Good evening, everybody. How are y'all doing? Hope you're getting through the week, winding down,

or maybe you're ramping up. I got a great show plan for you. We're going to kind of open talking

about some neurological health as it ties into our morning routines. This is coming out of some

research in an article, three articles I was looking at. And I thought this was really impactful on me. So I thought I'd share it with all of you. Always trying to find reasonable and

doable things that we can kind of build into our routine that are holistic. And we're not going to

get so much into gut health and our microbiome, but we're going to just talk about indirectly

by looking at things we can add into our routine, how our mental health is tied to our gut

health, right? And that's because different microorganisms that are living or housed in our gut

will be responsible for the release of certain neurotransmitters, right?

And there's, we'll have to do with our mental health and our mood and, um, you know,

really impact our cognitive functioning, our mood, our behavior. Uh, and just looking at how

nutrition and lifestyle, they're all, like I said, very holistic and they're interwoven. And one thing

impacts the other, which impacts the other. We're systems. Our bodies are made up of systems.

And they all interact and interface with each other. But we've, you know, really culturally,

even academically compartmentalized, right? Mental health doesn't really pay attention to physical health.

Physical health doesn't pay attention to mental health.

Physical health often leaves out addressing nutrition,

and nutrition does have a component in mental health, right?

Just like we're finally looking at social factors,

oppression and justices, how they interface with mental health and physical health, right? We're also even

looking at environmentalism, environmental racism, how certain, certain dangerous environmental factors

are put in place or allowed to exist in areas that are occupied mainly by black people or people

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