You might not think you have a gut problem.
You might not think you have a gut problem.
That was the interesting part.
I was working with a woman who'd experienced recurrent miscarriage, and when we first talked about her gut health, she didn't really think she had any issues.
But her symptom questionnaire told me there were a few things worth exploring.
Bloating.
Lethargy.
Bad breath.
A white coating on her tongue.
And episodes of binge eating.
So I started asking questions.
What does the bloating actually feel like?
What are your bowel movements like?
Do you ever need to get to the toilet urgently?
And that's when she described episodes where she needed the toilet quickly and her bowel movements could be explosive.
Her response was along the lines of:
"Oh wow, I hadn't even thought of that."
And that really stayed with me.
Because these weren't necessarily new symptoms.
They'd just become normal.
She'd been living with them for long enough that she didn't think of them as something she needed to tell me.
And this is why I'm interested in the detail behind "I don't have any gut problems."
A questionnaire can give me a starting point.
But I want to know what your gut actually does in your everyday life.
How often you're bloated.
What happens after you eat.
What your bowel movements are like.
Whether there's urgency.
What you've simply learned to put up with.
That doesn't mean we've found the cause of a miscarriage.
It doesn't mean a gut symptom explains recurrent miscarriage.
But it might give us something worth exploring.
And sometimes that's where the useful conversation begins.
This is one of the things I'll be talking about in my free masterclass:
Recurrent Miscarriage: Looking at the Whole Picture
27-28 October 2026
7:00pm BST | Online | Free
Day 2 is all about the missing pieces - including what "normal" results may not tell you, and where to start before trying again.
If you've experienced more than one pregnancy loss and you're wondering whether there's anything in your health you've simply stopped noticing, I'd love you to join me.
