Reading My Own Gut Microbiome Results — A Practitioner's Honest Walkthrough

About this episode

Lynda Griparic shares her personal gut microbiome test results and discusses their implications for her health.

#317 I'm a degree-qualified naturopath with over 20 years of clinical experience, with a primary focus on complex gut health conditions — and in this video, I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm turning the lens on myself. I recently got my own gut microbiome tested, and I want to walk you through every single result. I didn't get tested because I had gut symptoms — my bowels are actually moving beautifully. I got tested because I'd been dealing with over a year of persistent rosacea and wanted to know: could what's happening in my gut be connected to what's showing up on my skin? I also wanted to show you exactly what this test looks like when it's interpreted by someone who does this for a living. We cover every section of the report — the pathogen panel, the diagnostic GI markers, microbiome diversity and richness, short-chain fatty acids, TMA, emerging metabolites, the species table, and more. I also share the result that was flagged as severely abnormal — and why, in context, it almost certainly isn't. This is what it looks like to use real data to motivate real change — not because something has gone terribly wrong, but because catching the trajectory early is the…

People in this episode

Host: Lynda Griparic

Topics covered

• gut microbiome
• naturopathy
• rosacea
• gut health
• clinical experience
• metagenomics

Keywords

• gut microbiome
• naturopath
• rosacea
• gut health
• clinical experience
• metagenomics
• pathogen panel
• diagnostic GI markers
• short-chain fatty acids

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