The Perfect Stool Understanding and Healing the Gut Microbiome

Struggling with a fatty liver diagnosis, metabolic syndrome or concern over the potential? Discover the signs and symptoms of liver disease, the causes, risk factors, the stages of liver disease, when reversal is possible and actionable steps to reverse fatty liver. Also learn about gallbladder issues, gallstones, how to spot insufficient bile production and bile's role in the body and its impact...

Learn how dietary and supplemental fiber can help maintain regular bowel movements, promote a healthy gut microbiome, and reduce the risk of chronic diseases. Plus, find out how fiber different supplements can help with constipation, reduce cholesterol levels, and restore butyrate producers in the colon, as well as when and what kinds of fiber are best in IBD and IBS/SIBO . Lindsey Parsons, your h...

Unexplained sharp pains, pale, floating stool or diarrhea? You could have a gallbladder/bile issue. Learn about the role of bile in digesting fats, digestive support after gallbladder removal, the possible benefits of TUDCA, supplements that can help with bile issues and how the interaction between the microbiome and bile contributes to inflammation in IBD with Dr. Laura Brown . Lindsey Parsons, y...

Rich Maurer went on an experimental journey to improve his health with Human Milk Oligosaccharides or HMOs, a prebiotic found in human breastmilk that feeds beneficial bacteria. Through tracking his microbiome using 16s RNA testing, Rich was able to see a significant increase in his and family members' Bifidobacteria and Akkermansia muciniphila, and concurrent improvements in their health, includi...

If you're struggling with inflammation, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, obesity, autoimmunity, constipation, SIBO, memory loss, depression, anxiety, atherosclerosis or non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, you likely have some amount of metabolic endotoxemia going on. Learn more about this dysregulation of gut health that causes bodywide problems . Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve...

After a one-week course of antibiotics, pre-med student Nita Jain spent 6 years incapacitated with chronic fatigue (ME/CFS), neuropathy and seizures and used fecal microbiome transplantation (FMT) from 25-30 donors to recover, while simultaneously acquiring new problems from less favorable donors, including inflammatory bowel disease, cystitis, eczema and psoriasis, some of which she has subsequen...

Research suggests that low FODMAP diets reduce IBS symptoms in 85% of people. Learn how to implement a low FODMAP diet for IBS or SIBO, low FODMAP product options, and conventional and alterative treatments for IBS on this podcast sponsored by Casa de Sante with Onikepe Adegbola, MD . Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take her quiz...

Supplemental butyrate in the form of tributyrin can be helpful for slowing motility and firming up loose stool, which is useful for people with SIBO-D/IBS-D and some types of gut dysbiosis. It also has metabolic, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer benefits. Learn about the benefits and potential drawbacks of butyrate supplementation . Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and r...

Tocotrienols, the superior forms of Vitamin E, provide powerful benefits that include lowering cholesterol, reducing inflammation, improving fatty liver and type 2 diabetes, and promoting bone health. Research has also suggested that tocotrienols may help fight against Crohn's Disease and multiple forms of cancer. Learn more about tocotrienols and their benefits with Barrie Tan, PhD. Lindsey Parso...

Research suggests that there is a link between the behaviors of children and adults diagnosed with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) and gastrointestinal issues. Learn more about Novel Biome's treatments involving FMT (fecal microbiota transplantation) and its effectiveness in addressing gastrointestinal issues and impacting ASD-related behaviors with neuroscientist Shaina Cahill, PhD. Lindsey Parson...

The symptoms of ADHD can be exacerbated by inflammatory foods such as gluten, dairy and soy. Learn from Dana Kay, Board-Certified Holistic Health and Nutrition Practitioner, about the effects inflammatory foods have on ADHD and what supplements can help reduce the symptoms of ADHD. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take her quiz to...

Maintaining healthy levels of vitamin D and the B vitamins is essential for health and is moderated through the microbiome. Learn how deficiencies in these nutrients are related to a brain chemical called acetylcholine, which in turn impacts anxiety, insomnia, infertility, IBS, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and ADHD. Learn more about how to maintain a healthy balance of your B vitamins and vitamin D wi...

