Roles of Normal Bacterial Flora in the GI Tract
Meet Your Normal Bacterial Flora – A Three-Part Series
Join Dr. Natalie Groenewoud, ND as she kicks off part one of a three-part series on normal bacterial flora and its importance to gut health. Here's what she'll be covering:
- Roles of Normal Bacterial Flora in the GI Tract (today's presentation)
- The Highs and Lows on the GI-MAP™ (now available)
- Case Presentations (coming soon)
Our Normal Bacterial Flora is Responsible for:
- Enhancing the Epithelial Barrier
- Developing and Modulating of the Immune System
- Production of Anti-microorganism Substances
- Competitive Exclusion and Inhibition of Epithelial Adhesion of Pathogenic Microorganisms
- Producing Energy Production Substances for Epithelial Cells
- Vitamin Synthesis
- Supporting Metabolism
Presented by Natalie Groenewoud, ND
Dr. Natalie Groenewoud is a licensed Naturopathic Physician and Medical Consultant. She has been in practice for over a decade, and her areas of clinical interest and focus are women's wellness and gastrointestinal health. Dr. Groenewoud always works with the premise that the body is self-correcting. She works through her patients' cases by supporting deficiencies and removing environmental, lifestyle, nutritional, or physical roadblocks preventing them from getting back into a homeostatic state. When she isn't seeing patients or consulting with Diagnostic Solutions Laboratory, she can be found in the mountains exploring with her young family.
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Research indicates that gut health impacts every area of human health.
Optimal health – it all starts with the GI-MAP ™ – Comprehensive DNA Stool Analysis via qPCR.