The Healthy Gut Podcast Ep.18
The Fast Tract Diet with Dr Norm Robillard
Knowing why your body is reacting to certain foods, with symptoms such as acid reflux and bloating, is key to your journey to digestive health. This week Rebecca speaks to Dr Norm Robillard Ph.D. Dr Robillard is the founder of The Digestive Health Institute, a gut expert, microbiologist, author of the Fast Tract Diet book series and the Fast Tract Diet app. The Fast Tract Diet, which has been used successfully by many people with SIBO to calm their digestive symptoms. Dr Robillard had his own gastric issues with acid reflux and this is what led him to start to explore the issues with carbohydrates and fermentation. Rebecca and Dr Robillard delve into the Fast Tract Diet, and talk at what gut health benefits can be achieved by lowering the fermentation of the foods that you are consuming.
In Today's Episode
In Episode 18 of The Healthy Gut Podcast, we discuss:
✓ The core principles of the Fast Tract Diet (FTD) and how to use it
✓ The difference between the FTD and other SIBO diets
✓ How to find your personal fermentation potential (FP)  threshold
✓ Reintroducing higher FP foods and what to do in a flare
✓ Treating SIBO without using drugs such as antibiotics
✓ Making good nutritional choices to ensure long term good gut health
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Resources mentioned in today's podcast
✓ FP Calculator from The Digestive Institute
✓ Facebook Fast Tract Diet discussion group
✓ The Digestive Health Institute website & free ebook
✓ Dr Robillard blog post – SIBO Treatment: Antibiotics or diet?
✓ Dr Robillard blog post – SIBO diets and digestive health
✓  Dr Robillard blog post – SIBO and alcohol
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Connect with Dr Norm Robillard
Norman Robillard, Ph.D., Founder of the Digestive Health Institute is a leading gut health expert. He is a microbiologist, the author of Fast Tract Digestion book series and publisher of the Fast Tract Diet mobile app. He is the creator of the drug and antibiotics free Fast Tract Diet for functional gastrointestinal disorders, SIBO and related conditions. The Fast Tract Diet has been endorsed by the New York Times Best Seller Co-author, Dr. Michael Eades, GI Surgeon, Dr. Alan Hu, many certified nutritionists and healthcare providers.
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Rebecca Coomes is an author, entrepreneur, passionate foodie and intrepid traveller. She transformed her health after a lifetime of chronic illness, and today guides others on their own path to wellness. She is the founder of The Healthy Gut, a platform where people can learn about gut health and how it is important for a healthy mind and body and coaches people on how to live well with SIBO. Rebecca is the author of the world’s first cookbooks for people treating Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) and the host of the SIBO cooking show and The Healthy Gut podcast.
Live in NZ want to buy fast tract diet book not app. Can you arrange plse. I am a Vietnam veteran with many conditions related to agent Orange exposure. Do you have anything for other veterans that has been helpful for reflux. My email [email protected].
Hi there, you will need to reach out to Dr Norm Robillard as I don’t manage his books for him. You can make contact with him via his website: https://digestivehealthinstitute.org/
Rebecca
Thank you so much for this podcast, Rebecca! Very enlightening, and you guys covered so many important topics. I’m so happy that Norm discovered this, and continues to do research into FP foods and their effect on people’s health. The FTD has been a godsend to me! I also love your podcast interview style: very clear and there’s no talking over the guest (like some other podcasts).