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Beyond gut health into whole-body health. Podcasts with various experts and protocols for healthy living for the whole family.

Why You Should NOT Mix Probiotics With Other Ingredients

The Hidden Problems With Probiotic Blends In this podcast episode, a practitioner friend of mine asked about a probiotic formula containing soil organisms. She wanted to know if those spores were safe. Many well-meaning people in the alternative health space are recommending these products without realizing the risks. I discussed this with Natasha Trenev, the [...]

By |2026-01-20T22:23:55-08:00January 20th, 2026|

How to Heal IBS and SIBO Naturally with Natren’s Probiotics

Probiotic Protocols to Heal IBS and SIBO Naturally Introduction As many of my readers know, I have stayed drug free and surgery free from widespread Crohn’s disease for over 25 years. In this series, I interview my long‑time colleague, Natasha Trenev. She is the founder and owner of Natren Probiotics. Many people call her the [...]

By |2025-09-23T02:56:45-08:00December 24th, 2025|

Bacteria Intelligence & Toxins: How to Protect and Help your Body Thrive

Bacteria as Intelligent Allies: My Conversation with Natasha Trenev I recently had another conversation with my dear friend Natasha Trenev, founder of Natren and known worldwide as the Mother of Probiotics. Natasha has spent more than 60 years in the field of fermented foods. She was the first to introduce probiotics to North America back [...]

By |2025-09-23T23:45:36-08:00November 12th, 2025|

Holistic Treatment of SIBO: Natural Remedies, Diet, and Probiotics

Healing the Digestive Tract: Herbal Antimicrobials, Probiotics, and Dietary Changes for SIBO For over 25 years, I have worked with people struggling with digestive diseases. I’ve lived through my own healing journey and shared what works in my books and on Listen To Your Gut. Today, I want to talk about small intestinal bacterial overgrowth [...]

By |2025-09-06T02:23:44-08:00October 15th, 2025|

How Family Dynamics Impact the Health of Children

Dysfunctional Families Have an Impact on Childhood The family environment plays a critical role in a child's emotional and physical health. When a child develops a chronic illness, such as Crohn's disease, the roots often go deeper than physical symptoms. In a recent interview, Jini Patel Thompson, founder of Listen to Your Gut, shared her [...]

By |2025-10-24T20:31:57-08:00October 1st, 2025|

Stool Testing and Gut Health: What You Need to Know

Are Stool Tests Worth It? Gut Health Facts You Should Know As someone who has been helping people with digestive health for decades, I’ve seen trends come and go. One that has persisted is stool testing — also called fecal testing or gut microbiome testing. Many functional medicine practitioners, naturopaths, and even conventional doctors recommend [...]

By |2025-09-01T23:02:29-08:00September 17th, 2025|

How to Reduce EMF Exposure in Your Home

How's Your Body Voltage? Is Your House a Healing Place? Did you know that your body has its own electromagnetic field? This is why your doctor may use an EKG to test your heart function – it records the electrical signals of your heart. As awareness increases around topics like earthing, or grounding, you also [...]

By |2025-09-01T23:02:57-08:00September 17th, 2025|

Everything You Need to Know About Natural Gut Healing Protocols

In this webinar hosted by Amrita Nutrition in the UK, Natasha Trenev (founder of Natren probiotics) and I present some insider details and tips on implementing Jini's Wild Oregano Oil Protocol to eradicate gut infection. We also answer top questions from our readers regarding natural gut healing protocols. Practitioners Bring Their Tough Patient Questions Then [...]

By |2025-06-16T02:42:47-08:00October 9th, 2024|

Crohn’s, Colitis, Diverticulitis, IBS: What are Your Top Health Saboteurs? Find out…

Chronic Illness and Health Saboteurs In this LTYG Podcast, I talk with Chiropractor and Functional Nutritionist Dr. Thomas Kutchenbrod about the common ways he sees his clients sabotage their own healing. We understand what are the top health saboteurs that are impacting your healing journey from chronic gut disorders. We discuss the most common patterns [...]

