Welcome to the Shaline Show. Shaline is a New York Times best-selling author, celebrity fitness trainer, and obsessed with helping you live your dream life.

Get excited about today's lesson.

You will hear from Dr. Michael Russo, one of my favorite authors, experts, doctors, and researchers.

You're going to love his approach. Dr. Russo is an expert in digestion, gut health, the connection between thyroid hormones,

your gut, autoimmunity, diet, and lifestyle. I mean, who better could we hear from? But here's what I love about the guy.

In this episode, we'll talk about the popularized trend of eating ketogenically.

What the research tends to say about eating multiple meals, how fasting can help improve your overall gut health.

What populations should avoid fasting? He'll answer some of the commonly held myths about eating meat,

taking probiotics, and diet phasing, or diet variation.

And in this episode, Dr. Russo will share with you the steps you should take to begin the process of healing your gut and giving your life back in your weight under control.

Oh, and be sure to check out his website is loaded with valuable information, research, interviews, blogs, and more.

So Dr. Russo, thank you so much for joining me today and speaking to my students.

My question for you, because I've spent a lot of time on your website, listen to your podcast, reading research and blogs.

But I don't know the story or perhaps what led you to an interest in gut health.

Sure, yeah, I'll give you kind of the short version. I'll do my best to make it somewhat abridged.

When I was in college, I was a pre-med student. I wanted to go into medicine.

I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do. I just knew I was kind of an over-achieving type A, and it fit my personality.

And I was kind of gravitating toward orthopedic surgery because I was kind of a bigger guy and people said, well, you're kind of muscular.

You should be in orthopedic surgeon because I need to be kind of muscular.

And so I didn't know. I was, what, 20 years old.

So I said, sure, it seems like a good plan to me. So I'll just bust my, but academically here take all the classes no one wants to take, like organic chemistry and physics.

And so, you know, I'm trucking along and I also was a pretty high energy guy. I played college across at the same time.

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