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Sweatty and Piss, Sweaty and Piss, Menopause makes me sweaty and Pist.

Hello, this is Karen Nickel, nurse practitioner in for a sweaty and pist, menopause, and more.

And I'm here with listener questions today.

I have two related listener questions to answer.

One is from Danielle who asks,

wondering if you can talk about supplements or diet changes

to help IBS, which is Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

My daughter has IBS symptoms but has a clean totally normal

colonoscopy. Wondering if there are tips and tricks you may have to help. I am an N.P. nurse practitioner myself, but work in the neonatal world

so I could use some help from a fellow N.P. Glad to hear that you're out there listening, fellow MP, and I also have a question from Donna, who asks about

supplements for people with Celiac disease.

So since these really are related

because they're both gut problems,

I thought I would talk today about what you can do

to help heal your gut and create a healthy gut so that your entire body is healthy.

In the past few years there's been an increased awareness of the importance of

gut health as an important piece of maintaining overall good health. The

microbiome in our gut also appears to play roles in nearly every chronic

disease. The gut is sometimes called the forgotten organ because 70 to 80% of your immune system lives in the gut

90% of your serotonin is produced by the gut microbiota

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