Love Your Gut

Dr. Heather Finley
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Love Your Gut, hosted by Dr. Heather Finley, is helping thousands of women get to the root cause of their symptoms and redefine their gut health. After years of struggling with her own health issues, Dr. Heather Finley completed a doctorate in Clinical Nutrition and has been on a mission ever since to help women find life changing and lasting solutions for their digestive issues. She’s the doctor everyone comes to after every other treatment, regimen, and protocol has failed them. Dr. Heather Finley provides real results with her cutting edge holistic methodology and she’s giving you the inside scoop on how to finally heal every week. It’s time to love your gut, so your gut will love you back.

  1. 3d ago

    Ep. 129: Why Busy, High-Achieving Women Freeze on Their Own Health

    Is there a gut protocol sitting in your inbox right now, or a supplement order still in the box on your counter? If you’ve been calling yourself lazy or undisciplined for not starting, this episode offers a more accurate explanation. Dr. Heather explains functional freeze, a nervous system state that lets you keep up with work, family, and every deadline while the one thing that’s just for you stays untouched. She shares her own story of staying stuck for months on a decision she already knew she needed to make, and explains why years of protocols that didn’t work can teach your body that hope is risky. She also covers how this same protective state affects digestion, and why more willpower tends to keep you stuck. You’ll walk away with five simple ways to start moving again, gently. What you’ll learn in this episode: The three nervous system states and what freeze actually isHow functional freeze hides behind productivityWhy repeated failed protocols make starting again so hardHow your nervous system state affects digestionFive small steps to help you get unstuckIf you’ve been sitting on a decision to get support for your gut, gutTogether pairs functional testing with a practitioner in your corner, check-ins along the way, and (in VIP) weekly live calls and nervous system coaching. Learn more and apply with this link.  Find the real root causes of your GI symptoms with our free, 2 minute Quiz!  Take the quiz here! Connect + Next Steps Want daily education, stories, and gut-friendly support? Follow Dr. Heather on Instagram Ready for personalized 1:1 support and a clear plan? Apply for gutTogether® Want a chance to win a free HTMA Bundle? Leave a rating & review and email it to happygut@drheatherfinley.co with [PODCAST REVIEW] in the subject line! We choose a new winner every month!

  2. Oct 2

    Ep. 128: Why did my results not last? (constipation, SIBO bloating, low ferritin, etc)

    You felt amazing after the antibiotics, the iron infusion, or the SIBO protocol, and then six months later your symptoms were right back where they started.  On todays episode, Dr. Heather explains why results fade even when the protocol worked. She also covers why more information so often leads to more confusion, and shares a personal story about what actually created lasting change in her own life this year. What you'll learn in this episode: Why a protocol can work and still not lastThe three places Dr. Heather looks for the "leak" in recurring gut symptomsHow the nervous system affects your ability to hold onto resultsHow to tell when discomfort means change course and when it means keep goingWhat lasting gut health actually looks like during travel, stress, and the holidaysMentioned in this episode: Episode 65 (for a deeper look at motility and minerals) Find the real root causes of your GI symptoms with our free, 2 minute Quiz!  Take the quiz here! Connect + Next Steps Want daily education, stories, and gut-friendly support? Follow Dr. Heather on Instagram Ready for personalized 1:1 support and a clear plan? Apply for gutTogether® Want a chance to win a free HTMA Bundle? Leave a rating & review and email it to happygut@drheatherfinley.co with [PODCAST REVIEW] in the subject line! We choose a new winner every month!

  3. Sep 23

    Ep. 127: Who's Eating Your Iron? 3 Hidden Reasons Your Ferritin Won't Budge

    What if something else is getting to your iron before you do? This week, Dr. Heather picks up where last week's episode left off. She explains why your iron panel works like a balance sheet: it can show you what's in the account, but it can't always show you who's spending it. Then she walks through the three hidden suspects she looks for first when a client's ferritin refuses to budge. One of them is among the most common infections in the world, and most people who have it never know. They can all go unnoticed for years, and none of them show up on a standard iron panel. You'll learn: Why "absorption is the problem" is a correct conclusion that still leaves most women stuckThe three suspects that can quietly drain your iron, and the clues that point to each oneWhy your body sometimes hides iron from you on purposeWhy treating off a symptom list can make things worse, and what order of testing makes sense insteadFind the real root causes of your GI symptoms with our free, 2 minute Quiz!  Take the quiz here! Connect + Next Steps Want daily education, stories, and gut-friendly support? Follow Dr. Heather on Instagram Ready for personalized 1:1 support and a clear plan? Apply for gutTogether® Want a chance to win a free HTMA Bundle? Leave a rating & review and email it to happygut@drheatherfinley.co with [PODCAST REVIEW] in the subject line! We choose a new winner every month!

