121. Your Gut Health Update Straight From the Lab, with Dr Megan Rossi

Leanne Ward Nutrition

In this episode I chat with Dr Megan Rossi, a practicing dietitian and nutritionist with a PhD in gut health. Megan is also a leading research fellow at King’s College London, where she is currently investigating nutrition-based therapies in gut health. Finally, Megan the founder of The Gut Health Clinic, where she leads a team of gut-specialist dietitians who see clients all over the world.

In this episode, Megan gives us a gut health update straight from the lab.

We chat about:

• why gut health is so important;
• new and exciting research from the lab;
• updates in the area of leaky gut and managing SIBO;
• personalised nutrition and genetic testing; and
• all about sweeteners.

To end the podcast, Megan and I answer some quick listener questions around antibiotics, coffee, dairy, food intolerance test kits and covid.

You can learn more from Megan on her Instagram or her website.

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