Love Your Gut
by Dr. Heather Finley
EP. 132: Why we use HTMA Testing (Often Before We Touch The Gut)
About this podcast
Love Your Gut, hosted by Dr. Heather Finley, is helping thousands of women get to the root cause of their symptoms and redefine their gut health. After years of struggling with her own health issues, Dr. Heather Finley completed a doctorate in Clinical Nutrition and has been on a mission ever since to help women find life changing and lasting solutions for their digestive issues. She’s the doctor everyone comes to after every other treatment, regimen, and protocol has failed them. Dr. Heather Finley provides real results with her cutting edge holistic methodology and she’s giving you the inside scoop on how to finally heal every week. It’s time to love your gut, so your gut will love you back.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 133 episodes
- EP. 132: Why we use HTMA Testing (Often Before We Touch The Gut) · 24 minYour client has done everything you asked. She’s finished the antimicrobials, tried the elemental diet and low FODMAP, and she’s still constipated, bloated, and exhausted. So…
- Ep. 131: When Low FODMAP Stops Working: Your Next Move With Complex GI Clients · 23 minHave you ever sat across from a complicated client and thought, “I don’t even know where to start”? You’re in good company. More than a third of the clinicians who applied to…
- Ep. 130: Sticky, Floating, or Hard to Pass? What Your Poop Is Telling You Before You Ever Run a Test · 26 minHave you ever looked down before flushing and thought, “That doesn’t look right”? Most women do, and then they move on with their day. In this episode, Dr. Heather explains why…
- Ep. 129: Why Busy, High-Achieving Women Freeze on Their Own Health · 25 minIs there a gut protocol sitting in your inbox right now, or a supplement order still in the box on your counter? If you’ve been calling yourself lazy or undisciplined for not…
- Ep. 128: Why did my results not last? (constipation, SIBO bloating, low ferritin, etc) · 23 minYou felt amazing after the antibiotics, the iron infusion, or the SIBO protocol, and then six months later your symptoms were right back where they started. On todays episode…
- Ep. 127: Who's Eating Your Iron? 3 Hidden Reasons Your Ferritin Won't Budge · 18 minWhat if something else is getting to your iron before you do? This week, Dr. Heather picks up where last week's episode left off. She explains why your iron panel works like a…
- Ep. 126: You've Been Taking Iron for 2 Years For Low Ferritin. Here's What This Is Telling You · 25 minDr. Heather's ferritin was 9 four months postpartum, and she had a doctorate in clinical nutrition at the time. She still couldn't fix her own labs, and she spent months doing…
- Ep. 125: Iron, Copper, and Gut Irony Roundtable Discussion · 35 minRound two with the gutTogether team. Macy and Tyler are back, and this time we're talking about the iron and ferritin cases that have filled our caseload for the last six to…
- Ep. 124: The Top 6 Roadblocks We See in Gut Healing (feat. the gutTogether Team) · 45 minHave you ever wondered what it was like to sit "behind the scenes" with the gutTogether® team? Today's podcast episode is a "must listen"! Dr. Heather sits down with 2 of the…
- Ep. 123: Your GI Issues Are Costing You (And Not In The Way You Think) · 14 minYou can count the cost of your gut issues in supplements, copays, and elimination diets. But the biggest cost has never shown up on a single receipt, and chances are you've never…
- Ep. 122: Generational Health: 9 Out of 10 Babies Are Missing Key Gut Bacteria, with Dr. Stephanie Culler or Persephone · 39 minNine out of ten babies in the US are now missing one or more of the keystone bacteria their immune system needs to develop properly. Stephanie is a PhD scientist, co-founder and…
- Ep.121: Why Minerals Fix What Protocols Can't with Lisa Pitel-Killah of Vykon Customs · 1 h 9 minMinerals are often the missing link in any health related concern AND the biggest needle mover for individuals who have "tried everything". If you've done the SIBO protocol, the…
- Ep. 120: The Cyclospora Outbreak: A Gut Health Dietitians Insights on What It Is, Why It's Spreading, and What to Actually Do · 21 minThere's a parasite moving across the country right now so Dr. Heather went down the rabbit hole to give you a clear way to think about the 2026 Cyclospora outbreak. If you've had…
- Ep.119: Your 2PM Slump Is Not Normal, Here's What Your Body Is Actually Saying · 31 minIf you've accepted the 2pm crash as just "who you are," this episode is going to challenge that. That afternoon wall with the brain fog, the chocolate craving, the counting down…
- Ep. 118: Why Travel Makes You Constipated (and Why It Sometimes You Feel Better) · 16 minThink about the last trip you took. Were you actually there for it, or were you running a quiet background math equation the whole time, tracking what you ate and wondering if…
- Ep. 117: Do you dread your luteal phase? It might be your minerals · 23 minIf you dread the week before your period and your labs keep coming back "fine," this episode is for you. In this episode, Dr. Heather walks through a real client case…
- Ep. 116: What an HTMA Test Actually Reveals (That Standard Labs Miss) And How Practitioners Can Use It · 30 minIn this practitioner focused episode, Dr. Heather Finley breaks down what Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) actually measures, why it captures things that standard blood serum…
- Ep. 115: The Mineral You're Probably Ignoring (And Why It's Wrecking Your Digestion) · 27 minMost people think about magnesium for constipation and digestion. What if the problem isn't that you're deficient in magnesium? What if the minerals you already have can't…
- Ep. 114: How Jessica Increased Her Ferritin by 20 Points in 2 Months [Part 3: Iron & Ferritin Series] · 25 minThis is part 3 of the iron/ferritin series! Three episodes, three clients, three different breakdowns in the same system: Part 1: Ashley's body couldn't absorb iron because of…
- Ep. 113: Why Your Iron Is Stuck & Ferritin Is High (And How Your Thyroid & Liver Play A Role) [PART 2: Iront & Ferritin series] · 27 minMost people assume low ferritin means they need more iron. But what about the woman whose ferritin is actually high and she still feels exhausted, is still losing hair, and is…







