Explore the transformative journey of Bill Rawls, MD, from conventional medicine to holistic practice, driven by personal health challenges, which he solved with herbs. Learn about the contrast between whole plant therapy and pharmaceuticals, how to select quality herbal supplements, our stealth microbiome in the bloodstream and cells and how it relates to autoimmunity and chronic illness, the root cause of most GI issues, and his favorite herbs for gut issues, including gastroparesis, SIBO and ...
Apr 02, 2024•48 min•Ep. 118
Delve into the many causes of bloating beyond the usual suspects like SIBO, SIFO and IMO. Explores possible causes such as low stomach acid, enzyme deficiency, bile flow issues, food sensitivities, constipation, hypothyroidism and physical issues, learning about additional symptoms and testing options, plus practical tips for immediate relief. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take her quiz to see which stool or functional medici...
Mar 19, 2024•26 min•Ep. 117
Struggling with bloating during perimenopause? Join nutritionist Lara Frendjian as she shares her journey of battling bloating, weight gain and mood swings in her 40s. Discover Lara's diet and lifestyle focused approach to addressing hormonal imbalances, managing stress, and balancing minerals. Explore her insights on hair tissue mineral analysis (HTMA), lifestyle modifications for cortisol balance and advice for improving sleep and nail health. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gu...
Mar 05, 2024•46 min•Ep. 116
Explore how lifestyle factors like stress, poor sleep and food sensitivities can start the downward spiral of poor gut barrier function and disintegrating health. Learn about the Functional Diagnostic Nutrition method of testing and coaching to restore health, starting with lifestyle, with its founder, Reed Davis, HHP, CNT. 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 yo...
Feb 20, 2024•53 min•Ep. 115
Explore the often overlooked diagnosis of hydrogen sulfide SIBO (small intestine bacterial overgrowth) and its diverse array of symptoms, including food intolerances, inflammation, diarrhea and abdominal pain, shedding light on its association with conditions like IBD, colorectal cancer and Parkinson's Disease. Gain invaluable insights into testing, treatment and dietary adjustments crucial for managing hydrogen sulfide SIBO and reclaiming gut health. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients so...
Feb 06, 2024•19 min•Ep. 114
Learn again from Michael Harrop, founder of humanmicrobes.org, who we last heard from in episode 5. Hear about Michael’s health challenges with chronic fatigue and IBS, his attempts to recover his health with DIY fecal transplants from 14-15 different donors and his positive results with his irritable bowel syndrome. Learn more about Human Microbes, a new option for finding affordable fecal transplant donors, the donor screening process, and the customer options. Lindsey Parsons, your host, help...
Jan 23, 2024•38 min•Ep. 113
Imagine an intervention that only takes 5 days a month and has been shown in human clinical trials to reduce the need for medication in type 2 diabetes and favorably impact risk factors for aging, cancer, and cardiovascular disease, and has been shown in animal models to reverse autoimmunity, including remission of an animal model of inflammatory bowel disease, rejuvenation of damaged myelin in MS, regeneration of beta cells in the pancreas in an animal model of type 1 diabetes, and improvement ...
Jan 09, 2024•54 min•Ep. 112
Explore the connection between the microbiome, gut health and weight management, challenging conventional weight loss methods. Learn about the role of lipopolysaccride, butyrate-producing bacteria, Candida overgrowth, low stomach acid and gluten sensitivity in weight loss resistance. Delve into solutions from supplements to FMT to microbiome-altering dietary changes to break through weight loss resistance. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease ...
Dec 06, 2023•32 min•Ep. 111
Unlock the secrets of your DNA with Bryce Wylde of the DNA Company, a DNA analysis expert, who reveals how your genes influence your gut health, methylation, detoxification, hormone pathways, and Alzheimer's risk. Gain insights and actionable recommendations on how your DNA should influence the supplements you choose. 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...
Nov 15, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 110
Hear one man's personal journey of healing from ulcerative colitis, and accidentally depression, anxiety and hair loss, and his successful approach to reversing his conditions using holistic methods, including an elimination diet and removing toxins from his home and diet. 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 Co...
