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Hello and welcome to the doctor. Hyman Plus exclusive functional medicine deep dive. I'm Dr.

Mary Party and we're going to talk about constipation today. So I'm a naturopathic medical doctor.

I'm also a certified functional medicine doctor through the Institute of Functional Medicine

and I'm the founder of modern men which is a virtual telehealth company based in Los Angeles,

California. I've put down some of my Instagram handles there. I do a ton of gut health related

content on Instagram at doctor.Mary Party is my main handle and then our institutions Instagram

is at modern med. So when we're talking about constipation we first want to talk about what a

normal stool should look like in comparison and so the big thing here is consistency as well as

frequency with constipation and we'll look at consistency over here in a little bit but in terms

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