By |2024-09-25T22:36:09-08:00September 25th, 2024|

Perspective Shifts Lead To Healing: Jini interviewed by Jenni B

For those of you who enjoyed my podcast with functional medicine practitioner, Jenni Berman, you can get more of both of us in this episode where she interviews me! How Healing is a Shift in Perspective We get into a whole variety of topics, like family dynamics around illness, often unknown triggers for food allergy, [...]

By |2026-02-13T20:15:40-08:00September 11th, 2024|

Healing Your Body By Listening To Your Gut: Fresh Leaf Forever Podcast Interviews Jini

Healing your body by listening to your gut In this fascinating interview with Jini Patel Thompson, founder of Listen to Your Gut and author of multiple books, host Vai Kumar uncovers lots of impactful information about Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Crohn's, Colitis, Diverticulitis, and IBS). A very personal topic to both guest and host, this episode [...]

By |2024-02-28T08:02:07-08:00February 28th, 2024|

Scar Tissue Protocols, Jini’s Journey, Elemental Diets & the Subconscious

In this podcast, health coach and yoga teacher Cate Stillman interviews me after she discovered my work during a search for help with scar tissue protocols and adhesions. So a lot of the podcast is us discussing my protocols for reducing or dissolving scar tissue, and why surgery is not usually the solution. But we [...]

By |2023-11-15T21:04:48-08:00January 3rd, 2024|

The Paradox of Healing

Is there a part of you that doesn't actually want to heal? Join me and Dane Johnson as we explore the roots of self-directed healing, in this excerpt from our latest podcast. "The healing journey is a gift from your higher self to act as a path of growth and development into the fullness and [...]

By |2023-09-16T17:01:03-08:00October 11th, 2023|

Insights on IBD & IBS from a Functional Medicine Perspective

Functional medicine practitioner Jenni Berman joins me for this podcast where we discuss: Leaky gut and gut permeability The gut lining/bacteria penetration Antibody and cytokine reactions leading to autoimmune disease Cortisol's impact on the gut lining, Food sensitivities vs allergies (IgG vs IgE) Jenni discusses the testing recommendations for individuals with autoimmune disease/IBD from a [...]

By |2024-02-22T11:20:43-08:00September 13th, 2023|

The Gifts of Chronic Illness

Ready to see RESULTS in your healing journey? Dane Johnson and I have a lively discussion on the deeper healing of Crohn's, IBS, SIBO, diverticulitis, colitis - or ANY long-term chronic illness! Dane calls me the Top G of IBD, which leads us to a funny little detour into Andrew Tate.* Then we do a [...]

By |2024-02-22T11:21:15-08:00August 2nd, 2023|

Food Intuitive Gail Blair – What Does Your Body Say?

Join me for a deep dive into food and intuition with professional chef and food/health intuitive, Gail Blair. Gail tells us how she developed her abilities, and how you can work with muscle testing to assist your intuition. And then we get into discussing food allergy testing accuracy and reliability. Have you ever thought about [...]

By |2024-02-22T11:22:01-08:00July 4th, 2023|

Challenges & Solutions for Elemental Diet Success

Join me in this video as I speak with Dr. Roy & Debbie Steinbock on the challenges and solutions for elemental diet success. Roy & Debbie have been prescribing and supporting thousands of clients through an elemental diet for over 15 years. They have tons of experience dealing with all the challenges people face and [...]

By |2023-06-26T13:17:00-08:00March 28th, 2023|

LTYG Podcast: Iodine, the Thyroid and Adrenals

Have you struggled with thyroid issues? Do you suspect your hormones are out of balance? Do you do too much, have poor boundaries around your time and energy, and run your adrenals like a beat horse? We started this discussion with me asking Dr. Scott Tyler ND to tell us what's in his personal medicine [...]

By |2023-03-28T16:04:19-08:00March 12th, 2023|

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Listen on your Favorite Platform! Motivation, Inspiration and Hope for a Healthy, Joyful, Vibrant Life. Your deep body wisdom knows what you need. Jini Patel Thompson shares tools and resources to help you connect and listen to your gut. By subscribing to this podcast, you will automatically receive the latest episodes downloaded to your computer [...]

By |2023-02-24T10:04:49-08:00February 18th, 2023|

Do You Have Hidden Health Saboteurs?

