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In this first episode, I would like to introduce myself and the podcast a little more closely.
In this episode, you will find out:
Like so many things in my life, my path is more impulse-driven, intuitive, somewhat unplanned and quite spontaneous.
I originally trained as a hotel manager (in Lausanne, Switzerland) because I wanted to work abroad. Travel, foreign countries and foreign languages have always fascinated me, I speak five languages.
I then did an internship in Hong Kong, spent 6 months in Italy, twice in Ethiopia for an aid project and after my training I worked for 1.5 years in Florida in the USA, in a beautiful and huge resort.
I take people as they are, can get involved in new cultures and customs and am a person with a wide range of interests.
When I came back to Switzerland, I was fed up with what I saw as a dusty hotel industry. Through connections, I ended up in IT and then in the Internet industry.
That was my first contact with the online world and the possibilities of the Internet.
Even though I actually enjoyed the job and felt comfortable, I ended up quitting it to fulfill my dream of travelling the world. I was already over 30, unmarried, had no children and thought to myself: "If not now, then when?" I then traveled to Hawaii, spent three months in Australia, toured Southeast Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos) and finally ended up in Cornwall.
During this time, I learned a lot about myself: to give up something, even though it's actually good not to think about it for too long, but to just do things and be happy with myself.
Back in Switzerland, I started working in a fitness center by chance. That's where I met my husband. He was already working as a nutrition coach, especially with athletes, doing blood analyses and creating individual vitamin mixtures. I then started to support him at the weekends until I finally decided to train as a nutrition coach.
There I learned that not everything that sounds logical in theory works in practice. But you take something from everywhere and then put it into practice for yourself. That doesn't mean that what was offered was bad, you just have to think for yourself and then do your own thing. I found it significant that I was the only one of the whole class who really worked seriously and as a full-time job afterwards. So it's not easy to build something up in the industry and make a living from it.
We then opened a practice in Basel, ran it successfully for over 10 years and helped over 5,000 people change their diet.
The right enthusiasm for strength or power I became interested in nutrition and what it does when I understood the principle of species-appropriate nutrition for us humans and implemented it with my first customers.
We then discovered the metabolic balance analysis and created personal nutrition plans based on a blood analysis.
The principle is: low carb, no wheat, no sugar, lots of vegetables, good fats and only natural food. Very important here is: A strict changeover phase for 14 days, without exception!
We have achieved great results with this for many people after just 10 days, such as A normalized blood pressure, much better mood, no more panic attacks, 5kg lost weight and things from everyday life such as I can climb stairs again without getting out of breath.
These experiences have led to my conviction: It's better to make radical and consistent changes at the beginning, without exception! Until I feel noticeably better. You can (and should) loosen up again afterwards.
One of the most frequent questions I am asked is: Can I never eat pasta again? Never drink alcohol again? Never eat sweets again?
Actually, I don't understand the question! If I were to tell you now that you must never eat what you particularly like again in your life, how realistic would it be for you to go through with it? Not at all, right? And it doesn't make sense!
But at the beginning, when it comes to minimizing inflammation, fighting illness, supporting the body in its self-healing process or building up motivation, it simply makes sense to be as strict as possible, because that's the only way to achieve noticeable results.
And I can say this from over 10 years of experience: diet usually really does make the decisive difference as to whether other therapies start to work or not.
At the beginning of our practice, we focused very strongly on nutrition, blood analysis and vitamin mixtures, but after a few years our current focus, the topic of the gut, was added.
We discovered that vitamins and other nutrients can only be absorbed if the environment in the gut is right! Once we had found this focus, changed the sequence of actions and always started with the gut, we really found our place and our method with which we can best support our customers.
After more than 10 years with our practice in Basel, my husband and I then decided to give our lives another new direction and moved our business model from offline to online. This means that we no longer have a practice where you can drop in, but advise our customers online via Zoom and with the help of online courses and webinars.
In addition to our nutritional coaching company Gruber Gesundheit, we also took over the Swiss representation of Arktis BioPharma two years ago, through which we sell probiotics, prebiotics and a few nutritional supplements such as fish oil and vitamin D.
Through Arktis BioPharma, we also organize lectures and congresses on the topic of gut and gut health from time to time.
