What if your gut issues aren’t just about what you eat—but how well you digest, absorb, and actually use what you eat?
In this episode of The Coach Debbie Potts Show, Debbie sits down with Steven Wright, founder of Healthy Gut, to explore why digestive function may be one of the most overlooked foundations of energy, recovery, immune health, metabolism, and resilience as we age.
Steven brings an engineer’s mindset to gut health, helping us look beyond symptom chasing and ask a better question: What conditions does the body need to properly digest, absorb, repair, and rebuild?
In this episode, Debbie and Steven dive into:
• Why stomach acid (HCl) is essential for protein digestion and nutrient absorption • Why reflux symptoms may not always mean too much stomach acid • Digest → Absorb → Build: why eating the right foods isn’t enough if you can’t properly break them down and use them • How restrictive diets such as low-FODMAP, carnivore, keto, and SCD can be useful tools—but may not be long-term solutions • Why gut health is about much more than probiotics and adding more bacteria • What butyrate is and why it matters for the intestinal barrier, immune regulation, metabolism, and whole-body health • How diet and the gut environment influence our natural production of butyrate • The connection between the gut mucus layer, butyrate, and Akkermansia • Why the parasympathetic nervous system and vagus nerve matter for digestion • How eating while stressed, rushing, working, or driving can interfere with digestive signaling • Where to start when you’ve tried diets, probiotics, supplements, and gut protocols but still feel stuck
This conversation connects directly to Debbie’s FutureYou Blueprint™ philosophy:
Foundations create the signals. Signals drive adaptation. Adaptation builds resilience. Resilience shapes your FutureYou.
Gut health isn’t simply about eliminating symptoms. It’s about rebuilding the foundations that allow your body to digest, absorb, repair, recover, and adapt.
And we’re not finished! Steven will return for Part 2, where we’ll go deeper into the nervous system, immune system, microbiome, and gut-brain connection.
CONNECT WITH STEVEN WRIGHT + HEALTHY GUT
• Healthy Gut + Debbie’s Shop: https://healthygut.com/debbieshop • Website: https://healthygut.com • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HealthyGutCompany • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healthygutco/
CONNECT WITH COACH DEBBIE POTTS
• Website: https://www.debbiepotts.net • Learn more about The FutureYou Blueprint™ programs, functional lab testing, coaching, and upcoming masterclasses at DebbiePotts.net
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