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Hey, everyone. Susan McCauley here from Evolvednutrition.com.

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staticy, so please bear with us because there is a lot of really great information. Now on to the show.

Hey folks, welcome to Dr. Russo Radio. I am here with Dr. Stephen Olmsted, and today we are going

to be discussing the gut to brain connection.

Hey doc, welcome to the show. Thanks for being here.

Thank you. Thank you for having me. It's great to be here.

I've been following some of the articles that you've been writing for a while now and you've really written a terrific series on kind of the microbiota and various updates in that realm of research.

And one of your pieces that I really enjoyed was a recent piece about the new understanding that there may be more of a gut-to-brain connection than we previously understood.

And I definitely want to get into that conversation a little more detail.

But before we do that, can you tell folks a little bit about you, your training,

and what you're currently doing?

All right.

Well, I trained as a physician.

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