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Hi, everyone.

I'm Katie Couric, and this is next question.

Hi, everyone.

Happy International Women's Day, by the way.

Did we mention that?

I'm not sure if Samantha did.

Anyway, hi.

I am so excited about this panel. I get excited about everything, obviously, and gut help really got me jazzed. So microbiome, as you all know, is a real buzzword these days. But many people don't know what that actually means. And honestly, I have learned so

much just preparing for this panel. And what exactly is your microbiome? What role does it play

in our overall health? As you're about to hear, it's a pretty big one. And could gut health be

linked to an alarming uptick in colorectal and other digestive cancers among young people right now, not only diagnoses, but also tragically deaths?

As many of you may know, if you were alive in this far back, I lost my husband, Jay, to colon cancer in 1998. He was 42 years old.

Our daughters were six and two. And since then, having felt so powerless during the course of his nine-month illness. I have done everything I can to encourage people

to get screened, even getting an on-air colonoscopy on the Today Show back in the year 2000,

which resulted in a 20% increase in colonoscopies nationwide, which was so gratifying.

Thanks.

You know, in the year since, I've tried to keep this issue on the front burner.

I took Jimmy Kimmel to get a colonoscopy a few years ago. I'm trying to get Kevin Hart to let me take him this year because he just turned 45 and he hasn't gotten back to me yet, but I will keep you

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