Hey, this is Ari. Welcome back to the show. With me today is Dr. Vincent Pedra, who is the medical

director of Pedra Integrative Health and CEO and founder of Happy Gut Life. He's one of the top

gut health experts in the world. He's a functional medicine

certified practitioner with a concierge practice in New York City since 2004. And he has a new book

called The Gut Smart Protocol, which is the culmination of years of research and clinical experience

as a functional gut health expert. This is a fascinating conversation, and I think you'll get a lot of gold nuggets out of this.

We talk about a lot of things, including some very interesting primary research

or sort of data evidence that they've gathered from some very unique places, in particular,

the Hadza tribe in Africa, and some peculiar and unexpected findings that came from that.

So with no further ado, I hope you enjoy this podcast with my friend Dr. Vincent Pedra.

Dr. Pedra, welcome back to the show for the second time in less than a year.

You are a madman in the sense that you have now produced another book on gut health.

So first of all, you're meaning madman in the sense of being a prolific content

creator and author. I mean, I think you could say Madman also for writing a second book.

You know, you're a book author and I don't know that people really understand the amount of

work that it takes to put a book that they hold

in their hands and very quickly browse through. There's no part of the book that is unintentional.

Yeah. I'm writing. I have my, I'm writing my book, my next book right now, and I have a deadline in a few months.

And I've spent the last three weeks just writing one chapter.

Just just trying to get this one chapter to a place where I'm really happy with it.

So there is no doubt that it's, I think, a massive amount of work and way more so than people realize.

Oh, yeah.

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