The Highs and Lows of the GI-MAP
Meet Your Normal Bacterial Flora – A Three-Part Series
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?
Commensal Bacteria –
- Bacteroides fragilis
- Bifidobacterium spp.
- Enterococcus spp.
- Escherichia spp.
- Lactobacillus spp.
- Clostridia (class)
- Enterobacter spp.
- Akkermansia muciniphilia
- Faecalibactereium prausnitzii
Bacterial Phyla –
- Bacteroidetes
- Firmicutes
- Firmicutes:Bacteroidetes RATIO
Author 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.
The opinions expressed in this presentation are the author's own. Information is provided for informational purposes only and is not meant to be a substitute for personal advice provided by a doctor or other qualified health care professional. Patients should not use the information contained herein for diagnosing a health or fitness problem or disease. Patients should always consult with a doctor or other health care professional for medical advice or information about diagnosis and treatment.