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Hey everyone, welcome back to Dr. Rucho Radio. This is Dr. Rishio, and let's jump into more updates

from the research on gut health. Remember, I'm trying to parse these via probiotics as the one

gut health in general as the other, thyroid and hormone health as a third, and then a broad

assortment of other diet and lifestyle research. And today we will go into those on gut health. Before we do, I wanted to make one quick

comment and we're looking to have a guest on the podcast to go into more detail on this topic

in the near future. But I'm reading Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Conman. He makes one point that is quite fascinating,

that there is not a relationship between intelligence or IQ and bias. And this was very interesting

for me to hear because I think all of us look to those who are

intelligent or at least seemingly so in an area to obtain their advice.

And this, I think, permeates all areas of life.

It wouldn't matter if you're talking to a plumber.

You would want to look for signs of intelligence amongst that plumber or the ones

that you're interviewing to do a job. Certainly for healthcare and medicine, this seemingly so

would apply. But I'm sure all of us at some point have, especially if there's an area where you

have a fair amount of expertise, looked around and observed those who are seemingly intelligent

have perhaps achieved a high degree of academic achievement and speak fluently, have a good vocabulary, et cetera, but a pure

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