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Your hormones are quietly changing your gut and it may be influencing far more than bloating or digestion. Estrogen, progesterone, and life stages reshape your microbiome and impact your brain, metabolism, immune system, and longevity.

Let’s unpack why fiber diversity, stress management, and exercise are powerful levers for supporting beneficial bacteria and producing short-chain fatty acids that protect long-term health.

Your hormones are quietly changing your gut, and understanding how to work with those changes could be one of the most important longevity strategies you adopt.

My Guest:

Alicia Galvin is a registered dietitian, integrative and functional nutrition practitioner, and Head of Scientific Affairs at Microbiome Labs. She has practiced as a clinician for over 15 years in her private practice, focusing on GI health, women's health, and immune health. She has also co-founded an online training platform for health practitioners, in an effort to educate on the principles of GI health, from an integrative and functional lens and has mentored hundreds of practitioners.

Questions We Answer in This Episode:

[00:07:40] What is the microbiome?
[00:15:11] What are factors that influence the microbiome, both positively and negatively?
[00:22:29] How does the microbiome change over time for a woman?
[00:30:35] What is the vaginal microbiome?
[00:33:14] How does that change and influence women's health?

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