This video is all about microbiome testing and diet. Join me and Natasha Trenev, founder of Natren probiotics, as we continue to answer probiotic-related questions from our LTYG readers.
Our reader asks:
“There are several companies that claim to be able to analyze your microbiome from your stool sample and from that information be able to tell you the type and amount of probiotics and even foods you should consume. Do you think that this is legitimate? If this truly works, it would be a huge help to those suffering from a variety of digestive disorders…”
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Jini Patel Thompson is an internationally recognized expert on natural healing for digestive diseases. She healed herself from widespread Crohn’s Disease and has remained drug and surgery-free for over 25 years. Jini has appeared on numerous podcast, TV, and radio shows throughout the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia, giving people hope and vision for how they can heal their Colitis, Crohn’s, Diverticulitis and Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), using entirely natural methods. Her books on natural healing for digestive diseases have sold worldwide in over 80 countries.
Hi Jini,
Thanks a lot for interviewing Natasha on this very timely and relevant subject. Just to make sure I understood the main argument here.
Natasha says “by knowing what’s in your microbiome how do you determine what you are going put in there to make it better”.
So, basically, the main issue here is that we don’t have a proper understanding of what an “ideal microbial composition” looks like. Is that right? This means, by extension, that even if we have a good method for determining the current composition of our microbiome, we still don’t know what to do with that information, since we don’t know what to “aspire to” (what the ideal microbial composition looks like). Did I understand it correctly?
If so, I can totally understand this line of reasoning.
On the other hand, I’m still wondering whether experimenting with this is a complete waste of time or not. I mean, in theory, this “personalization” of microbial treatment kind of makes sense to me, on a certain level, even if there are still a lot of question marks left. I mean this approach makes sense using in other areas, like diet or physical exercise. There is no one size fits all approach to those things, it needs to be fitted to each person’s needs.
I would really like to learn more about your thinking on the subject Jini.
Thanks again for this video and all your fantastic work!
Cheers,
Filip
Hi Filip, excellent points! Natasha actually wants to expand on this more with Jini. So she’ll either get more info for you in writing, or they’ll do another call. I’ll keep you posted…!
Hi again Savannah,
I was wondering whether there has been any new developments on this issue? This interview really made me curious 😀
Thanks a lot!
Best,
Filip
Hi there! 🙂 Nothing from Jini & Natasha yet, however my teammate Linsy is currently working on a blog post on stool testing. Should be ready and published next week!
Hi Savannah,
Great! Thanks a lot!
I’ll look forward to getting more educated on this.
Best,
Filip