Cheryl Sew Hoy | Tiny Health: The Missing Link Between Child Chronic Condition Crisis + Healing Family Gut Dysbiosis

Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 638

How is Tiny Health helping parents and children optimize their gut health?

Cheryl Sew Hoy, Founder of Tiny Health, joins Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 638, to explain the correlation between parents' gut microbiome and their baby's gut health, why the first months of a baby's life define their health for the rest of their life, and how microbiome testing can prevent chronic diseases in children.

"If your child has poor and imbalanced gut health in the first 6-12 months of life, we can predict if the child is at higher risk for atopic march symptoms; eczema, allergy, and asthma." - Cheryl Sew Hoy

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In This Episode, Cheryl Sew Hoy Uncovers: [01:30] Healing The Baby Microbiome

• Cheryl Sew Hoy
• Tiny Health - Use code "JOSH20" for $20 OFF all single kits
• The different microbiomes in the human body.
• Why some microbes are beneficial to your health.
• You get the first microbes from your mother through the vaginal canal and then breast milk.
• C-section doesn't allow for the baby to acquire certain microbes.
• How gut microbiome imbalances show up in babies.

[08:45] C-Section Affects The Baby's Gut Health

• The health system is made to make money.
• How breech birth taught Cheryl to advocate for herself.
• The impact of C-section birth on the baby's health.
• How to provide vaginal microbiomes for the baby when a mother gets a C-section.

[17:50] Optimizing The Mother's Microbiome

• A mother should make sure her gut and vaginal microbiomes are healthy before passing them on to her baby.
• Testing can help you optimize microbiome health.
• You can take probiotics and pass them on to your baby through breastfeeding.
• It takes much longer for adults to correct their microbiome.

[23:15] The Journey with Tiny Health

• Why akkermansia is an essential intestinal bacteria.
• The bacterias that are missing in the mother can be passed on to the baby from the father.
• Chewing food for your baby can help their microbiome.
• The infant microbiome development: mom matters
• How Cheryl developed Tiny Health.

[30:15] Nature Heals Your Microbiome

• Contact with animals makes children's microbiome more diverse.
• We used to live 90% outdoors, but now we spend 90% of our time indoors.
•  You can intentionally expose your children to different microbes.
• How Tiny