Trust Your Gut: Using Microbiome Insights to Improve You & Your Babies Health 🦠

Lauren Wright, a microbiome clinical specialist, identifies how targeting your gut microbiome health improves the overall health of you and your child! Through her research she discovered the first 3 years of life is the critical window for shaping babys’ signature biome. You’ll learn how to optimize and harness good bacteria to improve neurological, immune & endocrine function. In this episode she characterizes what you can do as a mother to promote healthy gut function along with describing our process here at the Natural Nipple on how we provide personalized help!

 What even is a Microbiome?

• Microbiome - a army of 100 trillion microbial cells that we depend on to stay alive, influencing the way we eat, think, and function
• It's unique to you!

Factors that Influence the Biome:

1. Your Mom
2. Gestation Age
3. Mode of Delivery 
4. Feeding: The Most Amazing Thing

• Breast milk= first life vaccine
• Nutrients necessary for the good bacterias to grow & reduce the risk of fatal infections

1. Environmental Exposure 
2. Genetics 

The Good, the Bad & the Harmless: Microbiome DNA

• High Risk Bacteria alters mood and immunity
• High Reward Bacteria heals our body, improves digestion & helps immunity

What is “Dysbiosis”?

• Caused by an imbalance in your gut & characterized by decreased cell diversity
• Can contribute to Immune disruption and inflammation due to increased permeability of the gut

Foods that Boost your Biome!

• Sauerkraut & Kimchi
• ¼ cup
• Kombucha
• 8 oz.
• Yogurt
• Hard-cheese
• Red wine

Our Telehealth Services include:

1. 45 minute tele-health visit with a specialist
2. At home microbiome stool analysis 
3. Complete gut microbiome analysis with personalized scores
4. Recommendation on foods that boost immune-health along with what foods to minimize and avoid
5. 30 minute consultation with a dietician
6. 3 months supply of customized probiotics

Personalized to You!

• We provide an immune-biome analysis via stool analysis
• We make recommendations by identifying bacteria, reviewing the results & setting a goal for optimizing and improving your gut health!

You can watch this episode on Youtube or listen to our Podcast!