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Welcome to the Tudor Dixon podcast today.

We have a guest that is going to tell us all about our gut, which I'm excited about

and how our gut not only affects our health, but also you have probably noticed that

many young couples have been struggling to conceive in the last, I would say, almost like 10 years now.

And we've sort of wondered, what is it? Is it something? Is it medication? Is it something in the

environment? And then I heard our guest on a podcast, and she was talking about all of the PFS that

we are consuming on a daily basis, which you may have heard about these

forever chemicals. We hear about them a lot where I am because we have a lot of manufacturers.

I know our guest today will talk about probably farming as well. If you live near a farm,

you're also probably experiencing this. But also, I was shocked to hear it's even in my cookware and it's

in the foods that I eat and the cans that I drink out of. So with no further ado, Dr. Ann Shippey is

here with us to talk about our, about internal medicine and the environment that affects our gut

every day. Thank you so much for joining me. Thank you for having me.

And yes, the gut is the center of the universe in my world because it's so important for really

every aspect of biology, from absorbing our nutrients that run everything to our microbiome, which are

the organisms that help our bodies to work better,

to a huge part of our immune system is located in the gut.

So when our gut is good, a lot of our body is good.

Well, I love your story because you are someone who experienced this yourself.

You had an autoimmune disorder.

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