# 98: Why Your Digestion Sucks Even When You’re Eating Clean – With Hannah Aylward

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/thyroid-pharmacist-healing-conversations-with-dr-izabella-wentz-7249643/98-why-your-digestion-sucks-even-when-you-re-eating-clean-with-hannah-aylward
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/thyroid-pharmacist-healing-conversations-with-dr-izabella-wentz-7249643/98-why-your-digestion-sucks-even-when-you-re-eating-clean-with-hannah-aylward.md
Podcast: [Thyroid Pharmacist Healing Conversations with Dr. Izabella Wentz](https://stenobird.com/podcast/thyroid-pharmacist-healing-conversations-with-dr-izabella-wentz-7249643)
Published: 2026-04-24T10:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/LDCBT5113529547.mp3
Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/LDCBT5113529547.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/thyroid-pharmacist-healing-conversations-with-dr-izabella-wentz-7249643/episodes/98-why-your-digestion-sucks-even-when-you-re-eating-clean-with-hannah-aylward
Duration seconds: 3908

## Resource

In this episode of Thyroid Pharmacist Healing Conversations, Dr. Izabella Wentz interviews gut health expert Hannah Aylward about why so many people struggle with bloating and other gut issues – even when they’re eating clean. Hannah shares her personal journey with chronic digestive issues and explains how factors like low stomach acid, poor bile flow, gut dysbiosis, and nervous system dysregulation can all contribute to ongoing symptoms. Together, they explore the deeper root causes of digestive dysfunction and why a personalized, root-cause approach is essential for overall healing. What you’ll learn in this episode: Why eating “clean” isn’t always enough to fix digestive issues. Hannah explains how you can follow all the right diets and still have symptoms like bloating, reflux, and constipation, if your digestive system isn’t properly breaking down and absorbing food. The hidden root causes of chronic bloating (it’s not just food!). Low stomach acid, poor bile flow, gut dysbiosis, and infections can all create the perfect environment for bloating – even with a healthy diet. How stress and your nervous system directly impact digestion. Chronic stress shifts your body out of “rest and digest” mode, reducing stomach acid, enzyme production, and gut motility, and making digestion an afterthought. What’s really behind food sensitivities and how to reverse them. Most sensitivities aren’t about the food itself, but about gut imbalances like bacterial overgrowth, histamine issues, or poor digestion. The surprising connection between gut health, hormones, and histamine. Liver function, bile flow, and the gut microbiome all play a role in hormone balance and histamine breakdown – impacting everything from bloating to painful periods. Why most gut healing protocols fail (and…

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/thyroid-pharmacist-healing-conversations-with-dr-izabella-wentz-7249643/episodes/98-why-your-digestion-sucks-even-when-you-re-eating-clean-with-hannah-aylward/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/thyroid-pharmacist-healing-conversations-with-dr-izabella-wentz-7249643/98-why-your-digestion-sucks-even-when-you-re-eating-clean-with-hannah-aylward.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.