Do you have hidden health saboteurs? Have you checked out my new site and new Podcast yet? Did you subscribe? I'm super excited to share Episode 2 with you as we look at what might be stopping you from reaching your goals, healing yourself, or manifesting your desires. I walk you through some common places [...]

By |2023-04-07T10:21:08-08:00November 14th, 2022|

What Magnificence Podcast: What’s In Absorb Plus with Jini and Ian

You may remember Episode 16 of the What Magnificence Podcast where Jini told the story of her mercury poisoning which led to massive hemorrhaging, spurring the creation of Absorb Plus. In that episode, she also described her near-death experience (NDE) and explored the difference between escapism and dissociation - a deep dive into pain control [...]

By |2023-04-12T10:00:03-08:00October 11th, 2022|

Guided Meditation to Get Clear on What you Really Want

It’s easy to have all kinds of dreams, visions, and goals, but until you detail out what that would actually look/feel like – over the course of a day – you can’t KNOW that your dream/vision is what you really want. I recently listened to a presentation with Jon Butcher, where he led us in [...]

By |2023-03-31T13:27:41-08:00September 20th, 2022|

New Site and Jini Podcast!

I'm thrilled to announce I have a NEW site and podcast - the Jini podcast! I'll be talking about healing, but also other topics that interest me, like quantum physics, animal communication, regenerative farming, etc. With health censorship in full swing, I created a separate platform to share my more unconventional perspectives. And I'm so [...]

By |2023-03-31T13:28:43-08:00May 22nd, 2022|

What Magnificence Podcast: Jini Patel and Absorb Plus

In Episode 16 of the What Magnificence Podcast, Jini tells the story of her mercury poisoning that led to a massive hemorrhage; which resulted in her creating Absorb Plus. She describes her near-death experience (NDE) and gives her advice to people who are terribly sick. Exploring the difference between escapism and dissociation and a deep [...]

By |2023-01-09T13:54:43-08:00March 27th, 2022|

Two Different Types of Constipation

Before looking at treatments for constipation, it is important to first identify which kind of constipation you have. Through the course of my research, consultations with clients, feedback from readers, and my own struggle with constipation, I have come to identify two different types of constipation. Since I have not come across any labels for [...]

By |2023-03-03T08:35:56-08:00December 28th, 2021|

Dangers of Kombucha: Regulatory Issues & Contamination Risks

Join me and Natasha Trenev, founder of Natren probiotics, as we discuss regulatory issues with commercial kombucha, as well as potential contamination dangers when making kombucha yourself. Don't forget to download my FREE eBook, What You Need to Know About Probiotics!  Check my probiotic cheat sheet + additional resources here, and learn even more at [...]

By |2023-04-12T09:43:25-08:00December 26th, 2021|

Top Supplements/Treatments for IBS

Join me and Josh of SIBOSurvivor.com as we talk about what I believe are the top supplements/treatments for IBS! And here is my home remedy page for IBS, where you can find natural treatments for some of the most pressing symptoms of irritable bowel. Even if you haven’t been diagnosed with a bowel problem, these [...]

By |2023-03-03T07:28:16-08:00November 10th, 2021|

Wholistic vs. “Quick-Fix” Cures

This week join me and Natasha Trenev, founder of Natren probiotics, as we discuss the importance of addressing the emotional component of healing chronic illness, as well as the dangers of "quick-fix" cures and sub-par products/supplements. Don't forget to download my FREE eBook, What You Need to Know About Probiotics!  Check my probiotic cheat [...]

By |2023-04-12T09:44:11-08:00October 24th, 2021|

Can Natren Probiotics Reverse Hashimoto’s (or Hyperthyroidism)?

Join me and Natasha Trenev, founder of Natren probiotics, as we answer another probiotic-related question from one of our LTYG readers! This question reads: "Can Natren probiotics reverse Hashimoto's (or Hyperthyroidism)?"  Don't forget to download my FREE eBook, What You Need to Know About Probiotics. Check my probiotic cheat sheet +additional resources here, and [...]

