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All you need to know about your second brain with Hayley Parcell
Episode 31
My Guest today is a qualified nutritional medicine practitioner and now Head of Healthcare Operations and Development for Queensland-based microbiome testing and research company, Microba.
Hayley Parcel leads a team of healthcare professionals to drive clinical understanding and implementation of gut microbiome analysis at Microba and today we do a truly fascinating deep dive into what cutting-edge research is telling us about the contents of your large intestine, and the implications for personalised nutrition.
You can oder a gut microbiome test directly though Microba here.
If you're a health professional that's interested in working with Microba, click here.
Here's what we talk about in the podcast:
4:38 - Microba company beginnings
5:44 - An overview of the gut microbiome
7:56 - Technological advances in gut microbiome analysis
10:09 - Your 2-way relationship with your microbiome
11:33 - Probiotics vs prebiotics
14:58 - Why you can't out-supplement a bad diet
21:28 - The microbiome in human health & disease
23:04 - The microbiome and mental health
27:00 - Insights from fecal transplants
29:57 - Early life influences on your microbiome
32:05 - The microbiome and your immune system
35:38 - The impacts of different diets
44:50 - Shotgun metagenomics technology for microbiome anlaysis
47:55 - Microba and health practitioners
49:28 - Getting your own microbiome tested
51:52 - The future of microbiome research
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