012 - Gut Matters - Emma Ellice-Flint & Dr Louise Newson

The Dr Louise Newson Podcast

Dr Louise Newson

Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.7 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Dr Newson and qualified nutritionist and chef Emma Ellice-Flint, talk about gut matters, microbiome research and what foods can make a difference to the gut and whole body health. Topics discussed include:

Control how you feel through what you eat, bidirectional communication to/from gut and the brain.
The time it takes to make a change to your gut microbiome through what you eat.
Fecal transplants, what it is and some recent research.
Different types of prebiotics and probiotics and what they are, including kefir, kombucha, sauerkraut, kimchi.
Getting variety into everyday eating, making vegetables the center of your dish.
Which good fats to especially eat - extra virgin olive oil, nuts and seeds, avocado, seafood.
Digestion and the anticipation of eating on digestion.
Fasting and ways of doing it.
Variety - pushing out your food choices to include more varieties of fruit and vegetables.
Individual - what suits one person may not suit another, learn to understand what works best for you.
Sleep - good habits around sleep and what you might be able to improve to have a better night's sleep.

Read more about Emma on her website here and follow Emma on Instagram and Facebook. Read about Emma’s cookbooks here.

Emma's Three take Home Tips for Gut Health:

Variety is important! Especially when it comes to vegetables - try to mix it up and try new things.
We are all individual and what works for one person when it comes to weight loss, bloating, hormone balance etc might be different for another. Find out how your body works!
Sleep is so important. We make better food choices when we are well rested.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Newsome Health Menopause podcast. I'm Dr Louise Newsome, a GP and menopause specialist,
0:14.5	and I run the Newston Health Menopause and wellbeing centre here in Stratford-upon-Avon.
0:30.0	Today I have Emma Ellis-Blint, who's our nutritionist, who's been working with us now for a few months.
0:35.2	And I'm really, really excited that she's here doing a podcast, but here in general, because it's taken me a long time to find the right person so
0:37.9	hi Emma thanks for coming um so although you don't sound English you are English aren't you so you've
0:45.2	you've been in Australia for a while and I I can't remember did you contact me when you were still
0:51.7	in Australia uh yes I did yes last year yeah yeah when when you were still in Australia? Yes, I did. Yes, last year.
0:54.7	Yeah, yeah, when I was still practicing in Australia, but knew that I was moving to England.
1:00.7	So I got this exciting email from you, did a bit of stalking, found your book, which is
1:05.4	incredible, and just thought, I really want this lady working with me to help some of my patients,
1:09.8	but also educate women in
1:12.4	general who have access to me and also my staff, which we've done. So tell me a bit about
1:18.1	your sort of journey to get to where you are at the minute, Emma. Okay, all right, yeah. So I was
1:23.0	always very passionate about food and eating right from a young age. And so when I first qualified,
1:29.6	and not as a nutritionist, when I first qualified, I qualified in the hospitality industry.
1:33.2	Okay. And then I worked as a chef for many years and out in Australia predominantly as an adult.
1:40.7	And then I just, you know, did it, as a lot of people do, I went on my own self journey of whole foods and wellness and trying to work out what suited me the best.
1:52.0	And why in my early 40s did I feel so tired and rubbish?
1:58.0	And I just really cleaned up my diet and got really interested in this and so I started
2:03.4	to study nutrition and got very excited about this did a degree in nutrition in Australia
2:11.0	in Australia and then set up a practice in Sydney in Australia and as I saw more and more mostly women patients in my
2:20.0	clinic, I just learned so much about what food can do to bring about the health and the change
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