Recharge your health journey with the latest science-grounded information on optimal diet and lifestyle from award-winning public speaker, New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned health expert, Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, PhD!
In this online course, Dr. Sarah dives deep into gut barrier and gut microbiome health, highlighting how the health of our gut impacts our overall health, and gut health nutrients, superfoods and lifestyle factors that support a healthy and diverse gut microbiome and robust gut barrier.
About the Gut Health Fundamentals Online Course
It’s not an exaggeration to say that our health is rooted in the health of our guts. The links between gut health and full-body health include our ability to absorb nutrients, immune system function, detoxification, and our resident bacterial allies.
When our gut barriers become permeable (colloquially referred to as “leaky gut”), a variety of toxic substances are able to enter the body, stimulate the immune system, interfere with hormones and neurotransmitters, and impair detoxification. When we don’t have a healthy diversity of the right kinds of microbes in our gut, our entire body suffers. This is why poor gut health has been linked to conditions as wide-ranging as cancer, obesity and other metabolic problems, heart disease, anxiety, depression, autism, autoimmunity, ulcers, IBD, liver disease, systemic infections, and more.
This online course includes 5 1/4 hours of video lecture by Dr. Sarah, including downloadable and printable PDFs of her presentations slides. The topics covered in detail include:
- An introduction to nutritional sciences
- How gut health impacts whole health
- The gut barrier and the gut microbiome
- Nutrients for gut barrier health
- Food compounds that damage the gut barrier
- The influence of lifestyle on the gut barrier
- Supplements for gut barrier health
- Why we need a healthy gut microbiome (and what that looks like)
- Optimal diet for a healthy gut microbiome
- Food compounds that feed gut dysbiosis
- Gut microbiome superfoods
- How lifestyle factors alter gut bacteria
- Keys to gut health
In this online course, Dr Sarah give a detailed overview of the gut, its functions, its connectivity to other systems, and what defines a healthy gut. By zooming into the gut barrier at the cellular and subcellular levels, Dr. Sarah highlights nutrients essential to gut barrier health, food compounds that interfere with barrier regulation or which damage the gut barrier, and how lifestyle factors impact gut health via the endocrine system.
The gut microbiome performs diverse functions essential to our health, and without a doubt, supporting our gut microbes is one of the most fundamental aspects of good health. However, doing so is much more nuanced that simply upping fiber intake. This online course expands on common knowledge related to gut microbiome health to hone in on the many surprising gut microbiome superfoods that just don’t get enough play in the Paleo or AIP communities, but which should be elevated in status. Dr. Sarah concludes this online course with a discussion of the impact of diet and lifestyle factors on the gut microbiome with a focus on best practices to maximize microbial diversity and support the growth of key probiotic organisms.
Recharge Your Health Journey!
Learn how to heal your gut and support your gut microbiome!
About Dr. Sarah Ballantyne
Sarah Ballantyne, PhD is an award-winning public speaker, New York Times best-selling author, world-renowned health expert, and creator of the award-winning online resource ThePaleoMom.com.
Dr. Sarah earned her doctorate degree in medical biophysics and spent the next four years doing research on critical care medicine, innate immunity, gene therapy, and cell biology, earning a variety of awards for research excellence along the way. Dr. Sarah’s transition from academic researcher to stay-at-home mom to award-winning and internationally-recognized health advocate and educator was driven by her own health journey—which included losing 120 pounds and using both diet and lifestyle to mitigate and reverse a dozen diagnosed health conditions.
As a scientist by training and by nature, Dr. Sarah is deeply interested in understanding how the foods we eat influence overall health—by interacting with our gut barriers, immune systems, and hormones. Dr. Sarah’s innate curiosity goes further than just understanding diet, it incorporates an explorations of the impact of lifestyle factors like sleep, stress, and activity.
Her passion for scientific literacy and her talent for distilling scientific concepts into straightforward and accessible explanations form the foundation of her work and her dedication to improving public health.
FAQ
How do I access and navigate this online course?
If you don’t already have an account, you will be asked to create one at checkout. Simply log in to your account by clicking on “My Account” at the top of ThePaleoMom.com homepage and select “Gut Health Fundamentals” under “My Courses”. Then scroll down to the table to start navigating your way through the content.
Does my access expire?
No! Once you have purchased access to this online course, you will retain lifetime access.
Can I get CE credits for this online course?
At this point, neither the live nor the recorded event offers continuing education credits for any program. If you are an NTA graduate, you can get CE credits for taking the AIP Certified Coach course.
Where can I ask questions?
Questions were asked during the program sessions by attendees of the live event, and answers to these questions are included within the program session videos. If you have additional questions or would enjoy connection with Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, consider joining Insider Connection, a private Facebook group that gives you direct access to Dr. Sarah. There are no other mechanisms for asking content-related questions within this product.
Is this a good course for AIP Lecture Series alumni?
Yes! The Gut Health Fundamentals course covers the gut microbiome in substantially more depth than in the AIP Lecture Series, so this online course is incredibly relevant to autoimmune sufferers and alumni of the AIP Lecture Series.
Is this the same as ThePaleoMom Workshop & Masterclass 2019?
The Gut Health Fundamentals online course was filmed at ThePaleoMom Workshop & Masterclass 2019, a 3-day event attended by 100 women and men who traveled from all over the world to learn, explore, connect and relax. It took place over the long weekend of February 15-18, 2019 at an inspiring and unique learning center in Santa Cruz county, California—1440 Multiversity! The Workshop & Masterclass featured six program sessions, all taught by Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, totaling approximately 15 hours of dynamic and entertaining seminar content. You can access all of this content in the Foundations of Health Online Course Collection!
If you previously purchased ThePaleoMom Workshop & Masterclass 2019 virtual experience, you already have access to all of the materials and video included in the Gut Health Fundamentals online course.
Is there a money-back guarantee?
Yes, you may request a refund within 30 days of purchase and if you have watched less than 20% of the total video content. If you have watched more than 20% of the video content, or if it has been more than 30 days since you purchased access, no refund will be provided. Refund requests can be made on my Refund Policy page. You will lose access to the course upon processing your refund.
Who do I contact for customer support?
If you are having technical difficulties logging in or accessing the course, you can ask for help on my Technical FAQ page.