I am sure that we will get to know each other much better in the course of this podcast, because I will not pretend and will also include personal things and information. This will not be a It's not going to be a glossy, polished podcast where it's purely professional, informative and scientifically correct, but I'm also going to share things from practice and from my experiences.
If you don't like that and it annoys you to hear an er or oops every now and then, then this podcast probably isn't the right one for you.
But to give you a bit of an idea of who I am, here are a few facts:
I have a clear opinion, my opinion, but I am never dogmatic and I invite you not to believe anything I say! Instead, put what I say into practice in your life and test whether it works for you.
You keep what works and leave out what doesn't work for you personally. But that doesn't mean that it might not work for others. What bothers me so much in the nutrition and health sector are these battles of faith, this attitude of "I've found the truth and because I'm successful with it, everyone else has to do it the same way as me".
If someone tells you that they've found the exact formula and all you have to do is do it the same way and you're guaranteed success, then I would advise you: Take your legs in your hands and run away as fast as you can. There are no gurus, the only guru for you is yourself.
Why is the podcast called Darmglück?
My online course is also called Darmglück and I find the name so fitting that I knew my podcast should be called Darmglück too. The name stands for several things at once!
I'm sure you've heard the saying: "Death is in the gut". I think this statement is totally apt, but I would like to put it in a positive way and say: "Health is also in the gut!" And for me, health and happiness are very closely linked, because health is a big part of being truly happy. Because a sick body slows us down tremendously and sometimes even prevents you from living life the way you want to.
Darmglück therefore stands for taking happiness into your own hands, taking responsibility for yourself and your health back to you. And to achieve this health, the gut is simply a good starting point. Gut healthy, human healthy, so to speak.
You will definitely find out why the gut is so important in this podcast. But I can already explain this much here: The gut is our center, our core.
If we were a tree, the gut would be our root. And what happens to even the biggest, most beautiful, strongest tree if it has a problem at the root? It gets sick!
But the name Darmglück also stands for the connection between the gut and brain and the influence that the gut has on things like mood, depression, anxiety and so on. Most of the happiness hormone serotonin, for example, is produced in the gut and not in the brain, and many signals are also sent from the gut to the brain. That's why the feeling of happiness is also directly linked to our gut.
And last but not least, when it comes to gut happiness, it's very important to me that yes, nutrition and the gut are important. But there are many other things that nourish us and make us happy.
The environment we live in, our relationships and family, the work we do, sport and exercise, our spirituality and also our hobbies and how we live our lives.
Nutrition is one of the great gateways we can go through that can really make a drastic and rapid change for the better! But once we have initiated this change and know how things are going, it is important to bring in other aspects of life as well.
Because in my opinion, being happy is one of the great goals in life and also our birthright. Happiness is a state that we can choose and that we can actively shape. That's why all my consultations, the Gut Happiness course and this podcast also deal with topics that have to do with lifestyle and mindset. Otherwise, even the best dietary changes won't work or you'll fall back into old patterns in no time at all.
Topics that you can expect to hear about in the podcast are obvious things like:
The podcast episodes will be published once a week, always on Tuesdays. At least that's the plan at the moment. If you like, please let me know what you think of this rhythm, what you would like to see in the podcast, which guests you would find exciting or which topics you would like to have discussed.
You can reach me via our website www.gruber-ernaehrung.ch, where you can also subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date.
And you can also find me on Facebook on the Gruber Gesundheit page and on Instagram at @juliaelisabethgruber
If you would like to hear short opinions and comments from me from time to time, you should follow me on Instagram, by the way, where I post an Insta several times a week. Story.
Now I encourage you to subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss an episode, and if you like what you hear, I really appreciate a rating on iTunes or Apple Podcast. Because these reviews also help other people find the podcast so we can spread the knowledge about gut and health more.
In this first episode, I would like to introduce myself and the podcast a little more closely.
In this episode, you will find out:
- How I ended up talking about nutrition and gut health in a roundabout way
- A few personal facts about me
- Why the podcast is called Darmglück and what the meaning behind it is
- What topics you can expect and how often the podcast appears
- How you can get in touch with me and where else you can find me
Like so many things in my life, my path is more impulse-driven, intuitive, somewhat unplanned and quite spontaneous.
I originally trained as a hotel manager (in Lausanne, Switzerland) because I wanted to work abroad. Travel, foreign countries and foreign languages have always fascinated me, I speak five languages.
