Couldn't one argue that much of our social codes and protocols are built around suppressing your gut, weighing it down with this or that costume? So one would, normally, be conditioned against using their gut, however healthy it would otherwise be, no?
Listening to your gut and being a "natural man", as my friends dad says, almost necessarily pits you against Goliath here. Unless, well, your gut is sharp enough to puncture the callous(ing) costumes of others, and reach them.