Metagenics Institute Podcast

Lara Briden is a renowned Naturopathic Physician with over two decades of clinical experience spanning across Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Lara’s experience with thousands of female patients has been the inspiration behind her book, The Period Repair Manual which educates and empowers women to seek better solutions when it comes to their reproductive health. In this episode, Nathan and Lara cover the latest science surrounding endometriosis and discuss Lara’s approach to reversing the pain and delaying disease progression.

In this episode, Nathan talks to leading expert in the fields of environmental medicine and building biology, Nicole Bijlsma. Nicole is a Building Biologist, Author, Naturopath, PHD candidate and founder of the Australian College of Environmental Studies. She joins Nathan to discuss the sometimes controversial subject of electromagnetic field exposure. What are the greatest sources of EMFs? How do they affect our physiology? And how can we help to minimise EMF exposure and build resilience?

Chris Kresser M.S., L.Ac is a globally recognised figure in Functional Medicine, and has been studying, practicing, and teaching natural health for over 15 years. In this episode, Chris discusses the unique, personalised framework of Functional Medicine, and how a functional approach to clinical care can address the limitations of the conventional healthcare model. Further, Chris discusses the evidence for urinary pyrroles, the recent outcomes of the DIETFITS study and his clinician training program, ADAPT.

In this episode, Nathan Rose delves into the complex world of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) with Board Certified General Practice Physician Dr Sandeep Gupta. Dr Gupta draws on his clinical experience with chronic inflammatory illnesses and offers listeners a digestible take on MCAS. Throughout the interview, Rose elicits valuable tips for clinical practice; including how to recognise an MCAS patient, testing options and considerations, as well as therapeutic solutions, both natural and pharmaceutical.

Lihi Segal is the CEO and co-founder of revolutionary microbiome-based health app, DayTwo, which uses big data and machine learning algorithms to create personalised nutrition plans. DayTwo is based on research conducted by Professor Eran Segal and Eran Elinav from the Weizmann Institute in Israel, which was used to create an algorithm that can predict a patient’s glucose response to foods based on their personal and microbiome data. The algorithm was shown to accurately predict blood glucose responses in 800 participants whose individual blood glucose was highly variable in response to the same meal. Since 2016, DayTwo has offered their accessible and personalised healthcare services throughout Israel and the United States, delivering evidence-based and personalised healthcare to consumers.

Mother-daughter duo, Dr Leslie Stone MD OB-GYN and Emily Rydbom CN, HN, CNP discuss the importance of maternal diet and lifestyle during pregnancy, and their influence on the epigenome of the mother’s offspring. Learn how malnutrition and stress can not only impact neonatal outcomes, such as altered birth weight, but also elicit long lasting effects on the child, such as disturbances in immunity, neurodevelopment and metabolism. Leslie and Emily explain results from their pilot trial which investigated a comprehensive and personalised diet and lifestyle program for pregnant women, with remarkable results. This has inspired Leslie and Emily to create and launch the GrowBaby app to help expecting women optimise their health and nutrition to deliver vibrant babies, who will have better health in years to come.

Dr Michael Ruscio is a practicing physician, clinical researcher and best-selling author whose practical ideas on healing chronic illness have made him an influential voice in the Ancestral and Functional Medicine communities. Through combining research and years of clinical experience, Dr Ruscio has developed a practice model that takes patients from ill to well with the least cost, least time, and least effort possible. His practical approach to research and clinical practice have earned him invitations to lecture widely through the US as well as many other international conferences and top health podcasts.

Prof. Rob Knight is a world leading researcher on the microbiome. In this episode, learn the latest science on the microbiome in health and disease states, such as autism and Parkinson’s disease. Listen to Prof. Knight’s views on testing, the key dietary and lifestyle factors that affect the microbiome and where the research is heading.

Can personalised medicine be truly achieved for our patients based on our current understanding of the role of genetic variation and individual dietary responses? Does knowing a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) allow you to personalise your medicine? Listen to Prof. Hooman Allayee and learn about the difference between nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics, the role of epigenetics, the microbiome and metabolomics to acquire a greater understanding the impact that diet/ nutrients and the environment can have on your genetic predisposition.

Patients in Australia have been presenting to Dr Hugh Derham with Lyme-like illness for almost a decade. Symptoms can be mild such as brain fog, difficulty thinking and fatigue, to severe presentations of Bell’s palsy and Motor Neuron Disease. Symptoms can last for decades and in most cases can go unrecognised. Dr Derham has been diagnosing and treating patients with Borreliosis infections in Australia since 2010, with some patients having never left Australian shores, and is convinced that a strain or a species of Borrelia, strikingly similar to B. burgdorferi, exists in Australia. Dr Derham covers how to identify a patient’s symptoms, how to diagnose infections, what treatment options have been successful, and how to become more informed when it comes to tick-borne illnesses and Lyme-like disease.