I then did an internship in Hong Kong, spent 6 months in Italy, twice in Ethiopia for an aid project and after my training I worked for 1.5 years in Florida in the USA, in a beautiful and huge resort.
I take people as they are, can get involved in new cultures and customs and am a person with a wide range of interests.
When I came back to Switzerland, I was fed up with what I saw as a dusty hotel industry. Through connections, I ended up in IT and then in the Internet industry.
That was my first contact with the online world and the possibilities of the Internet.
Even though I actually enjoyed the job and felt comfortable, I ended up quitting it to fulfill my dream of travelling the world. I was already over 30, unmarried, had no children and thought to myself: "If not now, then when?" I then traveled to Hawaii, spent three months in Australia, toured Southeast Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos) and finally ended up in Cornwall.
During this time, I learned a lot about myself: to give up something, even though it's actually good not to think about it for too long, but to just do things and be happy with myself.
Back in Switzerland, I started working in a fitness center by chance. That's where I met my husband. He was already working as a nutrition coach, especially with athletes, doing blood analyses and creating individual vitamin mixtures. I then started to support him at the weekends until I finally decided to train as a nutrition coach.
There I learned that not everything that sounds logical in theory works in practice. But you take something from everywhere and then put it into practice for yourself. That doesn't mean that what was offered was bad, you just have to think for yourself and then do your own thing. I found it significant that I was the only one of the whole class who really worked seriously and as a full-time job afterwards. So it's not easy to build something up in the industry and make a living from it.
We then opened a practice in Basel, ran it successfully for over 10 years and helped over 5,000 people change their diet.
The right enthusiasm for strength or power I became interested in nutrition and what it does when I understood the principle of species-appropriate nutrition for us humans and implemented it with my first customers.
We then discovered the metabolic balance analysis and created personal nutrition plans based on a blood analysis.
The principle is: low carb, no wheat, no sugar, lots of vegetables, good fats and only natural food. Very important here is: A strict changeover phase for 14 days, without exception!
We have achieved great results with this for many people after just 10 days, such as A normalized blood pressure, much better mood, no more panic attacks, 5kg lost weight and things from everyday life such as I can climb stairs again without getting out of breath.
These experiences have led to my conviction: It's better to make radical and consistent changes at the beginning, without exception! Until I feel noticeably better. You can (and should) loosen up again afterwards.
One of the most frequent questions I am asked is: Can I never eat pasta again? Never drink alcohol again? Never eat sweets again?
Actually, I don't understand the question! If I were to tell you now that you must never eat what you particularly like again in your life, how realistic would it be for you to go through with it? Not at all, right? And it doesn't make sense!
But at the beginning, when it comes to minimizing inflammation, fighting illness, supporting the body in its self-healing process or building up motivation, it simply makes sense to be as strict as possible, because that's the only way to achieve noticeable results.
And I can say this from over 10 years of experience: diet usually really does make the decisive difference as to whether other therapies start to work or not.
At the beginning of our practice, we focused very strongly on nutrition, blood analysis and vitamin mixtures, but after a few years our current focus, the topic of the gut, was added.
We discovered that vitamins and other nutrients can only be absorbed if the environment in the gut is right! Once we had found this focus, changed the sequence of actions and always started with the gut, we really found our place and our method with which we can best support our customers.
After more than 10 years with our practice in Basel, my husband and I then decided to give our lives another new direction and moved our business model from offline to online. This means that we no longer have a practice where you can drop in, but advise our customers online via Zoom and with the help of online courses and webinars.
In addition to our nutritional coaching company Gruber Gesundheit, we also took over the Swiss representation of Arktis BioPharma two years ago, through which we sell probiotics, prebiotics and a few nutritional supplements such as fish oil and vitamin D.
Through Arktis BioPharma, we also organize lectures and congresses on the topic of gut and gut health from time to time.
I am sure that we will get to know each other much better in the course of this podcast, because I will not pretend and will also include personal things and information. This will not be a It's not going to be a glossy, polished podcast where it's purely professional, informative and scientifically correct, but I'm also going to share things from practice and from my experiences.
If you don't like that and it annoys you to hear an er or oops every now and then, then this podcast probably isn't the right one for you.
