Decoding Gut Health Trends on TikTok: Trending Now Presentation
Written by: CDHF
Updated: February 1st, 2024
There are a lot of misinformed trends that take off on TikTok, claiming to heal your gut without providing scientific evidence. As part of CDHF’s 10th educational summit entitled “#TrendingNow: Putting the Biggest Gut Health Trends under the Microscope“, Shania Bhopa discusses how to spot misinformation and critically analyze social media gut-health content! Watch the full presentation below.
Learning Objectives
- Attendees will learn how to spot misinformation and critically analyze the social media gut-health content that is circulating the internet.
- Attendees will walk about learning how to use a few different tools to support them in their evidence based search.
- Attendees will walk away feeling empowered about the potential ways to use social media as a tool and how to be an active user in authentic consumption/creation.
Tips for Decoding Gut Health Trends
- Ask the question: Is there research that supports this information? Is it current or outdated?
- Finding Scientific Evidence: Shania’s recommendation: ScholarAI Plug-In, a plugin on ChatGPT 4 to find accurate evidence. Choose the plugin from the GPT store, to find evidence-based articles on any topic you wish. For example, search ‘show me the most cited articles on probiotics for gut health in adults.’
About The Speaker
Shania Bhopa is a CIHR Vanier Scholar and level three Doctoral Global Health candidate. Her work stretches from being a knowledge translator to co-founder of The Canadian Courage Project, a charitable organization supporting youth and their animals facing structural vulnerabilities. Currently, Shania is building a pediatric hospital tool called TechMedic to improve the efficiency of emergency rooms.
In 2022, Shania was the recipient of the Queens Jubilee Community Impact Award, and the American Eagle Community grant. Additionally, Shania was Valedictorian of her graduate class in the Faculty of Health Sciences. Shania is the published children’s book author of Gurk & Bianca: “The great adventure of the gut and the brain on a path to mindfulness”. Shania’s research interests include primary care, patient-physician communication, and child mental health.
This information was made possible due to an unrestricted educational grant from Biocodex Microbiota Institute.
