Welcome to the whole view. I'm Stacy Toth of Real Everything.

I'm all about loving the skin you're in and being healthy inside and out.

And I'm Dr. Sarah Valentine of the paleomom.com.

I believe that scientific literacy is the key to improving public health. Welcome to the whole view episode 427 whereby I am sure Stacy will be embarrassed at some point about

bodily functions. It's just inevitable. To be fair, you were fully on board with this topic. I did request this topic.

So actually, it's interesting. I like almost everybody know many people in my life who have

gut related conditions and I honestly have no idea what the difference between IBS IBD

Crohn's collitis like all of these different things and when you I was asking you a

specific question and you were like Stacy you know IBS and I bd or two different things

and I was like huh so I'm not exactly sure how I got here, but I do know that I need to take a step forward in my knowledge base.

So I am really looking forward to the show not just from the perspective of answering the specific

listener question that we got, but also because it gives us a chance to talk about something which I have no idea how we haven't actually laid down the foundation of all of this.

But we talk a lot about gut health and that means so much like it's I mean you say the

word gut health and you like it's like the size of the universe ever expanding in terms of our knowledge.

So obviously we can't cover all the ground in one episode, but I do think that this is foundational

material for understanding that nuance, if that makes sense.

Yeah, no, and I, I mean, I think that's a really good sort of intro into our listener

question this week, which is, as I have been researching the gut

microbiome for a little over six years now, you know, and this was when I took on this project, right?

A book about gut health.

I figured it would be like my other books, right?

So my other books were typically, right, the paleo approach was about 14, 15 months between like when I started it and when it was out on bookshelves.

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