But to give you a bit of an idea of who I am, here are a few facts:
- Married to Roman, no children, two cats Leo and Luna and most recently a dog, a Bichon called Lucy
- We live in Himmelried in Switzerland and are in the process of building a second home in Llucmajor in Mallorca, where we have a vacation home
- I was born 44 years ago in Paderborn in North Rhine-Westphalia, so I speak quite passable High German, but I can also speak Swiss German.
- A brother who lives in Ibiza and has two children
- I like cooking, reading, nutrition and health as well as topics such as personal development, marketing and business development, and I have also been painting again for some time.
I have a clear opinion, my opinion, but I am never dogmatic and I invite you not to believe anything I say! Instead, put what I say into practice in your life and test whether it works for you.
You keep what works and leave out what doesn't work for you personally. But that doesn't mean that it might not work for others. What bothers me so much in the nutrition and health sector are these battles of faith, this attitude of "I've found the truth and because I'm successful with it, everyone else has to do it the same way as me".
If someone tells you that they've found the exact formula and all you have to do is do it the same way and you're guaranteed success, then I would advise you: Take your legs in your hands and run away as fast as you can. There are no gurus, the only guru for you is yourself.
Why is the podcast called Darmglück?
My online course is also called Darmglück and I find the name so fitting that I knew my podcast should be called Darmglück too. The name stands for several things at once!
I'm sure you've heard the saying: "Death is in the gut". I think this statement is totally apt, but I would like to put it in a positive way and say: "Health is also in the gut!" And for me, health and happiness are very closely linked, because health is a big part of being truly happy. Because a sick body slows us down tremendously and sometimes even prevents you from living life the way you want to.
Darmglück therefore stands for taking happiness into your own hands, taking responsibility for yourself and your health back to you. And to achieve this health, the gut is simply a good starting point. Gut healthy, human healthy, so to speak.
You will definitely find out why the gut is so important in this podcast. But I can already explain this much here: The gut is our center, our core.
If we were a tree, the gut would be our root. And what happens to even the biggest, most beautiful, strongest tree if it has a problem at the root? It gets sick!
But the name Darmglück also stands for the connection between the gut and brain and the influence that the gut has on things like mood, depression, anxiety and so on. Most of the happiness hormone serotonin, for example, is produced in the gut and not in the brain, and many signals are also sent from the gut to the brain. That's why the feeling of happiness is also directly linked to our gut.
And last but not least, when it comes to gut happiness, it's very important to me that yes, nutrition and the gut are important. But there are many other things that nourish us and make us happy.
The environment we live in, our relationships and family, the work we do, sport and exercise, our spirituality and also our hobbies and how we live our lives.
Nutrition is one of the great gateways we can go through that can really make a drastic and rapid change for the better! But once we have initiated this change and know how things are going, it is important to bring in other aspects of life as well.
Because in my opinion, being happy is one of the great goals in life and also our birthright. Happiness is a state that we can choose and that we can actively shape. That's why all my consultations, the Gut Happiness course and this podcast also deal with topics that have to do with lifestyle and mindset. Otherwise, even the best dietary changes won't work or you'll fall back into old patterns in no time at all.
Topics that you can expect to hear about in the podcast are obvious things like:
- What is a species-appropriate diet
- Why is sugar harmful
- Why is the gut so important for our overall health
- What are probiotics and prebiotics
- How do I recognize that my gut has a problem
- What could be the causes of persistent digestive problems and how do I fix them?
- Different diets
- Tips and tricks on nutrition and cooking
- Your path to your intuition and gut feeling
- How to deal with worries
- Love and partnership
- fitness
- Habits and our brain
- Animals as our companions
- Time and how we deal with time
- Stress and how it affects us
- And so on, topics that have to do with lifestyle and mindset
The podcast episodes will be published once a week, always on Tuesdays. At least that's the plan at the moment. If you like, please let me know what you think of this rhythm, what you would like to see in the podcast, which guests you would find exciting or which topics you would like to have discussed.
You can reach me via our website www.gruber-ernaehrung.ch, where you can also subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date.
And you can also find me on Facebook on the Gruber Gesundheit page and on Instagram at @juliaelisabethgruber
If you would like to hear short opinions and comments from me from time to time, you should follow me on Instagram, by the way, where I post an Insta several times a week. Story.
Now I encourage you to subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss an episode, and if you like what you hear, I really appreciate a rating on iTunes or Apple Podcast. Because these reviews also help other people find the podcast so we can spread the knowledge about gut and health more.
