The Perfect Stool Understanding and Healing the Gut Microbiome
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.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 152
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
What My Sciatica Has Taught Me about Gut Health
As they say, suffering brings wisdom. Learn about what chronic back pain has taught host Lindsey Parsons, EdD about gut health, including dealing with health care professionals, traditional versus al…
How FMT Helped One Woman Read Emotions and Normalized Sound and Touch Sensitivities
What would it take for you to consider a Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT)? Amanda was 28 when she sought out an FMT at a clinic in Argentina to address her gut issues and psoriasis, but she was surp…
Food for Thought: Mental Health and the Gut
What's the relationship between the brain and the gut? What does our digestive health have to do with depression, anxiety and other mental health concerns? Can we improve our mental health by improvi…
The Cancer Cocktail: Gut Dysbiosis, Inflammation and Poor Immune Function
Did you know that your risk for cancer (and your path to healing) is connected to the health of your gut microbiome and your metabolism? Learn from integrative cancer specialist Nasha Winters, ND abo…
Prebiotics and Fiber: Supplemental Treasures or Marketing Ploys?
Are you unsure about whether to take prebiotic or fiber supplements? Have you heard conflicting messages in the media or from your doctor about prebiotics and fiber? Are you confused about the impa…
Autoimmunity and the Gut
Autoimmune disease often starts in the gut. In fact, intestinal permeability is believed to be a necessary precursor to autoimmune disease. In this interview with Dr. Drew Sinatra, a naturopath from …
Overcoming Gut Health Stigma
Does it feel like people are treating you differently because of your gut health issues? Is your doctor taking you seriously? Is your workplace accommodating? Or are you suffering in silence and not …
The State of the Research: Gut Health Interventions
Lucy Mailing, PhD is an up and comer in the gut health world, giving keynotes at many prestigious conferences and writing blog articles summarizing the current research on the gut microbiome. We delv…
Leaky Gut: Science or Science Fiction?
Chronic diarrhea, constipation, gas or bloating; arthritis or joint pain; nutritional deficiencies; autoimmune disease; headaches; brain fog; memory loss; excessive fatigue; skin rashes; acne; eczema…
PANDAs, Autism, Anxiety and Depression: One Family’s Miraculous FMT Healing Story
What would you do if your child was having auditory and tactile hallucinations and severe social anxiety? Hear what Mary did to bring healing to her daughter, improve her son’s autism symptoms and ul…
Parasites: Symptoms, Testing and Eradication
Learn about the most common parasites found in stool samples in the U.S., why parasite testing through your doctor will likely miss parasites you may have, symptoms of a parasite infestation, treatme…
Should I give up gluten to help my gut issues?
Do you have ongoing gut issues but have never tried to eliminate gluten? Lindsey discusses whether this step is necessary, how to do it properly and why gluten is problematic, especially in autoimmun…
The Gut-Brain Connection: A Deep Dive with Dr. Corey Deacon
Learn how head trauma, emotional trauma and infections can trigger gut issues by impacting the electrical firing of the intestines. Hear about an exciting new diagnostic technique, the electrogastogr…
How I Reversed My Autoimmune Diseases and Got Interested in Gut Health
In this special new year episode, your host Lindsey Parsons is interviewed by her sister Lauren on how she got interested in gut health, how she reversed 3 autoimmune conditions and is solving her gu…
How to Support your Gut Microbiome While Taking Antibiotics
Learn how to prevent gut dysbiosis, leaky gut and future health problems by protecting and restoring your gut microbiome during and after antibiotic use. Lindsey discusses probiotics, prebiotics, sup…
SIBO Root Causes, Diagnosis and Treatments
Gas? Bloating? Diarrhea? Constipation? IBS Diagnosis? It may be SIBO (Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth). Learn about underlying root causes, testing, types of SIBO, other diagnoses like Small Int…
Gut Testing, Gut Balancing, Hormones, Fertility and Genetics
Did you know that your gut health could be impacting your fertility? Hear from Deborahlise Mota, a functional medicine practitioner with acupuncture, Chinese medicine and Ayurveda training who specia…
IBD (Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis): Causes, Symptoms, Treatments and Studies to Find a Future Cure
Advances in pharmaceutical treatments for IBD have brought a better quality of life for many sufferers, especially for ulcerative colitis. However, treatments for Crohn’s Disease remain elusive for m…
Advanced Gut Testing with the Gut Goddess
Hear Dr. Grace Liu, AKA the Gut Goddess, share her wisdom about fungal, parasitic, mold and bacterial overgrowths in the gut and diagnostic tests (including the OAT or Organic Acids Test), and hear h…
Gut Test Giveaway, On-Air BIOHM Gut Test Interpretation and How to Balance Your Microbiome
Wonder what the heck those gut microbiome test results mean? Hear Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum, Director of the Center for Medical Mycology at Case Western Reserve University and creator of BIOHM, interpret …