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without first speaking to your doctor. Now let's head to the show. Hi everyone, today I spoke with

Dr. Asim Thassai and we discussed atrial fibrillation, which apparently is a topic shrouded in confusion quite similar to gut health.

We talked about causes, treatments, triggers, and actually the fact that this is somewhat prevalent,

somewhat more prevalent than I was anticipating, one in four in their lifetime will experience

atrial fibrillation.

And his new book, which provides people with kind of an antidote to the misinformation or just lack of highly robust

information currently in existence so i do hope that you will listen to this episode,

especially if you are someone that you love, is impacted by AFib. Also, I want to remind you

of a piece that I recently wrote. It was a rebuttal to 60 Minutes television shows,

expose on probiotics, which unfortunately really seem to kind of

misrepresent what the science on probiotics says. And, you know, I'm quite aware that I could be

labeled as someone who's biased in this area, although it's extremely difficult for me to

discern how someone could label my opinion here biased when you look at the body of evidence.

Because I try to check my own bias, and there's been no accusation of me being biased.

I'm just acknowledging the fact that I am refuting what a major television and seemingly reputable source is citing, which is a number of experts

who are essentially concluding that probiotics have no evidence for IBS or antibiotic-associated

diarrhea, when there have literally been journal of the American Medical Association

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