The Perfect Stool Understanding and Healing the Gut Microbiome

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 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

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 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

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 and root cause treatment of GERD, ulcers, H pylori and gastritis and the drawbacks of long-term PPI use. 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

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 hands and feet, headaches, IBS, lupus or eczema, you may have issues with one or more of these vitamins. 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.

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 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

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 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

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 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

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 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

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 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

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 this replay of episode 20 from December 2019 with Dr. Corey Deacon. 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