Hi everyone,
Two things happening in the next 24 hours, and I wanted to make sure you knew about both.
Tomorrow, April 21st, Part 1 of the Intestinal Motility Mastery course goes live inside Wayfinder's Well. This is the course I've been working on for months. It's built around one of the hills I will absolutely perish on, which is that SIBO is a small intestinal motility issue. Treating the bacteria without fixing the motility is a big reason so many people end up on their third or fourth round of rifaximin wondering what they did wrong.
Part 1 is the foundation. Three modules, all of it dropping tomorrow:
- Why Motility Matters. How the migrating motor complex actually works, the feedback loop between chronic constipation and SIBO, motility's role in phase III detox, and what throws the whole system off in the first place.
- The Science Behind the Movement. Serotonin and the 5-HT receptor story. The gut hormones that actually control transit (motilin, ghrelin, CCK, PYY, GLP-1). The microbiome-motility axis. How your thyroid factors in. And how stress, cortisol, and the vagus nerve tie everything together.
- Lifestyle and Mind-Body Approaches. Stress management as a real motility intervention (not a throwaway line). Vagal toning techniques that actually have evidence behind them. Movement, walking after meals, abdominal massage. And how your circadian rhythm shapes your MMC.
Part 2 arrives in May. It covers dietary strategy, supplements and herbal prokinetics, the prescription landscape, and what to do in the cases where nothing has worked yet.
Who this is for: anyone dealing with recurrent SIBO, chronic constipation, methane-predominant IMO, post-infectious gut issues, or the quieter version of this where you've been told your bloodwork is normal and your GI workup is clean, but your digestion clearly is not. Everything here is educational. I'm teaching mechanisms and frameworks, not writing you a protocol. (That part belongs with your own provider, someone who actually knows your history.)
The other thing happening tomorrow: the Wayfinder's Well subscription goes from $27 to $32 per month at midnight. If you're already in, nothing changes for you. If you subscribe before then, you lock in $27/month for the life of your subscription. Since the course is included with membership, the practical version of this is pretty simple. Join today, pay $27/month forever, watch Part 1 go live tomorrow morning.
If you've been on the fence, this is the cheapest the subscription will ever be.
Happy to answer questions below about what's in the course, who it's a fit for, or how the subscription works. Clinical questions about your specific situation are better handled with your own provider, but anything else, fire away.
— Dr. Joyce Knieff, ND
Yggdrasil Naturopathic Medicine