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The “pivotal moment”: when your digestion changed and was never the same again

Integrative Medicine
This article is born from a question that often comes up in my consultations: When did it all really begin? Because many digestive symptoms don’t appear out of nowhere — they have a story that needs to be heard.

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Many of the people who come to my integrative medicine practice can clearly identify what I call the turning point moment.

That instant when everything started to change.

Today you may have abdominal pain, feel bloated, low on energy, or experience slow or irregular digestion… You’ve tried diets, medications, supplements. And yet, you feel that your body never quite went back to how it was before.

The question is not only what is happening to you, but:

When did everything start to change?

Looking back to understand the current symptom

In consultation, the first thing I do is not to order tests, but to listen.

I want to know:

What were you like as a child? Some people remember themselves as active, full of energy, while others recall having respiratory or digestive issues, or frequent infections from an early age. Sometimes there is even a history of prematurity, incubator care, or heavily medicalized early years.

And what were you like at 20–21 years old? How do you remember yourself at that stage?

This is where an important break often appears: emotional conflicts, major life changes, grief, difficult relationships, or an increasingly tense relationship with food and with one’s own body. Restrictive diets, excessive control, fear of certain foods.

Or perhaps a trip, a bout of gastroenteritis, or repeated antibiotic treatments to “eradicate” a bacteria that, according to conventional medicine, explained all symptoms.

This is what I call the turning point moment.

And for me, it is essential.

Because when we integrate personal history with the current digestive symptom, the perspective widens… and at the same time, everything begins to make sense.

Many people tell me:

“Okay, I understand the origin, but… what do I do now with the emotional part? I can’t change what I lived.”

And that’s true. We cannot change the past.

But we can change how your body is still holding onto it today.

A truly integrative approach

In my practice, I work as an integrative physician specialized in digestive disorders, combining:

Clinical and in-depth digestive evaluation Nutrition and functional nutrition Supplementation tailored to each individual case Work on habits, rest, and stress Acupuncture and Chinese medicine, when indicated Body-based and emotional regulation techniques based on yoga and the gut–brain connection

Acupuncture, in particular, is a precious tool for me: it helps regulate the nervous system, relieve digestive symptoms, and support emotional processes that the body has not yet been able to release.

Creating a new turning point

The goal is not to “go back to who you were,” but to create a new turning point.

A moment of inflection where, little by little, your body stops living in constant alert, regulates itself, and begins to build a new way of inhabiting yourself.

Does this resonate with you?

If you feel that your digestion changed after a specific moment in your life and that no one has helped you understand it from a global perspective,

👉 you can book a consultation with me or, if you prefer,

👉 leave your details for a free 10-minute assessment call, where we’ll explore whether this approach is right for you.

I’m here to accompany you.

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