The Best of Health

This week on the podcast I was delighted to speak to Dr Victoria Sampson, a dentist and scientist (shortlisted as one of the most promising young scientists in Europe for Forbes under 30💥) to talk about the second most diverse microbiome in our body that been largely ignored - the oral microbiome.

Victoria helps shed a light on this wonderful microbiome and is really fascinating with you consider that the teeth are the only non-shedding surface in the body, so it’s a really unique environment when you also consider the amount of things that are now in our mouths beyond food and drink - like braces, invisaline, fillings, crowns.

The mouth is the gateway to gastro-intestinal tract, so if there is an imbalance in the oral microbiome there are systemic body-wide implications. We discuss everything around the oral microbiome including implications of an oral microbiome imbalance on men and women’s fertility, to the topic of fluoride and also the importance of brushing and flossing!

As always, I could have chatted and listened to Victoria all day - this episode is packed full of gems for anyone interested in their optimal health.

This podcast episode was a huge eye-opener for me and features Dr Emma Ping, an accredited registered member of The British Menopause Society who is passionate about offering women holistic, patient-centred, bespoke advice and support and another passionate believer that it’s never too late start improving your life.

Dr Ping reached out to me to generously share her specialist knowledge in ADHD (attention deficit hyperactive disorder) and her particular interest in women and how hormones influence ADHD symptoms.

I found this episode a huge education and a really fascinating guided expert insight into women’s health, the neurodivergent brain, and the connection between female hormones and ADHD.

Find out more about Dr Ping and Menopause Care Clinic here: https://menopausecare.co.uk/dipl-team-member/associate-dr-emma-ping/ 

This week’s podcast episode features immunologist Jenna Macciochi and we delve in exploring the part our immune system plays in ageing well.

The Immune System is a part of the body that we have all become acute more aware of in the last 2 years so I was thrilled to get Jenna on the podcast as the queen of the immune system to explain the many different facets to this beautiful system and how environmental factors like stress impact it as well as her thoughts on supporting immune functionality.

It was such a wonderful conversation, we discussed as working mothers ourselves the personal experience we both have encountered with the natural changes to our hormone levels on immune system and wider health as a whole!

It’s a fabulous episode for anyone with an interest in looking after your immune health through all life stages.

If you’ve been listening to my podcast since season one then today’s guest will be a familiar voice… I had the joy of spending an hour with my wonderful friend and professional colleague Emma Beswick from @LifeCodeGx

Emma and I discuss metabolism and how nutrigenomics profiling can give a truly unique insight to how you generate and use energy, as it relates to weight loss and weight management, energy for optional brain health, and summarise the involvement and usefulness of sirtuins in anti-ageing interventions….. It’s fascinating folks ….. The next frontier of  truly understanding and navigating YOUR metabolism as we age is here!

Joining me on the podcast mic this week was not just one but two incredible women who are so passionate about supporting and educating women through menopause. So much so, that they together wrote a book about it!

This weeks episode features Dr Mandy Leonhardt & Dr Hannah Short who co-authored The Complete Guide to Premature Ovarian Insufficiency and Early Menopause.

Early menopause is so poorly understood, not just by the general public but indeed healthcare providers and policy makers so this this episode we discuss everything from understanding what exactly induced menopause (medical and surgical) is and Premature Ovarian Insufficiency, the differences and tests / investigations that can be used to confirm or rule out as well as support for women including HRT options.

In season three, I am shining a spotlight on longevity, anti-ageing & ageing well in relation to women's health.  

The topics I will be discussing will range, literally, from head to toe - discussing brain health, metabolic flexibility, nutrigenomics, hormones and neurotransmitters, microbiomes and environmental factors.  My conversations with leading experts will tap into a deep well of knowledge and uncover an array of clinical pearls, to be an illuminating and helpful support on each listener’s personal health journey.

This is the final episode of season two and a fantastic episode that everyone can benefit from listening to.... This week my guest is the incredible Dr Tina Peers, who joins me to talk about how her own daughter's health led to her on a crusade to get the root cause of her issues. Dr Peers wonderfully explains what histamine is and what happens when we have too much what can go wrong.

Trained as a GP and more recently focusing on menopause, Dr Peers provides a wonderful explanation of the interplay between the immune system and the endocrine system. 

And if you're interested in long-covid and treatment - this is the episode for you. Dr Peers talks about long covid prevention and treatment and how her own quest to find appropriate treatment for clients drove a national campaign to collect information and share evidence-based practice for long-covid treatment clinics. 

Prepare yourself for a hugely insightful podcast with Emily Blake, Nutritional Therapist at Invivo healthcare. During this episode we discuss Urinary Tract Infections, one of the most common types of infection which pose a significant burden on the quality of life of women in particular at different life stages.

Emily talks us through the urinary microbiome and delves into the strains of bacteria that inhabit it. We continue to talk about the relations between the different microbiomes the Urinary Microbiome and the vaginal microbiome and how we can support and aid the prevention and management of UTIs. what we can do to restore balance to the urinary ecosystem by harmonising the gut-bladder-vagina axis.

I'm sure you'll agree, Emily's passion for understanding the urinary ecosystem is infectious and sheds a light on so much new evidence that is helping us understand this wonderful system more.

This podcast episode will also give any practitioners a technical taste of the topics we’ll be covering in the Affiliate Hub next year.

Supporting our young girls and women through adolescence is such an important role and the best place to start is understanding what's happening in their body. I am delighted to have the wonderful Lorna Driver-Davies join me on the podcast to focus on exactly this and her specialist area of support Nutritional Therapy, Functional Medicine & Naturopathy. We start with the basics: understanding what is happening to our young girls and the key vitamins and minerals we should be mindful of when girls start their menstrual cycle. We also discuss the teenage microbiome, what's important to consider if young people are choosing  vegetarianism / veganism, the importance of teenagers getting complex carbs, and of course nutrition for teenage skin. 

This is a fabulous discussion for anyone but especially any parents of young people!

I couldn't resist to ask the lovely Emma Beswick from LifecodeGx back on the podcast for another episode to delve into epigenetics and women's health. In this episode Emma talks about how your behaviours and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work. We discuss her wonderful Female Health Hormone panel that helps us understand how women are “set up” to produce, receive and clear oestrogen and progesterone, and the benefits of this panel specifically for women at perimenopause / menopause life stages who are at the cross-road of considering HRT. Plus if that isn't enough, we also discuss an amazing metabolite ALLO that has anti anxiety effects and new genes on LifecodeGx reporting that help us in this area.