Lucy Mailing - Modulating the gut microbiome for health: evidence-based testing and therapeutic[...]
Channel: AncestryFoundation
Date: 2019-10-12

Our gut is home to trillions of microbes, collectively called the gut microbiome, that play essential roles in our health. In recent years, there has been great interest in how we can modulate the gut microbiome to improve health and prevent or even reverse chronic disease. You can now purchase at-home microbiome tests and find hundreds of different products online that claim to benefit the gut. But are these tests accurate, and do these interventions actually work? In this talk, I will provide an evidence-based discussion of commercial microbiome testing options and an overview of current knowledge regarding the efficacy of diet, exercise, probiotics, prebiotics, and fecal microbiota transplants in modulating gut microbial communities to improve health.
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Lucy Mailing, Ph.D

Lucy Mailing is a fourth-year MD-PhD student in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Illinois and was recently named an Emerging Leader in Nutrition Science by the American Society for Nutrition. Her laboratory research focuses on understanding how diet and exercise can beneficially modulate the gut microbiome and gut barrier function in states of health and disease.

Lucy is also a staff research associate for the Kresser Institute for Functional and Evolutionary Medicine and writes about gut and skin health on her blog at www.NGmedicine.com. She takes an evidence-based, integrative approach to gut, skin, and autoimmune conditions, and currently helps clients with Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, SIBO, acid reflux, irritable bowel syndrome, psoriasis, eczema, and acne heal from the inside out.