Dr. Robert Whitfield speaks with Anu Simh, a board-certified functional coach, founder of Nine Arms Wellness, and author of Flourish From Within: Feed Your Gut for Lifelong Health. Their conversation focuses on practical strategies to support the microbiome, stabilize metabolism, and approach GLP-1 medications with long-term outcomes in mind.

Anu Simh shares her approach to helping women restore gut function, simplify food choices, and create sustainable habits that last. She also discusses her work training other coaches and advocating for women in underserved communities.

Topics include fiber variety, the role of environmental exposures like plastics and additives, and how coaching can promote both internal balance and external integrity without relying on restrictive or short-term methods.

This episode offers a realistic, science-informed discussion for listeners seeking steady, sustainable progress.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

Meet Anu: coach, educator, and author of Flourish From Within

Microbiome 101 for real people: what diversity and resilience mean in practice

Fiber famine and why plant diversity matters more than perfection

Healthy fats, polyphenols, and functional foods that support short chain fatty acids

The antibiotic habit: collateral damage to immunity, motility, and metabolism

Travel gut problems and terrain building before and after the trip

Plastics, xenoestrogens, and why labels matter for weight maintenance

GLP-1s, rapid weight loss, and unintended effects on face fat and skin

Practical coaching for sustainability: keep it simple, consistent, and human

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Welcome and Anu’s backstory

8:58 **Microbiome 101: microbes, symbiosis, and why it matters

**11:22 What a healthy microbiome really means: resilience and diversity

19:11 Healthy fats, polyphenols, and short chain fatty acids

29:55 Terrain building over bug hunting: how to make the gut more resilient

35:35 **Estrogen recycling, the estrobolome, plastics, and preservatives

**47:25 Gut motility and gastric emptying issues

**52:34 **GLP-1s, real-world side effects, and sustainable coaching

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