Dr. Todd Strong

03/30/2026

What if the bloating, fatigue, weight gain, and brain fog you have been living with for years is not a gut imbalance, not a hormone problem, and not stress — but a parasite living inside your gut right now that your doctor has never once tested for?I know that word makes people uncomfortable. But the reality is that parasitic infections are far more common in the developed world than anyone wants to admit. The CDC estimates that millions of Americans are carrying parasitic infections right now with zero awareness. Standard stool tests miss up to 70% of parasitic infections because they only test a single sample on a single day. I have seen patients suffer for decades with symptoms that resolved completely once we identified and cleared a parasitic infection. This is not rare. It is just rarely looked for.Here are 5 signs you may have a parasitic gut infection right now.

03/29/2026

Acne, rosacea, psoriasis, and eczema are not skin diseases. They are gut diseases with a skin address. And every cream, every medication, and every topical treatment you have tried is why you are still dealing with them.The gut-skin axis is one of the most well-documented connections in functional medicine. Your skin is your largest detox organ. When your gut is overwhelmed with toxins, infections, and inflammation that it cannot process — your skin becomes the emergency exit. Every breakout, every rash, every flare is your body trying to push out through the skin what it cannot eliminate through the gut. Treating the skin without treating the gut is like mopping the floor while the tap is still running.Here are 5 gut conditions showing up on your skin right now.

03/24/2026

Irregular periods, PMS, low testosterone, mood swings, and stubborn belly fat — these are not just hormone problems. Your gut is controlling your hormones far more than your endocrine system is. And until you fix your gut, your hormones will never fully balance.There is a collection of bacteria in your gut called the estrobolome. Its entire job is to metabolize and regulate estrogen levels in your body. When your gut microbiome is damaged — the estrobolome breaks down. Estrogen either accumulates to toxic levels or gets flushed out before your body can use it. Either way your hormonal balance collapses. This is not theory. This is documented in peer reviewed research. And it affects both men and women profoundly. Here are 4 ways your gut is directly disrupting your hormones.

03/24/2026

If your child has ADHD, chronic ear infections, skin issues, or constant stomach aches — their pediatrician is treating the symptoms. Nobody is looking at the real cause. And it starts in their gut. This is one of the most important topics I cover because it affects the next generation in ways we are only beginning to understand. The gut microbiome is established in the first three years of life. And the decisions made during those years — antibiotics, formula versus breastfeeding, diet, C-section versus natural birth — shape a child’s immune system, brain development, and inflammatory response for decades. I see adults in my clinic every day whose chronic conditions trace directly back to gut damage that started in childhood.Here are 5 signs your child’s gut is damaged and driving their symptoms.

03/24/2026

If you are over 50 and you have started noticing numbness, tingling, or burning in your feet — do not let anyone tell you this is just part of getting older. It is not. And waiting to address it is the most dangerous thing you can do. Age is not a diagnosis. I have patients in their 60s, 70s, and even 80s who have reversed significant neuropathy symptoms using the right protocol. The reason neuropathy becomes more common after 50 is not because aging is inevitable — it is because decades of accumulated gut damage, nutrient depletion, blood sugar dysregulation, and circulatory decline finally cross a threshold where the nerves can no longer compensate. The good news — that accumulation can be reversed. But the window matters.Here are 4 reasons neuropathy accelerates after 50 — and what to do about each one.

03/23/2026

The medications your doctor prescribed to help you might be the exact reason your gut is destroyed, your energy is gone, and your symptoms keep getting worse. Here are 4 common medications silently wrecking your gut right now.I am not anti-medication. There is a time and a place for pharmaceutical intervention. But what I am is pro-information. And the information most patients never receive is that many of the most commonly prescribed medications in America have a direct and documented destructive effect on your gut microbiome and gut lining. You deserve to know this.Here are 4 medications destroying your gut that your doctor probably never warned you about.

03/23/2026

You are doing everything right for your gut — clean diet, probiotics, supplements — and you’re still not healing. The reason might have nothing to do with what you’re eating. It might be happening while you sleep.Most people have no idea that their gut does the majority of its repair work between 10pm and 2am during deep sleep cycles. I see patients spending hundreds of dollars on gut supplements every month — but sleeping 5 or 6 hours a night and wondering why nothing is working. Poor sleep doesn’t just make you tired. It physically prevents your gut from healing.Here are 4 ways bad sleep is destroying your gut.

03/20/2026

Why your labs don’t matter but they do!

03/20/2026

Every single autoimmune disease — Hashimoto’s, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis — has one thing in common that your rheumatologist will never tell you about. And until you fix it, your immune system will keep attacking your own body no matter what medication you take.I want to be very direct with you here because this information could change the trajectory of your health completely. The research is clear — leaky gut, also called intestinal permeability, is present in virtually every autoimmune condition ever studied. It is not a side effect of autoimmune disease. It is a prerequisite for it. Your immune system cannot begin attacking your own tissues until the gut barrier breaks down and allows foreign particles into the bloodstream. Fix the gut barrier — and you remove the fuel source driving your immune system’s attack.Here are 6 things destroying your gut barrier and driving your autoimmune disease right now. e

03/19/2026

Your anxiety, depression, and brain fog are not in your head. They are in your gut. And until someone fixes your gut — no antidepressant, no therapy, and no amount of willpower is going to make them go away. Your gut produces 90% of your body’s serotonin. Ninety percent. The feel-good neurotransmitter that every antidepressant on the market is trying to manipulate — your gut makes almost all of it. So when I see patients who have been on antidepressants for years and still feel terrible — the first place I look is their gut. And I find the answer there almost every single time. The gut-brain connection is not alternative medicine. It is established neuroscience. And it is being completely ignored by mainstream psychiatry.Here are 5 ways your gut is directly controlling your mental health right now.

03/19/2026

03/18/2026

If you have an autoimmune condition and you’re still following mainstream health advice — these 6 gut myths could be the exact reason you are not getting better.I’ve worked with patients battling Hashimoto’s, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and more. And almost universally — the advice they were given before finding me was not just unhelpful. It was actively making them worse. The conventional medical model treats autoimmune disease like a malfunction to be suppressed. I treat it like a message to be decoded. And the message almost always starts in the gut.Here are the 6 gut-immune myths that are sabotaging your healing: