can...
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Why Science Can’t Explain Spirituality: The Higher Intelligence Behind True Healing
Good Gut Feeling by Dr. Alexandra Shustina
Download the Free "Top 5 Ways to Heal Your Gut" eBook and start transforming your health goals! Healing bridges science and soul, where data ends, deeper wisdom begins. In this episode, I talk about what happens when science meets spirituality and why the deepest healing goes beyond data. I share my journey from the research lab to real‑life medicine, where I learned that not everything can be proven and not everything needs to be. Healing is energy‑based. It’s about balance, wholeness, and the intelligence within you that no test can quantify. You’ll hear stories from my medical...
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Longevity & Wellness Simplified: Why True Health Isn’t Found in Devices, Tests, or Pills
Good Gut Feeling by Dr. Alexandra Shustina
Download the Free "Top 5 Ways to Heal Your Gut" eBook and start transforming your health goals! Your health grows from within with just one simple choice at a time. In this episode, I strip wellness to the essentials. Tools can support you, but they don’t create health. We focus on real, seasonal food, daily nature, breath‑linked movement, better sleep, and a calmer nervous system so your body can repair at the root. Start with your plate: build meals from whole foods and choose plants, clean proteins, and good oils. Step outside: walk daily, ground your feet on soil or sand, and pair it...
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You are Enough Unlocking Your Innate Power to Heal with Gut Health, Mindfulness, and Wellness
Good Gut Feeling by Dr. Alexandra Shustina
Download the Free "Top 5 Ways to Heal Your Gut" eBook and start transforming your health goals! Your body is your greatest ally, and it knows how to heal when you give it safety, rhythm, and support. In this episode, I reframe healing from “fixing” to “supporting” your body. I show how symptoms act as messages, not failures, and why the gut thrives on nourishment. I also guide you through simple practices that can transform the tone of your day. You’ll learn about feeding your biological garden with plant diversity and real fiber, using gentle supplements as assistive tools, and...
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Healing Your Skin from the Inside Out: Gut Health, Stress, and Mind-Body Wellness
Good Gut Feeling by Dr. Alexandra Shustina
Download the Free "Top 5 Ways to Heal Your Gut" eBook and start transforming your health goals! Radiant skin starts beneath the surface. Heal the gut, calm the stress, and your face follows. In this episode, I connect gut health, stress hormones, and visible inflammation. I keep it simple: more plant color and real fiber, fermented foods for natural probiotics, and omega‑3s with vitamin‑C‑rich fruits to repair the skin barrier. Sleep ties it together. I focus on the three levers that restore skin overnight: enough hours, earlier lights‑out, and a screen‑light wind‑down. Start...
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Unlocking Gut Health: 7 Biohacking Techniques for a Healthier You
Good Gut Feeling by Dr. Alexandra Shustina
Download the Free "Top 5 Ways to Heal Your Gut" eBook and start transforming your health goals! Small shifts can spark big change in your gut. In this episode, I walk you through seven practical biohacks I trust with patients and in my own life. We start with building a foundation of an “I am enough” mindset. Then, we build momentum with meditation before meals to switch on rest‑and‑digest, movement you enjoy, time in nature, eating foods of different colors, and journaling. You’ll hear exactly how to begin today, such as repeating affirmations, practicing breathwork, outdoor...
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Healing is Simple: A Journey to Wellness Through Mindful Practices
Good Gut Feeling by Dr. Alexandra Shustina
Download the Free "Top 5 Ways to Heal Your Gut" eBook and start transforming your health goals! This is where your health comeback begins without the overwhelm. In this episode, I share six simple practices I trust with patients and in my own life for healing: focus on solutions, celebrate small wins, read symptoms as messages, choose consistency over intensity, practice a few minutes of presence, and trade self‑criticism for real self‑support. Each step calms the nervous system, lowers inflammation, and gives your gut the safety it needs to repair. You’ll hear exactly how to start...
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Beyond Diagnosis The Real Path to Healing Begins
Good Gut Feeling by Dr. Alexandra Shustina
Download the Free "Top 5 Ways to Heal Your Gut" eBook and start transforming your health goals! Healing starts when you stop treating symptoms in isolation and begin understanding the whole person: their habits, stressors, and story. In this episode, I get real about why a diagnosis can only take you so far. I walk through why two people with the same diagnosis can have completely different root causes, and why cookie-cutter protocols often fall short. You’ll also hear why real healing happens when we move beyond labels and focus on your unique...
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If you constantly feel stuck, inflamed, or disconnected, it might be time to look inward.
In this episode, I’ll show you how to think in a way that rewires your biology and reconnects you to your body’s ability to heal. I’ll walk you through the real science behind neuroplasticity, gut-brain connection, and the placebo effect.
You can use your mind as a tool for transformation. Your thoughts aren’t just noise. They shape your health.
If you’re looking for a sustainable way to heal that benefits both mentally and physically, this episode of the Good Gut Feeling Podcast is for you: How to Use Positive Thinking as Medicine
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Dr. Alexandra Shustina is a board-certified gastroenterologist and internist and founder of Whole Gut Health formerly Manhattan Integrative Gastroenterology. She earned her medical degree from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency at St. Vincent’s Hospital, and her gastroenterology training at Garden City Hospital in Michigan. She also has an advanced research degree in molecular biology and is passionate about a natural approach to chronic illness, is interested in Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, and has also studied osteopathic manipulative medicine, a holistic approach emphasizing the connection between the structure of the body and its function and dysfunction.
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