#286 Why looking at your Poo is key to understanding your health with Dr Emily Leeming
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2025
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
What is your gut trying to tell you? It might not speak in words, but it’s always sending signals through your energy levels, mood or even our skin. But most of us don’t think about those little signs as part of a bigger picture.
And a blatant way your gut communicates your general state of health, is through the state of your poo! Quickly flushed away, many of us don’t take the time to examine our poop for signs of health, but if you’re interested in gut health, keeping a track of your stools could be more informative than any wearable or microbe test you can buy!
Today, we’re diving into the world of what our poop says about our gut health with Dr. Emily Leeming, a scientist at King’s College London, registered dietitian and the author of Genius Gut.
You’ll learn:
- What to look for in your poop and how to tell that your digestive system is working optimally.
- Whether the evidence for eating 30 Plants a week is actually that strong
- How menopause can affect the gut
- How long it would take to reset or ‘heal’ the gut after years of excess sugar, poor eating or antibiotics
We also talk about the superpowers of fibre. How it creates “an obstacle course for sugar”, how it can stretch the gut and signal to your brain that you’ve eaten enough and even how it can lower your cholesterol.
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| 0:00.0 | True or false, one bad meal can wreck your gut health. |
| 0:04.3 | False. |
| 0:05.5 | What is the biggest myth around gut health that drives you mad? |
| 0:10.0 | That you have to take probiotics, that you have to have expensive supplements, you know, |
| 0:15.9 | an expensive microbiome test, absolutely not needed. |
| 0:18.4 | Okay. |
| 0:18.9 | I can sense that there's probably a few myths. And what is |
| 0:24.3 | one gut health habit that you rarely, if ever, skip no matter what? Focus on fibre. Okay. What is one |
| 0:33.7 | food that you would never want to give up for your gut health? |
| 0:41.0 | Beans love them. Big fan. |
| 0:45.7 | A big fan. Is leaky gut a real thing? |
| 0:56.0 | I think it's been miscommunicated in that it does, the science is there to support some of it, |
| 0:59.0 | but it's been made and pathologised into something else. |
| 1:01.1 | Okay, interesting. We're going to get to that, I'm sure. |
| 1:06.2 | And last of all, can the menopause of negatively affect my gut? |
| 1:09.7 | Yes and no. |
| 1:13.4 | Interesting. All right. We've got a lot of things to go through today. |
| 1:20.2 | Hi, I'm Dr. Rupi. I'm a medical doctor and nutritionist. And when I suffered a heart condition years ago, I was able to reverse it with diet and lifestyle. This opened up my eyes |
| 1:26.2 | to the world of food as medicine to improve our health. |
| 1:30.0 | On this podcast, I discuss ways in which you can use nutrition and lifestyle to improve your |
| 1:35.9 | own well-being every day. I speak with expert guests and we lean into the science, but whilst |
| 1:41.7 | making it as practical and as easy as possible so you can take |
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