By |2023-04-12T09:44:32-08:00October 15th, 2021|

Using Natren Probiotics With SIBO

All about Natren probiotics and SIBO! Join me and Natasha Trenev, founder of Natren probiotics, as we discuss which probiotics are best for SIBO, possible reactions to probiotics due to the Herxheimer effect, and what you can do to lessen these symptoms. And don't forget to download my FREE eBook, What You Need to Know [...]

By |2023-04-12T09:45:00-08:00September 20th, 2021|

How to Reduce Herxheimer Reaction & Detox Sensitivity

Linsy's Struggle with Herxheimer Reaction My assistant Linsy is known around here as the Queen of Herx. This is because her healing journey involved just off-the-charts sensitivity and massive reactions to any kind of anti-pathogen or detox agent that resulted in the Herxheimer Reaction (pathogen die-off). In addition to her sensitivities, she had extensive food [...]

By |2023-11-10T19:01:33-08:00March 30th, 2021|

LotusWei Podcast: Little Known Secrets About the Medical Industry

You may remember an old blog post about our friends over at LotusWei who started a podcast called Flowerlounge - and featured me as a guest on their 2nd episode! Well, now they are at a whopping episode 162, and this is an episode I just had to share with you. It is SO GOOD!! [...]

By |2023-04-14T09:55:25-08:00September 29th, 2020|

How Vulnerability and Authenticity Heal Us

You may numb your feelings to protect yourself, but in actuality you're just driving your pain deeper into your physical body. EFT expert Annabel Fisher interviews me (Jini Patel Thompson) on her radio show, and we discuss how moving out of numbing and into courageous vulnerability is the beginning of root-level healing for both your [...]

By |2023-03-03T07:30:05-08:00April 17th, 2020|

Probiotic Dosing For “Normal” People

Whether or not you live with some sort of chronic illness (i.e. a gut disorder), probiotics are still very beneficial for balancing your gut flora! In this interview, Jini Patel Thompson talks with Natasha Trenev - author of 5 books and founder of Natren probiotics - about probiotic usage and dosing for "normal" people (people [...]

By |2023-04-12T09:48:20-08:00January 13th, 2020|

Can Poor Boundaries and Perfectionism Keep You Sick?

Let's kick off this week's post with a gift! It's been well over a decade since I've had any digestive sensitivity whatsoever - and 29 years since I've been 100% drug and surgery-free. This is the place I speak from when I say that to have fantastic, vibrant, long-term health, we simply must heal the [...]

By |2023-08-20T23:47:09-08:00September 10th, 2019|

New Crohn’s Treatment Uses Dead Bacteria to Induce Remission – Podcast!

You may have read our previous blog post about Qu Biologics (Qu), a Canadian biopharmaceutical company which has been conducting an experiment to treat immune-related diseases such as cancer and Crohn's disease. Unlike current Crohn's treatments which suppress immune functions, dealing only with symptoms but not the actual underlying cause, Qu's treatment restores the innate [...]

By |2023-03-03T07:32:49-08:00July 24th, 2019|

A Gastroenterologist Interviews Jini Patel Thompson

Dr. Samir Kakodkar is an IBD specialist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and did his IBD training at Northwestern. Samir hosts a podcast called Against the Grain which investigates new ideas and controversies in the field of IBD. In this interview, you'll hear how Dr. Kakodkar himself has IBD and tried some of [...]

By |2023-02-01T15:44:45-08:00May 1st, 2019|

Healthy Gut Bugs – Session 3 – Dangers of Kombucha & S. Boulardii

Join Natasha Trenev, founder/owner of Natren probiotics, and me as we discuss safety concerns around kombucha. Did you know that kombucha is fermented using a yeast culture? Natasha shares a news story of 20 people who died from drinking their home-fermented kombucha... We also have a great little scientific study on problematic issues with taking [...]

By |2023-04-12T09:51:07-08:00August 8th, 2018|

Healthy Gut Bugs Q&A – Session 2 – Improve Your Microbiota

Find out what's wrong with using enteric-coated capsules for probiotics. And why the culturing substrate (intrinsic supernatant) is so important to the functioning of the bacteria inside your body, and directly benefits your digestion. Learn about competitive exclusion; the nature of bacteria is mutual antagonism - they produce compounds to compete with any other bacteria [...]

