DIY Fecal Transplants for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
The Perfect Stool Understanding and Healing the Gut Microbiome
Release Date: 02/15/2019
Eleven Diets for Addressing Chronic Health Conditions
The Perfect Stool Understanding and Healing the Gut Microbiome
Confused about how undiscovered food sensitivities might impact your gut health, autoimmune disease or other chronic health problem? On this episode, learn about different elimination protocols and other special diets, including the conditions they address and how they show up in lab work.
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Human Milk Oligosaccharides: The Newest Prebiotic
The Perfect Stool Understanding and Healing the Gut Microbiome
Have you heard about HMOs? Not the health insurance plan, but Human Milk Oligosaccharides. HMOs are a non-digestible component of breast milk that have been shown to boost immunity, improve brain health and have a positive net impact on the microbiome. Hear about this new prebiotic, including potential benefits and latest research.
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Constipation Hacks with Esther Blum, RD
The Perfect Stool Understanding and Healing the Gut Microbiome
Constipated? Hear about lifestyle level interventions you can do by yourself to help get your pipes flowing again from Integrative Dietitian and bestselling author of “Cavewomen Don’t Get Fat,” Esther Blum, RD.
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IBS Treatment: Addressing an Irritable Bowel Naturally
The Perfect Stool Understanding and Healing the Gut Microbiome
Are you struggling with unexplained abdominal pain, cramping or bloating? Diarrhea, constipation or both? Do you have an IBS diagnosis but don't know how to move forward? Learn about the different types of IBS, how it relates to IBD, SIBO and dysbiosis, more advanced diagnostic tools to get at its root causes, and treatment options.
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Fixing Crohn’s and Colitis
The Perfect Stool Understanding and Healing the Gut Microbiome
Learn how Dr. Lukyanovsky approaches finding the root cause of Crohn’s and colitis through testing; healing diets; supplements, including probiotics, fiber and gut healing nutrients; her approach to the 5R’s (remove, replace, repair, reinoculate, and rebalance) and whether her clients can get off of their pharmaceuticals.
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Upper Digestive Issues: Gastritis, Ulcers and GERD
The Perfect Stool Understanding and Healing the Gut Microbiome
Are you struggling with upper digestive issues like burping, heartburn, bloating, vomiting, nausea or bad breath? Learn more about how gastritis, ulcers, low stomach acid, acid reflux (GERD) and H. Pylori relate to your issues and how to solve them from a functional medicine perspective on the most recent episode of the Perfect Stool: Understanding and Healing the Gut Microbiome with host Lindsey Parsons, EdD.
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Beta-glucans, Immunological Health and the Power of Mushrooms
The Perfect Stool Understanding and Healing the Gut Microbiome
Learn how mushrooms are a great food for your microbiome, a modulator of your immune system, a great source of vitamins and fiber and may even impact your life expectancy with Jeff Chilton, author "The Mushroom Cultivator" and founder of Nammex (North American Medical Mushrooms Extracts).
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What My Sciatica Has Taught Me about Gut Health
The Perfect Stool Understanding and Healing the Gut Microbiome
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 alternative modalities, the mind-body connection, gut health testing and tips for navigating the medical-industrial complex.
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How FMT Helped One Woman Read Emotions and Normalized Sound and Touch Sensitivities
The Perfect Stool Understanding and Healing the Gut Microbiome
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 surprised when it drastically improved her sensitivity to sounds and touch, her ability to read other people's emotions and improved her social awkwardness--qualities that she believes in retrospect were symptoms of autism.
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Food for Thought: Mental Health and the Gut
The Perfect Stool Understanding and Healing the Gut Microbiome
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 improving our gut health? Learn about the complicated relationship between the brain and the gut, the cyclicality of the gut-brain axis, the roles specific gut bacteria have in creating neurotransmitters in the brain, and much more with Certified Health Coach Lindsey Parsons, EdD.
info_outlineIn this episode, host Lindsey Parsons interviews Michael, who has given himself 9 fecal microbiota transplants in order to address serious problems with IBS, irregular heartbeats and severe fatigue that have kept him on disability for over 10 years. They discuss how he found 9 donors and their impact on his heath, how to properly screen a donor, how to do the transplant, the need for high quality donors and the potential profit healthy people may be flushing down the toilet. Since our recording, two sites have been created: https://microbioma.org/ and https://www.humanmicrobes.org to connect high quality stool donors and recipients.
You can find more information on your host, Lindsey Parsons, EdD, Certified Health Coach, at High Desert Health in Tucson, Arizona. Lindsey coaches clients locally and nationwide on improving autoimmune, thyroid and digestive issues naturally and in losing weight without cutting or counting calories so that they can keep it off for life. You can also follow Lindsey on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
Links:
World's first microbiome donor bank: https://microbioma.org and flyer to recruit stool donors: https://i.imgur.com/GfKzfGL.png
Michael’s detailed experiences and lessons from 9 different FMT donors: http://tinyurl.com/experiencesFMT
Michael’s sample donor questionnaire: https://old.reddit.com/r/HumanMicrobiome/wiki/fmtquestionnaire
Video of home FMT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLIndT7fuGo
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1676427302597468/
Methods Michael has tried to find donors: https://archive.is/gEw3u
Article on the RDS clinic in Tampa and history of fecal transplants: https://www.buzzfeed.com/nidhisubbaraman/inside-tampa-fecal-transplant-clinic
RDS Infusions: https://www.rdsinfusions.com
Michael’s Openbiome analysis: http://tinyurl.com/openbiomereview
Wiki that Michael maintains on FMT and the microbiome: https://old.reddit.com/r/HumanMicrobiome/wiki/index
Lindsey Parsons’ web site: High Desert Health: http://highdeserthealthcoaching.com and email: lindsey@highdeserthealthcoaching.com
High Desert Health on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HighDesertHealth/
High Desert Health on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HDesertHealth or @HDesertHealth
High Desert Health on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/high.desert.health/ or @high.desert.health
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Thank you to SoundDot for the music on the podcast: Royalty Free Music: www.soundotcom.com