Highly addictive, sugar can disconnect us from our ability to feel satiated, encourage the growth of pathogenic bacteria in the gut and cause body-wide inflammation. Learn more about sugar addiction, how best to get off sugar, the sugar detox process, stress and digestion, whether alternative sweeteners are a good idea and how sugar impacts the gut with Danielle Daem, Holistic Nutrition Coach and...

Intestinal Methanogen Overgrowth (IMO), formerly known as methane SIBO or SIBO-C, is when methane-producing archaea are overgrown in the GI tract, causing bloating, gas and constipation. Learn more about IMO and how to test for and treat it, as well as hear about a little known possible side effect of Covid - peptic ulcers, with Erin Dunny, RD, specialist in intergrative gastroenterology. Lindsey...

Up to two-thirds of patients may have a recurrence of SIBO (small intestine bacterial overgrowth), the cause of 70-80% of IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), within several months. This is what is known as recurrent SIBO. Learn about the root causes of SIBO, how to test for it, treat it, and prevent relapse. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease natu...

Learn about the major hormone systems in the body, and how they interact with the gut, food sensitivities and autoimmune disease with a special focus on cortisol, the thyroid, Hashimoto's thyroiditis and PMS. Learn about the root cause of PMS and how gut issues can impact estrogen detoxification with Kyrin Dunston, MD. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmu...

There is a direct connection between gut health and mental health. Learn how the food you eat and supplements you take can impact anxiety and calm your mind with Camila Smith, LCSW, DHSc, licensed psychotherapist, anxiety expert and Chief Clinical Officer at bekome , a mental wellness supplement company and sponsor of this podcast. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and rev...

Around 20% of people in the Western world are afflicted by GERD or acid reflux. The go-to prescription in most of these cases are PPIs or proton pump inhibitors, one of the most prescribed medications in all of health care. The drawbacks of long-term PPI use are many and their use fails to address the root cause of GERD and other GI issues for which they're prescribed. Learn more about the causes...

If you supplement with vitamin D, you should not miss this episode! Learn from neurologist and sleep coach, Stasha Gominak, MD, about the complex interaction between vitamin D and the B vitamins, how they all relate to the gut microbiome, and how your D supplementation could be creating dysbiosis by depleting your B vitamins. If you are experiencing sleep problems, body aches, burning in your hand...

Sometimes nutritional deficiencies follow gut problems and sometimes they precede them. Learn how a lack of amino acids can impact your gut health, why gut issues, including H. pylori, may be leading to protein maldigestion, and how to turn things around. We also discuss iodine, pesticides in food, PPIs, Omega 3's and how to ensure adequate nutrition with David Minkoff, MD. Lindsey Parsons, your h...

Learn about how to interpret markers on the Organic Acids Test that relate to energy production and the Krebs cycle through the digestion of carbohydrates, fats and protein; undercover nutrient deficiencies, particularly in the B vitamins; and reveal problems with detoxification processes. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take her...

Could your fatigue have its origins in your gut? Learn about how gut issues can lead to fatigue, chronic or otherwise, how to increase your energy through hormetic stress, the mitochondia-gut axis, and why the idea of adrenal fatigue really isn't supported by the scientific literature with best-selling author Ari Whitten, Founder of The Energy Blueprint. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients s...

Constipated? Hear about lifestyle level interventions you can do by yourself to help get your pipes flowing again in this rebroadcast of episode 37 from December, 2020 with Integrative Dietitian and bestselling author of "Cavewomen Don't Get Fat," Esther Blum, RD. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take her quiz to see which stool o...

Learn about how to interpret markers on the Organic Acids Test that indicate fungal and bacterial overgrowth and dysbiosis, problems with oxalate metabolism and neurotransmitter dysfunctions that could be causing physical and mental health issues. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take her quiz to see which stool or functional medi...

Learn how head trauma, emotional trauma and infections can trigger gut issues like SIBO and IBS by impacting the electrical and chemical connections between the gut and the brain. Hear about an exciting new diagnostic technique, the electrogastogram (EGG), that along with an EEG (electroencephalogram) can determine the directionality of gut-brain problems, and with neurofeedback, correct them, in...