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The Secrets to Gut Health & Optimal Microbial Diversity with Dr Megan Rossi

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In this episode, Angela is talking with Dr Megan Rossi ‘The Gut Health Doctor’, one of the most influential gut health specialists internationally. A practicing Dietitian and Nutritionist for the last decade with an award-winning PhD in gut health and leading research fellow at King’s College

They discuss why you need to nourish not only your cells but also the trillions of micro-organisms in the body and how the diversity diet is the key to optimising your microbiome

With five key principles, it’s about what you can add to your diet and the impact of diversity in plants optimising your gut health to support your body

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • The diversity diet is a practical diet and is about adding things in to support all aspects of good health. Enjoy mostly plants and make it diverse
  • Science shows those people who have more plant diversity in their diet have better gut health
  • Eat whole not refined, where you can and think about the community aspect of food – tasting, pausing, and enjoying
  • Think about what you are including versus what you are excluding
  • The more healthy food you eat the more you crave it
  • Eating dietary fibre means your gut bacteria can break it down and access chemicals that are beneficial across the body
  • If you are struggling with hormones adding more plants to your diet can help to bring back balance
  • There is good evidence that, if there is a family history of eczema, taking a specific probiotic during pregnancy and for a period beyond can significantly reduce the likelihood of eczema
  • Stress can be a trigger for many inflammatory conditions including gut symptoms
  • People who include gluten in their diet have a more diverse range of bacteria than those who restrict it unnecessarily 
  • If you are cutting something from your diet you need to think about what you are replacing it with
  • Many food additives are now being retested as our knowledge of gut microbiomes has increased
  • Having the whole food is always preferable to something processed
  • Adding more legumes into your diet can increase your life span by around two years

 

BEST MOMENTS

‘Food should be enjoyed, and studies show, if we have pleasure in food we are likely to live longer and stick to healthy eating principles’

‘Enjoy your favourite foods and add in plant foods’

‘Those who eat at least thirty different plants have better gut health’

 

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Eat Yourself Healthy - Dr Megan Rossi

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The Gut Health Doctor

 

ABOUT THE GUEST

Dr Megan Rossi

 The Gut Health Doctor is considered one of the most influential gut health specialists internationally. A practicing Dietitian and Nutritionist for the last decade with an award-winning PhD in gut health, she is also a leading research fellow at King’s College

 London, where she is currently investigating nutrition-based therapies in gut health, including pre-and probiotics, dietary fibres, plant-based diversity, the low-FODMAP diet and food additives. Megan has been the recipient of several prestigious research

 awards including from the British Nutrition Foundation, presented by HRH Princess Anne. She is also the founder of The Gut Health Clinic in London, where she leads a team of gut-specialist dietitians and has created her own gut health food company, Bio&Me,

 to bridge the gap between science and the food industry. Her first book, Eat

 Yourself Healthy, published in September 2019 as an easy-to-digest guide to gut

 health and beyond, became an Amazon and The Sunday Times bestseller. Megan’s second book,

Eat More, Live Well, was published on the 30th December 2021, going straight into The Sunday Times Bestseller chart for three weeks running. Megan has also been recognized as Business Insider’s Top 100 Coolest People in Food & Drink and named Young Australian Achiever of the Year in the UK 2020.

CONTACT DETAILS 

Connect with Megan on her website and on Instagram @TheGutHealthDoctor.

 

ABOUT THE HOST

Angela Foster

Angela is a Nutritionist, Health, and Performance Coach. She is also the Founder and CEO of My DNA Edge, an Exclusive Private Membership Site giving individuals the tools and bio hacks needed to optimise their genetic expression for optimal health and performance.

After recovering from a serious illness in 2014, Angela left the world of Corporate Law with a single mission in mind:

To inspire and educate others to live an energetic, healthful, and limitless life.

Angela believes that we can truly have it all and has spent the last 5 years researching the habits and routines of high performers, uncovering age-old secrets, time-honoured holistic practices, and modern science to create a blueprint for Optimal Human Performance.

 

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