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Hey everyone, you're on air with Ella, and today I'm joined by Mr. Greg Cooper, who is here

to talk to us about something I've never even

mentioned on the show before, and that is prebiotics. Hey, Greg, how are you? I'm great. Thanks for

having me. Hey, Greg, can you tell everybody kind of who you are and what you do? I am the head of business

development for Jackson GI Medical. We have a brand of prebiotics called Prebiotin, and they were developed by Dr. Frank

Jackson, who is a retired gastroenterologist, but also the owner of a medical device company.

He's been in practice for well over 40 years, Johns Hopkins guy. But he also is the inventor

and patented the medical device

called the spot that's used in probably every hospital in the Western Hemisphere. So he's...

He's a big deal. He's a big deal. Well, I wanted to talk to you today about prebiotics. So we have talked about probiotics up one side and down the other. You can't turn on a television without hearing about probiotics these days. But Greg, you and I are going to talk about something, as I said, that's new to the show, but still fundamentally related to gut health, the microbiome, et cetera, et cetera, a topic I cannot seem

to get enough of. So, Greg, could you first level set with us? What are prebiotics?

Prebiotics are fiber, fiber that we generally don't eat nowadays, but probably consumed

quite a bit of years ago. They're undigestible fibers that pass through the digestive system where they feed the healthy

bacteria in our gut.

Oftentimes, they're called fermentable fibers.

And what that really means is they ferment in our colon where they feed the bacteria.

That is their use. This has nothing to do with

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