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MOMENT | The power of good gut health and how to achieve it with Dr Megan Rossi

Motherkind

Zoe Blaskey

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8864 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to this week's moment episode of the Motherkind podcast. I am so happy you are here. Thank you for pressing play and listening. This week features a clip from my episode with Dr. Megan Rossi, who is a registered dietician with an award-winning PhD in gut health. A leading Research Fellow at King’s College London. We talk about gut health and how your family's microbiome is shaped. Do you know the importance of your gut health? I hope this episode answers that for you. Special thanks to our sponsor Athletic Greens: Visit https://athleticgreens.com/motherkind for a FREE year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase. Continue the conversation Come engage with Zoe and our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So you talked about your son Archie and your nephew, and I wondered what can we do to help

0:09.6

our children's gut health breastfeeding. I'd love to talk about that and formula for those people

0:18.0

who breastfeeding didn't work, me included. And what can we do as they

0:21.8

sort of get older? How important is it that we're nourishing that gut microbiome?

0:27.1

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0:33.6

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0:38.8

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0:44.7

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0:50.8

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0:56.2

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1:01.3

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1:07.3

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1:12.6

conception. So when you are pregnant, actually the studies have shown the mum's diversity of

1:19.2

the plants in her diet actually is thought to have outcomes in terms of the baby's health

1:23.2

growing up. In fact, there has even been some researchers suggest that six months from conception,

1:29.6

dad's diet also may have a role in baby's health. So when we made the decision to start trying,

1:36.0

I had my husband on a very plant heavy diet. Again, it was essentially following the diversity diet.

1:41.0

It wasn't about plants only because he would not have a bar of that,

1:44.4

but it was things like the lasagna, taking out a third of the mints and adding in lentils to it.

1:49.7

And, you know, he didn't even know that I did that because it just tastes still quite meaty.

1:53.8

So it's those small little easy hacks to get those extra plants.

1:57.2

And so, yeah, through pregnancy, I know it can be incredibly tough, particularly if you are

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