The Conscious Guide

The Conscious Guide

A space for thoughtful, body-led insights that reconnect you with your health, starting in the gut, and rippling outward.

Here, we explore symptoms like bloating, fatigue, anxiety, brain fog, reflux, and focus challenges not as problems to silence, but as messages from your body asking to be understood.

Each post weaves together science, intuition, and a whole-person approach to help you move from frustration to clarity, and from coping to healing.

Whether you're seeking answers, unlearning old narratives, or learning to trust your body again, you're right where you need to be.

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Creatine: What is it Really and How to Best Help it Help You
Gut Health, Anxiety, ADHD, Magnesium, Suppliments Sara Ganeian Gut Health, Anxiety, ADHD, Magnesium, Suppliments Sara Ganeian

Creatine: What is it Really and How to Best Help it Help You

Creatine isn’t just for the gym—it’s one of the most underrated nutrients for both brain and body. Research shows creatine supports energy production, memory, mood, and even blood sugar balance. Found naturally in foods like beef, salmon, and poultry, and produced in the gut from key amino acids, creatine is essential for focus, clarity, and long-term resilience. Learn why creatine belongs in every gut health conversation and how to incorporate it through food or supplements.

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Magnesium: The Unsung Mineral Your Body is Begging For
Gut Health, Anxiety, ADHD, Magnesium Sara Ganeian Gut Health, Anxiety, ADHD, Magnesium Sara Ganeian

Magnesium: The Unsung Mineral Your Body is Begging For

When most people think about nutrients, they think about protein, carbs, or maybe vitamin D. Rarely does magnesium get the spotlight,  but it should.

Why? Because magnesium is involved in over 600 enzymatic reactions in the body. It influences your sleep, mood, focus, energy, muscle function, and even how your gut absorbs nutrients. And yet, research suggests that up to 50% of people are deficient without realizing it.

This post is here to break through the confusion, simplify the science, and show you how magnesium could be one of the most overlooked keys to feeling like yourself again.

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Why 30 Plants a Week Could Change Everything
Gut Health, Anxiety, ADHD Sara Ganeian Gut Health, Anxiety, ADHD Sara Ganeian

Why 30 Plants a Week Could Change Everything

Your gut doesn’t need a cleanse. It needs company.

You don’t need to punish your body into feeling better. You need to feed it variety.

Seriously. Your body already has a detox system, it’s called your gut. And it doesn’t want punishment, it wants partnership. It wants variety. Thirty different plants a week, to be exact.

Not just kale and carrots. Seeds. Spices. Mushrooms. Berries. Even that bunch of cilantro you keep forgetting in the back of your fridge (yes, I’m calling you out).

Because here’s the truth: the way you feed your gut changes the way you feel… your energy, your focus, your mood, even your ability to handle stress. And if you’re running on fumes, wired but tired, brain-fogged by 3 p.m.? That’s not “just life.” That’s your microbiome waving a white flag.

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Seeds Over Supplements: The Gut-Boosting Power Already in Your Pantry
Gut Health, Anxiety, ADHD Sara Ganeian Gut Health, Anxiety, ADHD Sara Ganeian

Seeds Over Supplements: The Gut-Boosting Power Already in Your Pantry

We spend so much money chasing wellness in bottles. The newest probiotic. The most expensive vitamins. The powders that promise the world (don’t even get me started on those).

But here’s the thing most people miss: some of the most powerful gut-supporting, hormone-balancing, focus-boosting tools aren’t in the supplement aisle. They’re in your pantry.

Spices and seeds aren’t just flavor. They’re medicine. They’re fiber. They’re microbiome diversity builders. And yes — they count toward your weekly 30 plants.

Which means every sprinkle of cumin, every spoonful of flax, every pinch of coriander isn’t just seasoning — it’s feeding your gut, lowering inflammation, and nudging your nervous system back toward balance.

Let’s break it down.

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ADHD, Focus & the Body: Understanding the Body’s Role in ADHD and Attention
Gut Health, Anxiety, ADHD Sara Ganeian Gut Health, Anxiety, ADHD Sara Ganeian

ADHD, Focus & the Body: Understanding the Body’s Role in ADHD and Attention

If you’ve ever felt scattered, forgetful, impulsive, or like your brain’s moving faster than your body can keep up, you’re not alone—and you’re not broken. Whether you’ve been diagnosed with ADHD or simply resonate with the symptoms, there’s more to the story than brain chemistry.

Focus, regulation, and attention aren’t just mental—they’re deeply biological. From gut health and blood sugar to sleep, nutrients, and nervous system patterns, your body plays a major role in how your mind functions.

In this blog, we explore the often-overlooked root causes of attention challenges, and how a personalized, whole-body approach can help restore clarity, calm, and cognitive resilience—without the shame or quick fixes.

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Anxiety Isn’t Just in Your Head: It’s in Your Gut, Your Cells, and Your Nervous System
Gut Health, Anxiety Sara Ganeian Gut Health, Anxiety Sara Ganeian

Anxiety Isn’t Just in Your Head: It’s in Your Gut, Your Cells, and Your Nervous System

Feeling wired but exhausted, stuck in loops of worry, or like your nervous system is always “on”? Anxiety isn’t just mental—it’s deeply physical. Explore how gut health, blood sugar, hormones, and past stressors shape your anxiety, and how a personalized, body-based approach can help you feel grounded and at ease again.

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