Microbiome Assessment
Get to know your Microbiome…… it’s intricate + unique to you.
Over the last two decades we’ve seen an unprecedented rise in chronic disease.
What many don’t realize is that this rise mirrors the collapse of the human microbiome.
Your microbiome is the vast ecosystem of bacteria, fungi, and viruses that live on your body. It’s essential for your immune system, gut lining, neurotransmitter production, and your ability to adapt to stress.
A balanced microbiome is like fertile soil–alive with countless species working in harmony. Modern life depletes that richness, leaving the terrain eroded and less capable of renewal.
We’re living in an environment of daily assault. Chlorinated water, processed foods, synthetic preservatives, antibiotic residues, over-sanitization, and pesticide-laced soil–each of these chips away at microbial diversity and health. Not dramatically, but quietly, every day.
What’s left is a body that no longer recognizes itself. An immune system on high alert. A gut wall that’s compromised. A brain that struggles to focus, rest, or regulate emotion.
We call it dysfunction.
But really, it’s bodily disorientation.
My aim is to support your system on every level: the barrier, the microbiome, and the immune response that ties it all together.
Does any of the following sound like you ?
1. Ongoing bloating, discomfort with irregular bowel habits making dining out difficult ?
2. Frequent fatigue or low energy and not sure why ?
3. Skin breakouts, dullness or sensitivity, allergies ?
4. Stress, sleep or certain foods seem to trigger my gut symptoms but I’m not sure how they’re connected ?
6. Mood changes, brain fog or low motivation made me wonder about the link between my gut and my mood ?
7. Recurring food sensitivities or a sense that my digestion isn’t as resilient as it used to be ?
8. Hormonal changes or fluctuations leaving me feeling “off balance” ?
9. Antibiotics, recent travel or illness has left my digestion unsettled and harder to manage ?
10. A recent diagnosis of neurological decline or neurological illness ?
Your individual gut microbiome — the specific mix of bacteria, protozoa, and fungi that inhabit you — plays a central, role in numerous physiological processes that support your health or, when imbalanced, contribute to illness. I enjoy collaborating with patients to understand their distinct microbial profiles and clinical presentations, and to guide personalized care informed by that understanding. This is true preventive health.
A simple CoBiome Microbiome test can provide so much clarity for your way forward.
Digestion
• Gut bacteria break down fibre , nourishing their population and keeping gas, bloating, constipation, and diarrhoea at bay.
Immunity
• Gut bacteria assist in the preparation and training of the immune system, which can help fight gut and systemic inflammation. Studies suggest over 70% of our innate immunity comes from our gut.
Metabolism
• Bacterial substances in the gut can affect metabolic functions, such as appetite and glucose regulation, heart health, weight gain, skin and hair health.
Mental Health
• Potent neuro-transmitters , our feel good chemicals, are synthesised in the gut.
We are starting to understand new therapeutic possibilities relating to food, lifestyle, prebiotics, probiotics, symbiotic and post biotics based on a better understanding of how your microbiota interacts with you.
I scientifically view your gut microbiota as a therapeutic target with an aim to deeply investigate, support and modulate in order to address your specific clinical presentations.