On this journey with Tiffany Hendra, that moment came in Belize with Salomi, one of the first women shamans in the country. The meeting was not framed around spectacle. It was rooted in presence, respect, and the quiet authority of a woman who learned healing traditions through generations of shamans before her.

We often associate gut health with obvious things like bloating, gas, or heartburn. But according to Dr. Angelina Alejandro, your gut—a complex ecosystem of trillions of bacteria known as the microbiome—is the control center for far more than digestion. When your gut is out of balance (a state often called dysbiosis), it sends out subtle, "sneaky" signals across your entire body.