Trust Your Gut: Using Microbiome Insights to Improve You & Your Babies Health 🦠

For this blog we partnered with Natural Nipple. This blog post focuses on microbiome with Lauren Wright. In this episode she characterizes what you can do as a mother to promote healthy gut function along with describing the process here!

 

What even is a Microbiome?

  • Microbiome - a army of 100 trillion microbial cells that we depend on to stay alive, influencing the way we eat, think, and function
  • It's unique to you!

Factors that Influence the Biome:

  1. Your Mom
  2. Gestation Age
  3. Mode of Delivery 
  4. Feeding: The Most Amazing Thing
  • Breast milk= first life vaccine
  • Nutrients necessary for the good bacterias to grow & reduce the risk of fatal infections
  1. Environmental Exposure 
  2. Genetics 

The Good, the Bad & the Harmless: Microbiome DNA

  • High Risk Bacteria alters mood and immunity
  • High Reward Bacteria heals our body, improves digestion & helps immunity

What is “Dysbiosis”?

  • Caused by an imbalance in your gut & characterized by decreased cell diversity
  • Can contribute to Immune disruption and inflammation due to increased permeability of the gut

Foods that Boost your Biome!

  • Sauerkraut & Kimchi
    • ¼ cup
  • Kombucha
    • 8 oz.
  • Yogurt
  • Hard-cheese
  • Red wine

Our Telehealth Services include:

  1. 45 minute tele-health visit with a specialist
  2. At home microbiome stool analysis 
  3. Complete gut microbiome analysis with personalized scores
  4. Recommendation on foods that boost immune-health along with what foods to minimize and avoid
  5. 30 minute consultation with a dietician
  6. 3 months supply of customized probiotics

Personalized to You!

  • We provide an immune-biome analysis via stool analysis
  • We make recommendations by identifying bacteria, reviewing the results & setting a goal for optimizing and improving your gut health!

 

 

You can watch this episode on Youtube or listen to our Podcast!

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