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If people are skeptical that the gut and the brain communicate,

ask yourself how much your personality changes when you're hungry. And there's nothing going on tonight.

We could be in the city light.

Oh, maybe it just came drunk and stay inside. Good afternoon Michael Malice here. Let that be your welcome for the next hour.

Guys this is going to be a one-off special episode and let me tell you the whole

backstory of why we're here and what we're doing today. Many times when you have a

podcast that is inexplicably popular as my own.

People come and they want to promote their product and I always say no because one of the beautiful things that having the career that I do is that I never have to talk to anyone that I don't want to. It is a blessing. I fight to protect it,

tooth and nail. And then I got approached about a product that is about something that I've been

passionate about and talking about for years,

for a very long time, which is probiotics.

You can see the tweets on the screen.

I've been tweeting about this for a very, very long time.

When I was a kid, every single time I ate food, I had some discomfort.

This for my immigrant family was, of course, a source of constant tension. They took me from

doctor to doctor. This one doctor told me I swallow too much air when I eat.

I had to get, I don't remember if it was an endoscopy or colonoscopy, but I was put out and camera went in somewhere they tried changing my food I'm eating

my Atlanta every day they didn't really have an answer nothing seemed to work and

when you're growing up with this as your normal you think this is just my lot in life this is just how I'm going to be for

the rest of my life then about 20 years ago I had a coworker and he had Crohn's which I'd never heard it before and at that time

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