Ep 184: How Your Microbiome Can Affect Your Baby with CEO and Founder of Tiny Health, Cheryl Sew Hoy
Birth With Power
Dr. Nicole C. Rankins
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
I’m really excited to bring this interview to you today. Our guest, Cheryl Sew Hoy, is CEO & Founder of Tiny Health, a gut microbiome startup that focuses on expecting parents and their babies. I met Cheryl because she reached out to me about being a medical advisor for Tiny Health and I was happy to do so. I do want to be transparent: my role as medical advisor does involve financial compensation but that's not why I agreed to the role or why I wanted to have her on the podcast.
My fascination with the microbiome actually goes back a long way. When I was a faculty member in academic medicine at the beginning of my career, that’s what I had planned to research. If you don’t know, the microbiome is the collection of microbes (bacteria, fungi, viruses) that live in and on us - we actually have at least as many microbes as human cells! Now, the microbiome and how it affects health is an emerging area of study so keep that in mind if you decide to pursue testing. However I really believe that as time goes on we’re only going to learn more and more about its importance.
In this Episode, You’ll Learn About:
-Why are gut and vaginal health testing important during pregnancy or even when trying to conceive
-How Cheryl’s own experience lead her to start Tiny Health
-How microbes are passed along to baby
-What factors impact the vaginal and gut microbiome
-What vaginal seeding is and how exactly it’s done
-What the most common microbes are and which ones you want
-How the Tiny Health tests work, the results and reports you get, and some surprising results they’ve found
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| 0:00.0 | This is a fantastic interview about the microbiome, how it affects getting pregnant, your |
| 0:07.8 | pregnancy, your birth, and your baby. |
| 0:10.1 | And it's with the CEO and founder of Tiny Health, Cheryl So Hoy. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome to the All About Pregnancy and Birth Podcast. |
| 0:24.4 | I'm Dr. Nicole Calloway Rankin, a board certified OBGYN who's been in practice for nearly 15 years. |
| 0:31.0 | I've had the privilege of helping over 1,000 babies into this world, and I'm here to help you be calm, confident, and empowered to have a beautiful pregnancy in birth. |
| 0:42.8 | Quick note, this podcast is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice. |
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| 0:53.7 | Now let's get to it. |
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| 1:32.0 | Hello there. Welcome to another episode of the podcast. This is episode number 184. As always, I am so glad that |
| 1:40.8 | you're spending some of your time with me today. So I'm really excited to bring this |
| 1:46.0 | interview to you today. It's with Cheryl So Hoy. She's the CEO and founder of Tiny Health, |
| 1:51.3 | a gut microbiome startup that focuses on expecting parents and their babies. Cheryl is an accomplished |
| 1:59.3 | CEO and serial entrepreneur who co-founded in multiple companies, |
| 2:03.9 | including the nonprofit moving forward, as well as a successful consumer software startup |
| 2:09.0 | that was acquired by Walmart Labs. In 2014, she was headhunted by the White House team |
| 2:14.2 | and Prime Minister of Malaysia to become CEO of Magic, a $30 million-funded |
| 2:19.4 | agency to spur the innovation ecosystem in Malaysia and Southeast Asia. She is an angel investor |
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