What's up, everyone? We know the last thing you need is another fitness podcast. Catch you up on the

newest trends and fad diets based off of popular opinion and not research. Enter myself and Tony.

We made the fitness stuff podcast to make exercise and nutrition science practical. Our goal is to

expose misinformation in the industry by providing only evidence-based education. And today, we are going to be

talking about personal favorite of mine, the gut-brain connection. We'll be diving into what that

even means, what that is. I'm ready to peek out about it. This is Mariana's favorite thing. This is

literally her favorite thing in the entire world. But first, before we get started, a friendly reminder. The show is free and always will be free. Thank you guys so much. The easiest way you can support us always is just to give us a five-star review on whatever platform you are watching it or a thumbs up on YouTube. It is a part of our passion to bring zero cost to consumer education to as many people as we can.

So we do want to give a special shout out because we talk about the supplement industry and

how broken it is all the freaking time.

And it fuels eating disorders.

It fuels terrible mental space.

It's awful.

But that's why we only recommend a select few companies that we know have the right ethics and a research and evidence based that we've used ourselves, right? Like Thorne, Optimum, Legion and a few others. But we want to give a special shout out today to Legion, who is a recent sponsor of this podcast. And we've used Legion for the longest time. I know I use their protein, their fish oil, their creatine, and a few others. I know Marianna is a big fan of their protein as well. But we've worked with them for a lot longer than they've been to sponsor this show. It's very recent. And we do that for a few reasons. First, they work with an entire scientific review board, meaning every article, every podcast, every video, every supplement that they produce is vetted by a team of MDs, PhDs, and other

professionals. They also spend a lot of their income to fund scientific research into

nutrition, exercise, and supplementation to help advance our collective understanding of how to live

a healthier, fitter life. Their ethics and our ethics are literally the exact same. That's why we are a happy,

happy partner with Legion and why we use them every single day. You can use the Legion Link in

our bio to get 20% off your first order or double points, or you can type in code FSPOD, FS pod,

at checkout to get that discount. So that was a quick shout out to them. They're killing it. I know I just drank their honey milk. I need to try that. Honey cereal milk protein is, oh my God. It's literally like the best treat you could have. But today I'm going to buckle up again, kind of like the official episode. Mariana is the teacher. We're called Miss Mariana today. And I'm the student. This is going to be a big one because the gut brain connection like you were telling me, right, is pretty freaking recent to our discovery as humans.

It's recent in terms of how fast it's evolved and the kind of milestones we've reached in discoveries about it, how that's accelerated, just kind of

with gut health in general in the past decade. It's something we've always known about for decades,

but the depth of knowledge of how it works and how it plays a role in so many different

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