The Missing Piece in IBD Care: Gut Microbiome Testing with Chloe Turner

About this episode

Chloe Turner discusses her experience with Crohn's disease and the importance of gut microbiome testing in IBD care.

#316 Chloe Turner has lived with Crohn's disease for 25 years. She's also a degree-qualified naturopath and clinical microbiome consultant at Microba — one of Australia's most advanced gut microbiome testing companies. In this conversation, she brings both worlds together: the science of what microbiome testing actually reveals in IBD, and the deeply human experience of living inside a body that can turn on you without warning. Chloe talks candidly about the psychological weight of waiting for the next flare, why clinical remission doesn't always mean your microbiome is safe, and how shotgun metagenomics testing is catching things that colonoscopies and blood tests simply miss — including stealth pathogens like EPEC quietly driving inflammation while everything else looks stable. In this episode, you'll discover: What gut microbiome testing reveals that conventional IBD workups cannot How EPEC and E. coli species silently fuel flares — and what to do about it Why clinical remission doesn't mean your microbiome is out of the danger zone How microbiome shifts can precede a flare before symptoms appear The emerging link between microbiome state and biologic medication response The…

People in this episode

Host: Lynda Griparic

Guest: Chloe Turner

Topics covered

• IBD care
• gut microbiome testing
• Crohn's disease
• psychological impact of illness
• dietary strategies
• metagenomics testing

Keywords

• IBD
• gut microbiome
• Crohn's disease
• metagenomics
• EPEC
• dietary strategies
• psychological impact

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microba, E. coli, EPEC

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