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Welcome. Welcome to Middays. I'm Susie Larson. Always honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk,

the deep in your understanding of God's Word, and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life. Well, if you listen often enough,

you know that we have our good friend, Dr. Troy Spurrell, on the show once a month to talk health

and the healing process. Today we're going to talk about gut health and the gut brain connection.

This is from the Harvard Medical School's website.

Listen to this. The gut brain connection is no joke. It can link anxiety to stomach problems

and vice versa. Have you ever had a gut-wrenching experience? Does certain situations make you feel

nauseous? Have you ever felt butterflies in your stomach? We use these expressions for a reason. The gastrointestinal

tract is sensitive to emotion. Anger, anxiety, sadness, elation. All of these feelings and others

can trigger symptoms in the gut. So we're going to spend the first few minutes talking gut brain

health. The phone lines are open. If you call right away, you'll just need to sit on hold for just a little bit because

Doc and I are going to have a conversation. But you've got questions about health and the healing process.

The reason we do this is, you know, Dr. Troy is the expert. I did work in the fitness industry for, I don't know,

about 15 years, lots of years ago. And I have a similar passion. It's just that he's

the expert. But we share the passion of seeing people healthy, seeing people healed. And I would say

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