The Highs and Lows of the GI-MAP

Join Dr. Natalie Groenewoud, ND for part two of this three-part series on normal bacterial flora and its importance to gut health. In part one, she covered "Roles of Normal Bacterial Flora in the GI Tract" where she went over areas that our normal bacterial flora is responsible for.

Dr. Groenewould will be reviewing, "The Highs and Lows on the GI-MAP®" in today's presentation, and will be following up with "Case Presentations" in an upcoming video.

Normal Bacterial Flora — What do the Results Mean?

General –

• Bacteroides fragilis
• Bifidobacterium spp.v
• Enterococcus spp.
• Escherichia spp.
• Lactobacillus spp.
• Clostridia (class)
• Enterobacter spp.
• Akkermansia Muciniphilia
• Faecalibactereium Prausnitzii)

Phyla –

• Bacteroidetes
• Firmicutes
• F:B RATIO

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.