In today’s episode I am so excited to be interviewing Ash Bott from Girl Gut Nutrition. Ash is a clinical nutritionist specialising in gut and hormonal health, and she is here to help us start to understand what the *&%! is the gut microbiome?!

Drawing on beautiful imagery and analogies, Ash opens our minds to the wild world of the gut microbiome, what it is and how it links to the state of our gut health as well as our broader whole body health.

Spoiler…our everyday Western diets are messing with our gut health, but why!? How?! In today’s episode Dr Paul Froomes breaks this down for us, makes it make sense and offers some helpful advice as to our next steps in taking better care of our gut health.

I had so many questions for Paul, we had to do a Part 2!

Today we dive further into understanding how our modern Western lives impact our gut health. We touch on the way that our food and our stress levels can create what’s called ‘gut dysbiosis’, leading to tummy symptoms and even other health conditions you wouldn’t expect!  No need to panic though, there's plenty we can do to overcome gut dysbiosis and prevent it happening to us again in the future.

Today we welcome back special guest Ash Bott, who is a clinical nutritionist specialising in gut and hormonal health. Ash is here today to help us understand what on earth actually happens in our body when we notice that ‘butterflies in the tummy’ feeling? In other words, what goes on physically in our gut when we feel stress? 

Have you ever wanted to really understand meditation? From someone who actually gets it? Christian O’Toole is a very experienced and skilled meditation teacher, and it was a joy to interview him today. He is here to answer most (if not all) of the questions you’ve probably had about meditation, like what’s the point? How do I start? What’s important to keep in mind when I am meditating? What should I avoid? And amongst all this, both Christian and I share a bit about our journey to meditation too.