Nov 01, 2023•48 min•Ep. 109
Discover the truth about gut health as Lindsey demystifies prevalent myths and misconceptions surrounding gut health. Hear Lindsey dissect myths related to detoxes, gluten-free diets, drinking liquids during meals, diet and gut health, fiber and probiotics. Learn about important nuances in these gut health issues to make the best decision for your own gut healing. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take her quiz to see which stool...
Oct 18, 2023•21 min•Ep. 108
Explore the causes of bloating and other gut health issues, from imbalanced gut bacteria and yeast to low stomach acid and digestive enzymes. Discover the connections between a dysbiotic gut microbiome and skin problems, such as eczema, and get some concrete steps to turn around your gut health with Loredana Shapson, PharmD, FNTP. 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 ...
Oct 04, 2023•50 min•Ep. 107
Discover the transformative power of fermentation, which harnesses naturally occurring bacteria in ordinary vegetables to unlock their digestion-boosting, nutrient-rich properties. Learn about the benefits of consuming fermented foods for your gut health and gain some culinary tips for seamlessly integrating these versatile, flavorful foods into your meals with Holly Howe, fermentation educator and author of the cookbook "Mouthwatering Sauerkraut". Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve...
Sep 20, 2023•35 min•Ep. 106
Explore the critical role of the gut microbiome in shaping allergy susceptibility and two related conditions: histamine dysregulation and histamine intolerance. Learn about the connection between allergies and Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) and the role of Klebsiella aerogenes in exacerbating these issues. Uncover some practical advice for restoring a healthy gut microbiome, regulating the immune system, and reducing your allergies. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve g...
Sep 06, 2023•26 min•Ep. 105
Learn about hair tissue mineral analysis (HTMA), the crucial role of minerals in digestion, and how the "big four" macro minerals - calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium - impact various bodily functions. Uncover the effects of excessive calcium, the importance of magnesium for stress management, sodium's role in digestion and the roles of zinc, copper, manganese, chromium, and cobalt in gut and general health with Hope Pedraza, FDNP, certified Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis expert. Lindsey Par...
Aug 22, 2023•52 min•Ep. 104
Learn about Andrea McBeth, ND’s journey from wanting to offer fecal microbiota transplants (FMT) to developing Thaenabiotic, a unique dietary supplement derived from healthy human stool. Andrea explains how Thaenabiotic captures a range of beneficial postbiotics that contribute to overall health and wellness. The conversation explores Thaenabiotic's potential uses, absorption of nutrients by the microbiome, and its impact on various conditions. Andrea also addresses dosing, clinical trials, and ...
Aug 09, 2023•48 min•Ep. 103
In your forties or suffering from new gut health issues and wondering if you need a colonoscopy or endoscopy? Learn more about increasing colon cancer diagnoses, when to get a colonoscopy or endoscopy, hereditary and lifestyle risk factors, dietary changes for colon cancer prevention, as well as integrative interventions for colon cancer. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take her quiz to see which stool or functional medicine te...
Jul 26, 2023•23 min•Ep. 102
Still looking for the right probiotic to balance your gut microbiome? Learn how FitBiomics is revolutionizing the probiotics industry with new products like Veillonella, which is derived from the gut microbiomes of elite athletes. Explore the scientific basis for the effectiveness of FitBiomics’ probiotics with Jonathan Scheiman, PhD, CEO of FitBiomics, sponsor of this episode. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take her quiz to s...
Jul 12, 2023•36 min•Ep. 101
Have you been struggling with chronic gut health conditions like IBS, SIBO or IMO? If so, the elemental diet may be for you. Explore the ways in which elemental diets provide the gut rest, reduce inflammation and reset the gut microbiome in order to eliminate symptoms of IBS, SIBO, IMO and many other related conditions. Learn how to effectively execute the elemental diet with the help of two elemental diet experts, Roy Steinbock, MD, and Debbie Steinbock HHD, on the Perfect Stool Podcast with ho...
Jun 28, 2023•45 min•Ep. 100
Learn about the primary stool tests I use (the GI Map and the Genova GI Effects), their features, pros and cons, when and which SIBO/IMO breath tests I use, as well as other functional medicine tests like the Organic Acids Test, NutrEval, and Doctor's Data Hair Elements test, when and why I select them and what is included in each test. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take my quiz to see which stool or functional medicine test ...
