How to have a diverse microbiome with Dr Norm Robillard | Ep 42

When your gut is working hard to heal having a healthy, diverse microbiome is key to success. Dr Norm Robillard, of the Digestive Health Institute and creator of the Fast Tract Diet, joins Rebecca in a live podcast recorded in his garden in Boston to talk about all the elements that need to be in place in our diet and lifestyle to create a diverse microbiome. Dr Robillard also answers questions from the live audience.

In Episode 42 of The Healthy Gut Podcast, we discuss:

✓ What the Fast Tract Diet program is and how it works

✓ What the Fermentation Potential calculation (FP) is and how to limit your FP intake

✓ What the microbiome is and why is it so important

The difference between the microbiota and microbiome

✓ How to create a robust microbiota through diet and lifestyle

✓ Why avoiding/limiting processed food, chemically treated foods and antibiotics will help create a robust microbiota

✓ How certain behaviours and strategies support your digestive process

✓ Why digestive health and systemic health go hand in hand with a healthy microbiota

✓ How an unhealthy microbiota can lead to poor motility and dysbiosis

✓ Why growing your own food is valuable to lessen your overall chemical load

✓ Growing your own food without chemicals, and how to garden naturally

✓ What composting is and how it works

✓ Decreasing your household waste by using worm farms and composting

✓ Foods/supplements and medications that either support or hinder a robust microbiota

✓ Probiotics: whether you should take them or need them, and what you can do instead

✓ Hints and tips for dealing with constipation

✓ How the low FODMAP diet works

[RootsOfEden]

The concept makes sense. Espcially because when I was on a no-sugar, high Resistant Starch Diet while intermittent fasting, I ended up with VERY painful cramps, bloating and in the hospital with small bowel blockage. WHY would I get blocage eating all this good food? Also, later found out I have a Citrobacter infection, my guess is in the small intestine causing SIBO. I bought the book, if this works I'll be your biggest fan.