  4. Sep 17

    Ep. 126: You've Been Taking Iron for 2 Years For Low Ferritin. Here's What This Is Telling You

    Dr. Heather's ferritin was 9 four months postpartum, and she had a doctorate in clinical nutrition at the time. She still couldn't fix her own labs, and she spent months doing exactly what you've been doing: assuming she had the wrong iron rather than the wrong theory.  This episode takes apart the belief that almost every woman with low ferritin is operating under. Low ferritin, therefore more iron. It's the most reasonable belief available, it's what your doctor believes, and for some women it works perfectly. If you're still listening to podcasts about your ferritin, you're not one of those women.  Dr. Heather explains how ferritin works like savings, and taking iron is making a deposit. You can walk into the bank every week and hand them twenty dollars, and if you're spending more than you earn, your savings will not grow.  Then she covers the three places the deposit disappears, plus the reframe for anyone who finishes this episode feeling like they wasted two years and four hundred dollars on supplements.  What you'll learn in this episode: Why the belief that iron fixes low ferritin keeps women stuck for years, and how it converts every failure into a reason to try the same thing againWhat your ferritin number actually reports, and why it can't tell you anything about the cause on its ownThe three places your iron goes missingWhy some women feel worse on high-dose iron rather than betterThe four blood markers to hold out for if your provider will only run a handfulKeep listening Start with Dr. Heather's Story Ep. 99: Why Iron Wasn't the Answer for My Low Ferritin The full Iron & Ferritin Series Ep. 112: Why You're Not Absorbing Iron (Even If You Are Supplementing) Ep. 113: Why Your Iron Is Stuck & Ferritin Is High Ep. 114: How Jessica Increased Her Ferritin by 20 Points in 2 Months  More on where the deposit disappears Ep. 100: Why Constipation Is Blocking Your Iron Ep. 108: Why You're Still Constipated: The Low Stomach Acid Connection Ep. 104: The Hidden Link Between SIBO, Iron & Ferritin  More on the minerals that move it Ep. 125: Iron, Copper, and Gut Irony Roundtable Ep. 121: Why Minerals Fix What Protocols Can't with Lisa Pitel-Killah Find the real root causes of your GI symptoms with our free, 2 minute Quiz!  Take the quiz here! Connect + Next Steps Want daily education, stories, and gut-friendly support? Follow Dr. Heather on Instagram Ready for personalized 1:1 support and a clear plan? Apply for gutTogether® Want a chance to win a free HTMA Bundle? Leave a rating & review and email it to happygut@drheatherfinley.co with [PODCAST REVIEW] in the subject line! We choose a new winner every month!

  5. Sep 4

    Ep. 125: Iron, Copper, and Gut Irony Roundtable Discussion

    Round two with the gutTogether team. Macy and Tyler are back, and this time we're talking about the iron and ferritin cases that have filled our caseload for the last six to eight months. If you've taken iron for months and watched your ferritin barely budge, or you've had an infusion and ended up with brand new GI symptoms, this conversation explains exactly why that isl.  We get into the iron recycling system, why copper and ceruloplasmin quietly run the whole operation, what gut infections do with the iron you take, and why ferritin sometimes drops before it climbs.  Plus the question we get in our inbox constantly: should I just get the infusion? Timestamps  01:50 Pattern one: the iron supplement that doesn't move the needle02:30 Your iron recycling system, and when iron is truly the problem03:40 Iron is a delivery system, not a faucet04:20 Almost every low-ferritin client also has GI symptoms05:00 Pattern two: copper, ceruloplasmin, and iron recycling07:20 Why copper becomes biounavailable (stress, liver, hormones, exposure)10:00 Retinol, vitamin C, and the easier fixes11:00 Zinc mega-dosing and the copper fallout12:40 Minerals work like a symphony13:10 High ferritin, wonky ferritin, and the Goldilocks range15:30 Why one lab in isolation will mislead you16:10 The gut infections we see most in ferritin cases17:00 The string of pearls: digestion before absorption19:00 How pathogens sequester iron20:20 Iron infusions and the GI symptoms that follow22:20 The macro minerals that influence iron regulation23:40 Under-fueling, unaccounted losses, and dietary variety26:00 "Should I get an infusion?" What her labs actually showed28:20 What women are self-prescribing for iron30:00 The takeawayFind the real root causes of your GI symptoms with our free, 2 minute Quiz!  Take the quiz here! Connect + Next Steps Want daily education, stories, and gut-friendly support? Follow Dr. Heather on Instagram Ready for personalized 1:1 support and a clear plan? Apply for gutTogether® Want a chance to win a free HTMA Bundle? Leave a rating & review and email it to happygut@drheatherfinley.co with [PODCAST REVIEW] in the subject line! We choose a new winner every month!

