The Perfect Stool Understanding and Healing the Gut Microbiome

Still looking for the right probiotic to balance your gut microbiome? Learn how FitBiomics is revolutionizing the probiotics industry with new products like Veillonella, which is derived from the gut microbiomes of elite athletes. Explore the scientific basis for the effectiveness of FitBiomics’ probiotics with Jonathan Scheiman, PhD, CEO of FitBiomics, sponsor of this episode. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take her quiz to see which stool or functional medicine test will help you find out what’s wrong. She’s a Certified Health Coach at High Desert Health in Tucson, Arizona. She coaches clients locally and nationwide. You can also follow Lindsey on Facebook, Tiktok, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest or reach her via email at lindsey@highdeserthealthcoaching.com to set up a free 30-minute Gut Healing Breakthrough Session. Show Notes

Have you been struggling with chronic gut health conditions like IBS, SIBO or IMO? If so, the elemental diet may be for you. Explore the ways in which elemental diets provide the gut rest, reduce inflammation and reset the gut microbiome in order to eliminate symptoms of IBS, SIBO, IMO and many other related conditions. Learn how to effectively execute the elemental diet with the help of two elemental diet experts, Roy Steinbock, MD, and Debbie Steinbock HHD, on the Perfect Stool Podcast with host Lindsey Parsons, EdD: https://link.chtbl.com/theperfectstool Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take her quiz to see which stool or functional medicine test will help you find out what’s wrong. She’s a Certified Health Coach at High Desert Health in Tucson, Arizona. She coaches clients locally and nationwide. You can also follow Lindsey on Facebook, Tiktok, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest or reach her via email at lindsey@highdeserthealthcoaching.com to set up a free 30-minute Gut Healing Breakthrough Session. Show Notes

Learn about the primary stool tests I use (the GI Map and the Genova GI Effects), their features, pros and cons, when and which SIBO/IMO breath tests I use, as well as other functional medicine tests like the Organic Acids Test, NutrEval, and Doctor's Data Hair Elements test, when and why I select them and what is included in each test. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take my quiz to see which stool or functional medicine test will help you find out what’s wrong. I’m a Certified Health Coach at High Desert Health in Tucson, Arizona. I coach clients locally and nationwide. You can also follow me on Facebook, Tiktok, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest or reach me via email at lindsey@highdeserthealthcoaching.com to set up a free 30-minute Gut Healing Breakthrough Session. Show Notes

Struggling with Celiac Disease, leaky gut, food sensitivities or bodywide complaints that you think may originate in your gut? Explore strategies to individualize your diet to attain a healthy and diverse gut microbiome. Also, learn about critical food preparation steps for legumes to minimize gut damage with Vincent Pedre, MD. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take her quiz to see which stool or functional medicine test will help you find out what’s wrong. She’s a Certified Health Coach at High Desert Health in Tucson, Arizona. She coaches clients locally and nationwide. You can also follow Lindsey on Facebook, Tiktok, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest or reach her via email at lindsey@highdeserthealthcoaching.com to set up a free 30-minute Gut Healing Breakthrough Session. Show Notes

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 on overall health with gastroenterologist George Nikias, MD. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take her quiz to see which stool or functional medicine test will help you find out what’s wrong. She’s a Certified Health Coach at High Desert Health in Tucson, Arizona. She coaches clients locally and nationwide. You can also follow Lindsey on Facebook, Tiktok, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest or reach her via email at lindsey@highdeserthealthcoaching.com to set up a free 30-minute Gut Healing Breakthrough Session. Show Notes

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 host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take her quiz to see which stool or functional medicine test will help you find out what’s wrong. She’s a Certified Health Coach at High Desert Health in Tucson, Arizona. She coaches clients locally and nationwide. You can also follow Lindsey on Facebook, Tiktok, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest or reach her via email at lindsey@highdeserthealthcoaching.com to set up a free 30-minute Gut Healing Breakthrough Session. Show Notes

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, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take her quiz to see which stool or functional medicine test will help you find out what’s wrong. She’s a Certified Health Coach at High Desert Health in Tucson, Arizona. She coaches clients locally and nationwide. You can also follow Lindsey on Facebook, Tiktok, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest or reach her via email at lindsey@highdeserthealthcoaching.com to set up a free 30-minute Gut Healing Breakthrough Session. Show Notes

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, including improvements to IBS-D, asthma and acne, lower LDL cholesterol and  triglycerides, and reducing hemoglobin A1C from prediabetic to optimal. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take her quiz to see which stool or functional medicine test will help you find out what’s wrong. She’s a Certified Health Coach at High Desert Health in Tucson, Arizona. She coaches clients locally and nationwide. You can also follow Lindsey on Facebook, Tiktok, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest or reach her via email at lindsey@highdeserthealthcoaching.com to set up a free 30-minute Gut Healing Breakthrough Session. Show Notes

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 gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take her quiz to see which stool or functional medicine test will help you find out what’s wrong. She’s a Certified Health Coach at High Desert Health in Tucson, Arizona. She coaches clients locally and nationwide. You can also follow Lindsey on Facebook, Tiktok, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest or reach her via email at lindsey@highdeserthealthcoaching.com to set up a free 30-minute Gut Healing Breakthrough Session. Show Notes

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 subsequently healed from, also using FMT from more favorable donors. Hear about her journey and words of wisdom on the use of FMT in chronic illness. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take her quiz to see which stool or functional medicine test will help you find out what’s wrong. She’s a Certified Health Coach at High Desert Health in Tucson, Arizona. She coaches clients locally and nationwide. You can also follow Lindsey on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest or reach her via email at lindsey@highdeserthealthcoaching.com to set up a free 30-minute Gut Healing Breakthrough Session. Show Notes