This is episode 43 of everyday wellness, the other side of the hospital bed.

I'm Dr Kelly Donahue, clinical health psychologist and mind body coach, here with my co-host

Cynthia Thurlow, nurse practitioner and functional nutritionist.

We have over 25 years of combined experience in wellness, nutrition, coaching, and nursing.

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Welcome to Everyday Wellness.

Everyday Wellness is the result of the decisions that you make every day.

It's your mindset and the thoughts you believe. Wellness is the food you put in

your body and the relationship you have with yourself and others. Wellness is your work and

meaning.

Join us on everyday wellness as we explore ways that you can choose wellness today. Oh, All right. Hello everyone. Welcome to a solo edition of Everyday Wellness. Cynthia and

I are going to talk about something that is

very important to both of us and that has sort of been refocused on in the very

recent past. As many of you know Cynthia was in the hospital due to a

series of gut issues which we'll get into. But we really wanted to use this as an opportunity to shine a light on the importance of

gut health, how having a healthy gut allowed her to move through this experience with much

more ease than she would have had if she would not have

had such excellent gut health going in and what she's doing to restore gut health.

So with that, Cynthia, can you just give us a very brief synopsis of what you've been through in the past month or so?

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