  6. Aug 26

    Ep. 124: The Top 6 Roadblocks We See in Gut Healing (feat. the gutTogether Team)

    Have you ever wondered what it was like to sit "behind the scenes" with the gutTogether® team? Today's podcast episode is a "must listen"! Dr. Heather sits down with 2 of the gutTogether® RD's to discuss the 6 common roadblocks they see when working 1:1 with clients. If you've ever felt like no matter what you do, you can't get over your symptoms, this is a good one!  (and make sure you stay until the end for some bloopers!) Find the real root causes of your GI symptoms with our free, 2 minute Quiz!  Take the quiz here! Connect + Next Steps Want daily education, stories, and gut-friendly support? Follow Dr. Heather on Instagram Ready for personalized 1:1 support and a clear plan? Apply for gutTogether® Want a chance to win a free HTMA Bundle? Leave a rating & review and email it to happygut@drheatherfinley.co with [PODCAST REVIEW] in the subject line! We choose a new winner every month!

  7. Aug 19

    Ep. 123: Your GI Issues Are Costing You (And Not In The Way You Think)

    You can count the cost of your gut issues in supplements, copays, and elimination diets. But the biggest cost has never shown up on a single receipt, and chances are you've never once added it up. On this episode, I'm talking about the bandwidth your symptoms are quietly taking from you every single day. I'm sharing what surprised me most about my own healing after twenty years of GI issues, the moment I realized how much mental energy my symptoms had been eating, and what my clients tell me they actually got back when their bloating resolved (hint: nobody ever says "my bloating score improved"). Find the real root causes of your GI symptoms with our free, 2 minute Quiz!  Take the quiz here! Connect + Next Steps Want daily education, stories, and gut-friendly support? Follow Dr. Heather on Instagram Ready for personalized 1:1 support and a clear plan? Apply for gutTogether® Want a chance to win a free HTMA Bundle? Leave a rating & review and email it to happygut@drheatherfinley.co with [PODCAST REVIEW] in the subject line! We choose a new winner every month!

  8. Jul 30

    Ep. 122: Generational Health: 9 Out of 10 Babies Are Missing Key Gut Bacteria, with Dr. Stephanie Culler or Persephone

    Nine out of ten babies in the US are now missing one or more of the keystone bacteria their immune system needs to develop properly.  Stephanie is a PhD scientist, co-founder and CEO of Persephone Biosciences, and a mom who built her company's biggest study after a pediatric researcher asked her a question that stopped her cold: if you can fix the microbiome of cancer patients, why not fix it in babies? That question led to MyBabyBiome, the largest microbiome study of US infants to date, and to the discovery that something has shifted in how babies acquire their earliest gut bacteria. We get into what "missing" actually means (as in, undetectable even with modern DNA sequencing), why C-section babies are twice as likely to be affected, why breast milk alone doesn't always fix it, and why Stephanie now tells clients that the most important inheritance you can give your kids is your microbiome. We also cover why the probiotic on the shelf at Whole Foods probably isn't doing what you think it's doing, and why it's genuinely not too late to shift things as an adult, even if you've had gut issues since childhood. Dr. Stephanie Culler, PhD, is the co-founder and CEO of Persephone Biosciences. She earned her PhD in Chemical Engineering at Caltech, where she focused on gene therapies for cancer, and spent the first several years of Persephone's existence developing microbiome-based cancer therapies before shifting the company's focus to infant and toddler gut health after becoming a mother. She led MyBabyBiome, the largest study of the US infant gut microbiome to date, which found that 9 out of 10 US babies are missing one or more keystone Bifidobacterium species linked to healthy immune development (published in Communications Biology, 2025). Persephone Biosciences makes Bloom (for infants 0 to 12 months) and Thrive (for toddlers 12 months and up), synbiotics that pair specific Bifidobacterium strains with human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) and vitamin D. Connect With Stephanie:  Persephone Site (use code LOVEYOURGUT30 for 30% off your first order)LinkedInFind the real root causes of your GI symptoms with our free, 2 minute Quiz!  Take the quiz here! Connect + Next Steps Want daily education, stories, and gut-friendly support? Follow Dr. Heather on Instagram Ready for personalized 1:1 support and a clear plan? Apply for gutTogether® Want a chance to win a free HTMA Bundle? Leave a rating & review and email it to happygut@drheatherfinley.co with [PODCAST REVIEW] in the subject line! We choose a new winner every month!

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Love Your Gut, hosted by Dr. Heather Finley, is helping thousands of women get to the root cause of their symptoms and redefine their gut health. After years of struggling with her own health issues, Dr. Heather Finley completed a doctorate in Clinical Nutrition and has been on a mission ever since to help women find life changing and lasting solutions for their digestive issues. She’s the doctor everyone comes to after every other treatment, regimen, and protocol has failed them. Dr. Heather Finley provides real results with her cutting edge holistic methodology and she’s giving you the inside scoop on how to finally heal every week. It’s time to love your gut, so your gut will love you back.

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  • Creator
    Dr. Heather Finley
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    130
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 All Rights Reserved Love Your Gut 2022
  • Show Website
    Love Your Gut

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