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More than 2,000 years ago an ancient Greek physician named Hippocrates once said, "All disease begins in the gut". However, it is only today that health experts have completely understood what Hippocrates said so long ago. Many studies have been done which further prove the link between an individual's thyroid gland and gut health. ™

The Gut and Its Important Functions

The "gut" refers to the hollow tube that passes from an individual's mouth to the anus. This way, anything that is being ingested in the mouth that cannot be digested will be excreted through the other end of the gut. This is a most basic yet most important role of the gut - to prevent any foreign objects or substances from entering inside a person's body.

A second critical role is to host 70% of the immune tissue inside the body. This is the part of the immune system that is collectively called GALT (Gut-Associated Lymphoid Tissue). The GALT is comprised of different types of lymphoid tissues that are capable of storing immune cells such as the T & B lymphocytes. These are the kinds of lymphocytes that defend the body by producing antibodies that fight against antigens which are identified by the immune system as disease-causing.

How Leaky Gut Syndrome Can Lead to Autoimmune Diseases

A problem occurs when one of these protective functions of a person's gut is being compromised. For example, when an individual suffers from leaky gut syndrome whereby the intestinal barrier becomes permeable, then it also becomes easier for large protein molecules to enter into the bloodstream.

Unfortunately, these large protein molecules should not be outside of the gut and if they are, the person's immune system will immediately tag it for destruction. These attacks made by the immune system, in an effort to protect the body against diseases-causing microorganisms, may also lead to the development of autoimmune diseases and one of these is Hashimoto's Disease.

Thyroid Hormones Help Protect the Gut

The tight junctions inside your stomach and your small intestines are also being strongly influenced by your thyroid hormones. The thyroid hormones T3 and T4 play a crucial role in protecting the mucosal lining of the gut from stress induced ulcer formation.

Studies reveal that people with gastric ulcers were found to have low levels of T3 and T4 hormones while their reverse T3 hormones were also in abnormal levels.

The Gut Bacteria Is Beneficial for Converting Thyroid Hormones

The gut bacteria are also very helpful in the process of converting inactive T4 hormones into an active form known as T3 thyroid hormones. About 20% of our T4 is being converted into an active form T3 inside the gastrointestinal tract with the help of an enzyme known as intestinal sulfatase. This intestinal sulfatase is produced from healthy gut bacteria.

If there is an imbalance between the amount of beneficial bacteria in the gut and the amount of pathogens, which is a condition referred to as intestinal dysbiosis, the proper conversion of thyroid hormones will also be reduced. As a result, most people who have poor gut health also suffer from the symptoms of thyroid problems.

It is uncertain who originally developed the GROW model but it is thought by some that it was developed by Graham Alexander but made popular by Sir John Whitmore.

For those new to coaching the GROW model does provide a very useful framework. By helping the coachee really identify what they want from the conversation it does help prevent it from becoming an aimless chat. If the goal is 'SMARTend' up you have a Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant goal with a Time Limit on it so both coach and coachee know exactly the direction the session should be going in.

This framework in also useful in a group coaching or even a business meeting context where the coach or facilitator at the outset can establish an overall common goal and for the session, then work through 'where are now?', options for the way forward and specific action.

But is this model always appropriate especially when working on a one to one basis helping your coachee make significant and sustainable change? Whilst of course it is good to have a sense of what the coachee wants from the conversation a good coach will often uncover other issues during the course of a coaching session and sticking rigidly to the initial goal may prevent the real issues to be tackled from surfacing.

Whilst the GROW model is intended to be flexible I have seen coaches focusing more on their ability to follow the model than just listen and follow the client. The Coactive coaching approach (see book Co-active Coaching by Laura Whitworth, Karen Kimsey-House, Henry Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandahl) is very different and it talks about 'dancing in the moment' with the client, listening carefully and using your intuition to just being with the client, following their energy and going where they want to go in the conversation.

The final stage of GROW is Way Forward in other words is the stage where the client identifies action to be taken. Whilst coaching is about taking a client forward not every session may result in specific action to be taken. If as coaches we are so intent on finding the action and focusing on the 'doing' we can overlook the importance of just raising a client's awareness about who they are, what they are noticing, what they are feeling in other words 'the being'.

I know of coaches who are so intent on getting their client to action that they fail to allow them to fully explore what is important to them and what their underlying issues are resulting in actions that their clients are not really committed to and rarely result in meaningful change. If the client spends sufficient time on 'the being' rather than 'the doing' then action will automatically fall out of the conversation and will be led by the client. And the way forward may simply be a commitment to go away and reflect further on some of the questions raised.

The advantage of the GROW coaching fhaloansapr.com model in that it is a structure to guide the coach is also its downside...as long as a coach is using a structure to guide the conversation and keep on track they will be failing to allow the client to guide the conversation.

So if you are a coach ask yourself how are you using the GROW model? Does it guide you or constrain you? Do you spend more time thinking about where you are in the model or are you focused 100% on listening and following your client? And who has initiated the action... you or the client?