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Episode 34: Is The Microbiome Key In Healing Autism?
In 2018, the CDC determined that 1 in 59 children is diagnosed with autism spectrum…read more
Episode 33: The Most Important Micronutrients For Gut Health
Have you ever considered how your daily multivitamin contributes to your gut health? Which micronutrients…read more
Epsiode 32: Start Balancing Your Mycobiome in 24 Hours
For the last 40+ years, our resident researcher, Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum, has been one of…read more
Episode 31: Dealing With Disease? Check For Fungus
Recently, scientists discovered strains of fungus in pancreatic cancer patients. This sent shockwaves through the…read more
Episode 30: The Magic of Breastmilk
Would you buy a food or supplement that promised to do all of this daily: …read more
Episode 29: How To Shop Smart For Prebiotic Products and Fiber
You can’t walk down any aisle of the grocery store without seeing a product touting…read more
Episode 28: The Levels of Human Development and Decoding Generational Trauma
Have you ever wondered why it seems like the same issues get passed down from…read more
Episode 27: What Does Your Mouth Have To Do With Erectile Dysfunction?
It’s easy to get on board thinking about how your diet impacts your digestive tract.…read more
Episode 26: Why and How Birth Control Affects The Microbiome
Criticizing birth control is a tightrope walk. On one hand, birth control has been instrumental…read more
Episode 25: Your Cell Phone Could Be Altering Your Gut Microbes
Electromagnetic frequencies. Also called EMFs for short, these are forms of radiation that emanate from…read more
Episode 24: Does Alcohol Impact Gut Health?
The alcohol in hand sanitizer kills germs, but does that nightly glass of wine or…read more
Episode 23: Why Low Libido Is A Huge Red Flag
A few weeks ago, Andrea talked to clinical nutritionist Josh Gitalis about the root causes…read more
Episode 22: Can You Think Yourself Well?
Are there tangible health benefits to positive thinking? What’s up with the placebo effect? And…read more
Episode 21: It’s Likely Your Child’s Behavioral Issues And Anxiety Are Gut Related
Anyone with children knows that it’s inevitable they’ll have a temper tantrum at some point…read more
Episode 20: Using Herbs To Balance Your Microbiome And Detox Effectively
If you’ve been listening to the show, you’ve heard us talk about how antibiotics can…read more
Episode 19: Why You’re Seriously Overpaying For Health Insurance If You’re Healthy…And What To Do About It
Health insurance and health care in America is expensive and broken. For those of us…read more
Episode 18: Evaluating Your Risk And Preventing Autoimmune Disease
Every day, more and more people are getting diagnosed with autoimmune diseases like lupus, rheumatoid…read more
Episode 17: Infusion Therapy and The Gut-Brain Axis
Something that isn’t often talked about is that while supplements can be hugely helpful in…read more
Episode 16: What Is The Microbiome: Part 2
We’re so excited to be back with new episodes of The Microbiome Report! To celebrate…read more
Episode 15: Postbiotics: The Key To Repopulating Your Gut After Antibiotics?
As a listener of the show, you’ve likely heard about pre- and probiotics. But…read more
Episode 14: How Mold, Roundup, and Tap Water Are Undermining Your Microbiome
Your musty basement. That rainstorm where you forgot to roll up the windows on…read more
Episode 13: Is Your Deodorant Killing Your Microbiome?
Never before in the history of humans have we had more personal care products. Deodorants,…read more
Episode 12: What’s Functional Medicine’s Role In Gut Healing?
You may have heard the term functional medicine being thrown around by holistic practitioners and…read more
Episode 11: Surprising Discoveries In The Gut Reports Of Everyday People
You would think when you look at gut report results day in and day out,…read more
Episode 10: Get Your Zen On To Balance Your Gut
What if in 15 minutes a day you could reduce your stress and anxiety, get…read more
Episode 9: How Similar Are The Microbiomes Of Identical Twins?
Identical twins are an interesting case study because while they have 100% the same DNA,…read more
Episode 8: Clean Skin From Within With The Spa Doctor
Our skin is our largest organ, so it makes sense that its health would reflect…read more
Episode 7: The Future of Soda and the Weird World of Microbes
Ben Goodwin may be the most interesting person in the world of microbes. As a…read more
Episode 6: How Losing Half Your Body Weight Affects Your Microbiome
What happens to the microbiome when you lose half your body weight? While we know…read more
Episode 5: The Ketogenic Diet’s Impact On The Gut Microbiome
Dr. Will Cole is a functional medicine practitioner and author of the book, “Ketotarian: The…read more
Episode 4: How is SIBO different from IBS?
Phoebe Lapine is the author of “The Wellness Project” and the woman behind the popular…read more
Episode 3: Biofilms, Digestive Plaque and Your Health
In part 3 of the series, Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum joins Andrea to talk about how…read more
Episode 2: Candida, Saccharomyces, and Your Body’s Many Fungal Strains
In part 2 of the series, Dr. Mahmoud Ghannoum continues laying the microbiome groundwork as…read more
Episode 1: What’s the Microbiome?
In this three part series, we set the stage for the show with microbiome researcher,…read more