Gut Girl Podcast

What does your gut health have to do with your heart, your skin, and your body’s inflammation? Cardiologist, #1 New York Times bestselling author and gut microbiome pioneer Dr William Davis joins us today to reveal what modern living has done to strip away our good gut microbes, how we can start to rebuild and why ancestral nutrition might be the health upgrade we're all missing. Want to learn...

Meet real food pioneers, Til and Scott, who are doing the impossible making delicious food, with real ingredients, convenient and good gut health easy with their ready meals company The Good Farm Shop. Despite only starting in 2021, they’ve skyrocketed in popularity. This husband and wife team bring together such complementary backgrounds for a successful real food company. Scott brings with him h...

If I had to pick ONE thing that improved my personal gut health the most, I would say it was my gut microbiome map results and the recommended treatment and lifestyle changes that followed. Dr Paul Froomes is a leading gastroenterologist in the field of gut microbiome map testing, and is the founder of Australia's first ever medical microbiome clinic. Today Paul explains what on earth a gut mi...

Ever wondered what is the point of going to therapy? If it actually even works? What to expect if you do go? How therapy can improve gut health? And how on earth to find the right therapist?!  Well, today I’m joined by PACFA-registered counsellour and psychotherapist Anastasia Auld, who passionately and articulately answers these questions. Anastasia offers thoughtful insight into how therapy can...

Wait so if I just lay down, with tiny needles stuck in me, my stomach will feel better? Surely it can’t be that easy?! Clearly acupuncture has been around for a long time, but the benefits of acupuncture for stress and gut pain are new to me. Today I was lucky enough to speak with Dr Mathew Young who articulately answers all my questions about how acupuncture works, why it works and what it can he...

A patient on life support…all life saving options exhausted…a fecal transplant is trialed….he wakes up! The power of the gut microbiome is like magic, but it is real. Today gastroenterologist Dr Froomes talks us through how he first discovered the gut microbiome, how it impacts other parts of our body, and why he has devoted his life to it. Dr Paul Froomes has collaborated with the Gut Girl Podcas...

Perhaps you’re noticing the way your mind impacts your body (particularly your gut!) and you’re wanting to get some more help with your state of mind. In Australia, it can be really confusing to know where to start when it comes to trying to improve your mental health - do you get a mental health diagnosis? Do you take medication or try psychotherapy? If medication (such as an SSRI) helps, does th...

Have you ever wanted to really understand meditation? From someone who actually gets it? Christian O’Toole is a very experienced and skilled meditation teacher, and it was a joy to interview him today. He is here to answer most (if not all) of the questions you’ve probably had about meditation, like what’s the point? How do I start? What’s important to keep in mind when I am meditating? What shoul...

Today we welcome back special guest Ash Bott, who is a clinical nutritionist specialising in gut and hormonal health. Ash is here today to help us understand what on earth actually happens in our body when we notice that ‘butterflies in the tummy’ feeling? In other words, what goes on physically in our gut when we feel stress?  Want to learn more about the mind-gut connection? The Gut Girl Podcast...

I had so many questions for Paul, we had to do a Part 2! Today we dive further into understanding how our modern Western lives impact our gut health. We touch on the way that our food and our stress levels can create what’s called ‘gut dysbiosis’, leading to tummy symptoms and even other health conditions you wouldn’t expect!  No need to panic though, there's plenty we can do to overcome gut dysbi...

Spoiler…our everyday Western diets are messing with our gut health, but why!? How?! In today’s episode Dr Paul Froomes breaks this down for us, makes it make sense and offers some helpful advice as to our next steps in taking better care of our gut health.  Dr Paul Froomes will be collaborating with the Gut Girl Podcast on some exciting new gut health resources and, once they are live, they will b...

Welcome to the first episode of the Gut Girl Podcast! In today’s episode I am so excited to be interviewing Ash Bott from Girl Gut Nutrition. Ash is a clinical nutritionist specialising in gut and hormonal health, and she is here to help us start to understand what the *&%! is the gut microbiome?! Drawing on beautiful imagery and analogies, Ash opens our minds to the wild world of the gut micr...

Welcome to the Gut Girl Podcast! You can find out more about the podcast and download our free, practical and fun gut health resources at www.gutgirlpodcast.com.au