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mind, body, and soul. Visit our website at my gutsyhealth.com. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Gutsy

Health podcast. I say this every freaking week, but I've been drooling over this

interview since March. And so we have on the podcast, I have goosebumps everywhere, Dr. Shana

Cal, and she is a neuroscientist, and she works for a fecal matter transplant company called

a novel biome. And what we're going to talk about today is the science behind fecal matter

transplants and how it helps us, why the microbiome is so important. What are things that can go

wrong with fecal matter transplants, the research behind fecal matter transplants, all of it.

Pecal matter transplants are so mind-blowing to me. And I remember researching it back in the day when my late husband,

Tristan, got colon cancer because I was like, oh, we need to fix the immunity. We need to fix the gut.

This was in his colon. So obviously something is wrong with his microbiome. And my husband had

been on antibiotics for years as a teenager or acne. And then when he served his mission in Ukraine,

they put him on six months of antibiotics

for a positive TB test. And so my theory was, well, part of his reasoning for getting cancer

was his microbiome was so messed up. And so I hope we can discuss this a little bit more with a

literal neuroscientist. So Dr. Shana, welcome. We are so excited to have you on the podcast.

Thank you so much. I'm really excited for today as well. Tell us a little bit about you,

how you got into neuroscience and how you came across novel biome and the work that they do.

Yeah. So I came across neuroscience that you started as my undergrad psychology and I find people

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