Dr. Elisa Song | The Role of Gut Health in Childhood Development
Dr. Elisa Song | The Role of Gut Health in Childhood Development
In this episode of the Smarter Not Harder Podcast, Dr. Elisa Song gives us one-cent solutions to life’s $64,000 questions that include:
What is integrative pediatrics?
What is the importance of gut health in children and what are good dietary choices for them?
What are some ways to analyze one's microbiome and nourish it?
Who is Dr. Elisa Song?
Dr. Elisa Song is a Stanford-, NYU-, UCSF-trained integrative pediatrician, pediatric functional medicine expert, and mom to 2 thriving children -- and she is on a mission to revolutionize the future of children’s health. She is the bestselling author of the Healthy Kids Happy Kids: An Integrative Pediatrician’s Guide to Whole Child Resilience.
Dr. Song created Healthy Kids, Happy Kids as an online holistic pediatric resource to help practitioners and parents bridge the gap between conventional and integrative pediatrics with an evidence-based, pediatrician-backed, mom-approved approach.
What did Dr. Elisa Song & Dr. Scott Sherr discuss?
00:41 Meet Dr. Elisa Song 02:50 Dr. Song's Journey into Integrative Pediatrics 04:13 The Importance of Gut Health in Children 05:29 Optimizing Gut Health During Antibiotic Use 09:33 Probiotics and Prebiotics for Gut Restoration 34:03 Microbiome Analysis and Stool Testing 35:45 Challenges in Pediatric Healthcare 38:36 The Wheel of Gut Resilience 41:18 Nourishing the Microbiome 48:50 Dietary Choices for Children 52:11 Prenatal Health and Nervous System Regulation
