Well, hello there, welcome back. I am glad you showed up today and I promise you're going to be glad you showed up today as well, because we're going to be talking about gut health.

Today I chose my guest because I've realized in the years that I've worked in the fitness

industry which I've been doing group fitness or personal training since I was 19 years old.

So I'm almost hitting 20 years. know crazy I'm 38 I started when I was like 19 so I've been doing this a long time and one of the number one factors that really irks me is when people make everything seem so black and white, seem like there's

only one way.

The amount of diets that have come through in the last however many years that have said

this is the answer, this is the way this is the

holy grail if you don't do it this way you're gonna fail is astronomical and I feel like

I see that often even in gut health and exercise and diet and a lot of

different aspects where we forget there's a lot of gray and there's more than

one way to do things.

Nothing makes me more crazy than when I see other professionals online

bagging a certain technique and only pointing out the cons.

And I'm watching their videos on their Instagram handle and I'm

thinking you are not pointing out any of the pros or anything that that helps if

you only take note of the cons yes yes, that looks like a dreadful thing.

But it's more about looking at a situation and weighing your own situation against the

option you're trying to add for pros and cons and if it is a fit for your life.

And that is the piece that we have forgotten.

That is a piece that as consumers we're always thinking, oh, I'm just going to be told what to do.

Sometimes you need to hear the pieces and then kind of mix and match and play with it yourself.

And Amanda is really good at explaining that with gut health, explaining that every gut is different

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