About Me
“I realized that I knew nothing about my body, my health, the food I was eating, or the balance of my mind.”
And that realization completely changed my life.
Matan Hakimi is one of the most trusted voices in gut health and holistic healing — an independent researcher, writer, and author of the book Gut Rules.
Host of the most listened-to independent podcast and facilitator of the Gut Feeling healing academy.
In recent years, Matan has been exploring the connection between our choices, thoughts, and habits and our physical and emotional health.
At the age of 20, Matan was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. After eight years of medication and ongoing suffering, Matan began to explore his body and health and completely changed his life.
My ambition
Our culture encourages listening blindly to authority, but no one should know what is right for you but YOU. My ambition is for every person to become sovereign over their own life and health.
That's why I'm leading a new course so that I can show you how to take responsibility for your health — a field that for years has been reserved only for the experts.
These days I lecture, lead retreats and development journeys, and created the Gut Healing Academy, which provides knowledge for healing and physical and mental transformation.
My first book on healing, Gut Rules, was published when I lived in New York City for a decade, where my learning and healing process from colitis took place.
My story
At the age of 20, during my military service, I was diagnosed with an inflammatory bowel disease called ulcerative colitis. The doctors said it was chronic, that it could not be cured, and that I would have to take medication for the rest of my life.
For eight years I lived with the disease, taking medication three times a day, and over time more and more pills for the side effects of the medication. I hated my reality. I hated being sick, not feeling well, not being in control of my body, and not understanding why it was like this.
All these years I waited and hoped that medicine and science would finally find a solution to my condition.
After eight years with the disease, I was exposed to knowledge that I had never known before — knowledge about self-healing. I realized that maybe I could cure myself.
From that insight, I continued to research, read, listen, meet, and most importantly, experience on my own body everything I learned. Within a few months, I cured myself of the disease. The doctor after my last examination was speechless.
Then questions began to arise in my mind:
- Why did I get sick in the first place?
- What exactly did I do to make my body heal itself?
- How do I make sure it doesn't happen again in my life?
- Why are people getting sicker all the time, more and more?
- Why is there no discussion about self-healing?
We live in a world that encourages illness — the discourse about illness, medications, and hospitals precedes the discourse about healing, preventive medicine, the meaning of nutrition, and a healthy lifestyle.
The questions that came to my mind after I recovered changed my life. They led me to deeply explore the connection between body, mind, and lifestyle. I realized that our health depends on our ability to take responsibility and take care of ourselves.
I invite you to join this journey — a journey that begins with listening to the body, continues with learning and exploration, and leads to experimentation, action, and control over your own life.