Nora Cavani: Your Gut Health Affects Your Health and Wellbeing

I really admire the tenacity of my guest on today’s episode of Period Story. I speak with Nora Cavani, a molecular biologist with a background in pharmaceutical engineering, an award winning gut health expert and founder and CEO of Alba Health, a company on a mission to prevent chronic diseases through gut health science.

In this episode, Nora shares:

• What happened to destroy the credibility of the PCOS diagnosis she received when she was a teenager
• How coming off the pill led to the biggest transformation of her life
• How getting told that she would need to use cortisone for the rest off her life to manage severe eczema led her to the extensive research that resulted in her becoming an expert in the gut microbiome
• How an anti-inflammatory diet and a focus on removing any gut microbiome disrupters transformed her gut health, virtually eliminated her eczema and led to regular periods
• The terrifying moment that led to an endometriosis diagnosis and what she thought when a doctor told her that nutrition had no impact on endometriosis
• What inflammation actually is and the three types
• Why our gut microbiome is so important, even as babies
• What led her to start Alba Health, a gut microbiome testing company for children from 0 - 18 years old
• And of course, the story of her first period

Nora says our gut microbiome is very important at any age, but even more important when you’re a child because this is when microbes seed the gut and form the gut microbiome. She says that what happens in these first years is critical because these microbes help train the immune system, form and educate our metabolism and they affect our brain and brain development.

Thank you, Nora!

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