Hello everyone, welcome to one more episode!

Today's conversation is about gut health with Graeme Jones. 

Graeme is clinically experienced from his many years of working with patients, but he’s also passionate about teaching and coaching practitioners in functional medicine and nutritional science. He’s a much appreciated lecturer – both in Sweden and internationally. 
Over the past 15 years, Graeme has accumulated skills and experiences from the medical field, fitness, rehabilitation, nutrition and clinical research. He’s trained in nutritional physiology and nutritional genomics and has a B.A. (Hons) on Sport, Health and Exercise from Durham University. Prior to moving to Sweden, he operated one of the UK’s largest preventive medicine units at Nuffield Hospital and has also worked with some of Europe’s leading specialists in neurology, spinal surgery, pain, psychology and physiotherapy at the Bowskill Clinic in London. 
Graeme has also worked for the private clinic London General Practice as well as a consultant for Parasitology Center Inc. in Arizona, various insurance companies and a number of major international companies. He has also worked with professional elite athletes in Europe.

It was a very interesting conversation and we talked loads on the gut, why gut health is so important, how it appears to be linked to many different pathologies, and so much more. This podcast is highly recommended for those of you looking to know more about how to optimize gut health, but also how the Functional Medicine model works.

Here is a breakdown of our discussion:

• Why we should be talking about gut health and why it has become so relevant (01:39)
• What is the microbiome, what is its function, what may influence it negatively and positively, why is it important (06:32)
• How to have a more diverse microbiome, what tests can be done to assess the diversity of the microbiome (11:47)
• What can negatively impact the diversity of the microbiome (spoiler alert: antibiotics, alcohol, stress, low fiber diet, processed foods, environmental toxins…) (12:56)
• Graeme Jones talks a little about the gut, conditions such as gut hyperpermeability, neuro inflammation, molecular mimicry, fasting… (20:40)
• Patients with IBS and SIBO and the approach taken by Nordic Clinic Stockholm to help the patient get better (40:33)

If you would like to book an appointment with Graeme Jones or anyone from his team, you can head over to https://nordicclinic.se/en/  or head over to their global website if you don't necessarily want to book an appointment with a practitioner based in Sweden: https://nordicclinic.com/.

About Nordic Clinics:

Nordic Clinic is part of the Nordic Group of companies. A healthcare group focused on delivering new technologies and practices to people throughout the world – with prevention and ultimately health optimization as the missive.

• Nordic Clinics has now 5 clinics across Scandinavia and Portugal and supports patients throughout Europe with in-person and online appointments.
• Through Nordic Laboratories and DNALIFE more than 100 different laboratory assays are provided to doctors in more than 40 countries.
• Nordic Health is our nutraceutical division.
• Thermocheck provides early screening technology for woman at risk for breast cancer.
• Biotanika is providing natural pain management strategies with the use of nutraceuticals.
• Resistomap, a world leader in understanding the predicament of antibiotic resistance in the environment and in humans.