Hi, welcome to the Healthy Moms Podcast with Katie from WellnessMama.com.

Today, Katie again talks to clinical nutritionist and founder of the whole journey.com

and the Gut Thrive and Five program, Christa Arekia.

Christa is a TEDx speaker, author and TV host who has helped thousands of people reclaim their health.

Christa mentions bone broth as part of her protocol in this episode,

and she and Katie both consume bone broth daily.

Until May 30th, you can get 5% off organic pre-made bone broth from the brothry,

Christa and Katie's recommended bone broth resource.

Simply go to wellnessmama.com forward slash broth and use the code wellnessmama5.

If you struggle with infertility or gut health issues, Christa has also offered a free copy of

her Food as Medicine e-book that includes 180 original recipes. To get a copy of this free resource,

join our community at wellnessmama.com forward slash podcast.

Let's join Katie and Christa as they discuss gut health, the microbiome and how these can affect

your immune system.

Christa, welcome back. We had you last in the last episode to talk about fertility and optimizing

for pregnancy and this episode is going to be all about the microbiome, which is one of my favorite

topics to talk about. I always try to drag my friends into topic to talking about it at like

dinner parties and it doesn't go over so well. So I'm excited that we have time just to talk about

the microbiome. So to start off, let's kind of give us an overview. What is the microbiome when

someone says that? What are we talking about? Yeah, okay. Well, you and I can totally geek out

together on this because I am fascinated by it. So we hear a lot about leaky gut and all kinds of

digestive issues, but really the new model for cellular healing is what's called the microbiome.

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