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" (   • Roles of Normal Bacterial Flora in th...  ) 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. • Enterococcus spp. • Escherichia spp. • Lactobacillus spp. • Clostridia (class) • Enterobacter spp. • Akkermansia Muciniphilia • Faecalibactereium Prausnitzii Phyla – • Bacteroidetes • Firmicutes • F:B RATIO Learn more about GI-MAP at www.diagnosticsolutionslab.com/tests/gi-map =============================== 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.