By |2023-04-12T09:51:37-08:00July 25th, 2018|

Healthy Gut Bugs Q&A – Session 1 – Improve Your Microbiota

Lots of practical advice on HOW to use Natren therapeutic probiotics with questions from readers with IBD; Crohn's, colitis, and IBS. Learn when to take powders vs. capsules, how much and WHY the different delivery methods work well for different conditions.  Or listen/download the audio of this session: If you have any [...]

By |2023-04-12T09:51:52-08:00July 10th, 2018|

MICROBIOME: Indigenous Wisdom meets Science – Fermenting Foods

What's wrong with eating raw foods? And how are bacteria just like horses?? What did your great-grandmother know that you should know too? Fascinating deep dive into the healthy gut microbiome and fermented foods with world-renowned probiotic expert, Natasha Trenev, and me: "I'm only 12 minutes in, and this is already the most lucid and [...]

By |2023-04-12T09:52:06-08:00June 18th, 2018|

Flowerlounge: The Podcast!

Our friends over at LotusWei started a podcast called Flowerlounge a while back and Jini was a guest on a recent episode. If you would like to hear the podcast, you can check it out for free here: EPISODE 02: LISTEN TO YOUR GUT WITH JINI PATEL THOMPSON Here's a comment that LotusWei received about [...]

By |2023-02-06T10:33:37-08:00November 7th, 2017|

Jini Patel Thompson and Dane Johnson talk probiotics

In this video, Jini and Dane talk about probiotics, their personal healing journeys, and general gut health: Some of the topics Jini, Dane discuss about probiotics during this conversation are: How probiotics are the new money makers How to start with probiotics How to adjust the dosage How to start slow Benefits of taking the [...]

By |2023-10-20T07:34:07-08:00July 25th, 2017|

Medicalizing Life’s Problems – Rather Than Solving the Root Issues

Here's a little story from Dr. Goldberg for you, to kick off this topic: "We had a 47-year-old female patient, who following the advice of her Holistic, Functional Gynecologist, had a complete hysterectomy, plus a bilateral mastectomy based only on having the BRCA II gene. This was followed by a year of Diflucan  prescribed by [...]

By |2023-03-03T07:34:06-08:00October 26th, 2016|

Healthy You! Radio in Seattle Interviews Jini Patel Thompson

Jini Patel Thompson The host of Healthy You! Radio - Dr. Keesha Ewers is a functional and ayurvedic medicine doctor, a psychotherapist, reiki master and certified sexologist. This means that her interview with Jini is pretty rousing and goes into some uncharted territory! You can listen or download the interview below: [...]

By |2023-03-03T07:34:39-08:00May 6th, 2015|

Food Allergy Testing Exposed!

If the whole complicated mess about food allergies, food intolerances, blood allergy testing, skin pinprick allergy testing and what that means - i.e. what tests you should have done, who you should listen to, what impact (really!) does this have on your health - is driving you crazy... Then be sure and join us as [...]

By |2023-03-28T10:50:40-08:00February 25th, 2015|

Food Allergies & Blood Allergy Testing with Dr. Ellis

Have you ever wondered what blood food allergy tests actually mean? When you order an IGE or IGA test, to test your blood for food allergies - what exactly is being tested, what do the results mean, and how reliable are they? This is NOT a cheap test to have done (around $250-$300), so if [...]

By |2023-03-03T07:35:13-08:00February 4th, 2015|

Inside the World of a Medical Intuitive – with Dr. Katharina Johnson

The noteworthy thing about Dr. Katharina Johnson is that not only is she a Medical Intuitive, she is also a Medical Doctor (MD). And if you've ever wondered what a medical intuitive does - and how she melds that with the scientific MD side of herself... well come on in! Here are some of the [...]

By |2023-04-07T13:33:53-08:00January 16th, 2015|

Crohn’s Trial Looking for Participants

I've recently learned about a new, experimental Crohn's treatment I want to tell you about. It involves stimulating the innate immune system to wake up, and clean up ALL pathogens in the body (kill all the bad bugs). The mechanism used to achieve this is by injecting components of dead E. coli bacteria into the [...]

By |2023-03-03T07:38:06-08:00December 8th, 2014|
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