Jun 14, 2023•15 min•Ep. 99
Struggling with Celiac Disease, leaky gut, food sensitivities or bodywide complaints that you think may originate in your gut? Explore strategies to individualize your diet to attain a healthy and diverse gut microbiome. Also, learn about critical food preparation steps for legumes to minimize gut damage with Vincent Pedre, MD. 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 hel...
May 31, 2023•54 min•Ep. 98
Struggling with a fatty liver diagnosis, metabolic syndrome or concern over the potential? Discover the signs and symptoms of liver disease, the causes, risk factors, the stages of liver disease, when reversal is possible and actionable steps to reverse fatty liver. Also learn about gallbladder issues, gallstones, how to spot insufficient bile production and bile's role in the body and its impact on overall health with gastroenterologist George Nikias, MD. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clien...
May 17, 2023•56 min•Ep. 97
Learn how dietary and supplemental fiber can help maintain regular bowel movements, promote a healthy gut microbiome, and reduce the risk of chronic diseases. Plus, find out how fiber different supplements can help with constipation, reduce cholesterol levels, and restore butyrate producers in the colon, as well as when and what kinds of fiber are best in IBD and IBS/SIBO. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take her quiz to see wh...
May 03, 2023•16 min•Ep. 96
Unexplained sharp pains, pale, floating stool or diarrhea? You could have a gallbladder/bile issue. Learn about the role of bile in digesting fats, digestive support after gallbladder removal, the possible benefits of TUDCA, supplements that can help with bile issues and how the interaction between the microbiome and bile contributes to inflammation in IBD with Dr. Laura Brown. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take her quiz to s...
Apr 18, 2023•55 min•Ep. 95
Rich Maurer went on an experimental journey to improve his health with Human Milk Oligosaccharides or HMOs, a prebiotic found in human breastmilk that feeds beneficial bacteria. Through tracking his microbiome using 16s RNA testing, Rich was able to see a significant increase in his and family members’ Bifidobacteria and Akkermansia muciniphila, and concurrent improvements in their health, including improvements to IBS-D, asthma and acne, lower LDL cholesterol and triglycerides, and reducing hem...
Apr 04, 2023•37 min•Ep. 94
If you're struggling with inflammation, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, obesity, autoimmunity, constipation, SIBO, memory loss, depression, anxiety, atherosclerosis or non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, you likely have some amount of metabolic endotoxemia going on. Learn more about this dysregulation of gut health that causes bodywide problems. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take her quiz to see which stool or functional ...
Mar 22, 2023•12 min•Ep. 93
After a one-week course of antibiotics, pre-med student Nita Jain spent 6 years incapacitated with chronic fatigue (ME/CFS), neuropathy and seizures and used fecal microbiome transplantation (FMT) from 25-30 donors to recover, while simultaneously acquiring new problems from less favorable donors, including inflammatory bowel disease, cystitis, eczema and psoriasis, some of which she has subsequently healed from, also using FMT from more favorable donors. Hear about her journey and words of wisd...
Mar 08, 2023•59 min•Ep. 92
Research suggests that low FODMAP diets reduce IBS symptoms in 85% of people. Learn how to implement a low FODMAP diet for IBS or SIBO, low FODMAP product options, and conventional and alterative treatments for IBS on this podcast sponsored by Casa de Sante with Onikepe Adegbola, MD. 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 Certifie...
Feb 21, 2023•31 min•Ep. 91
Supplemental butyrate in the form of tributyrin can be helpful for slowing motility and firming up loose stool, which is useful for people with SIBO-D/IBS-D and some types of gut dysbiosis. It also has metabolic, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer benefits. Learn about the benefits and potential drawbacks of butyrate supplementation. 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 wil...
Feb 07, 2023•14 min•Ep. 90
Tocotrienols, the superior forms of Vitamin E, provide powerful benefits that include lowering cholesterol, reducing inflammation, improving fatty liver and type 2 diabetes, and promoting bone health. Research has also suggested that tocotrienols may help fight against Crohn's Disease and multiple forms of cancer. Learn more about tocotrienols and their benefits with Barrie Tan, PhD. Lindsey Parsons, your host, helps clients solve gut issues and reverse autoimmune disease naturally. Take her qui...
Jan 24, 2023•59 min•Ep. 89
