Hey there, quick announcement, I am still super tired after COVID, and we're going to slow

down our release schedule a little till I'm back up to full strength.

We'll have a little more about what's next at the end of today's story.

Alright, here we go.

Big news.

Investors have decided your butt is a gold mine, and here's how we got into this.

Over the last few months, our producer Emily Pisa Quetta has been keeping an eye on the

arm and leg inbox, and a while back, she saw an email from a listener who wanted our

take on something, and the story that unfolded took us in unexpected directions.

Emily?

Yep.

The email came from a listener named Mariel.

Mariel's in her late 30s.

She works in marketing, and she lives with Crohn's disease.

That's a chronic inflammatory bowel disease.

Every time I go see my gastrologist, I get signed up for some sort of unpleasant diagnostic

test of some sort, and so I usually try to avoid it as long as possible.

Mariel used to live in Alabama, where she saw the same gastroenterologist for years.

But recently, she moved to San Antonio, Texas, where she's from.

And even though she might like to avoid it, the time does come for her to find a new gastroenterologist

in Texas, and she makes an appointment.

My mother had gone to see someone in this practice, and she recommended them.

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