The conversation in this episode builds on earlier conversation on microbiome and overall health with our special guest Kara Landau RDN. Here Kara discusses prebiotics, explains what it is, how it affects our health and how she is innovating to make it easier for people to incorporate prebiotics in their diet.
About Kara Landau
Kara Landau “The Prebiotic Dietitian” is an Australian Registered Dietitian, Author, and Founder of the prebiotic gut health brand - Uplift Food – Good Mood Food, based in New York City, USA.
A previous spokesperson for the Dietitians Association of Australia, and now the nutrition advisor and media representative for the Global Prebiotic Association, Kara specializes in the connection between diet, gut health and mood, and the vital role of prebiotics for wellbeing.
Regularly requested to provide expert opinion on gut health and entrepreneurship in the USA & Australia, Kara can be found quoted throughout titles such as Forbes, Shape, Elle, Elite Daily, Bustle, Womens Health, Mens Health, Readers Digest, MSN, and more;
Together with taking the stage to present at industry events across the globe, including Expo West (USA), Supply Side West (USA), Healthy Ingredients (EU), The Microbiome Movement (USA), Naturally Good (AUS), Probiota (EU) and more.
Founding Uplift Food – Good Mood Food: Dietitian created functional food brand to focus exclusively on the mood supportive benefits of gut healthy prebiotics, Kara successfully lead the company to receive the first ever minority investment from Mondelez Internationals SnackFutures new venture arm in 2019, and has released both the Daily Uplifter powdered supplement, together with the Gut Happy Cookies™, Prebiotic Bliss Bites™ and Prebiotic Puff™ functional snacking lines.
Kara is on mission it to continue to educate, inspire, and make eating a prebiotic rich diet easy and enjoyable to all those that she can encounter.
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Website: https://www.upliftfood.com/
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