The Hidden Connection Between Betrayal and Gut Health That Many Practitioners Are Missing

The Case That Changed Everything

Sarah sat across from me, frustrated and exhausted. For three years, she’d been battling digestive issues that seemed to have no clear cause. She’d worked with gastroenterologists, functional medicine practitioners, and nutritionists. She’d tried elimination diets, expensive probiotics, gut healing protocols, and countless supplements. Her labs showed chronic inflammation, but nothing specific enough to explain her symptoms.

“I’ve done everything right,” she told me. “I eat perfectly, I take all the supplements, I follow every protocol. But I still wake up with stomach pain, bloating, and this constant feeling like my body is fighting against me.”

What Sarah’s other practitioners didn’t know was that her symptoms had started shortly after discovering her husband’s affair. The betrayal had shattered more than her marriage — it had fundamentally altered her nervous system’s ability to feel safe, directly impacting her body’s capacity to heal.

The Shocking Reality

Here’s what most health practitioners don’t realize: 45% of people who’ve experienced betrayal develop gut issues. Yet this connection is rarely explored in traditional health protocols.

Betrayal trauma affects a huge amount of the population at some point in their lives — whether through infidelity, workplace…