

The Perfect Stool Understanding and Healing the Gut Microbiome
Lindsey Parsons
Are you struggling to restore your gut to perfect health? Hear host Lindsey Parsons interview functional and integrative medicine professionals, patients and scientists about the gut microbiome, the current state of research and how they approach treating IBS, IBD, candida, constipation, diarrhea, GERD, gastritis, SIBO and other digestive issues. Hear patients talk about their experiences with fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) both in clinics and do-it-yourself and how it impacted their gastrointestinal issues. Learn about the gut microbiome’s influence not just on digestive health, but on cardiovascular health, mental health (including anxiety, depression, ADHD and autism), autoimmune diseases, skin conditions and overweight/obesity.
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May 11, 2022 • 44min
FMT and Carnivore Diet for Interstitial Cystitis, IBS, Fibromyalgia, Tendonitis, Joint Pain and Hair Loss
Hear one man's story of using the carnivore diet and fecal transplants with his son's stool to reverse IBS, interstitial cystitis, fibromyalgia, tendonitis, joint pain, TMJ, hair loss, declining eyesight, prediabetes, high cholesterol and trigylcerides, histamine intolerance and more. Also hear about his FMT protocol and encapsulation techniques. 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

Apr 27, 2022 • 19min
Autoimmune Disease and Gut Health: The Chicken or the Egg?
If you have an autoimmune disease, you may not have realized its origins could be in your gut. Learn about various causes of leaky gut, one of the three preconditions for autoimmunity, as well as other triggers and factors in autoimmunity, in particular with Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Plus learn the basic steps in reversing autoimmunity naturally. 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

Apr 13, 2022 • 51min
Heavy Metals, Chemicals and Mycotoxins: A Root Cause of Intractable Gut Health Issues
Tried everything to no avail to solve your gut health issues? Heavy metals, environmental contaminants or mycotoxins may be preventing your healing. Learn about sources of toxins, testing, hormonal impacts, gut health and other symptoms like hair loss that point to a high toxic load with Wendie Trubow, MD, functional medicine gynecologist and co-author of "Dirty Girl: Ditch the Toxins, Look Great, and Feel Freaking Amazing!". 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

Mar 30, 2022 • 51min
Fecal Transplants for C. difficile and More
Fecal transplants or FMT are only allowed in the US for recurrent C Difficile infections. Hear from Sabine Hazan, MD, a researcher who conducts clinical trials using FMT and lead author of the 2020 book “Let’s Talk Shit: Disease, Digestion and Fecal Transplants” about her experience with FMT (versus antibiotics) for C Diff, the importance of gut health, Covid and the microbiome, incidental conditions that have improved while conducting FMT, including alopecia areata and Alzheimer's, and current clinical trials underway with FMT for various conditions from autism to IBD. 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

Mar 16, 2022 • 17min
Digestion 101
Having digestive issues but not sure where they may be originating? Learn about the details of the digestive process and organs from start to finish so that you can pinpoint possible areas where your digestion may be going wrong in order to restore your gut health on the latest episode of The Perfect Stool podcast with host Lindsey Parsons, EdD. 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 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

Mar 2, 2022 • 40min
Nutritional and Microbiome-Level Interventions for Autism with James Adams, PhD
Studies show that many children with autism have intestinal yeast infections, which can impact their behavior. Learn about current research from purified microbiota transplants to probiotics to nutritional interventions to improve the functioning of children and adults with autism with James Adams, PhD from Arizona State University. 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

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Feb 16, 2022 • 51min
The Connection Between Food Sensitivities, Histamine Intolerance and SIBO with Heidi Turner, RDN
Unexplained food sensitivities and gut issues like bloating soon after eating? It may be SIBO-induced histamine intolerance. Learn about histamine intolerance, how it differs from histamine dysregulation, how it relates to SIBO, and the approaches used to mitigate it and get better with Heidi Turner, RDN. 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

Feb 2, 2022 • 16min
How to Succeed at Healing Your Gut
Why do some people manage to get to the root of their gut health issues and solve them while others hop from practitioner to practitioner, never finding a solution? Learn how to avoid the pitfalls that keep people from getting better, how to safely treat yourself and how to best prepare for seeing an alternative health practitioner so that your efforts will be met with success. 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

Jan 19, 2022 • 45min
Candida: Root Causes, Testing and Treatment with Dr. Michael Biamonte
Dr. Michael Biamonte, author of 'The Candida Chronicles' and expert candida practitioner, discusses the causes and symptoms of candida overgrowth, the link between candida and leaky gut syndrome, various tests for diagnosis, copper toxicity's impact on fertility, copper IUDs and candida issues, different phases of candida treatment, and the use of prebiotics and probiotics for gut health.

Jan 5, 2022 • 41min
Functional Foods for Improving Gut Health and Metabolism with Chris Damman, MD
Dealing with gastrointestinal issues and/or insulin resistance? Hear how functional foods and microbiome-related therapies help improve microbiome and metabolic health with Dr. Chris Damman, Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scientific Officer of UR Labs and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Gastroenterology and Medicine at University of Washington. Learn more about how fiber, including resistant starch, psyllium husk and beta glucan can help with IBS, IBD and metabolic health in this episode sponsored by Muniq. 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