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